Admittedly, it was hot this summer.

Very hot.

This obviously means that some art viewers were quite tired of art and especially the Kassel Art Theater after the trip to the Venice Biennale, the obligatory visit to Documenta 15 despite the scandal and all the polemics.

And felt little desire to relax a little in the larger and smaller exhibitions on their own doorstep.

Christopher Schutte

Freelance author in the Rhein-Main-Zeitung.

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At the great show dedicated to Marcel Duchamp at the Museum für Moderne Kunst, for example, at the Frankfurter Kunstverein or at the Giersch Museum.

After all, you didn't just have the halls of many large houses all to yourself.

And even those among the Frankfurt galleries that didn't treat themselves to extended vacations anyway have shown themselves to be yawning in the past few weeks.

Despite all protestations to the contrary, one could get a little worried about the forthcoming 28th start of the season.

After all, the interest group of Frankfurt galleries, whose central concern up until then had been the organization of the large lease of the Frankfurt exhibition spaces after the summer break, dissolved in the spring after almost 40 years.

The banal everyday life

Not without assuring that the joint start of the season, which is one of the most traditional in Germany, should definitely be preserved.

For the time being, this has been taken over by the agency that has been accompanying the art weekend that was spruced up for the “Frankfurt Art Experience” for the past three years.

Luckily, the approximately 50 participating galleries and free exhibition spaces are still responsible for the program, including the Sylvia Schlieder gallery on the Weckmarkt and the Monica Ruppert gallery, which moved to Frankfurt from Mannheim, two new additions that already broaden the spectrum: painting and graphics, photography , sculpture and large-scale installations enrich the comprehensive range of contemporary art.

That can definitely be seen at the vernissages, which are usually announced for Friday evening, this year.

Painterly, for example, with Heike Strelow, who brings together two very different temperaments with the gallery artists Starsky Brines and Hendrik Zimmer.

Or in Peter Femfert's Die Galerie, where Johannes Heisig, who trained in Leipzig and Dresden, has a major solo performance.

Also in the Fahrgasse, where Adrian Mudder draws primarily from his own banal everyday life for his second solo exhibition at Leuenroth under the promising title "Bonjour Total".

And last but not least, as so often in the programs of the local art dealers, it is important to discover artists who are closely connected to the region and especially to Frankfurt this year.

This applies to Andreas Breunig, who was born in Eberbach but trained with Albert Oehlen in Düsseldorf, at Grässlin, as well as Silke Wagner at Tolksdorf or her former fellow student at the Städelschule, Anke Röhrscheid, who, after the blood-red and jet-black watercolors of recent years, at Anita Beckers surprises with a new series of deep blue sheets.

"Sail to a new future"

Meanwhile, Yasuaki Kitagawa, also a graduate of the Frankfurt Art Academy, announces a sailing trip into an uncertain future with "Sail to a new future" in the Weißfrauen Diakoniekirche.

Which, if you are already familiar with the expansive works of Tobias Rehberger's former master student, can undoubtedly take this as a promise.

Curious about the forthcoming start of the season are primarily those positions that you actually think you know quite well.

Bruno Gironcoli, who died in 2010, Péter Nádas and Ella Bergmann-Michel are without exception big, internationally known names.

Except that here they meet the viewer in less prominent roles.

Do you know, for example, the almost 80-year-old Nádas, who introduces himself to Peter Sillem with his photographic works, primarily as a writer, and meanwhile in the Hanna Bekker vom Rath gallery it is not Bergmann-Michel’s photographs that can be attributed to the New Vision, but the woodcuts, collages and Drawings by the artist who died in 1971 can be seen.

And finally, those who remember his mighty sculptures in the Schirn Kunsthalle three years ago may get to know Bruno Gironcoli all over again.

Certainly, one or the other cast aluminum sculpture by the Austrian artist can also be seen in the second exhibition at Galerie Kai Middendorff.

The focus, however, is on the rarely exhibited drawings, screen prints and works on paper, which reveal Gironcoli as the painter he once was before he turned entirely to sculpture and the “prototypes of a new species”, as can be seen at the Schirn were.

So that too is a promise.

Absolutely.

The Frankfurt Art Experience, 28th season start of the Frankfurt galleries, September 9th to 11th.

All exhibitions are open Friday from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m., Saturday and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.

More information at frankfurtexperience.art.