About Gert Broekema

 

For more than twenty years, I worked in the film industry in Hollywood and Amsterdam. My work was always about creating worlds — shaping atmosphere, objects and detail to tell a story.

 

Moving to Denmark gave me the opportunity to explore a different way of creating. I reached a point where I wanted to make something of my own, and began teaching myself to work with materials in a more direct and hands-on way, initially creating leather bags and small objects.

 

Today, I create handmade lighting from my studio in Denmark, developing a small number of carefully considered forms through textiles, colour, material and light. I enjoy returning to a familiar form and exploring how subtle changes can give it a different character and presence within a space.

 

Looking back, I realised that many of the things that had always drawn me to film — atmosphere, colour, texture and storytelling — could be expressed just as naturally through lighting.

The medium had changed, but the process had not. In many ways, it feels like a continuation of the work I have always done.

 

Only now, the story is my own.

 

 

Selected Works

 

Alongside the collection, I also explore a more experimental side of my work through one-of-a-kind pieces and limited works. These pieces allow me to push colour, material, scale and form further, with each work developing in its own direction.

 

Made individually in my studio, these works are created for private collectors, galleries and special projects.