Archive Hatje Cantz Verlag | Thorsten Brinkmann

Thorsten Brinkmann (*1971 In Herne) Happens On The Ingredients For His Sculptures, Photographs, And Site-Specific Installations At Dumps, Materials That Have Been Abandoned By Civilization. Commonplace And Bizarre Materials Are Piled Up To Form Pedestals And Sculptures, Or They Are Transformed Into Cabinets Of Wonders. The Artist Even Uses His Own Body As An Objet Trouvé. For His Photo Series Portraits Of A Serial Collector Brinkmann Puts On Found Articles Of Clothing And Stages Himself In A Setting That Is Likewise Made Of Found Objects. He Is A Juggler Who Places Equal Value On Mundane Things And Introduces Them To Art In The Spirit Of Marcel Duchamp.
This Richly Illustrated Volume Presents The First Complete Overview Of Thorsten Brinkmann’S Oeuvre, An Artist Whose Combinations Of Objects Playfully Make Us Conscious Of The Interface Between The Familiar And The Unexpected, Between The Imaginable And The Never-Before-Imagined.



Exhibition Schedule: Gem, Museum Voor Actuele Kunst, The Hague, Opening July 13, 2008 · Galerie Kunstagenten, Berlin, May 2009









Thorsten Brinkmann (*1971 In Herne) Studied At The Kunsthochschule Kassel Under Floris M. Neusüss And At The Hochschule Für Bildende Künste In Hamburg Under Bernhard J. Blume And Franz Erhard Walther. Numerous Exhibitions In Germany And Abroad, Most Recently At The Andy Warhol Museum In Pittsburgh (2012), The Museo Nacional De San Carlos In Mexico City (2012), The Kunsthaus Hamburg (2011), The Kunsthalle Zu Kiel (2011), The Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen (2011) And At The Georg Kolbe Museum In Berlin (2010). Various Prizes And Awards, Including The Kunstpreis Finkenwerder (2011) And Artist In Residence At The Andy Warhol Museum In Pittsburgh (2012). The Artist Lives And Works In Hamburg.Thorsten Brinkmann (*1971 In Herne) Studied At The Kunsthochschule Kassel Under Floris M. Neusüss And At The Hochschule Für Bildende Künste In Hamburg Under Bernhard J. Blume And Franz Erhard Walther. Numerous Exhibitions In Germany And Abroad, Most Recently At The Andy Warhol Museum In Pittsburgh (2012), The Museo Nacional De San Carlos In Mexico City (2012), The Kunsthaus Hamburg (2011), The Kunsthalle Zu Kiel (2011), The Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen (2011) And At The Georg Kolbe Museum In Berlin (2010). Various Prizes And Awards, Including The Kunstpreis Finkenwerder (2011) And Artist In Residence At The Andy Warhol Museum In Pittsburgh (2012). The Artist Lives And Works In Hamburg.