Adam Broomberg
born 1970 in Johannesburg, South Africa
lives and works in Berlin, Germany
adam broomberg (b. 1970, Johannesburg) is an artist, activist, and educator. He currently lives and works in Berlin. He is a professor of photography at the Hochschule für bildende Künste (HFBK) in Hamburg and teaches in the MA Photography & Society program at The Royal Academy of Art, The Hague. For two decades, he was one half of the critically acclaimed artist duo Broomberg & Chanarin.
Broomberg has had numerous institutional solo exhibitions, including at Fabra i Coats Centre D'Art Contemporani Barcelona (2021), The Centre Georges Pompidou (2018), and the Hasselblad Center (2017), among others. His participation in international group shows include düsseldorf photo+ Biennale for Visual and Sonic Media (2022); 8th Triennial of Photography — Currency, Hamburger Kunsthalle (2022); the Yokohama Trienniale (2017); Documenta, Kassel (2017); The British Art Show 8 (2015-2017); Conflict, Time, Photography, Tate Modern (2015); Shanghai Biennale (2014); Museum of Modern Art, New York (2014); Tate Britain (2014); and the Gwangju Biennale (2012). His work is held in major public and private collections including the Art Gallery of Ontario; Baltimore Museum of Art; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Cleveland Museum of Art; Magasin III - Museum for Contemporary Art, Stockholm; MoMA, New York; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Tate, London; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven; and Victoria & Albert Museum, London. Major awards include the Arles Photo Text Award (2018), ICP Infinity Award (2014) for Holy Bible and the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize (2013) for War Primer 2. In 2023, Broomberg was included in Phaidon Press's book Vitamin C+: Collage in Contemporary Art, the latest installment in the series of ‘Vitamin’ books.
In 2022, Broomberg invited CAConrad and Gersande Spelsberg as collaborators for his first solo exhibition at signs and symbols, Glitter in My Wounds. In 2021, these three artists had previously collaborated on a book of the same name, published by MACK. The book features a series of portraits of the trans activist and actress Spelsberg made by Broomberg, alongside poems by CAConrad; copies are available for purchase in our online shop.
selected works
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