Nicolai Frahm

Nicolai Frahm
Born	January 17, 1975 (1975-01-17) (age 36)
Occupation	Art Curator and Contemporary Art Collector

Nicolai Frahm (born 17 January 1975) is an art curator and contemporary art collector based in London.

Life and career

Frahm is the eldest son of Flemming Frahm, a Danish business entrepreneur who founded Denmark's largest coffee company Skandinavisk Kaffekompani. The company was acquired by Kraft Foods in 1989.

Frahm first began to collect art for his family’s foundation in Copenhagen. In the late 90's he was a contemporary art specialist at Christie's before setting up offices in London and Basel to represent and build private art collections that will ultimately become museums in their own right. ^[1] Frahm is known to work closely with Frank Cohen, building his collection and setting up his art foundation, Initial Access.

Despite his young age, Frahm is known to have been amongst the first to discover and collect many important European, American, Japanese, and Chinese artists of the mid and late 1990's and 2000's. ^[2]

In June 2006 The Hospital in London, owned by Microsoft's Paul Allen, hosted an exhibition from Frahm's collection of young artists from Los Angeles.

The following year in January 2007, Art Review rated Frahm as one of the six best contemporary art advisors in the world. ^[3]

References

• Insight in to Collection, NY Arts, May 2011
• Hottest Art Fairs and Galleries, International Life, August 2011
• Art Under the Hammer, CNN, 13 May 2011
• Supersamleren (the super collector), DRK (Danish TV - video), 28 March 2010
• Frieze Art Fair, Nicolai Frahm, Reuters (video), 16 October 2009
• The Art of Tomorrow, VS, October 2009
• The 3rd Eye: a performance interview with Nicolai Frahm, Wonderland, September 2008
• Brushing off the credit crunch, CNBC (video), 30 June 2008
• Kunst undgaar finanskrise (Art avoids financial crisis), interview with Nicolai Frahm, Jyllands-Posten, 10 May 2008
• Collectors: Nicolai Frahm, Artobserved, January 2008
• Is the art market cruising for a fall?, The Times, 12 October 2007
• The Chinese Contemporary Art Explosion at the Tate in Britain, China Today, 10 June 2007
• Art sales: Rampant market, rising fatigue, Daily Telegraph, 27 March 2007
• The best advice? (Nicolai Frahm), ArtReview, January 2007
• Art sales: over-talented and over here, The Daily Telegraph, 19 September 2006

Notes

1. ^ The best advice?, page 92. ArtReview, January 2007.
2. ^ The 3rd Eye, p. 31, Wonderland, September 2008.
3. ^ The best advice?, page 92. ArtReview, January 2007.

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