Nele Brökelmann is an artist, writer and researcher. Deeply intrigued by the human need for structures of meaning, the perpetual search for and fabrication of meaning are recurring themes in her practice. These human made structures, and mental and worldly concepts create (physical) borders and either/or thinking which Brökelmann continuously seeks to challenge by playing with the experiences and concepts of distance, repetition and parallelity. This finds its form in diverse media such as performative installations, situations and actions, writing and video. Brökelmann exercises creating space for ambiguity, wandering in thought, and approaching the beings in and of our environments otherwise.

This research finds another playful outlet in Brökelmann’s collaboration with June Yu: waterybeings. Together they research and speculate on how an understanding of our human selves as watery beings would challenge us to live with our environment, rather than engineering it to selected human benefits.

Apart from her artistic practice, Brökelmann writes for the contemporary art magazine Metropolis M, curates and moderates the filmscreening series Matters of Being at the artist initiative iii in the Hague, and is working together with the writer’s platform and artist in residence Witte Rook (Breda, NL) on a research project into artistic processes: Proces is een Octopus.