Jes Brinch

For Jes Brinch art is communication. The media is the messenger, not the message. The perceivers experience is what is worked with. The meaning is generating the form of art work and any media is used uninhibited, as long as it works, both brand new as well as traditional media, and often in weird combinations. Jes Brinchs production includes installation, object, light, sound, music, text, pure conceptual work, painting, sculpture, graphic print, t-shirts, posters, anything without limitation. Art is made for the spectator, not for the critics, and Jes Brinch is pleased to make art that is both understandable and entertaining.

The art projects are forthright subjective, produced from an existential point of view, and take a stand. Art is used as a critical tool to debate and question the values for life that is often taken for granted. Jes Brinch has developed this style onwards from the collaboration with Henrik Plenge Jakobsen called "Burn out" which led to the public art trauma consisting of a smashed up parking lot on Kgs.Nytorv in Denmark 1994.

In the end of 2003 Jes Brinch moved to Vietnam, and now lives and works in Hoi An in Mid-Vietnam. This has generated a new series of works focused on cultural relativity, as well as a crazy exploration of traditional Vietnamese art forms, such as porcelain sculptures, porcelain painting, print from wood engraving, as well as collaborations with Vietnamese artists

Jes Brinch was in the group of the gallery Baghuset which became the stamping ground for young, conceptually minded artists in Denmark, such as Peter Holst Henckel, Joachim Koester, Peter Rössell,  Lars Bent Petersen, Christian Schmidt Rasmussen and Peter Neuchs. Baghuset’s breakthrough came with the exhibition "Luxury Culture" at Sophienholm in 1990.

Jes Brinch has exhibited through Stalke Galleri since the beginning of 90s in many groups and solo shows.

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