Lotti Brockmann is situated in Vienna and grew up on the ever-changing Wadden Sea in northern Germany. As a child, Lotti wanted to be an inventor, a comedian and a parachutist, but today she has found the one word that sums it all up.
Lotti Brockmann's artistic practice explores the boundaries of the object-like. In line with neo-materialist discourses, Brockmann understands materiality not as a passive carrier medium, but as an active player in the structure of all relationships.
The focus is on the ephemeral: language, action, memory and affect are used as artistic means, as are unstable materials that undermine the supposedly solid. Loss is not only a theme, but also gives form to the works themselves. Many works are therefore always created anew for an exhibition; they elude permanence and refuse to be archived. In this ambivalence – between preservation and disappearance – Brockmann negotiates questions about the present: How do we deal with changing systems – such as nature – or with the need to capture something that no longer exists, such as historical narratives?
Between popular cultural references and political power structures, Brockmann searches for an artistic language that interweaves these layers. Her works open up spaces in which these relationships are not only depicted, but can also be experienced physically, materially and affectively.
Lotti Brockmann was awarded the Northwest Art Prize of the Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven in 2025 and nominated for the Simacek Award in Vienna. In 2023 she received the Playground Art Prize, among Nicolaus Schafhausen, Franciska Zólyom, Leonie Radine and Dr. Florence Thurmes. Her work has been shown in Germany, Austria, Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Hungary, among others. In November 2024, her artistic practice was represented as a solo position at Artissima in Turin (Italy).
Portrait: Fiona Körner
Photographs fair booth: Theo Bartenberger
