Hello I’m Florian Braakman

I’m a photographic artist and
I make work to connect people.
I’m interested in communities, like my neighbourhood
Delfshaven, in Rotterdam.
I make (audio visual) installations,
and I create publications.
Besides that, I make portraits and visual stories for clients
    Recent news
  • Traveling in Surinam for my project In Between Homes, 4 November - 4 December, 2024

  • Exhibition (solo) A Constellation Of Empathy JOEY RAMONE, 14 September - 2 November 2024

  • Exhibition Your Present Face Is the Face You Loved the Most in Your Past Life, Limassol Art Walks, Limassol (CY), October 2024

  • Exhibition Levenslust Academie #2, Brutus, September 2024

  • Exhibition GO West, Visual and Urban arts Delfshaven, May 2024

  • Exhibition & Magazine Foam Talent 2024-2025

  • Exhibition The Things That Finds Us during Rotterdam Art Week, 2024

  • Exhibition Delfshaven, wat is je droom? 2023. Public art work at Beukelsbrug, Rotterdam, 2023-2025

Traveling in Surinam for my project In Between Homes, 4 November - 4 December, 2024

A Constellation Of Empathy, solo exhibition at JOEY RAMONE, 14 September - 2 November 2024

Works of Delfshaven's Finest in the exhibition Your Present Face Is the Face You Loved the Most in Your Past Life, Limassol Art Walks, Limassol (CY), October 2024

Interview FD Persoonlijk De stadschroniqueur van de Rotterdamse wijk Delfshaven, September 2024

Publication in Foam Magazine #65 Talent, 2024. Via this link you can view the whole publication and read the essay by Aya Musa.

Recent media coverage in Dutch newspapers Het Parool and Algemeen Dagblad (text in Dutch). February / March 2024

Broer, 2017 - present in the exhibition Foam Talent 2024-2025, Amsterdam (NL) 2024

Grant Mondriaan Fonds, Artist Basic. Incredibly happy to share that I have received the Artist Basic grant, to invest in my practice the coming four years.

Exhibition & Magazine Foam Talent 2024-2025 - Opening 22 February, 18:30 - 21:00

Broer, 2017 - present in the exhibition Generation, Jakarta International Photo Festival (ID), 8 - 24 September 2023

Delfshaven, wat is je droom? 2023. Public art work at Beukelsbrug, Rotterdam (NL), 2023

Broer, 2017 - present in the exhibition Verbeelding at the Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam (NL), 2022

Exhibition Stipendium Schiedams Water, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, 2023

Picture installation from Delfshaven’s Finest, 2013 - present, as part of the exhibition (T)huis, Rotterdam Architecture Month, Het Nieuwe Instituut, 2022

Exhibition Verwantschap, Museum IJsselstein, 2022

Wat een schoonmaker je kan vertellen over goed beleid - Publication on De Correspondent, in collaboration with Rasheed Vlijter en Tim ‘S Jongers, April 2022

Picture installation from Delfshaven’s Finest, 2013 - present, as part of the exhibition Foto Expo Botu, 2022

Album art for Rotterdam based band d'Ancona, get your copy through their Instagram page

For the campaign Gewoon in Rotterdam, Florian Braakman made a visual tribute to ‘the Kapsalon’. A dish with origins in Delfshaven, but now a snack with world fame. Many thanks to El Aviva and their great kapsalons

Rotterdam, hoe gaat het? 2020 at Foundation Mesh, Marconiplein, 2020
Prints in various sizes in window displays, 24/7 visible for the passerby

Broer, 2017 - present, In Between Homes, 2017 - present. Delfshaven’s Finest, 2013 - present. Different photogaphic works at Prospects & Concepts, Mondriaan Fund shows talent, Art Rotterdam, 2019