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, 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.

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. The Frahm brothers have collaborated with artist and activist

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. 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

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and

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. Frahm was interviewed by the

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regarding the art market and featured in a

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article in

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. In April 2013, together with fellow art collector

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, Frahm opened the Dairy Art Centre, a contemporary art gallery in Bloomsbury. Open to the public, the gallery also offered education and internship training programmes and was available to hire as a venue space. Its exhibition programme included solo-shows by

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, and

. 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. He has not featured on the list since 2013.

Personal life

In February 2018, Frahm married model Mariana Herrera in

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, Mexico, at a 3-day extravagant wedding.

References

External links

Frahm & Frahm website
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