Adam Jeppesen 1978
Lives in Copenhagen + Maldonado. Works in Copenhagen + Maldonado.
Represented by:
Bildhalle
Adam Jeppesen (born 1978 in Kalundborg, Denmark) is a Danish photographer and visual artist who lives and works between Copenhagen (Denmark) and Maldonado (Uruguay). He is known for his quiet, meditative visual language and his strongly material-based artistic practice. Jeppesen’s work moves fluidly between photography, sculpture, and installation, often created through slow, analogue processes such as photogravure, cyanotype, and anthotype. Central to his approach are themes of impermanence, trace, chance, and the slowness of artistic production.
He first gained international recognition with his major series Wake (published by Steidl in 2008), and has since exhibited widely at institutions such as FOAM (Amsterdam), C/O Berlin, the Denver Art Museum, Museo MAR (Argentina), and regularly in galleries in Copenhagen, London, Paris, and Miami. His works are held in several public collections including the Danish Arts Foundation, the National Museum of Photography in Copenhagen, and the Denver Art Museum.
A more recent body of work, the Tanks series, marks Jeppesen’s ongoing expansion of photography into sculptural space. In these works, cyanotype-printed silk is suspended in glass tanks filled with mineral oil, creating delicate, atmospheric objects. The Tanks explore ideas of preservation and dissolution, photographic abstraction, and the interplay between light, image, and materiality.
Jeppesen deliberately maintains a quiet, process-driven studio practice, often working on projects over extended periods. His art is not only a visual encounter but also a physical and temporal experience – a slow, meditative dialogue with the medium of photography.
„I have worked a lot on this idea that my work needs to be truthful, and when I have been teaching, I have kind of preached that, whatever it is that you do, always ask if what you’re doing and what you’re expressing is genuine. I’ve found that by embracing Wabi-sabi, and many of the concepts that lie within that, being the embrace of imperfection, and the consciousness of the ephemeral, and that nothing is to last, and everything is in constant change, I could resonate so much with that.”
Adam Jeppesen 2021
He first gained international recognition with his major series Wake (published by Steidl in 2008), and has since exhibited widely at institutions such as FOAM (Amsterdam), C/O Berlin, the Denver Art Museum, Museo MAR (Argentina), and regularly in galleries in Copenhagen, London, Paris, and Miami. His works are held in several public collections including the Danish Arts Foundation, the National Museum of Photography in Copenhagen, and the Denver Art Museum.
A more recent body of work, the Tanks series, marks Jeppesen’s ongoing expansion of photography into sculptural space. In these works, cyanotype-printed silk is suspended in glass tanks filled with mineral oil, creating delicate, atmospheric objects. The Tanks explore ideas of preservation and dissolution, photographic abstraction, and the interplay between light, image, and materiality.
Jeppesen deliberately maintains a quiet, process-driven studio practice, often working on projects over extended periods. His art is not only a visual encounter but also a physical and temporal experience – a slow, meditative dialogue with the medium of photography.
„I have worked a lot on this idea that my work needs to be truthful, and when I have been teaching, I have kind of preached that, whatever it is that you do, always ask if what you’re doing and what you’re expressing is genuine. I’ve found that by embracing Wabi-sabi, and many of the concepts that lie within that, being the embrace of imperfection, and the consciousness of the ephemeral, and that nothing is to last, and everything is in constant change, I could resonate so much with that.”
Adam Jeppesen 2021
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Selection of Solo Exhibitions
• 2024 – Al paso de la lumbre, MACA, Uruguay
• 2023 – From The Shadowland, Niels Borch Jensen Gallery, Berlin
• 2022 – While Every Passing Day Seemed Fair, Martin Asbæk Gallery, Copenhagen
• 2022 – Rose the White Moon with the promise of the West, Piero Atchugarry Gallery, Garzón
• 2021 – Evidence of Absence, Black Box Projects, London
• 2019 – The Great Filter, Brandts, Odense
• 2017 – Out of Camp, FOAM, Amsterdam
• 2017 – The Pond, Galerie van der Mieden, Antwerp
• 2017 – Extraits de la plaine, Bendana Pinel, Paris
• 2015 – Out of Camp, C/O Berlin, Germany
• 2014 – SCATTER – New Color Works, Peter Lav Gallery, Copenhagen
• 2012 – Flatlands Camp Project, Galerie van der Mieden, Antwerp
• 2011 – The Flatlands Camp Project – Beyonder, Peter Lav Gallery, Copenhagen
• 2009 – On Sleepwalking, Galleri Image, Aarhus
• 2006 – The Wake, Galleri Hornbæk, Hornbæk
Selection of Group Exhibitions
• 2025 – NATURE, PERCEPTION, AND MATERIALITY ..., Bildhalle, Amsterdam
• 2024 – KOLOSSAL, Kastrupgårdsamling, Copenhagen
• 2023 – 10 Years, Piero Atchugarry, Miami
• 2023 – Forsvindinger, Fotografisk Center, Copenhagen
• 2021 – Destination. From the seaside resort to the cosmos, Museo MAR, Mar del Plata, Argentina
• 2020 – On Earth, FOAM, Amsterdam
• 2019 – Back to the Future, Mai Manó House, Budapest
• 2019 – Post Water, Museo Nazionale della Montagna, Torino
• 2018 – Back to the Future, CO Berlin, Germany
• 2018 – New Territory, Denver Art Museum, USA
• 2018 – Back to the Future, FOAM, Amsterdam
• 2017 – Visions of Nature, Kunst Haus Wien, Vienna
• 2016 – Touched – Craftsmanship in Contemporary Photography, Museum Het Schip, Amsterdam
• 2015 – I Plunge into Black Holes and Emerge Intact, Gallery Taik Persons, Berlin
• 2014 – The Return of the Real (w/ Olafur Eliasson & Joakim Eskildsen), Gallery Niels Borch / Taik Persons, Berlin
• 2013 – True Colors, Atlas Gallery, London
• 2012 – Voices Off, Arles
• 2011 – Arctic, Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow
• 2008 – Nuit Blanche, Paris
• 2006 – New Danish Photography, Scandinavia House, New York
• 2005 – Scandinavian Photography II: Denmark, Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell College, USA
• 2024 – Al paso de la lumbre, MACA, Uruguay
• 2023 – From The Shadowland, Niels Borch Jensen Gallery, Berlin
• 2022 – While Every Passing Day Seemed Fair, Martin Asbæk Gallery, Copenhagen
• 2022 – Rose the White Moon with the promise of the West, Piero Atchugarry Gallery, Garzón
• 2021 – Evidence of Absence, Black Box Projects, London
• 2019 – The Great Filter, Brandts, Odense
• 2017 – Out of Camp, FOAM, Amsterdam
• 2017 – The Pond, Galerie van der Mieden, Antwerp
• 2017 – Extraits de la plaine, Bendana Pinel, Paris
• 2015 – Out of Camp, C/O Berlin, Germany
• 2014 – SCATTER – New Color Works, Peter Lav Gallery, Copenhagen
• 2012 – Flatlands Camp Project, Galerie van der Mieden, Antwerp
• 2011 – The Flatlands Camp Project – Beyonder, Peter Lav Gallery, Copenhagen
• 2009 – On Sleepwalking, Galleri Image, Aarhus
• 2006 – The Wake, Galleri Hornbæk, Hornbæk
Selection of Group Exhibitions
• 2025 – NATURE, PERCEPTION, AND MATERIALITY ..., Bildhalle, Amsterdam
• 2024 – KOLOSSAL, Kastrupgårdsamling, Copenhagen
• 2023 – 10 Years, Piero Atchugarry, Miami
• 2023 – Forsvindinger, Fotografisk Center, Copenhagen
• 2021 – Destination. From the seaside resort to the cosmos, Museo MAR, Mar del Plata, Argentina
• 2020 – On Earth, FOAM, Amsterdam
• 2019 – Back to the Future, Mai Manó House, Budapest
• 2019 – Post Water, Museo Nazionale della Montagna, Torino
• 2018 – Back to the Future, CO Berlin, Germany
• 2018 – New Territory, Denver Art Museum, USA
• 2018 – Back to the Future, FOAM, Amsterdam
• 2017 – Visions of Nature, Kunst Haus Wien, Vienna
• 2016 – Touched – Craftsmanship in Contemporary Photography, Museum Het Schip, Amsterdam
• 2015 – I Plunge into Black Holes and Emerge Intact, Gallery Taik Persons, Berlin
• 2014 – The Return of the Real (w/ Olafur Eliasson & Joakim Eskildsen), Gallery Niels Borch / Taik Persons, Berlin
• 2013 – True Colors, Atlas Gallery, London
• 2012 – Voices Off, Arles
• 2011 – Arctic, Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow
• 2008 – Nuit Blanche, Paris
• 2006 – New Danish Photography, Scandinavia House, New York
• 2005 – Scandinavian Photography II: Denmark, Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell College, USA
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