Mark Bradford and the exhibition arc of Keep Walking
Published on 08/31/2026 at 11:08 | Editorial responsibility: Rafael Müller, Editor-in-Chief AD HOC NEWS
Mark Bradford has spent the past year anchored by the touring exhibition Mark Bradford: Keep Walking. Organized by Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, the show moves across Berlin, Seoul and Bern with more than two decades of large-scale works.
The touring museum exhibition
The core of Mark Bradford: Keep Walking was first presented at Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin, which describes the exhibition as a bold showcase of paintings, sculptures, installations and video works spanning roughly twenty years. The museum notes that the project is structured as an international tour, underlining Bradford’s institutional status within European museum circuits.
Following Berlin, the exhibition traveled to the Amorepacific Museum of Art (APMA) in Seoul, which characterizes the show as Bradford’s first solo exhibition in South Korea and the largest presentation of his work in Asia. APMA’s overview emphasizes more than forty works and situates the exhibition explicitly as part of the touring program initiated by Hamburger Bahnhof.
Exhibition & show context
APMA’s announcement stresses that Mark Bradford: Keep Walking offers an expansive overview of the artist’s practice rather than a narrow selection of recent work. The museum frames the exhibition around the social and urban references that inform Bradford’s large-scale abstractions, positioning him within a lineage of American painters engaged with political and civic narratives.
Hamburger Bahnhof, in turn, highlights the combination of monumental paintings with sculptural and video elements. This mixture of formats aligns with Bradford’s broader exhibition history, in which he regularly uses layered paper, found posters and cartographic structures to push painting into installation-like spatial experiences.
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The work core and institutional frame
Bradford’s practice centers on large mixed-media paintings built from collaged paper, merchant posters, maps and printed ephemera, which he sands and cuts back to reveal layered structures. In the context of Keep Walking, these techniques are presented alongside installations and video works that extend his social mapping into the exhibition architecture.
The touring show also sits alongside longer-term collection holdings. The Broad museum in Los Angeles reports that it has acquired multiple major Bradford works, including the monumental painting Deep Blue (2018), which became the tenth work by the artist in its collection. This acquisition underscores his positioning in high-profile institutional collections beyond the touring exhibition.
Where the artist stands now
Mark Bradford’s large-scale abstractions continue to circulate through museum shows and permanent collections, with the touring framework of Mark Bradford: Keep Walking and acquisitions such as Deep Blue reinforcing his position across Europe, Asia and the United States.
Mark Bradford at a glance
- Artist: Mark Bradford
- Medium / Genre: Painting and mixed-media (large-scale abstraction)
- Born: 1961, Los Angeles, United States
- Place(s) of practice: Studio practice centered in Los Angeles
- Active since: Early 2000s, with wider recognition following mid-2000s exhibitions
- Key work groups: Helter Skelter I, Deep Blue, No Time to Explain, Here Comes the Hurricane
- Current/last exhibition: Mark Bradford: Keep Walking, touring exhibition organized by Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart with presentations in Berlin, Amorepacific Museum of Art (Seoul) and Kunstmuseum Bern
- Major collections: The Broad (Los Angeles), MoMA (New York), Hammer Museum (Los Angeles), Tampa Museum of Art (Tampa)
- Awards: National representation for the United States Pavilion at the Venice Biennale (2017), among other honors
- Next date: No announced date within the immediate 30-day window; Bradford’s work remains on view in several ongoing collection displays.
Frequently asked questions about Mark Bradford
Where has Mark Bradford’s exhibition Keep Walking been shown?
The touring exhibition Mark Bradford: Keep Walking has been presented at Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin, Amorepacific Museum of Art in Seoul and is scheduled in the program for Kunstmuseum Bern as part of its multi-venue tour.
How does Amorepacific Museum of Art describe Mark Bradford’s solo presentation?
Amorepacific Museum of Art characterizes Mark Bradford: Keep Walking as Bradford’s first solo exhibition in South Korea and the largest exhibition of his work in Asia, featuring more than forty works across two decades.
Which major museum collections hold Mark Bradford’s work?
The Broad in Los Angeles notes ownership of ten Bradford works including Deep Blue, while institutional databases document further holdings at MoMA and several regional museums in the United States.
This article was produced with a.i. support and editorially reviewed. All statements without guarantee; auction results, exhibition dates and awards may change at short notice.
