Exhibition 'Frankenthaler / Judd' in Kunsthal KAdE
From 26 September 2026, Kunsthal KAdE in Amersfoort will be hosting an exhibition featuring works by Helen Frankenthaler (1928–2011) and Donald Judd (1928–1994). The two artists, born in the same year, made their breakthrough in post-war New York, where they each chose their own path in the world of abstraction.
Bringing the two bodies of work together in a single exhibition is a study in contrasts. Both artists represent crucial developments in post-war art: Frankenthaler’s work stemmed from the innovations of Abstract Expressionism in the 1950s, a position she further developed in the decades that followed. With generous brushstrokes, she applied bright colours to large canvases, sometimes using her ‘soak-stain’ technique, whereby the paint was absorbed into the canvas and spread across the surface. Judd became one of the leading figures of 1960s Minimalism, producing rigorously ordered geometric forms that were often crafted from industrial materials and assembled by others. The exhibition highlights these differences, as they manifest in both artists’ bodies of work.
