Gerrit Frohne Brinkmann
Cave Art Comeback
25.03. – 27.05.2018

Under the title “Cave Art Comeback”, Gerrit Frohne-Brinkmann, current scholarship holder of the Bremerhaven Scholarship, presents new works that will be shown for the first time in the Kunsthalle Bremerhaven. In the exhibition, Frohne-Brinkmann explores the most primal forms of expression in art and uses cave paintings to examine this early human form of representation for its contemporary potential.

Many previous projects bear witness to Frohne-Brinkmann’s preoccupation with the archaic, with relics of times long past and the question of how to deal with cultural heritage. In 2016, for example, he presented the installation “Not all mummies are wrapped like in the movies”, a collection of fake mummies from film props, at Art Cologne as part of “New Positions”, an international funding program for young artists. These were borrowed for the duration of the exhibition, assembled into a sculptural performance and then disappeared back into their respective depots.

In 2017, another remarkable work by the artist, “WE HAVE A T-REX”, a scenic, fragmentary replica of various elements from Steven Spielberg’s “Jurassic Park”, was on display at the Artothek Köln. The work illustrates the focus of Gerrit Frohne-Brinkmann’s artistic work, namely to show an intersection between early cultural forms and current popular performance formats in the entertainment sector. The artist is always interested in the immediate entertainment value that he extracts from illusion, magic or film and transfers into the visual arts.

Gerrit Frohne-Brinkmann, born in Friesoythe in 1990, studied under Andreas Slominski and Ceal Floyer at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts from 2009 to 2015. His works have been exhibited at the Künstlerhaus Bremen and the Bundeskunsthalle Bonn, among others; in April 2016, his performance “Fossil Feast” was shown at the Kunstverein in Hamburg and his exhibition “What I claim as new” at the Jürgen Becker Galerie. At Art Cologne 2016, he won the “Art Cologne Award for New Positions”, followed in 2017 by the “Follow Fluxus Stipendium” from the Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden, and in 2017 his works were also shown at the Kestner Gesellschaft Hannover, the Artothek Köln and the Stadtmuseum Oldenburg. In 2018, he presented his exhibition “Dr. Perversi” at Caletta, Zurich. This will be followed in April by the presentation of the installation “Dirty Parrots” at Galerie Noah Klink, Berlin, and in July by an exhibition at Dortmunder Kunstverein.

An edition will be published to accompany the exhibition.

Curated by Klaus Becké.