Introduction

The Museum Reinhard Ernst (mre) dedicates the year 2025 to the artist Helen Frankenthaler with two temporary exhibitions. Following on from Helen Frankenthaler. Move and Make (on view until 5 October 2025), the mre invites visitors to experience the pioneering art of the American artist in dialogue with the present in Helen Frankenthaler moves: Jenny Brosinski (born 1984), Ina Gerken (born 1987) and Adrian Schiess (born 1959) have selected some of Frankenthaler’s previously unseen works from the Reinhard Ernst Collection and staged a joint exhibition with their own works.

Helen Frankenthaler moves Jenny Brosinski, Ina Gerken, Adrian Schiess convincingly illustrates how Frankenthaler’s painterly versatility and innovative spirit still inspires today. We thus tell a story that begins with her and is independently developed and confidently continued by the above three artists.

This unique exhibition experience offers an insight into the world’s largest private collection of Frankenthaler’s works while opening up a multifaceted encounter with contemporary abstract painting from Germany and Switzerland.