Farrenkopf uses performance, public installations, placemaking, and social engagement in art.
Farrenkopf’s Berlin gallery exhibitions include the Téte Gallery, Kreuzberg Pavilion, and interactive public performances at the American Embassy Plaza in Berlin, the Russian Monument, Red Front Monument, and the Monument to Lives Lost to Fascism. You Are My Relative at the World Center in Berlin, Germany, and We Are All Related at the Rodchenko Multimedia Art Museum in Moscow, Russia. She exhibits in the Caribbean, New York, and North Carolina. The latest work, We Are All Related, a public interactive sculpture at the Beijing Olympic Complex in China, beckons our global connections and relationships in these times.
Receiving a competitive art scholarship in 1974 for a BFA with honors at Syracuse University, New York. In 2018, she returned for an MFA.
Farrenkopf founded ArtHouse, restoring a historic house to create a cultural hub, fostering public engagement in the arts, and expanding the boundaries of exhibit-making in supportive, diverse, and inclusive socially engaged art.
As a contributing journalist and podcast producer for Yale University Radio Artist Archive, her writing and interviews most recently covered the Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy, and Arte Canale, the Italian Arts Channel.