350 by Thomas Broomé

In room 350 on the third floor of the SSE main building, Thomas Broomé has, during the fall of 2025 and January 2026, created a classroom and a small universe consisting of words. The words themselves are constructing the patterns on the walls, the tables, the artifacts in the cupboards and the two sconces. With this technique Broomé creates a kind of visual tautology where language doesn't describe something external but becomes the thing itself. The words and the objects become one. Broomé makes language physical and architectural. Words typically exist as abstract symbols, but Broomé gives them mass, texture, and three-dimensional form.

The repetition transforms text from something we read into something we perceive as pattern, surface, and structure. The work prompts us to consider how our brain switches between reading mode and seeing mode. This is uniquely appropriate for a learning environment at an economics school, where much of the work involves assigning value and meaning to things through language and symbols.

Thomas Broomé is an artist who moves between techniques in his very own universe. With curiosity and thirst for knowledge he retrieves information and fuel from art history, science and philosophy. His interdisciplinary research turns into paintings, drawings, sculptures, videos and installations that mix logic with a little bit of madness.

Broomé’s public commissions include works for Hermès, the Drawing Hotel in Paris, and several large-scale installations in Sweden.

Thomas Broomé is a Swedish contemporary artist born in 1971 in Malmö. He lives and works in Stockholm, and was trained at Konstfack, University of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm and HDK Valand Academy in Gothenburg.