Nicolai Frahm
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
Nicolai Frahm | |
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| Born | 1975 (age 48–49) |
| Nationality | Danish |
| Occupation | Art collector |
| Spouse |
Mariana Herrera (m. 2018) |
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]
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] 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[citation needed]. 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]
In February 2018, Frahm married model Mariana Herrera in Oaxaca, Mexico, at a 3-day extravagant wedding. [16]
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