Nicolai Frahm
Nicolai Frahm
Born1975 (age 48–49)
NationalityDanish
OccupationArt collector
Spouse
Mariana Herrera
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(m. 2018)​

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,[1] 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.[2]

Career

He started his career at Sotheby's and Christie's in London before opening his own firm in London and Basel in 1997. 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.[3] The Frahm brothers have collaborated with artist and activist Ai Weiwei.[4]

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. According to Frahm, his collection includes artists such as Cindy Sherman, Richard Prince, Ai Weiwei,[5] Julian Schnabel, Yoshitomo Nara, Takashi Murakami, Zeng Fanzhi and Sigmar Polke.[6]

Frahm was interviewed by the CNN[7] regarding the art market and featured in a How To Spend It article in The Financial Times.[8]

In April 2013, together with fellow art collector Frank Cohen, Frahm opened the Dairy Art Centre, a contemporary art gallery in Bloomsbury.[9] Open to the public, the gallery also offered education and internship training programmes and was available to hire as a venue space.[10] Its exhibition programme included solo-shows by John Armleder, Julian Schnabel, and Yoshitomo Nara.[11] 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.[12] He has not featured on the list since 2013.[13][14][15]

Personal life

In February 2018, Frahm married model Mariana Herrera in Oaxaca, Mexico, at a 3-day extravagant wedding. [16]

References

  1. ↑ "Nicolai Frahm". Art Observed. AO Art Observed. Retrieved 8 December 2017.
  2. ↑ "Rethinking Museums - The Art Advisors - Part 1 - ASEF culture360". culture360.asef.org. Retrieved 18 August 2018.
  3. ↑ "Frahm&Frahm". Frahm & Frahm. Retrieved 18 August 2018.
  4. ↑ Kennedy, Maev (28 August 2014). "Ai Weiwei prepares for Blenheim Palace show but must keep his distance". the Guardian. Retrieved 18 August 2018.
  5. ↑ Blake, Robin (16 October 2013). "Island, Dairy Art Centre, London – review". Financial Times. Retrieved 18 August 2018.
  6. ↑ "Dairy Art Centre — Island". dairyartcentre.org.uk. Retrieved 18 August 2018.
  7. ↑ richardsthrlnd (17 June 2011). "CNN: Art under the hammer". Archived from the original on 19 December 2021. Retrieved 18 August 2018 – via YouTube.
  8. ↑ "Masters class". Financial Times. 11 October 2013. Retrieved 18 August 2018.
  9. ↑ "British Collectors Frank Cohen and Nicolai Frahm Open New Art Space in London - Artinfo". blouinartinfo.com. Retrieved 18 August 2018.
  10. ↑ "Dairy Art Centre — Education". dairyartcentre.org.uk. Retrieved 18 August 2018.
  11. ↑ "Dairy Art Centre — Exhibitions". dairyartcentre.org.uk. Retrieved 18 August 2018.
  12. ↑ "The Power 1000 - London's most influential people 2013: Imagineers". standard.co.uk. 19 September 2013. Retrieved 18 August 2018.
  13. ↑ "The Progress 1000: London's most influential people 2018 - Visualisers: Artists & curators". 10 October 2018.
  14. ↑ "The Progress 1000: London's most influential people 2015 - Artists". 16 September 2015.
  15. ↑ "The Progress 1000 | Evening Standard".
  16. ↑ "An art collector and model had an extravagant 3-day wedding in Mexico – and the photos make it look like a fairy tale". thisisinsider.com. Retrieved 18 August 2018.
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