Nele Brökelmann is an artist deeply intrigued by the human need for structures of meaning. The perpetual search for and fabrication of meaning are recurring themes in her practice. She approaches human made structures, and mental and worldly concepts that create (physical) borders through walking in landscapes paired with conceptional and fictional explorations. To challenge either/or thinking she plays with the experiences and concepts of distance, repetition and parallelity. This finds its form in diverse media such as video, writing, explorative walks and installations. She exercises creating space for ambiguity, wandering in thought, and approaching the beings in and of our environments otherwise.

In addition to her artistic practice, Brökelmann writes for the contemporary art magazine Metropolis M, curates and moderates the filmscreening series Matters of Being for the artist initiative iii in the Hague, and has developed a research into artistic processes De Octopus together with the writer’s platform and artist in residence Witte Rook (Breda, NL).