SHORT INFO
Thorsten Brinkmann (*1971 in Herne, lives in Hamburg)has been working for many years with the objet trouvé, which is the starting point for all his works. He questions the supposedly fixed meanings of things and the much-discussed life of things themselves. Brinkmann seeks contact with the objects, or rather, the objects find him. This approach is often playful and subordinate to a certain principle of chance. The artist does not specifically search for the objects for his artworks, he encounters them, tests out what happens when contact is made and then experiments with the possibilities of appropriation, rearrangement, playful use and transformation. Brinkmann's work has been shown in numerous exhibitions in Germany and abroad (ICP /New York, Andy Wahrhol Museum /Pittsburgh, Museum of Arts Stockholm, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Kunsthalle Bremen...) and is represented in numerous institutions, including the Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, Sammlung Falckenberg, Museo de San Carlos/Mexcio City, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Sammlung zeitgenössischer Kunst der BRD. Brinkmann's works can currently be seen in the exhibitions "Dix and the Present" (Deichtorhallen Hamburg) and "Cindy Sherman: Anti-Fashion" (Falckenberg Collection/Deichtorhallen).
VITA
1971 born in Herne, lives and works in Hamburg, Germany 1994 - 1997 studied Visual Communication, Kunsthochschule Kassel, Prof. Floris Neusüss 1997 - 2002 Fine Arts, Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg, Prof. Bernhard Johannes Blume 2002 Diploma in Fine Arts, Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg 2002 - 2004 Postgraduate studies in Fine Arts, Hochschule für bildende Künste, Prof. Franz Erhard Walther www.thorstenbrinkmann.com
INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS (selection)
2023 | Thorsten Brinkmann: Many wastes to go, Galerie Mathias Güntner, Berlin, Germany |
2022 | Thorsten Brinkmann: Kastell Inn, Museum im Kleihues-Bau, Kornwestheim, Germany |
2021 | Thorsten Brinkmann - STRAPONSKY, Gallery Mathias Güntner, Hamburg, Germany |
2020 | Trasher Island, Herbert-Gerisch Foundation, Neumünster, Germany |
2019 | ART Berlin - Solo presentation with Gallery Mathias Guentner, Hamburg | Berlin La Vie en RoseRock, Otterndorf, Städtische Galerie |
2018 | Farce Satrape, Centre Photographique Rouen Normandie, Rouen, France Life is funny, my deer, GEM - Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, Netherlands Der Gaukler, Städtische Galerie Delmenhorst, Delmenhorst |
2017 | Life is funny, my deer, Kunsthaus Stade, Stade Art Brussels, Brussels, Belgium Volta NY, New York PARADIECLIPSE, Galerie Mathias Güntner, Hamburg |
2016 | Paradieclipse, Hopstreet Gallery, Brussels, Belgium La Vie en RoseRock, Gemeente Museum, Helmond, NL The Great Cape Rinderhorn, BePart, platform for contemporary art, Waregem, Belgium The Great Cape Rinderhorn, Art Gallery of Rice University, Houston, Texas |
2015 | Loud Silence, Museum Kranenburgh, Bergen SUPRA Novali, Pablo's Birthday Gallery, New York |
2014 | Junk de Luxe & the Canaries, Hopstreet Gallery, Brussels, Belgium Warfare Canaries, Flanders Field Museum, Ypres, Belgium Palais für zeitgenössische Kunst, Glückstadt La Vie en RoseRock, JaLiMa Collection, Düsseldorf |
2013 | Kaffee dü Welt, Kunsthalle Bremerhaven, Bremerhaven ViLLaRia, house installation, Pittsburgh, USA Mexican Style, Galerie Mathias Güntner, Hamburg La vie en RoseRock, Galerie Pablos Birthday, New York, USA |
2012 | Amanacer, Museo Nacional de San Carlos, Mexico City, Mexico Grand Duc im Säuls, Galerie Feldbuschwiesner, Berlin |
2011 | Extradosis, Kunsthalle zu Kiel Fingers, Dogs & Dents, Finkenwerder Art Prize, Kunsthaus Hamburg Sammel Coal Bucket Helmet Replacement, Kunstverein Augsburg ERNIE & SE KING, Griffelkunst Hamburg, 5th Triennial of Photography, Hamburg |
2010 | Studiomove, Kolbe Museum, Berlin Milchmädchen im Obergeschoss, Galerie Mathias Güntner, Hamburg |
2009 | Studio flowers, Gallery Kunstagenten, Berlin |
2008 | Entree, Galerie Nicolas Krupp, Basel, Switzerland GEM Museum voor Actuelle Kunst, The Hague, Netherlands |
2007 | Palais d'Edelwall, Mother's Tankstation, Dublin, Ireland Table zi bäng, Galerie Kunstagenten, Berlin Casa Rotti, Galerie Mathias Güntner, Hamburg Good things take time, Autostadt Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg 2006 Alles hat kein Ende, Galerie Kunstagenten, Berlin Salon, Galerie White Trash Contemporary, Hamburg |
2005 | True Romans, Galerie Mathias Güntner, Hamburg Zwischenstand, Künstlerhaus Frise, Hamburg |
2003 | Search Collect Apply, Gallery KX, Hamburg |
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selection)
2023 | CINDY SHERMAN - ANTI-FASHION, Deichtorhallen Hamburg / Sammlung Falckenberg, Germany Dix und die Gegenwart, Deichtorhallen, Halle fuer aktuelle Kunst, Hamburg, Germany Private Views, Museum La Boverie, Liege, Belgium A PRO POT, Museum van Deinze en de Leiestreek MUDEL, Belgium Faces Cachées, La Manufacture Musée de la mémoire et de la création textile, Roubaix, France Vermeer und die Gegenwart, Europäischer Kunstverein e.V. , Quartier 205, Berlin, Germany Paris Photo 2023, with Anita Beckers Gallery, Frankfurt, GRAND PALAIS, Paris, France Summer in the City 2023, Martin Asbaeck Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark Unseen, with Gallery Hopstreet, Amsterdam, Netherlands Positions Berlin Art Fair, with Mathias Güntner Gallery, Aiport Tempelhof , Berlin, Germany Pablo's 21st Birthday: The Anniversary Exhibition, Pablos Birthday Gallery, NYC, USA Les Marcel - Collection R.PATT, Museum Botanique, Brussels, Belgium Mondwald und der unmögliche Mai - 50 years Roosen-Trinks Collection, Im WITTKIELHOF, Angeln, Germany The Phair, Photo Art Fair Turin, Solo presentation with Anita Beckers Gallery, Italy Showroom 05, FeldbuschwiesnerRudolph Gallery, Berlin, Germany Art Brussels, with Hopstreet Gallery, Brussels, Belgium LE BATEAU IVRE, Galerie Hartwich, Rügen, Germany RATP`s Invite, 10 Years Fisheye Magazine, Paris, France |
2022 | Le Parti pris des choses, Centre photographique Rouen Normandie, Rouen, France Sunset. A Celebration of the Sinking Sun, Kunsthalle Bremen, Germany Paris Photo 2022, with Anita Beckers Gallery, Frankfurt, GRAND PALAIS, Paris, France In Between, Gallery Feldbuschwiesnerrudolph, Berlin, Germany Winter Presentation, Martin Asbaek Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark "CITY - COUNTRY - CONNECTIVITY" , Collection ROOSEN-TRINKS, Im WITTKIELHOF, Angeln, Germany Hypnopomp, HilbertRaum, Berlin, Germany 211 km, Maxus 101, Augustenborg Project, Denmark Aufatmen, Barlach Halle K, Hamburg, Germany Maxus 101, Augustenborg Project, Augustenborg, Denmark Rohkunstbau 2022, Schloss Altdoebern, Germany Summer in the City 2022, , Martin Asbaeck Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark Overdose, Design Museum Holon, Israel Who let the dogs out, Gerisch-Stiftung Neumünster, Cafe, Germany 8. Triennale der Photographie Hamburg 2022, CHARLOTTE MARCH and Positions of the Falckenberg Collection, Deichtorhallen, Sammlung Falckenberg, Hamburg / Harburg, Germany Art for Peace, Galerie Schimming, Hamburg, Germany AMBIGUITY OF THE OBJECTS, Galleria Fumagalli, Milano, curated by Lorand Hegyi, Milano, Italy Expo Chicago, with Pablos Birthday Gallery, NY, at Navy Pier, Chicago, USA Art Karlsruhe 2022, with Anita Beckers Gallery, Germany Mixed Tape, Feldbuschwiesnerrudolph Gallery, Berlin, Germany L'ÉTÉ Photo de Lectoure, Centre d'art et de photographie de Lectoure, France Art Brussels, with Hopstreet Gallery, Brussels, Belgium PORTRAITS/MASKS/COVERINGS, Roosen-Trinks Collection, Im WITTKIELHOF, Angeln, Germany Blue Jeans - KULT. COMMERCE. KUNST, Kulturgeschichtliches Museum Osnabrück, Germany Photographic Collection, , Schloss Kummerow, Kummerow, Germany |
2021 | Miart, Galleria Fumagalli, Milano, Italy Ironie - Temporality - Deplacement, Galleria Fumagalli, Dennis Oppenheim , Anne & Patrick Poirier, Thorsten Brinkmann, curated by Lorand Hegyi, Milano, Italy Cast in Eternity, Hopstreet Gallery, Brussels, Belgium Unseen, with Gallery Hopstreet, Photofair, Amsterdam, Netherlands Summer in the City, Martin Asbaeck Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark Awakening, Pablos Birthday Gallery, New York Crisis Poetry, Gallery Mathias Güntner, Berlin, Germany "OUTSIDEINSIDE - 20 Years Herbert Gerisch-Foundation", Neumünster, Germany Fahrradkörper, Haus Coburg, Städtische Galerie Delmenhorst, Germany Thorsten Brinkmann - Anton Corbijn, ARCO 2021 / May, E-xhibitions, Anita Beckers Gallery, Frankfurt, Germany - Spain broken Romantik, Kunstforum51, Hamburg, Germany I - Between image and reinvention, Gallery Stihl, Waiblingen, Germany "LIVING TOGETHER- CROSSING BORDERS", THE 4th MEDITERRANEAN BIENNALE, HAIFA and SAKHNIN, Israel Artists Packages - the art of unwrapping & using -, Noroomgallery, Hamburg, Germany Schloss Kummerow Fotografische Sammlung, Kummerow, Germany KLEUREYCK - Van Eycks Colours in Design, Le Tripostal, Lille, France conditio humana, Heinrich W.Risken Stiftung, Bad Rothenfelde, Germany "Fliegen and friends", Goldene Pforte, Dresden, Germany |
2020 | Kleureyck - Van Eyck's Colors in Design, Design Museum Gent, Belgium |
2019 | Der HOODIE, Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, Netherlands Salondergegenwart, Hamburg Postcard Reloaded, Kunstraum Potsdam Der naive Krieg, Zitadelle Berlin Club Solo, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag im Club Solo, Breda, Club Solo, Netherlands Faszination Gesicht, Vögele Kulturzentrum, Pfäffikon, Schweitz MASK- Kunst der Verwandlung, Kunstmuseum Bonn |
2018 | Lustwarande - Brief Encounters 2018, Platform for Contemporary Sculpture, Tilburg, Netherlands Between Now and Then, Norwood Club, New York, USA Uncovered - Sinneswandel im Portrait, Stiftung Schloss Eutin Sammlung, 1-3-5, Place des Deportes, Liège, Belgium Faceless - Privacy. Seduction. Suveillance, Gallery of the Austrian Cultural Forum Berlin Humor and Subversion, Forum Künstlernachlässe, Sootbörn, Hamburg |
2017 | Portrait. Jonas Burgert and Thorsten Brinkmann in dialog, Galerie W, Osnabrück Twinkle Of An Eye, Pablo's Birthday, New York City, NY USA Artist's Books. The Collection, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg The Face. Eine Spurensuche, Deutsches Hygiene-Museum Dresden Beckett war hier!, Westwerk Hamburg Künstlerbücher für alles, Zentrum für Künstlerpublikationen, Museum Weserburg, Bremen Unbeschreiblich surreal - Meret Oppenheim und Gefährten, Kunstsammlung Neubrandenburg Tu sais ce qu'elle a dit...ma concierge?!, Musée des Beaux-Arts Eugène Leroy, Tourcoing, France Innenraum. The outside world of the inside world, Schloss Agathenburg Why am I actually German?, Kunstverein Wiesen, Schloss Wiesen BRICOLAGE. Hobbyists and samplers, wild thinking and art, Palais für aktuelle Kunst, Glückstadt News from the collection. Donations and new acquisitions, Kunsthalle Bremerhaven |
2016 | Zodiaco, Marsèlleria, Milan, Italy Kyoto International Film and Art Festival, Kyoto, Japan BIP - Biennale de l'image possible, Liège, Belgium Collection presentation "Gebrochen Deutsch", Kunsthalle zu Kiel Month of Photography 2016, Minsk, Belarus Art Brussels 2016, Brussels, Belgium Besser Scheitern, Internationale Tage Ingelheim, Museum bei der Kaiserpfalz, Ingelheim am Rhein #1 Magie der Dinge. Von der Tücke des Objekts, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg Unbekannte Porträts, Hopstreet Gallery, Brussels, Belgium ICH, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt am Main I. Norddeutsche Selbstporträts aus 100 Jahren, Museen Stade |
2015 | Wild.Animals in Contemporary Photography, Plaza Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Good Art? Want!", Open at AEG, Nuremberg Month of Photography in Minsk 2015, Minsk, Belarus Interieur. Strange Things in Familiar Spaces, Kulturstiftung Schloss Agathenburg From the Big Picture - Part 2, Collection House N of the Herbert Gerisch Foundation, Neumünster De Burgermeester van Veurne, EMERGENTgalerie, Veuerne, Netherlands Bittersweet Times. Baroque and Contemporary, Kunsthalle Jesuitenkirche, Aschaffenburg Cover, Selekta Studio 1 / Ingo Shepper, Hamburg HIWAR, Arab Museum of Contemporary Art in Sakhnin, Israel Belfast Photo Festival, Belfast, Northern Ireland Beyond Borders, Beaufort Triennale 2015, Belgium Black Bandits, #lützow #liberation wars #napoleon #waterloo, Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin Of the Big Picture Part 1, Sammlung Haus N der Herbert-Gerisch-Stiftung, Neumünster SELF-JUSTICE THROUGH FEELINGS - New Acquisitions from the FALCKENBERG Collection |
2011- 2014 | Falckenberg Collection/Deichtorhallen Hamburg Sudden Change of Idea. A Comparative Study Exhibition between Chinese and German Conceptual Art, United Art Museum Wuhan, China Mao Se Dun Kai (Suddenly Enlightened) - Chinese-German Conceptual Art Comparative Study Exhibition, United Art Museum Wuhan, China Art Rotterdam 2015, Rotterdam, Netherlands ZONA MACO 2015, Mexico City Art Fair, Mexico City, Mexico Faceless, De Markten, Brussels, Belgium Against Nature - Photo 50, London Art Fair 2015, Business Design Centre, London, UK |
2014 | Subreal Worlds, Port Gallery, Osaka, Japan Casino World Gear Village, Hamburg_Shanghai, Hall 4, Hamburg/Oberhafen Statement 1: New Photography from Germany, Goethe Gallery, Hong Kong, China Bittersweet Times. Baroque and Contemporary in the SØR Rusche Oelde Collection, Berlin The 4th Biennale of Meditations, Poznan, Poland Wild - Animals in Contemporary Photography, Alfred Erhardt Foundation, Berlin Capita Selecta, Broelmusem, Kortrijk, Belgium Happy Warriors, Part IV, Galerie Mathias Güntner, Hamburg Faceless, Mediamatic, Amsterdam, Netherlands KIK One, Kino International, Berlin Waar het allemaal begon..., Villa Mondrian, the Netherlands |
2013 | Re-Orientation, Mediterranean Biennale in Sakhin, Israel Mythos Wagner, Klinger Forum, Leipzig Present Tense Future Perfect, Galerie Feldbuschwiesner, Berlin Faceless, Quartier 21, Vienna, Austria L`Ile de Montmajour, Abbaye de Montmajour, France 1.pers.sing./ Künstlerkörper zwischen Selbstporträt und Performance, b-05, Montabour Museum Villa Mondrian, Netherlands Kunst uit Prive-Bezit, Stadtmuseum Schippershof Menen, Belgium Salon Sandy, Pablo's Birthday Gallery, New York City, USA |
2012 | Factory Direct, The Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, USA Alice in Wonderland of Art, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg To Begin Is To Be Half Done, Busanstation, Busan, South Korea Jahresgaben, Kunstverein Schwerin Wild - Tiere in der zeitgenössischen Fotografie, Old Omaha Association / The Moving Gallery, Omaha, USA CONVOY BERLIN, Veszprém Art Museum, Budapest, Hungary CONVOY BERLIN, Biksady Gallery, Budapest, Hungary Facade, Middelburg, the Netherlands Ironic, Städtische Galerie Bietigheim Bissingen Alice in Wonderland, Fotomuseum Helsinki at ESPACIO DE CREACIÓN, Finland CONTEMPORANEA (ECCO), Cádiz, Spain Still Standing Things, from the SøR Rusche Collection, Museum Abtei Liesborn (dis)Placements, Hamburger Kunstwoche Gästeliste, Galerie Lehr Zeitgenössische Kunst Common Ground, Gloria Berlin, Berlin |
2011 | CUTS IN SPACE.Sculptural Collages, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen Alice in Wonderland, Fotomuseum Helsinki at the Locomo Cultural Center, Turku, Finland Zero Portrait, Galerie Zink, Berlin Panoramic, Galerie Feldbuschwiesner, Berlin Starving artist super star, Archiv Bücher, Berlin Ironic, Kunstpalais Erlangen Aus dem Sinn, Museum Wlokiennictwa, Lodz, Poland Shadows of the Bright, Berlin Art Project/Showroom, Berlin Jahresgaben 2011, Kunsthalle zu Kiel Happy Warriors, Galerie Mathias Güntner, Hamburg Redefine Readymade, Kunstverein Schwerin Veldener Kunstpreis, Kunstverein Leimen Das Ohr von Giacometti, Galerie Levy, Hamburg .tmp, Phonix -BB , Berlin |
2010 | Changing Times - New Worlds, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, Netherlands Annual Gifts 2010, Kunstverein Hamburg "The Foundation in Art", Hans Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck Long Distance View: New Video Art from Europe, the Best of Loop, Museum of Arts Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain Long Distance View: New Video Art from Europe, the Best of Loop, Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, USA Long Distance View: New video art from Europe, the best of Loop, Museum of Arts, Stockholm, Sweden walking the borderline, sculpture exhibition by Kunstverein Erfurt, Peterskirche Erfurt Opening, Galerie Elisa Plateau, Brussels, Belgium Cover Up, ModernTape, Berlin Art Biesenthal, Berlin Jumble, Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA Calling Beauty, Columbia University, Ohio, USA Out of Control, 7. Int. Biennale for Photography and Visual Arts in Liège, Grand-Curtius-Museum, Belgium Collection presentation, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, Netherlands Karaoke-Platform 2010, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland Milkmaid upstairs, Galerie Mathias Güntner, Hamburg "Stars and Models", International Photo Festival Knokke, Belgium "Lost in Summer", Galerie White Trash, Hamburg International Meeting for Contemporary Art, Santa Lucia, Venezuela The Foundation in Art, Gustav Marcks Museum Bremen Index, nomination for the Index Artprice, Kunsthaus Hamburg |
2009 | Dresscode, ICP New York, International Video and Fototrienale in NYC, USA On Portrait 01, Gallery Kunstagenten Berlin Stillife, Gemeentemuseum The Hague, Netherlands The Foundation in Art, Städtische Museen Heilbronn National Museum Sana ́a, Sana ́a, Yemen Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, USA Art Biesenthal, Berlin Twinism, AD & D Gallery, Osaka, Japan XXth Century, Gemeentemuseum The Hague, Netherlands Spotlight , Museum of Modern Art Mönchsberg, Austria Acquired & Admired: Collectables 3 - Galerie Nouvelles Images, The Hague, Netherlands |
2008 | System Mensch, Museum of Modern Art Salzburg, Austria We call it Hamburg, Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg Seven, Gallery Elisa Plateau, Brussels, Belgium People, Spirits & Ghosts: Portraits, Gallery Nouvelle Image, The Hague, Netherlands Who are you ?, Gallery Adler, New York, USA Ding Nova, Grusenmeyer Art Gallery, Deurle, Belgium |
2007 | DLD Collection, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, Netherlands Schering Stiftung Prize for Fine Arts, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin Hamburg Scholarship Holders, Kunsthaus Hamburg Schöne Grüße aus Hohenlockstedt, Kunsthaus Hohenlockstedt The Last Blue Sky, Gallery Mother's Tankstation, Dublin, Ireland |
AWARDS / SCHOLARSHIPS / FELLOWSHIPS
2014 | Artist in Residence, Field Museum, Ypres, Belgium |
2012 | Artist Resident, Andy Warhol Museum, Pitsburgh, USA |
2012 | Lecture at the International Center of Photography ICP, New York, USA |
2011 | Artprice Finkenwerder 2011 Lecture at the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Kiel |
2010 | Lecture at the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Kiel |
2009 | Artist Residents, German House Sanaa & Aden, Goethe-Institut in Yemen |
2009 | Lecture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki, Finland |
2006 | Scholarship, City of Hamburg |
2005 | Project grant for PILOT:2, London, Cultural Office Germany |
2001 | 2nd prize, art in architecture competition LVA, Hamburg |
COLLECTIONS
Hamburger Kunsthalle, Collection of the Bundeskunsthalle Germany, Falkenberg Collection, Collection Museo de San Carlos, Mexcio City, Collection Kunsthalle Bremerhaven, Collection Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Rusche Collection, Collection of the Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte Münster, Mont Blanc Collection, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, Netherlands, Pieter and Marieke Sanders Collection, Aerdenhout, Netherlands, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Austria, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland, Roosen-Trinks Collection, Caron Collection, France