2011-06-30 - 2011-10-01

Recidency at Ingmar Bergmans house, 3 mounths

The Bergman Estate on Fårö welcomes artists, scholars and journalists from around the world. We offer free accommodation and a place of work in an environment intended to nurture contemplative and creative work – the same environment that inspired Ingmar Bergman in his own artistic pursuits through forty years.

2011-03-02

Galleri Magnus Karlsson, #94/725
The Armory Show, New York 3–6.3 2011

Thomas Broomé has made seven new works specifically for the fair, five paintings and two sculptures. In Broomé’s works, the material is a carrier of information, but the information is also bound into the material. The two are patiently woven together and end up creating new and unknown properties. In the new paintings he has developed his technique ‘Dunkelskrift’, in the sculptures he has experimented with 15 tons of pressure and engraved texts that can only be seen under a microscope.

2011-03-19

****Collection on display*****
Gothenburg Artmuseum has rehanged their permanet collection. "Eggshell mind" Can now be found in the beautiful sculpturehall.

2010-09-07

****UPDATE*****
I finally got around to updateing the work section.

2010-08-26 - 2010-10-03

Groupshow at Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Stockholm
TODAY IS YESTERDAY TOMORROW, All the Gallerys artist will participate with an old and a new work, since it is the Gallerys 20th anniversary.

2010-03-13 - 2010-04-30

Galerie Bendana-Pinel Art Contemporain
My first soloshow at Galerie Bendana-Pinel, Paris.

2009-10-14

"Frieze art fair"
Magnus Karlsson Gallery

2009-04-29

Exhibition at Stenasalen, Göteborgs Konstmuseum

2009-04-01

Albumcover for Peter Bjorn and John
The Band used a painting (Trophyroom) from the exhibition at Magnus Karlsson for their new album "Living Thing". Jacob Frössén made the design and it looks great!

2009-03-04

THE ARMORY SHOW, NEW YORK Galleri Magnus Karlsson Pier 92 / Booth #724 4-8.3 2009

Visit the Magnus Karlsson Gallery and look at a new painting "The inner circle" from me

2009-02-01

The exhibition "From Place to Place, 2" opens at Skissernas Museum in Lund. The Museums collection is focused on the sketches for public art works and they are showing new accusitions and projects. "Holding Hands" the sculpture for Karlshamn is among the exhibited pieces

2009-01-06

Update of some of the works from 2008

2009-01-01

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

2008 has been a great year for working and sadly the update of this site suffered as a consequense of deadlines. But be prepared for a major update in the beginning of 2009 with lots of new works: paintings (yes it is true) and several sculptures.

2008-11-13

Exhibition at Magnus Karlosson Gallery, Stockholm

My second exhibition at the gallery: This time I have made a radical turn and started painting. The show features four big paintings, three new sculptures and a video of withering flowers

2008-02-11

Thomas Broomé på Teatergalleriet

Med teckningsinstallationen ModernMantra, är vi glada att få välkomna Thomas Broomé, känd för sin mångsidighet och sitt banbrytande sätt att fusionera olika uttrycksformer och tekniker.
Genom upprepningar av ord, som språkliga tecken, men även som formgivande byggstenar i själva avbildningen, tecknar Thomas Broomé, omsorgsfullt med drag av mani, miljöer och ting och skapar på så sätt ett spel med semantiska nivåer. Tingen bär sina namn på sina ytor liksom varor behäftade med sina varumärken. Miljöerna som skildras är också upprepningar. De upprepar föreställningar vi redan har och som orden ger upphov till.

2008-01-17

A sculpture for "Take action" at Museum for world culture in Gothenburg

"Take Action! 83 Ways to Change the World", is about individuals who occupy land, refuse to follow orders blindly, create armies of clowns, crochet their own Gucci bags or start up their own banks. It is about people who ask questions and fight for a better world. About individuals who sacrifice their own lives for others. How would you like to change the world? My contribution is a small boy made out of plaster who sits in an school bench and has a cracked head. The sculpture is entitled "Eggshell mind" and is about how an impressionable mind can be altered.

2007-10-15

A sculpture for Karlshamn

I have been given the rare oppurtunity to make a sculpture for a square here in Sweden. It is for a newly built complex in Karlshamn. It is an area that is going to mix education, living and business. I am really excited about this and will post images on the work in progress later on.

2007-04-16

Blogs, blogs, blogs.

Something has happened. There has been over 240 000 individual visits on this site since January this year. This is amazing and in terms of getting through to the world a revolution for me and my work. The credits for this should of course be given to all you bloggers that have appreciated my work so much that you actually published it on your sites. Thank you for all your appreciation and the fact that you have helped in spreading my work to so many persons from all over the world. You are truly great and I am overwhelmed by all your positive feedback. It is mainly the ModernMantra series that has been given lots of attention, but lately the visitors has also surfed into: Locust, XII, DogCat and all the other pieces that I have made during the years. All this attention has given me all the inspiration that I could ever hope for and I am now in a frenzy stage of making new works for exhibitions and public sculpture. All of this is going to be published later on this year and I am also trying to manage to get the video part of the site up and running.

Thank you again for all your support.
Thomas Broomé

2007-04-15

Illustration for the New York Times

I was given the opportunity to make an illustration for the NY Times this weekend (Sunday magazine).

2007-02-22

"Armory Show 2007 "

Galleri Magnus Karlsson will present: Thomas Broomé, Roger Andersson, Lars Arrhenius, Niklas Eneblom, Tommy Hilding and others.

2007-01-28

"Kaos von Linné "

During Carl von Linnés 300 years anniversery, there will be a large exhibition touring Sweden and other countries. Three artists has been invited to do their interpretation of Kaos and Order. The Artitsts are: Thomas Broomé, Elisabeth Westerlund and Charlotta Östlund.

2006-11-07

"arty, SVT tisdagen den 7e november"

Arty är konstprogrammet som på allvar menar att samtidskonsten spelar roll. Den berör och provocerar. Den får oss att gråta, skratta och kan göra oss fly förbannande. Samtidskonsten säger något unikt om vår tid och besitter en makt som gör det angeläget att prata om den.

2006-10-17

"Skapande människa"

Stiftelsen skapande människa delade i år ut stipendier till: Thomas Broomé, Jenny Wiklund och Goldin+Senneby.

2006-10-11

"Frieze art fair"
Magnus Karlsson Gallery (Booth F9) presents Amy Bennett, Thomas Broomé, Mamma Andersson, Klara Kristalova, Jens Fänge and others

2006-09-24

"20 år! Stipendiater"

Bonniers Konsthall i centrala Stockholm är en ny plats för svensk och internationell samtidskonst.
Konsthallen invigs med grupputställningen "20 år! Stipendiater Maria Bonnier Dahlins stiftelse 1985 – 2005" 24 september - 17 december 2006

2006-06-17

Among Gnomes and Trolls

Summer exhibithion with the gallery artists, 17.6 - 1.7 at Fredsgatan 12, Stockholm

2006-06-10

Umedalen skulptur 2006

Utställningen öppnar den 10 juni och pågår fram till den 3 augusti 2006. Deltagande konstnärer är förutom mig själv: Juan Munoz, Marianne Lindberg De Geer, Sean Henry, Maria Misenberger m. fl.

2006-06-08

AnimalWorld på Borås Konstmuseum
Animalworld 8 juni - 10 september
Djuren i människans värld.

2006-03-18

Touching the invisible at Färgfabriken

Finally! The touring show: Touching the invisible, from the group Smart Studio, is in Stockholm at last. Here you can try out some of the pieces I made during the years at Smart Studio: BrainBar, HellHunt and BrainBall and three other installations from the group.

2006-02-03

Market

MARKET is a new art fair, offering art enthusiasts a wide selection of the best in Nordic contemporary art. I will show two new pieces at Galleri Magnus Karlssons Booth.

2006-01-28

ModernMantra at Borås Konstmuseum

a new BIG soloshow in Sweden is opening at Borås Konstmuseum 2006.

2006-01-12

Nya arbeten på papper, Galleri Magnus Karlsson

Parallellt med Petra Lindholms utställning visas nya arbeten på papper i
galleriets andra rum. Medverkande konstnärer är Roger Andersson, Thomas
Broomé, Niklas Eneblom, Jens Fänge, Carl Hammoud, Johanna Karlsson och
Jockum Nordström.

2005-10-08

Touching the invisible: DogA, Oslo

The fourth stop on the T.T.I.V. exhibition tour has now opened. In Osla at the DogA centre, our dear neighnours in Norway can imteract and play with the exhib.

2005-04-24

Touching the invisible: ICA, London

The third stop on the T.T.I.V. exhibition tour has now opened. At the Institute of contemporary art in London the visitors can interact with the invisible flow of information that is gathered from, and channelled through electronic and digital technology. The hybrid works occupy tangible physical spaces, but really come alive through the personality and behaviour of the people using them. Each project opens many different kinds of questions and possibilities that can be applied in a wider range of contexts that are not purely art or science related.

2005-04-24

QTVR of the show "How an empty vessel moves"

Take a virtual tour around the latest show at 300m3 in Gothenburg. Drag the cursor to change direction, point at the objects and openings to explore the exhibition.

HAVE FUN.

2005-03-11

"How an empty vessel moves"
Soloshow at 300 m3, Kastellgatan 22, Göteborg

This exhibition features new works in different medias put together to produce an experience which you have to meet physically to fully comprehend. A completely reworked version of the knifeHand sculpture playing "Finnish roulette", a lightning flash showing the creation of the universe in a jubilee of light. A vase controlled by invisible forces searching for content and meaning, while the watchdog circles on the other side, and the flowers slowly withers and dies.

2005-02-01

Samtidskonst för lärare och andra intresserade
Publikation från Moderna museet i samarbete med Lärarförbundet.
Tolv skribenter med olika bakgrund – filosofi, idéhistoria, ekonomi, film- och konstvetenskap och konstnärskap – bidrar med olika perspektiv under huvudrubrikerna: *Rastrerad verklighet *Globalt, lokalt, glokalt *Cross-over *Om politiskt medveten konst.
Medverkande författare:
Milou Allerholm, Thomas Broomé, Charlotte Budler, Lars O Ericsson, Maria Heimer Åkerlund, Maria Lind, Mikela Lundahl, Mats Stjernstedt, Lars Strannegård, Annika Wik, Elin Wikström, Jun Yang.

2004-11-27

Moscow Biennale
In the section paralell program of the first Moscow biennale (Russia), the brainBall is presented in the show: "I click therfore I am", at Mars Gallery.

2004-11-27

REALISTISCH vs A B S T R A K T
Exhibition at ALPHAarte, Brugg, Switzerland.
I am participating with new series of work "aModernDayMantra". A repetition of words that make up the dreams of the modern consumer.

2004-11-11

Pictures from the exhibition at Ludwig museum, Budapest
Heres some nice images from the exhibition in Budapest. The Cultureminister Leif Pagrotsky (taking a drink), the Crown Princess of Sweden talking about HellHunt. And installation pictures from the exhibition.
Read an article abouy the exhibition here: http://www.budapesttimes.hu/index.php?art=190

2004-10-19

Smart Studio
Touching the invisible, First stop Ludwig museum in Budapest, Hungary 19 Oct - 28 Nov
The research team in which I worked in the latest five years, are doing a European tour 2004-2006. Works feutured in the exhibition include HellHunt, BrainBar and BrainBall. This is the perfect way for me to say farewell to a fantastic time with my colleagues and friends, with an equally interesting exhibition.

2004-10-16

BrainBar2
New design 2004
Finally we made a new design for the brainBar, of course we didn't settle with this: we also made a more intrusive/parasitic entity that is mobile i.e. it can be used in any bar. And thanks to our good friends at Glittermek: it looks fantastic.

2004-09-11

SAK, yearbook
Svensk Konst nu, 85 konstnärer
Sveriges allmänna konstförening har i dagarna släppt sin årsbok, 2004. Årets tema är samtida konst och lyfter fram 85 konstnärer födda efter 1960. Som enligt författarna Sophie Algårdh och Estelle af Malmborg, representerar olika nyorienteringar inom dagens konstnärliga uttryck.

2004-08-18

Isea2004
The paper about HellHunt was presented at the international conference/exhibition Isea2004. The conference was centered around the baltic region with venues in Helsinki, Finland and Talinn, Estonia.