Nicolai Frahm
{{Short description|Art collector and administrator}}
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| alt = Nicolai Frahm
| birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1975}}
| nationality = Danish
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| occupation = Art collector
| spouse = {{marriage|Mariana Herrera|2018}}
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Nicolai Frahm (born 1975) is a London-based Danish art advisor, exhibition producer, collector, and the co-founder of Frahm & Frahm and Dairy Art Centre, a contemporary art gallery in London which closed in 2014.
Early life
Nicolai Frahm was born in 1975,{{Cite news|url=http://artobserved.com/collectors/nicolai-frahm/|title=Nicolai Frahm|work=Art Observed|access-date=2017-12-08|publisher=AO Art Observed|language=en-US}} and grew up in Copenhagen in a family collecting and showing post-war European art to the public at their private art foundation. His father Flemming Frahm was a businessman and art collector.{{cite web|url=https://culture360.asef.org/magazine/rethinking-museums-art-advisors-part-1|title=Rethinking Museums - The Art Advisors - Part 1 - ASEF culture360|website=culture360.asef.org|access-date=18 August 2018}}
Career
He started his career at Sotheby's and Christie's in London before opening his own firm in London and Basel in 1997.{{Citation needed|date=June 2019}} Frahm and his brother Michael Frahm later founded Frahm & Frahm - a company specialising in producing institutional exhibitions, creating collaborations with contemporary artists, and building private art collections.{{cite web|url=http://frahmandfrahm.com/about|title=Frahm&Frahm|website=Frahm & Frahm|access-date=18 August 2018}} The Frahm brothers have collaborated with artist and activist Ai Weiwei.{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/aug/28/ai-weiwei-blenheim-palace-show-3d-computer-model|title=Ai Weiwei prepares for Blenheim Palace show but must keep his distance|first=Maev|last=Kennedy|date=28 August 2014|website=the Guardian|access-date=18 August 2018}}
Frahm's own collection draws on post-war European abstract art, as well as art from the late 1970s to the present, and incorporates both emerging and established artists from America, Europe and Asia{{Citation needed|date=June 2019}}. According to Frahm, his collection includes artists such as Cindy Sherman, Richard Prince, Ai Weiwei,{{cite web |last=Blake |first=Robin |date=2013-10-16 |title=Island, Dairy Art Centre, London – review |url=http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/e79df32e-34ee-11e3-8148-00144feab7de.html#axzz3I5t6G9ml |url-access=subscription |access-date=18 August 2018 |website=Financial Times}} Julian Schnabel, Yoshitomo Nara, Takashi Murakami, Zeng Fanzhi and Sigmar Polke.{{cite web|url=http://dairyartcentre.org.uk/exhibition/island/|title=Dairy Art Centre — Island|website=dairyartcentre.org.uk|access-date=18 August 2018}}
Frahm was interviewed by the CNN{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRcWCeLeyqU |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211219/ZRcWCeLeyqU |archive-date=2021-12-19 |url-status=live|title=CNN: Art under the hammer|last=richardsthrlnd|date=17 June 2011|access-date=18 August 2018|via=YouTube}}{{cbignore}} regarding the art market and featured in a How To Spend It article in The Financial Times.{{cite web|url=http://howtospendit.ft.com/art/37533-masters-class|title=Masters class|date=11 October 2013|website=Financial Times|access-date=18 August 2018}}
In April 2013, together with fellow art collector Frank Cohen, Frahm opened the Dairy Art Centre, a contemporary art gallery in Bloomsbury.{{cite web|url=http://www.blouinartinfo.com/news/story/894926/british-collectors-frank-cohen-and-nicolai-frahm-open-new-art|title=British Collectors Frank Cohen and Nicolai Frahm Open New Art Space in London - Artinfo|website=blouinartinfo.com|access-date=18 August 2018}} Open to the public, the gallery also offered education and internship training programmes and was available to hire as a venue space.{{cite web|url=http://dairyartcentre.org.uk/education/|title=Dairy Art Centre — Education|website=dairyartcentre.org.uk|access-date=18 August 2018}}
Its exhibition programme included solo-shows by John Armleder, Julian Schnabel, and Yoshitomo Nara.{{cite web|url=http://dairyartcentre.org.uk/exhibitions/|title=Dairy Art Centre — Exhibitions|website=dairyartcentre.org.uk|access-date=18 August 2018}} The Dairy Art Centre ceased its activities in December 2014.
In 2013, Frahm was cited in the Evening Standard as being among the 1,000 most influential "Imagineers, Artists & curators" in London.{{cite web|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/the-power-1000-londons-most-influential-people-2013-imagineers-artists-curators-8825051.html|title=The Power 1000 - London's most influential people 2013: Imagineers|website=standard.co.uk|date=19 September 2013|access-date=18 August 2018}} He has not featured on the list since 2013.{{Cite web|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/news/the1000/the-progress-1000-londons-most-influential-people-2018-visualisers-artists-curators-a3956551.html|title = The Progress 1000: London's most influential people 2018 - Visualisers: Artists & curators|date = 10 October 2018}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/news/the1000/the-progress-1000-londons-most-influential-people-2015-artists-curators-a2943761.html|title = The Progress 1000: London's most influential people 2015 - Artists|date = 16 September 2015}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/news/the1000|title=The Progress 1000 | Evening Standard}}
Personal life
In February 2018, Frahm married model Mariana Herrera in Oaxaca, Mexico, at a 3-day extravagant wedding.
References
External links
- [http://www.frahmandfrahm.com Frahm & Frahm website]
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Category:Danish art collectors
Category:People from Copenhagen