Bio

Critically engaging with the workings of entertainment and commercialised experiences, Gerrit Frohne-Brinkmann seeks the intersection between early cultural forms and today’s popular performance formats. Fuelled by his interest in natural sciences, the artist uses fossiles, fake mummies or younger but already outdated technology to question our notion and relation to history, time, and the present. Comprising large-scale installations, performances, series of ceramic objects, the usage of odour and prints and drawings, among other forms, Frohne-Brinkmann’s practice is broad in its use of techniques and media. Pervading all the works is a humorous, detailed link of prehistoric and current contexts and cultures.

Exhibitions

2023

Rattlesnake Retreat (solo) Polina Stroganova Projects Mexico City, MX

Appeal to Nature (solo) 14a Hamburg, DE (forthcoming)

2022

Manche trugen Federn ERES Foundation Munich, DE

Earmouse (solo) ABC Hamburg, DE

Ready to pair (solo) Oldenburger Kunstverein Oldenburg, DE

2021

wild/schön Kunsthalle Emden Emden, DE

ILOVEYOU (solo)Galerie Noah Klink Berlin DE

2020

In the unlikely event of fire (solo) Kunstverein Reutlingen Reutlingen, DE

Backdrop (solo) Imagine the City Hamburg, DE

Fragments of Friendship (solo) 14a Hamburg, DE

Eifersucht Parliament Paris, FR

Gerrit Frohne-Brinkmann mit John Waters Jürgen Becker Galerie Hamburg, DE

Stipendiaten-Ausstellung Deichtorhallen/Sammlung Falckenberg Hamburg, DE

2019

I offer no explanation (solo) Klosterfelde Edition Berlin, DE

You-Know-Who (solo) Kunstpalais Erlangen Erlangen, DE

Corpse Flowers (solo)Galerie Noah Klink Berlin DE

Good Service 14a Hamburg, DE

2018

Schmutzige Papageien (solo)Galerie Noah Klink Berlin DE

Cave Art Comeback (solo) Kunsthalle Bremerhaven Bremerhaven, DE

Dr. Perversi Caletta Zurich, CH

Everything has been done 2 Forde Geneva, CH

P-A-N-T-S-D-O-W-N Dortmunder Kunstverein Dortmund, DE

2017

Corpse Flowers Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden, DE

A New Low (solo) Stadtmuseum Oldenburg Oldenburg, DE

WE HAVE A T-REX (solo) artothek - Raum für junge Kunst Cologne, DE

Digesting Notes Skulpturinstitut Vienna, AT

Noch Schöner Wohnen Jürgen Becker Galerie Hamburg, DE

VG Award Kestner Gesellschaft Hannover, DE

Dr. Perversi (solo)Galerie Noah Klink Berlin DE

2016

What I claim as new (solo) Jürgen Becker Galerie Hamburg, DE

2015

It's more like an elevator Werkschau Halle 12/Spinnerei Leipzig, DE

Dazwischentreten Künstlerhaus Bremen Bremen, DE

Kunststudentinnen und Kunststudenten stellen aus Bundeskunsthalle Bonn, DE

2014

New Address NEW ART CLUB Berlin, DE

Biennale Regard Benin Cotonou, BN

Cliffhanger (solo) NEW ART CLUB Berlin, DE

OFF SEASON (solo) Sfeir-Semler Gallery Hamburg, DE

2012

Am Piano (solo) Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof Hamburg, DE

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