Marcelo Brodsky
Marcelo Brodsky (born 1954, Buenos Aires, Argentina) is an Argentine photographer, visual artist and human rights activist.
Marcelo Brodsky

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- Name
- Marcelo Brodsky
- Born
- 18 October 1954
- Birthplace
- Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Occupation
- Photographer, visual artist and human rights activist
- Nationality
- Argentina
- Education
- University of Barcelona · Barcelona International Centre of Photography
- Teachers
- Manel Esclusa
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Marcelo Brodsky (born 1954, Buenos Aires, Argentina) is an Argentine photographer, visual artist and human rights activist.
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Marcelo Brodsky (born 1954) is an Argentine activist, artist and human rights defender, among other activities. The activist was born in Buenos Aires.
Marcelo Brodsky studied at Barcelona International Centre of Photography and University of Barcelona. The activist worked in Buenos Aires and Madrid and lived in Argentina and Barcelona. Works by Marcelo Brodsky are held at National Museum of Fine Arts, Argentina and Tate.
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Biography
Biography
Marcelo Brodsky studied at University of Barcelona and Barcelona International Centre of Photography. Training under Manel Esclusa is recorded. Places of work recorded in the authority are Barcelona, Buenos Aires and Madrid. Residence is recorded at Barcelona and Argentina. Work by Marcelo Brodsky is recorded in the collections of Tate and National Museum of Fine Arts, Argentina.
Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Marcelo Brodsky • Born — 18 October 1954 • Birthplace — Buenos Aires, Argentina • Occupation — Photographer, visual artist and human rights activist • Website — www.marcelobrodsky.com
Early life and career
Early life and career
Marcelo Brodsky was born in 1954 in Buenos Aires. He was exiled to Barcelona after the military coup in Argentina in 1976. He studied economics at the University of Barcelona. During his stay in Spain, he took photographs that immortalized the psychological and emotional state generated by exile for political reasons. He returned to Argentina after the end of the military dictatorship in 1984. He began his project Buena Memoria, a visual essay that deals with the experiences and emotions of those who lived through dictatorship and with the consequences of the disappeared by state terror in his generation. Brodsky had many solo and group shows and his work is part of major collections such as the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Tate Gallery in London, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (Buenos Aires), Buenos Aires Museum of Modern Art, The center for creative Photography in Tucson, University of Arizona, Sprengel Museum in Germany, Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo in Brazil, Lima Art Museum in Peru, Colección de Arte del Banco de la República in Colombia and Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Brodsky has represented Argentina in several international biennials including the Biennale d'art contemporain de Lyon(2017-2018), Rencontres d'Arles (2018), Dakar Biennale (2018), São Paulo Art Biennial (2010), Valencia (2007) and International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam (2000). Brodsky is a member of the human rights organization Asociación Buena Memoria. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Remembrance park (Parque de la memoria), a sculpture park and large monument with names and a gallery, built in Buenos Aires to the memory of victims of state terrorism.
Solo
Solo
• 2021: Traces of Violence, ARTCO Gallery, Berlin, Germany. • 2021: Vision and Justice, Frieze New York, Henrique Faria Fine Art NY, USA. • 2020: A call to vote, Henrique Faria Fine Art, New York, USA. • 2020: 1968 & Black lives matter, Buenos Aires Photo, Rolf Art, Buenos Aires. • 2019: 1968, The Fire of Ideas, Thorne Sagendorp Gallery, Keene College, NH, USA • 2019: 1968, The Fire of Ideas, Investec Cape Town Art Fair, Artco Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa. • 2019: Abran los puentes, Juntos Aparte, Bienalsur, Cúcuta, Colombia. • 2018: 1968, The Fire of Ideas, ECCHR, Berlin, Germany.
Group
Group
• 2020: Pictures Revisited, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. • 2019: Remains of the Amia Jewish Institution, Rolf Art, Buenos Aires • 2018: 1968, The Fire of Ideas Resist., Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels, Bruselas, Belgium • 2017: 1968, El Fuego de las ideas, Sublevaciones. MUNTREF, Buenos Aires, Argentina • 2016: Upheaval (with Jorge Tacla), Aidekman Arts Center, Tufts University, Massachusetts, USA.
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Barcelona and Argentina
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Buenos Aires.
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Publications
• Poetics of Resistance (2019) • 1968, The Fire of Ideas (2018) • Ayotzinapa, Acción Visual (2016) • Buena Memoria (1996) • Nexo (2001) • Memory under construction (2005) • Visual Correspondences (2009)
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reference work
- “Marcelo Brodsky”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q63683664: Marcelo Brodsky
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Awards
• 2009: Human Rights Award, awarded by B'nai B'rith. • 2014: Jean Mayer Award, awarded by Tufts University.
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- 1.Marcelo Brodsky Artist & Human Rights Activist, Guest Speaker, London.
- 2.Nine Argentinian Photographers You Need to Follow. Time.
- 3.Mrcelo Brodsky-Né en 1954, vit et travaille à Buenos Aires (Argentine). labiennaledelyon.
- 4.The Class Works Marcelo Brodsky People The MFAH Collections.
- 5.Tate. Marcelo Brodsky born 1954.
- 6.Marcelo Brodsky and David Campany. David Campany. August 18, 2020.
- 7.MARCELO BRODSKY - Arts of the Americas. www.oas.org.
- 8.'from Buena Memoria, 1st year, 6th division, Class Photo 1967', Marcelo Brodsky, 1996. Tate.
- 9.Marcelo Brodsky. Art Basel.
- 10.THE PAST IS NOT A FOREIGN COUNTRY: AN INTERVIEW WITH MARCELO BRODSKY. GUP Magazine. June 11, 2018.
- 11.Visiting The Met?. metmuseum.
- 12.Instituut, Nederlands Foto. Foto Biënnale Rotterdam 2000. Nederlands Foto Instituut. 249–250. 2000. 978-90-76085-10-4.
- 13.Marcelo Brodsky Bio & Statement.
- 14.Artist Spotlight: Marcelo Brodsky.
- 15.EL FUTURO DE LA MEMORIA. 10 April 2020.
- 16.5 Must-See Artists at the Rencontres d'Arles, the 'Venice Biennale of the Photography World'. Artnet News. July 6, 2018.
- 17.Zacharías, María Paula. Marcelo Brodsky en Nueva York: viaja a inaugurar una muestra y encuentra una obra suya colgada en el MET - LA NACION. La Nación. 3 November 2020.
- 18.Tribute to Vision & Justice Project and Founder Sarah Elizabeth Lewis. Frieze.
- 19.Marcelo Brodsky - 1968: The Fire of Ideas. Street Level Photoworks.
- 20.Marcelo Brodsky-La Clase (The Class)-The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
- 21.Marcelo Brodsky-publications. Artco-art.
- 22.Premios Derechos Humanos 2009 de B´Nai B´Rith Argentina.
- 23.Marcelo Brodsky Receives Jean Mayer Award. Tufts Global Leadership.
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