Andreas Bromba is a photographer and installation artist with a studio in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg.
His works are mostly created in series—born from a fascination with forms, silence, and the hidden aspects of the everyday.
His early influences included art education studies with a focus on photography in Frankfurt/M. (1989/90), training in fashion graphics at the Frankfurt School of Clothing and Design (1990/91), and the study of art history at the University of Hamburg (1992–95). Andreas Bromba developed a distinctive visual language between documentary, portrait, and conceptual photography.
Well-known series such as berlin minimal, “City from Below,” the Blue Series, or the Mystic Series have earned him a loyal collector base and numerous exhibitions both at home and abroad over the years.
His photographs speak of reduction, depth, and lightness all at once—at times with quiet irony, at others with silent force.
For instance, the Berliner Zeitung describes his Mystic Series as an “incredible, almost religious blue that is reminiscent of Yves Klein.”
Regarding berlin minimal, Prof. Christoph Stölzl, former Berlin Senator for Culture, wrote:
“I am certain that these images can give their viewers the most beautiful pleasure that art holds for us: surprise, wonder, recognition, and a smile.”
Andreas Bromba’s work stands for timeless, independent photography: clear, modern, expressive—and beyond fashionable trends.
Artist Statement:
Prof. Christoph Stölzl wrote about my photography: Photography can give us one of the most beautiful pleasures that art holds at all: surprise, wonder, recognition, and a smile. I look for exactly these four moments in each of my images—whether in a minimalist city scene, in a quiet landscape, or in the face of a person I encounter. My works are intended to bring joy, to appear light, and yet to possess a depth that is not immediately explained, but felt.
My approach is always the same: timeless, clear, modern in form and classic in expression—and completely free from photographic fashions. I want to create spaces in which stillness arises, concentration, and sometimes a quiet sense of wonder. Many of my collectors say that my photographs are like “windows” for them: into an atmosphere, a mood, an inner place.
When I photograph people, it always happens with respect, genuine proximity, and sympathy. I believe that dignity and trust become visible—and that this is exactly what makes a good portrait. Even in my minimalist series like berlin minimal or hamburg minimal, this human element is palpable: through the way cities breathe, how light falls, and how structures resonate.
In the end, I wish for my images not just to be looked at, but to be inhabited—as companions in everyday life, as a point of rest, as inspiration. Art should touch, give joy, and make a small moment of the world visible that would otherwise pass by.
Solo Exhibitions (Selection):
2026 | hamburg minimal, Visulex-Gallery for Photography, Hamburg
2024 | “The Small in the Large – Minimalist Photography”, Showroom Pixel Grain, Berlin https://artfacts.net/institution/pixel-grain-showroom-photographie-berlin
2019 | “Berlin Royal” and “Mystic Series”, Exhibition participation ART MUC, Munich
2018 | “GERMAN INDUSTRIAL ROMANTICISM”; Morgenstern-Galerie, Berlin
2015 | “City from Below”; Galerie Einstellungsraum e.V./Triennale of Photography, Hamburg https://www.einstellungsraum.de/archiv_bromba.html
2012 | berlin minimal; New Year’s Reception of the Prussian Society, Berlin
2012 | “Mystic Series”; Morgenstern-Galerie, Berlin, Germany
2007 | “The City K. – Königsberg/Kaliningrad”, Kunststiftung Poll, Berlin https://poll-berlin.de/Stiftung/ausstellung/andreas-bromba/
2005 | “Mystic Series”; German-Russian House, Kaliningrad/Königsberg, Russia
2004 | berlin minimal; Brand and Communication Center of Adam Opel AG, Berlin
2003 | “From Königsberg to Kaliningrad”, German-Russian House, Kaliningrad/Königsberg, Russia
2000 | “Other Worlds”; Galerie Art Concept, Berlin
2000 | berlin minimal; Galerie Forum Amalienpark, Berlin
Group Exhibitions and Fairs (Selection)
2026 | “Vertical Horizons”, nüüd.berlin gallery, Berlin https://nüüd.berlin/portfolio-item/vertical_horizons
2025 | Art3f, Paris, with Galerie Böhner, Mannheim
2025 | “Animal Kingdom”, NYC4PA New York Center for Photographic Art https://www.nyc4pa.com/animalkingdom-1?pgid=mhunn4s22-f72dbf18-1cf7-4412-bd85-f5177c331a19
2024 | Affordable Art Fair Berlin, with Parcus Gallery, Berlin
2023 | “Clarity in the Confusion of the World”, Schloss Neustein, Austria
2023 | “Favorites III”, Visulex-Gallery for Photography, Hamburg https://visulex.net/?s=bromba
2022 | Kunstverein KUNST Stuttgart, Red Dot Art Basel Miami, USA
2022 | “Art in Transition”, Kunstverein KUNST Stuttgart, Stuttgart/Leonberg
2021| Affordable Art Fair, Hamburg, with Visulex-Gallery for Photography, Hamburg
2021 | ARTe Wiesbaden, with the winning motif “Photography Category” of the Kunstverein KUNST Stuttgart
2021 | “The New Ones”, Positions of Contemporary Art, Kunstverein KUNST Stuttgart
2020 | Exhibition participation ART MUC re:start, Munich
2019 | Exhibition participation ART MUC, Munich
2019 | Exhibition participation NEUE ArT, Dresden
2016/17 | “Departure” with photographs from the “Mystic Series“; International School of the Golden Rosycross, Bad Münder, Germany
2014 | “Blue Current” with photographs from the “Mystic Series”, Neuer Sächsischer Kunstverein, Dresden https://www.lensculture.com/books/18818-blaue-stromung-das-geistige-in-der-kunst-heute-blue-current-the-spiritual-in-art-today
2013 | “quadriART” with photographs from “Other Worlds_TERRRA_Total“, EAGL Gallery, Berlin
2008 | “Positions of Contemporary Art”; Galerie Kunststiftung Poll, Berlin
2004 | GERMAN INDUSTRIAL ROMANTICISM, moq – ART NOW GALLERY, Berlin
2004 | German Architecture Photography Prize with berlin minimal; Goethe-Institut, Budapest
2002 | German Architecture Photography Prize with berlin minimal; Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn
2002 | German Architecture Photography Prize with berlin minimal; vhs-photogalerie, Stuttgart
2001 | “Other Worlds_TERRRA TOTAL”; Loft36, Berlin
2001 | German Architecture Photography Prize with berlin minimal; Architecture Center in the Kulturbahnhof, Kassel
Publications
2025 | LEBENsKUNST – Philosophical and Spiritual Positions on Art https://www.rosenkreuzverlag.de/shop/produkte/2230-lebenskunst-streiflichter-band-2
2019 | “Departure: Art + Spirituality”, Athena-Verlag, ISBN 978-3-7455-1075-1
2016 | “TANGERINE DREAM: FORCE MAJEURE – 1967 – 2014, written and compiled by EDGAR FROESE”; ISBN 978-3-00-056524-3
2015 | “Where there is noise in the streets, go forth.”, 13 Positions by Artists, Galerie Einstellungsraum e.V., Hamburg; ISBN 978-3-938218-82-2
2015 | Beyond Means, Hamburg Architecture Summer 2015
2014 | Blue Current, Neuer Sächsischer Kunstverein e.V., Dresden; ISBN 978-3-941209-33-6
2007 | The City K. – A City Awakens, Exhibition Catalog Kunststiftung Poll, Berlin
2005 | berlin minimal, Exhibition Catalog and part of the PR campaign, Adam Opel AG
2001 | Visions in Architecture, European Architecture Photography Prize, db architekturbild; ISBN 3-421–03370-6
Further publications in Berliner Zeitung, tip-Magazin, taz, Berliner Morgenpost, Rheinischer Merkur, among others.
Other
2024 | Selected Artist on SINGULART: https://www.singulart.com/de/k%C3%BCnstler/andreas-bromba-56943?ref=ts
2021 | Winner of the Art Prize of the Kunstverein KUNST Stuttgart International, Photography Category
2009 | Founding of the Morgenstern Foundation for Artists in Need, Berlin
2004 | PR campaign for Adam Opel AG for the Opel Tigra launch featuring motifs from the photo series berlin minimal
2001 | European Architecture Photography Prize (Commendation)
2000 | Project funding by Prof. Reinhold Würth, Museum Würth, Künzelsau