FRAUKE DANNERT – DESERT AFTER RAIN

Exhibition from November 29, 2024 until March 9, 2025

New Perspectives in the Leonora Carrington Hall

The Desert After Rain exhibition in the Leonora Carrington Hall of the Max Ernst Museum Brühl of the LVR presents works on paper and canvas as well as wall paintings of the artist Frauke Dannert, who lives and works in Cologne. Her creative manner of expression is based on the technique of collage, which she uses in her graphic and painting works in diverse and exciting ways.

For her collages on paper, the artist often works according to the found footage principle, in that she combines image material from various books, the Internet or scans of plants with one another. The original material is thereby abstracted to such an extent that the relationship with the real objects is hardly still recognisable. In the Birds series of works, rubbed textures of leaves and grass serve as the starting material for her bird-like creatures in crescent-shaped compositions.
Dannert’s pictorial spaces, designed with graphite on rough canvas, show abstract, floating formations located between nature and architecture, illusion and reality, in which endless new forms can be discovered.

The exhibition title is a poetic reference to the oil painting Arizona Desert After Rain (1948) by Max Ernst. Inspired by the fantastic landscape spaces and the wealth of forms in his work, Frauke Dannert has created a new series of work especially for the exhibition. Her abstract and imaginative forms invite viewers to explore the relationship between the human being, technology and nature associatively.
The artist is also developing an intervention for the permanent exhibition on the work of Max Ernst, which can also be seen following the duration of the Desert After Rain exhibition.

You can find more information about the intervention Stein auf Stein (Stone on Stone, 2024) here .

Frauke Dannert (born 1979 in Herdecke) studied at the University of Fine Arts Münster and the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. She completed her Master of Fine Arts at Goldsmith College in London in 2011. This was followed by numerous solo and group exhibitions.