Dutch artist Bram Braam explores the raw traces of our urban environment and the continuous cycles of construction, transformation, and decay that shape architecture. His sculptures and wall reliefs, made from found industrial materials such as concrete, brick, wood, steel, and plexiglass, blur the line between reality and abstraction. By combining accidental marks with intentional interventions, Braam highlights the tension between control and chance.
Influenced by counterculture, DIY movements, graffiti, modernism, brutalism, and minimalism, he reclaims fragments from the city and transforms them into new compositions. His work questions how we perceive a world where the real and the artificial constantly merge, and where our physical and digital environments are in permanent flux.
BRAM BRAAM draws inspiration from the raw traces of urban landscapes. Through a minimalist approach, he reinterprets the cyclical metamorphosis of materials like concrete, steel, bricks or glass, partly collecting from the streets, but primarily recreating textures from the city, familiar and random yet precisely arranged to form new perspectives that bridge abstraction and reality, painting and landscape. The results, neither fully real nor abstract, reflect architecture’s perpetual state of flux, from decay to renewal.
![[EXTENDED] FREE SPACE (FOR UKR) - Alana Lake, Albert Coers, Aldo van den Broek, Alexander Minor, Alexander Wagner, Aline Schwörer, Aneta Kajzer, Anna Nezhnaya, Archiv Sander | Schaal, Ben Greber, Birgit Maaß, Birgit Schlieps, Bram Braam, Bretz/Holliger, Carlos Enfedaque, Christine Gedeon, Clara Bahlsen, Felix Baxmann, Frank Pietras, Gert-Jan Akerboom, Ignacio Lobera, Ivonne Thein, Jase Kala, Jens Hausmann, Klaus Killisch, Knut Eckstein, Kristina Popov, Lukas Troberg, Marianna Ignataki, Mario Hergueta, Marta Vovk, Martim Brion, Maurice Doherty, Maxim Brandt, Menno Aden, Michel Vincenot, Miron Schmückle, Nicole Wendel, Nils Blau, Pedro Boese, Peter Freitag, Philippine de Salaberry, Pierre Granoux, Rutger de Vries, Sabine Herrmann, Sebastian Heiner, Semra Sevin, Sibylle Jazra, Sir Güdel, Susanne Schirdewahn, Thomas Prochnow, Ties Ten Bosch, Yvon Chabrowski, Zuzanna Skiba](https://file.web.artbutler.com/wph21/uploads/sites/8/2023/06/17015637/c1f5b5d2f2d945c7-768x768.jpeg "[EXTENDED] FREE SPACE (FOR UKR) - Alana Lake, Albert Coers, Aldo van den Broek, Alexander Minor, Alexander Wagner, Aline Schwörer, Aneta Kajzer, Anna Nezhnaya, Archiv Sander | Schaal, Ben Greber, Birgit Maaß, Birgit Schlieps, Bram Braam, Bretz/Holliger, Carlos Enfedaque, Christine Gedeon, Clara Bahlsen, Felix Baxmann, Frank Pietras, Gert-Jan Akerboom, Ignacio Lobera, Ivonne Thein, Jase Kala, Jens Hausmann, Klaus Killisch, Knut Eckstein, Kristina Popov, Lukas Troberg, Marianna Ignataki, Mario Hergueta, Marta Vovk, Martim Brion, Maurice Doherty, Maxim Brandt, Menno Aden, Michel Vincenot, Miron Schmückle, Nicole Wendel, Nils Blau, Pedro Boese, Peter Freitag, Philippine de Salaberry, Pierre Granoux, Rutger de Vries, Sabine Herrmann, Sebastian Heiner, Semra Sevin, Sibylle Jazra, Sir Güdel, Susanne Schirdewahn, Thomas Prochnow, Ties Ten Bosch, Yvon Chabrowski, Zuzanna Skiba")
![[EXTENDED] BERLIN BAUSTELLE — Curated by Bram Braam - Alanna Lawley, Bram Braam, DAG, Isabelle Borges, Jeroen Cremers, Karsten Konrad, Miriam Temme, Pierre Granoux, Rijnder Kamerbeek, Rutger de Vries, Sandra Meisel, Sinta Werner, Wolfgang Flad, Wolfgang Ganter](https://file.web.artbutler.com/wph21/uploads/sites/8/2023/06/17015634/cf1e7bb919ae46ed.jpg "[EXTENDED] BERLIN BAUSTELLE — Curated by Bram Braam - Alanna Lawley, Bram Braam, DAG, Isabelle Borges, Jeroen Cremers, Karsten Konrad, Miriam Temme, Pierre Granoux, Rijnder Kamerbeek, Rutger de Vries, Sandra Meisel, Sinta Werner, Wolfgang Flad, Wolfgang Ganter")
![LAGE EGAL [D24] — LUXEMBOURG ART WEEK 2025 - Bram Braam, Franck Miltgen, Franziska Reinbothe, Julien Hübsch, Marta Djourina, Rodolphe Huguet](https://file.web.artbutler.com/wph21/uploads/sites/8/2025/10/16115315/1af990a5-6513-496d-acb8-feaa4f54b93f-768x768.png "LAGE EGAL [D24] — LUXEMBOURG ART WEEK 2025 - Bram Braam, Franck Miltgen, Franziska Reinbothe, Julien Hübsch, Marta Djourina, Rodolphe Huguet")
