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 solo exhibitions, most recently 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 at 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, Centres Pompidou, Cleveland Museum of Art, MoMA, Stedelijk Museum, Tate, Yale University Art Gallery and Victoria & Albert Museum. 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 January 2022, Broomberg invited CAConrad and Gersande Spelsberg as collaborators for his first solo exhibition at signs and symbols, Glitter in My Wounds. In the fall of 2021, these three artists previously collaborated on a book of the same name, published by MACK. This 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.
In 2022, three photographs by Broomberg from Glitter in My Wounds were acquired by Magasin III - Museum for Contemporary Art. Following this acquisition, the works were subsequently included in the museum's collection exhibition In the Eye of the Beholder from November 2022 through June 2023.
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.
selected works
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