Gerrit Frohne-Brinkmann

Gerrit Frohne-Brinkmann is a German artist born in Friesoythe in 1990, currently living and working in Hamburg. He studied fine arts at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Hamburg and graduated in the sculpture class of Andreas Slominski and Ceal Floyer in 2015. His works have been displayed across Germany, and in 2016 he won the Art Cologne Award for New Positions.

Frohne-Brinkmann's artistic practice revolves around the multi-faceted psychologies of entertainment and event culture. He reactivates forgotten relics, remaining artifacts, and tracks by means of simple self-reflexive gestures and time-based actions. He critically engages with the workings of entertainment and commercialised experiences and seeks the intersection between early cultural forms and today's popular performance formats.

The artist uses fossils, fake mummies, or younger but already outdated technology to question our notion and relation to history, time, and the present. His works include large-scale installations, performances, series of ceramic objects, and the usage of odor and prints and drawings, among other forms. Pervading all of his works is a humorous, detailed link of prehistoric and current contexts and cultures.

Some of his recent exhibitions include "Manche trugen Federn" at the ERES Foundation in Munich (2022), "Earmouse" (solo) at ABC Hamburg (2022), "Ready to pair" (solo) at the Oldenburger Kunstverein in Oldenburg (2022), and "wild/schön" at the Kunsthalle Emden (2021). In 2021, he also had a solo exhibition titled "ILOVEYOU" at Galerie Noah Klink in Berlin.