About
I am an artist, teacher and writer born 1990 in Copenhagen, DK. I hold an MA from Royal Academy of Art, The Hague where I now teach.
My work has been exhibited and published widely across Denmark, United Kingdom, Germany and The Netherlands.
Books
HRTLND
Published April 2025 by Disko Bay
CIVIL WAR
Published April 2015 by fiblefable
Reviews and essays
About Control
The Photographs of Mads Holm
By John Farrell
Available in NOTES Issue 5
Exhibition Review: Mads Holm,
About Common Ground
By Frank McElhinney
For Writing on Scottish Photography
Mads Holm, A Shift of Mood
By Gavin Murphy
For Source Magazine Issue 89
Review of HRTLND in BOOK_SPACES
By Bettina Maria Brosowsky for taz
Fotografier af Mads Holm
By Nikolaj Callesen
For Den Smalle Bog
Review of CIVIL WAR
Source Magazine Issue 86
Published in
New Danish Photography #01
Ud & Se
Phases Mag
C 41 Magazine
IGNANT
The Skinny
Baobab Issue #3
Musée Magazine Issue 16 - Chaos
Interviews and talks
In conversation with Donald Weber
at Prospekt in Copenhagen (DK)
on Saturday 12 April 2025
Self-fulfilling Prophecy Lecture at Undisciplining Photography symposium
Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, May 2021
Danish Embassy Art Prize 2016
Photobook Saturday
@ Street Level Photoworks
At sætte elementerne sammen
ATLAS
Mads Holm: CIVIL WAR
I DO ART
Grants and awards
Adam Bruce Thomson Award
Art in Healthcare Purchase Prize
Jill Todd Photographic Award
Danish Embassy Art Prize
Statens Kunstfond
Dansk Tennis Fond
DJ:Fotografernes Ophavsretsfond
Augustinusfonden
William Demant Fonden
Knud Højgaards Fond
Shortlists
MACK First Book Award
Andy Rocchelli Grant
STAR Award
Kassel Dummy Award
Fiebre Dummy Award
Video work
Self-fulfilling Prophecy, 14:42 min.
Mentions
PhMuseum
Dansk Dokumentarisme #10
The Herald Scotland
Netzwerk Fotografie
Artmag
Culture Northern Ireland
Passauer Neue Presse
kunsten.nu
ATLAS
Studies in Photography, SSHoP, winter 2017
Collections and sale
Public collections
Copenhagen Municipality’s Art Collection
Art in Healthcare
Sale
Studies in Photography
Bladr
Fragment
Printed Matter, Inc.
Friends and collaborators
Paula Duvå, artist
Dario Pianesi, graphic designer
Chris Becher, photographer and writer
Federica Iozzo, photographer and sociologist
Anders Birger, photographer
Ewan Macbeth, filmmaker Tine Bek, photographer
Katinka Klinge, photographer
Education
2020 MA Photography & Society, Royal Academy of Art, The Hague (NL)
2016 BA (Hons.) Fine Art Photography, first class, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow (UK)
2011 Documentary Photography and Photojournalism, International Center of Photography, New York (US)
2009 Fatamorgana, Danish School of Art Photography, Copenhagen (DK)
Selected exhibitions
Solo & duo
2025 HRTLND, Prospekt, Copenhagen (DK)
2023 Double Sunset (with Paula Duvå), Oblong, Copenhagen (DK)
2020 HRTLND, The Hague (NL)
2019 Grasshopper on the Dashboard, Leica Boutique, Copenhagen (DK)
2018 About Common Ground, SWG3, Glasgow (UK)
2018 I look at War (with Paula Duvå), Soiz Galerie, Passau (DE)
2017 Jeg ser på Krig (with Paula Duvå), Banja Rathnov Gallery, Copenhagen, (DK)
2016 About Common Ground, The Royal Danish Embassy, London (UK)
Group
2024 ARV Vesterbro porten til det moderne, Prospekt, Copenhagen (DK)
2023 Tilting at Windmills, Kunstmusem Den Haag, Den Haag (NL)
2023 BOOK_SPACES, Museum für Photografie, Braunschweig (DE)
2022 Influence, Oblong, Copenhagen (DK)
2020 Friction Atlas, Royal Academy of Art, The Hague
2019 Kolga Award, KOLGA TBILISI PHOTO, Tbilisi (GE)
2019 Archetype, The Balcony, The Hague (NL)
2019 3 Rituals, Antenne, Copenhagen (DK), 2019
2018 (INTER)TWINE, Supernormal, Singapore (SG), 2018
2017 NV Live Lab, Copenhagen (DK)
2017 BLIXA Artzine, KN3, KUNSTFESTIVAL, Aalborg (DK), 2017
2017 New Contemporaries 2017, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh (UK)
2016 Jill Todd Award Show, Stills Gallery, Edinburgh (UK)
2016 Ung Dansk Fotografi ‘16, Fotografisk Center, Copenhagen (DK)
2016 Opposite Tendencies, 16 Nicholson Street, Glasgow (UK)
2016 Futureproof 2016, Lillie Art Gallery, Milngavie (UK)
2015 100 Editions, Galleri Naboløs, Copenhagen (DK)
2015 Hoamat Moi Zwoa, Haus zur Wildnis, Bavaria (DE)
2014 Århus Independent Pixels, Århus (DK)