ABOUT
Ian Waelder (b. Madrid, 1993) is a Spanish-American artist and publisher currently based in Frankfurt am Main.
Fine Art studies at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main between 2017 and 2023 under Prof. Haegue Yang; having been previously in the class of Peter Fischli and Mark von Schlegell’s Pure Fiction seminar.
His practice explores the memory and trace by isolating archival histories and language in relation to his biography, working through the poetics of the accident and the repurposing of the discarded.
He uses the following sentence as the whole statement of his work:
THE NOISE, TRACES AND MARKS ARE THE RESULTS OF AN ACTIVITY THAT DID NOT NECESSARILY EXPECT TO PRODUCE THEM.
Among his solo exhibitions, we find Is it like today? (ethall gallery, Barcelona, 2022), Why aren’t they all like that, as I should be? (L21 Gallery, Palma, 2021), Teo’s Pink Panther (Las Palmas, Lisboa, 2019), We feel untied, but why? (curated by Sonia Fernández Pan at Centro Párraga, Murcia, 2018), Who Would Be Interested in an Empty Parking Lot? (The Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki, 2018), The Noise, The Traces and Marks (LOCAL Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago de Chile, 2015) or After a hippie jump (L21 Gallery, Madrid, 2014).
His solo presentations in art fairs include ARCO Madrid (L21, 2021) and Artissima Torino (Present Future, L21, 2019), and has had group and two-person exhibitions at venues such as Francis Irv (New York), Tatjana Pieters Gallery (Ghent), Nassauischer Kunstverein (Wiesbaden), Spoiler (Berlin), Galerie Rolando Anselmi (Atina), Joey Ramone Gallery (Rotterdam), Salón (Madrid), L21 (Madrid and Mallorca), Sant Andreu Contemporani (Barcelona), Tabacalera (Madrid) and La Casa Encendida (Madrid).
He has participated in publications and readings as a member of Pure Fiction at the Kölnischer Kunstverein (Cologne), Portikus (Frankfurt), Johanne (Frankfurt), and Ashley (Berlin).
Artist in residence at HANGAR Lisboa (2016) and NauEstruch Sabadell (2015), in 2013 he received the Full Contact Prize at the photography festival SCAN Tarragona as well as the Honor Mention at the Ciutat de Palma Prize. More recently he’s been granted with the Städelschule Rundgang “Felix von Saucken” Prize and the Deutschland Stipendium. In 2022 his solo show “Is it like today?” at ethall gallery received the Art Nou and the Art-O-Rama Prize.
His work is part of the collection of Es Baluard Contemporary Art Museum and Fundación Camper.
Parallel to his artistic practice, he’s the founder of the publishing house Printer Fault Press.
CONTACT:
ianwaelder[at]gmail.com
Ian Waelder (b. Madrid, 1993) is a Spanish-American artist and publisher currently based in Frankfurt am Main.
Fine Art studies at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main between 2017 and 2023 under Prof. Haegue Yang; having been previously in the class of Peter Fischli and Mark von Schlegell’s Pure Fiction seminar.
His practice explores the memory and trace by isolating archival histories and language in relation to his biography, working through the poetics of the accident and the repurposing of the discarded.
He uses the following sentence as the whole statement of his work:
THE NOISE, TRACES AND MARKS ARE THE RESULTS OF AN ACTIVITY THAT DID NOT NECESSARILY EXPECT TO PRODUCE THEM.
Among his solo exhibitions, we find Is it like today? (ethall gallery, Barcelona, 2022), Why aren’t they all like that, as I should be? (L21 Gallery, Palma, 2021), Teo’s Pink Panther (Las Palmas, Lisboa, 2019), We feel untied, but why? (curated by Sonia Fernández Pan at Centro Párraga, Murcia, 2018), Who Would Be Interested in an Empty Parking Lot? (The Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki, 2018), The Noise, The Traces and Marks (LOCAL Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago de Chile, 2015) or After a hippie jump (L21 Gallery, Madrid, 2014).
His solo presentations in art fairs include ARCO Madrid (L21, 2021) and Artissima Torino (Present Future, L21, 2019), and has had group and two-person exhibitions at venues such as Francis Irv (New York), Tatjana Pieters Gallery (Ghent), Nassauischer Kunstverein (Wiesbaden), Spoiler (Berlin), Galerie Rolando Anselmi (Atina), Joey Ramone Gallery (Rotterdam), Salón (Madrid), L21 (Madrid and Mallorca), Sant Andreu Contemporani (Barcelona), Tabacalera (Madrid) and La Casa Encendida (Madrid).
He has participated in publications and readings as a member of Pure Fiction at the Kölnischer Kunstverein (Cologne), Portikus (Frankfurt), Johanne (Frankfurt), and Ashley (Berlin).
Artist in residence at HANGAR Lisboa (2016) and NauEstruch Sabadell (2015), in 2013 he received the Full Contact Prize at the photography festival SCAN Tarragona as well as the Honor Mention at the Ciutat de Palma Prize. More recently he’s been granted with the Städelschule Rundgang “Felix von Saucken” Prize and the Deutschland Stipendium. In 2022 his solo show “Is it like today?” at ethall gallery received the Art Nou and the Art-O-Rama Prize.
His work is part of the collection of Es Baluard Contemporary Art Museum and Fundación Camper.
Parallel to his artistic practice, he’s the founder of the publishing house Printer Fault Press.
CONTACT:
ianwaelder[at]gmail.com
CV
EDUCATION
2017 - 2023
Hochschule für Bildende Künste - Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
Prof. Haegue Yang, Prof. Mark von Schlegell (Pure Fyction), Prof. Peter Fischli
UPCOMING:
2023
Solo show: Galerie Rolando Anselmi, Rome (Italy)
Solo show: Es Baluard Contemporary Art Museum, Palma (Spain)
SOLO AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2022
Is it like today? ethall gallery, Barcelona (Spain)
2021
¿Por qué no son todos así, como yo debiera ser?” (Why aren’t they all like that, as I should be?), L21 Gallery, Palma de Mallorca (Spain)
2019
Solo Project. Present Future Section at Artissima, Torino (Italy)
Teo’s Pink Panther. Las Palmas. Lisbon (Portugal)
2018
Das Kniegelenk. L21 Gallery. Palma de Mallorca (Spain)
we feel untied, but why?. Curated by Sonia Fernández Pan. Centro Párraga, Murcia (Spain)
Who would be interested in an empty parking lot?. Project Space. Finnish Museum of Photography. Helsinki (Finland)
2016
SUEDE. L21 Gallery. Palma de Mallorca (Spain)
Dear Leg,. (w/ Bel Fullana). Bacelos Gallery. Madrid (Spain)
Ruido. (w/ Èlia Llach). Ana Mas Projects Gallery. Barcelona (Spain)
Photographs. Fundació Forvm. Tarragona (Spain)
2015
To play with heights with a kind of void. DAFO Projectes. Curator: Jordi Antas. Lleida (Spain)
El Biombo y el Eco (w/ Felipe Mujica). Salón. Curated by Carolina Castro Jorquera. Madrid (Spain)
The noise, the traces and the marks. LOCAL Arte Contemporáneo. Santiago (Chile)
Believe Me, I Tried. Chirivella Soriano Foundation. Valencia (Spain)
2014
After a Hippie Jump. L21 Gallery. Madrid. (Spain)
2013
Cover. Espazo Miramemira. Santiago de Compostela (Spain)
Side/walk. Palma Photo ‘13. L21 Gallery. Palma de Mallorca (Spain)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
Search Party – Ben Edmunds invites friends. Tatjana Pieters Gallery, Ghent (Belgium)
Balusters. Francis Irv, New York (USA)
2022
...and then night! Curated by Aurélien Le Genissel. Rodríguez Gallery, Poznań (Poland)
Losing by winning - Edith Stein. Curated by Dr. Hubert Salden. Museum Stift Stams (Austria)
Three course menu. Curated by Curatorial Studies (Städelschule/Goethe University). Fffriedrich, Frankfurt am Main (Germany)
The Hotel Show. Curated by Anna-Lisa Scherfose, Alke Heykes, Sarah Müller, Seda Pesen. Pearl Hotel, Frankfurt am Main (Germany)
ARCO Madrid (Spain)
2021
WALKING, RUNNING, FALLING. Curated by Francesco Giaveri. L21 LAB, Palma de Mallorca (Spain)
I've got a suitcase of memories that I almost left behind. Time after time. Joey Ramone Gallery. Rotterdam (The Netherlands).
Future School, Korean Pavilion. Venice Architecture Biennale (Italy)
Touch Release. In collab with Tom Engels. Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden (Germany)
Going nowhere. SPOILER. Berlin (Germany)
2020
UN MOMENTO ATEMPORAL. 35 AÑOS DE CREACIÓN INJUVE, curated by David Armengol at Tabacalera, Madrid (Spain)
The Hawt Show II. Galerie Rolando Anselmi. Atina (Italy)
ARCO Madrid (Spain)
Sunday Show. Laurel Project Space. Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
2019
From Outside Or From Within But From Another Angle. Joey Ramone Gallery. Rotterdam (The Netherlands)
ARCO Madrid (Spain)
Open Mike. Pure Fyction Workshop. Kölnischer Kunstverein. Cologne (Germany)
Pure Fyction Mausoleum. Johanne. Frankfurt am Main (Germany)
Rundgang. Städelschule. Frankfurt am Main (Germany)
2018
Ver as vozes dos artistas. Curated by Miguel von Hafe Pérez. Metro do Porto (Portugal)
ARCO Madrid (Spain)
Rundgang. Städelschule. Frankfurt am Main (Germany)
2017
Lockers V2. Curated by Diego Díez. Stedelijk Museum. Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
Ayudas a la Creación INJUVE. Sala Amadís. Madrid (Spain)
ARCO Madrid. (Spain)
2016
LENGUAJE. L21 Gallery. Palma de Mallorca (Spain)
Ch.ACO. Santiago (Chile)
Biennal d’Art Ciutat d’Amposta. Lo Pati. Amposta. (Spain)
Do you believe?. Fabra i Coats Centre D’Art. Barcelona (Spain)
Statement. L21 Gallery. Madrid (Spain)
2015
Untitled Miami Beach. Miami (USA)
Artists in residence at NauEstruch. Campanar de Sant Félix. Sabadell (Spain)
Hot drinks and minimal punk. L21 Gallery. Palma de Mallorca (Spain)
ARCO Madrid. L21 Gallery. Madrid (Spain)
Ciutat de Palma. Casal Solleric. Palma de Mallorca (Spain)
2014
The Apartment (piloto). L21 Gallery. Palma de Mallorca (Spain)
AGRICULTORS. Curator: Sema D’Acosta. Sant Andreu Contemporani. Barcelona (Spain)
Queso de cobra. Casas da Hedra. Santiago de Compostela (Spain)
Ende der party. Tokonoma. Kassel. (Germany)
Present Indicatiu. Fabra i Coats. Barcelona (Spain)
Aprender a caer. Inéditos. Curator: Ángel Calvo Ulloa. La Casa Encendida. Madrid (Spain)
Misha Bies Golas: 27 Negros. Contemporary Art Center of Galicia (CGAC) Santiago de Compostela (Spain)
Behind the scenes. CAC Ses Voltes. Mallorca (Spain)
¿Por qué la noche…?. Panal361. Buenos Aires (Argentina)
Sobre el muro. Curator: Ángel Calvo Ulloa. L21 Gallery. Madrid (Spain)
JUSTMAD5 Artfair. Madrid (Spain)
Ciutat de Palma. Casal Solleric. Palma de Mallorca (Spain)
2013
Certamen artes plásticas de Binissalem. Centro cultural Can Gelabert. Binissalem, Mallorca (Spain)
“Objetos”. L21 Gallery Palma de Mallorca (Spain)
“Certamen Ciudad de Manacor”. Museo de Historia-Torre dels Enagistes, Manacor (Spain)
“RAL 9005”. L21 Gallery. Madrid (Spain)
Art Jove. Ses Voltes. Palma de Mallorca (Spain)
PUBLICATIONS
2021
Federico Waelder (FRIEDRICH) - Heutigen Records
Breadcrumb. Art & Sandwiches. Ed. Cristina Ramos & Eliot Z. Felde. Published by Onomatopee Projects.
2020
Ich Bin Sandra (Nine Poems) – On a workshop by Karl Holmqvist. Published by Printer Fault Press
2019
Ian Waelder – Looking, Finding, Living, Sharing. Published by Printer Fault Press
RESIDENCIES
2018
L21 x Fundación Camper (Mallorca, Spain)
2016
HANGAR. Lisboa (Portugal)
2015
NauEstruch. Sabadell (Spain)
2014
Tokonoma. Kassel. (Germany)
Centro PANAL 361. Buenos Aires (Argentina)
AWARDS
2022
Art Nou Prize - Barcelona Art Galleries. Barcelona (Spain)
Art-O-Rama Prize - Art Nou Primera Visió. Barcelona Art Galleries. Barcelona (Spain)
Städelschule Rundgang “Felix von Saucken” Prize. Städelschule. Frankfurt (Germany)
2021
Deutschlandstipendium. Städelschule. Frankfurt (Germany)
2013
Full Contact Prize. SCAN Photography Festival, Tarragona (Spain)
WORK IN COLLECTIONS
Es Baluard Contemporary Art Museum, Mallorca (Spain)
Consell de Mallorca, Mallorca (Spain)
Fundación Camper, Mallorca (Spain)
As part of Städelschule Edition Portfolio: MMK (Museum für Moderne Kunst), Frankfurt (Germany)
EDUCATION
2017 - 2023
Hochschule für Bildende Künste - Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
Prof. Haegue Yang, Prof. Mark von Schlegell (Pure Fyction), Prof. Peter Fischli
UPCOMING:
2023
Solo show: Galerie Rolando Anselmi, Rome (Italy)
Solo show: Es Baluard Contemporary Art Museum, Palma (Spain)
SOLO AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2022
Is it like today? ethall gallery, Barcelona (Spain)
2021
¿Por qué no son todos así, como yo debiera ser?” (Why aren’t they all like that, as I should be?), L21 Gallery, Palma de Mallorca (Spain)
2019
Solo Project. Present Future Section at Artissima, Torino (Italy)
Teo’s Pink Panther. Las Palmas. Lisbon (Portugal)
2018
Das Kniegelenk. L21 Gallery. Palma de Mallorca (Spain)
we feel untied, but why?. Curated by Sonia Fernández Pan. Centro Párraga, Murcia (Spain)
Who would be interested in an empty parking lot?. Project Space. Finnish Museum of Photography. Helsinki (Finland)
2016
SUEDE. L21 Gallery. Palma de Mallorca (Spain)
Dear Leg,. (w/ Bel Fullana). Bacelos Gallery. Madrid (Spain)
Ruido. (w/ Èlia Llach). Ana Mas Projects Gallery. Barcelona (Spain)
Photographs. Fundació Forvm. Tarragona (Spain)
2015
To play with heights with a kind of void. DAFO Projectes. Curator: Jordi Antas. Lleida (Spain)
El Biombo y el Eco (w/ Felipe Mujica). Salón. Curated by Carolina Castro Jorquera. Madrid (Spain)
The noise, the traces and the marks. LOCAL Arte Contemporáneo. Santiago (Chile)
Believe Me, I Tried. Chirivella Soriano Foundation. Valencia (Spain)
2014
After a Hippie Jump. L21 Gallery. Madrid. (Spain)
2013
Cover. Espazo Miramemira. Santiago de Compostela (Spain)
Side/walk. Palma Photo ‘13. L21 Gallery. Palma de Mallorca (Spain)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
Search Party – Ben Edmunds invites friends. Tatjana Pieters Gallery, Ghent (Belgium)
Balusters. Francis Irv, New York (USA)
2022
...and then night! Curated by Aurélien Le Genissel. Rodríguez Gallery, Poznań (Poland)
Losing by winning - Edith Stein. Curated by Dr. Hubert Salden. Museum Stift Stams (Austria)
Three course menu. Curated by Curatorial Studies (Städelschule/Goethe University). Fffriedrich, Frankfurt am Main (Germany)
The Hotel Show. Curated by Anna-Lisa Scherfose, Alke Heykes, Sarah Müller, Seda Pesen. Pearl Hotel, Frankfurt am Main (Germany)
ARCO Madrid (Spain)
2021
WALKING, RUNNING, FALLING. Curated by Francesco Giaveri. L21 LAB, Palma de Mallorca (Spain)
I've got a suitcase of memories that I almost left behind. Time after time. Joey Ramone Gallery. Rotterdam (The Netherlands).
Future School, Korean Pavilion. Venice Architecture Biennale (Italy)
Touch Release. In collab with Tom Engels. Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden (Germany)
Going nowhere. SPOILER. Berlin (Germany)
2020
UN MOMENTO ATEMPORAL. 35 AÑOS DE CREACIÓN INJUVE, curated by David Armengol at Tabacalera, Madrid (Spain)
The Hawt Show II. Galerie Rolando Anselmi. Atina (Italy)
ARCO Madrid (Spain)
Sunday Show. Laurel Project Space. Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
2019
From Outside Or From Within But From Another Angle. Joey Ramone Gallery. Rotterdam (The Netherlands)
ARCO Madrid (Spain)
Open Mike. Pure Fyction Workshop. Kölnischer Kunstverein. Cologne (Germany)
Pure Fyction Mausoleum. Johanne. Frankfurt am Main (Germany)
Rundgang. Städelschule. Frankfurt am Main (Germany)
2018
Ver as vozes dos artistas. Curated by Miguel von Hafe Pérez. Metro do Porto (Portugal)
ARCO Madrid (Spain)
Rundgang. Städelschule. Frankfurt am Main (Germany)
2017
Lockers V2. Curated by Diego Díez. Stedelijk Museum. Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
Ayudas a la Creación INJUVE. Sala Amadís. Madrid (Spain)
ARCO Madrid. (Spain)
2016
LENGUAJE. L21 Gallery. Palma de Mallorca (Spain)
Ch.ACO. Santiago (Chile)
Biennal d’Art Ciutat d’Amposta. Lo Pati. Amposta. (Spain)
Do you believe?. Fabra i Coats Centre D’Art. Barcelona (Spain)
Statement. L21 Gallery. Madrid (Spain)
2015
Untitled Miami Beach. Miami (USA)
Artists in residence at NauEstruch. Campanar de Sant Félix. Sabadell (Spain)
Hot drinks and minimal punk. L21 Gallery. Palma de Mallorca (Spain)
ARCO Madrid. L21 Gallery. Madrid (Spain)
Ciutat de Palma. Casal Solleric. Palma de Mallorca (Spain)
2014
The Apartment (piloto). L21 Gallery. Palma de Mallorca (Spain)
AGRICULTORS. Curator: Sema D’Acosta. Sant Andreu Contemporani. Barcelona (Spain)
Queso de cobra. Casas da Hedra. Santiago de Compostela (Spain)
Ende der party. Tokonoma. Kassel. (Germany)
Present Indicatiu. Fabra i Coats. Barcelona (Spain)
Aprender a caer. Inéditos. Curator: Ángel Calvo Ulloa. La Casa Encendida. Madrid (Spain)
Misha Bies Golas: 27 Negros. Contemporary Art Center of Galicia (CGAC) Santiago de Compostela (Spain)
Behind the scenes. CAC Ses Voltes. Mallorca (Spain)
¿Por qué la noche…?. Panal361. Buenos Aires (Argentina)
Sobre el muro. Curator: Ángel Calvo Ulloa. L21 Gallery. Madrid (Spain)
JUSTMAD5 Artfair. Madrid (Spain)
Ciutat de Palma. Casal Solleric. Palma de Mallorca (Spain)
2013
Certamen artes plásticas de Binissalem. Centro cultural Can Gelabert. Binissalem, Mallorca (Spain)
“Objetos”. L21 Gallery Palma de Mallorca (Spain)
“Certamen Ciudad de Manacor”. Museo de Historia-Torre dels Enagistes, Manacor (Spain)
“RAL 9005”. L21 Gallery. Madrid (Spain)
Art Jove. Ses Voltes. Palma de Mallorca (Spain)
PUBLICATIONS
2021
Federico Waelder (FRIEDRICH) - Heutigen Records
Breadcrumb. Art & Sandwiches. Ed. Cristina Ramos & Eliot Z. Felde. Published by Onomatopee Projects.
2020
Ich Bin Sandra (Nine Poems) – On a workshop by Karl Holmqvist. Published by Printer Fault Press
2019
Ian Waelder – Looking, Finding, Living, Sharing. Published by Printer Fault Press
RESIDENCIES
2018
L21 x Fundación Camper (Mallorca, Spain)
2016
HANGAR. Lisboa (Portugal)
2015
NauEstruch. Sabadell (Spain)
2014
Tokonoma. Kassel. (Germany)
Centro PANAL 361. Buenos Aires (Argentina)
AWARDS
2022
Art Nou Prize - Barcelona Art Galleries. Barcelona (Spain)
Art-O-Rama Prize - Art Nou Primera Visió. Barcelona Art Galleries. Barcelona (Spain)
Städelschule Rundgang “Felix von Saucken” Prize. Städelschule. Frankfurt (Germany)
2021
Deutschlandstipendium. Städelschule. Frankfurt (Germany)
2013
Full Contact Prize. SCAN Photography Festival, Tarragona (Spain)
WORK IN COLLECTIONS
Es Baluard Contemporary Art Museum, Mallorca (Spain)
Consell de Mallorca, Mallorca (Spain)
Fundación Camper, Mallorca (Spain)
As part of Städelschule Edition Portfolio: MMK (Museum für Moderne Kunst), Frankfurt (Germany)