Nicolai Frahm
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Nicolai Frahm (born 17 January, 1975) is a renowned art dealer, advisor and contemporary art collector based in London. He is the son of Danish business entrepreneur Flemming Frahm who founded Skandinavisk Kaffekompani (the largest coffee company in Denmark until it merged with Kraft Foods in 1989). "Frahm first began to collect for his family's art foundation in Copenhagen, before moving to London, working with high-profile clients whose collections will ultimately become museums in their own right. Frahm helped the UK mega-collector Frank Cohen build his collection, which will be shown at Cohen's new Manchester museum, the FC MoCA."[1][1] Despite his young age Frahm is known to have been among the first to discover and collect many important European, American and Japanese artists of the mid and late 1990s and 2000s. In June 2006 The Gallery at The Hospital (owned by Paul Allen) [2] hosted an exhibition from his collection of young artists from Los Angeles entitled Dirty Boyz Get Clean [3]. In the January 2007 issue ArtReview ranked Frahm among the 6 best contemporary art advisors in the world.
Quotes
- "There are only so many great works of art. Better to pay the extra money and get a masterpiece than build a collection of names"
- "Jeff Koons is the Brancusi of our generation"
- "I'm not interested in building collections that will just hang in people's homes. My job is to predict art history - to say which artists will become the most important of our generation"[2]
References
- The New York Magazine, January 2007
- The Daily Telegraph, 19 September 2006
- The New York Arts Magazine, September 2006
- The Art Newspaper, 27 July 2006
- The New York Magazine, 3 April 2006
- Artinfo, 3 April 2006
- The Art Newspaper, 21 October 2005