Gerrit Frohne-Brinkmann at the 10th Çanakkale Biennial
From 10 October to 20 November 2026, the 10th Çanakkale Biennale, titled Metcezir / Ebb & Flow, brings together international contemporary artists in the port city of Çanakkale in north-western Türkiye. Among them is Tarabya Cultural Academy alumnus Gerrit Frohne-Brinkmann, who is presenting an installation developed specifically for the biennale.
Since its founding, the Çanakkale Biennale has become an important platform for artistic dialogue on social and cultural questions. Located at the meeting point of Europe and Asia, Çanakkale’s historical and geographical setting provides a unique context for exploring themes such as memory, identity, exchange and coexistence.
Frohne-Brinkmann’s new work combines ceramic sculptures with discarded animatronic objects, creating an unusual encounter between the two. The installation takes as its starting point the characteristic animal representations found in Çanakkale ceramics, whose forms and motifs the artist transforms into new, hybrid constellations. Objects with contrasting modes of production, different origins and layers of meaning thus share the same space. With this work, Frohne-Brinkmann continues his exploration of animals, systems of order and cultural conceptions of nature, as well as the coexistence of different materials and technologies.
His participation continues a long-standing connection between the Academy and the biennale: in recent years, several Tarabya Cultural Academy alumni, including Nevin Aladağ, Anahita Razmi and Nezaket Ekici, have taken part in the Çanakkale Biennale. This ongoing exchange highlights the lasting connections between Germany and Türkiye fostered by the Academy’s residency programme.
In cooperation with the Çanakkale Biennale.
Artist
Gerrit Frohne-Brinkmann
Gerrit Frohne-Brinkmann was born in 1990 in Friesoythe, Germany and studied at the HFBK University of Fine Arts of Hamburg. His sculptural practice, which encompasses a wide range of techniques, spanning from handmade ceramics and papier-mâché to found objects and ready-mades, merges contradictory visual languages and material logics. States of being discarded, unloved, and forgotten form a recurring point of reference in his works. He looks at the various ways of creating illusion, imitating, and staging that lie at the intersection of technological history, the natural sciences, entertainment, and pop culture. Plants and animals, along with their replicas or appropriations, are often the focus of his explorations and act as protagonists in his works. In dealing with the conditions for exhibiting, he examines the tension between attraction and disappointment. His works have been shown most recently at the Kunsthalle in Hamburg, at Hangar Y in Meudon (2024), at the Fundación Marso in Mexico City (2023), at LambdaLambdaLambda in Pristina, and at the Kunstverein in Oldenburg (2022). He lives and works in Hamburg.
Gerrit Frohne-Brinkmann was a resident at the Tarabya Cultural Academy from February to May 2025.
Gerrit Frohne-Brinkmann was born in 1990 in Friesoythe, Germany and studied at the HFBK University of Fine Arts of Hamburg. His sculptural practice, which encompasses a wide range of techniques, spanning from handmade ceramics and papier-mâché to found objects and ready-mades, merges contradictory visual languages and material logics. States of being discarded, unloved, and forgotten form a recurring point of reference in his works. He looks at the various ways of creating illusion, imitating, and staging that lie at the intersection of technological history, the natural sciences, entertainment, and pop culture. Plants and animals, along with their replicas or appropriations, are often the focus of his explorations and act as protagonists in his works. In dealing with the conditions for exhibiting, he examines the tension between attraction and disappointment. His works have been shown most recently at the Kunsthalle in Hamburg, at Hangar Y in Meudon (2024), at the Fundación Marso in Mexico City (2023), at LambdaLambdaLambda in Pristina, and at the Kunstverein in Oldenburg (2022). He lives and works in Hamburg.
Gerrit Frohne-Brinkmann was a resident at the Tarabya Cultural Academy from February to May 2025.