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NEWS & LINKS



ONLINE PRESS/REVIEW*

Review by Emile Rubino for PROVENCE Magazine’s newsletter
about the solo exhibition “even in a language that is not your own”,
at Es Baluard Museu d’Art Contemporani de Palma. Introduction by Brit Barton.

https://us12.campaign-archive.com/?u=070c05e7b3ab977920f27c571&id=0a89de9448





GROUP SHOW*

I Opened the Curtain to See What Lays Behind
carlier | gebauer, Berlin
23.02. – 13.04.2024

Artists:
Juliana Cerqueira Leite
Asta Gröting
Lexia Hachtmann
Pakui Hardware
Laura Lima
Lúcia Koch
Joanna Piotrowska
Guga Szabzon
Tiago Tebet
Ian Waelder

www.carliergebauer.com



RESIDENCY*

WIELS Artist Residency Program 2024
Supported by AC/E
July – December 2024

More info:
https://www.accioncultural.es/en/artistic-residency-at-wiels-2024



GROUP SHOW*

PERSONAL SHOWCASE II
Galerie Rolando Anselmi, Rome
24.01. – 28.02.2024

Artists:
A Kassen
Enrico Della Torre
Thomas Lawson
Jorge Peris
Antonia Rodrian
Ian Waelder

www.galerierolandoanselmi.com




ONLINE PRESS/REVIEW*

“Cooking Slowly”, review by Phin Jennings for émergent magazine,
about the solo exhibition “even in a language that is not your own”,
at Es Baluard Museu d’Art Contemporani de Palma.

https://www.emergentmag.com/articles/cooking-slowly





GROUP SHOW*

ATTITUDES BOOTLEGGED (SHH...)
January 1-31, 2024
La GALERIE IMAGINAIRE
Online

Featuring artists such as Ryan Gander, David Horvitz, Maurizio Nannucci, Natali Czech, Goran Trbuljak, Louwrien Wijers, Henrik Plenge Jakobsen, Nico Dockx, Yann Sérandour, Pat McCarthy, Elena Bajo, Suwan Laimanee, David Maroto, Vlatka Horvat, gerlach en koop, Warren Neidich, Ian Waelder, Tercerunquinto, Sébastien Delvaux, Yue Yuan, Matthieu Laurette, ...

This initiative draws inspiration from art history and collective memory to create an exhibition focused on participation, interaction, collaboration, and evolution, while questioning the role of the curator in today's context.

The title 'Attitudes Bootlegged (SHH...)' embodies the intent to remix conceptual exhibitions of past decades through the art of 'bootlegging'. This clandestine process is akin to the silent growth of a seed, serving as a reminder that those who plant the tree may not always taste the fruit. In the process of silence 'SHH...' captures the essence of whispered possibilities. Here, the absence of sound becomes a place onto which the imagination can act. 'SHH...' is not just a symbol for the sound of whispering or silence; it also corresponds to the first letter of the first name of each curator that inspires the project. This intentional connection to silence serves as a subtle thread, weaving together the attitudes.

Throughout 31 days of this event, contributions from 31 artists will be gradually presented. Artists who do not respond to the invitation will be represented by a blank page. Envision the name of the absent artist on each one.

Visitors are not simple spectators but active participants, encouraged to print each contribution to build the exhibition themselves and subsequently to distribute and sell the bootleg.

The Bootleg catalog is the exhibition itself.

www.lagalerieimaginaire.info




GROUP SHOW*

A=A, B=B
Curated by Pep Vidal
Antoni Tàpies Foundation, Barcelona
13.12.2023 – 03.03.2024

Artists:

John Baldessari
Daniel Bejar
Jorge Carrión
Agathe Casals + Simo Belkat + Pep Vidal
Nimesh Ramesh Chahare
Lúa Coderch
Violeta Mayoral
Mariona Moncunill
Tanit Plana
Irene Solà
Antoni Tàpies
Irene Visa
Ian Waelder

A New Vision of the World (1954) is a book that brings together certain discussions conducted in Sankt Gallen (Switzerland) by renowned experts in di#erent fields, basically science and philosophy, and which enjoyed almost mythical status at the time. Antoni Tàpies liked this book so much, for a long while he kept it on his bedside table and it became the inspiration for many of his works.

A=A, B=B is an exhibition that, taking this book as a starting point, gives those talks a second lease of life, by bringing them into the present, over seventy years after the event. It will address the spirit of the scientific method, the reasons that make us pursue science, what science means in relation to ourselves, to art, etc.“

Fundació Antoni Tàpies
Carrer d’Aragó 255
08007 Barcelona, ES




GROUP SHOW/EVENT*

TEAROOM RELAY – PIT STOP
Delfina Foundation, London
November 11th, 2023

Artists:

Yu Yang
Imaan Sattar
Zishi Han
Wei Yang
Elisa Diaferia
Juri Simoncini
Coline Gouriou
Aerin Hong
Thuy-Tien Nguyen
Moritz Tontsch
Emmilou Roessling
Augustine Paredes
Aranud Ferron
Etienne Le Coquil
Eden Sebban
Ludvig Wilén
Ian Waelder

“Pit Stop is the fourth iteration of a series of gatherings that bring together a group of artists who are current or past students of the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main. They come together with a collective curiosity in exploring performative formats as means to create friction, nurture unlikely combinations, and build community. Starting from the simple commitment of sharing space and time, the group hosts intimate gatherings that allow for experimentation in various forms of performance, including readings, screenings, sonic and choreographic scores, meditations and talks among others.”





GROUP SHOW*

MOVING IN
Super Super Markt, Berlin
Sept 30 – Oct 31, 2023

Artists:

Karla Black
Zoë Carlon
Tatjana Danneberg
Karlo Kacharava
Nika Kutateladze
Paloma Varga Weisz
Ian Waelder

“We’re pleased to present Moving in, a group exhibition of new paintings and sculptures by a cross-generational group of artists at Mulackstr. 26, marking Super Super Markt’s second exhibition at the Friends Apartment in Berlin. Boxing, unboxing, packing, unpacking, relocating, rearranging, hanging, standing, leaning, sitting. How we move in and out of spaces and specifically one’s own domestic space, allows a story to unfold. While all seven artists’ works address autobiographical narratives, portraying human figures and everyday objects, the exhibition will focus on the intersection of these references.”

Super Super Markt
Mulackstr. 26
10119 Berlin



AWARD*

DZ BANK Art Foundation Grant 2023/24
Together with the artist Maryam Jafri

“The artists Maryam Jafri (*1972, Karachi, Pakistan) and Ian Waelder (*1993, Madrid, Spain) are the two winners of the scholarship from the DZ BANK Art Foundation.

Jafri's artistic practice is rooted in a cultural anthropological interest in objects from pop and consumer culture as well as historical photographs, which she researches in image archives. In her work she refers to the legal, economic and ethical entanglements of image cultures. Ian Waelder uses photography as a medium of memory in his art. With the grant from the DZ BANK Art Foundation, the artist, in collaboration with the Chilean historian Camilo Araya Fuentes, plans to digitize his grandfather's photographic archive and use it as a starting point for a series of new works. We are looking forward to “two inspiring projects that deal with contemporary topics and connect generations,” says the DZ Bank statement on the selection of the winners. The one-year DZ Bank scholarship totaling €12,000 offers the recipients the opportunity to work intensively on their projects. In autumn 2024, the resulting works will be acquired and exhibited for the collection of the DZ BANK Art Foundation.”

More info:
https://www.kunstforum.de/nachrichten/kunststiftung-dz-bank-vergibt-foerderstipendium/

https://kunststiftungdzbank.de/foerdern/#/2023-2024




ART FAIR*

Art-O-Rama Marseille 2023
ethall gallery

Artists:

Violeta Mayoral
Martín Vitaliti
Ian Waelder

Friche la Belle de Mai, Marseille



GROUP SHOW*

“FOMO Art Space is pleased to present stick n poke,
a group exhibition of new artist-designed hand-poked tattoos.”

Artists:

Sarah Abu Abdallah
Mohamed Almusibli
Chino Amobi
Nicoleta Auersperg
James Bantone
Cudelice Brazelton IV
Loucia Carlier
Line Chevalley
Anne-Lise Coste
Noémie Degen/Simon Jaton
Sylvie Fleury
Liam Gillick
Shuang Li
Kristina Lovaas
Fabian Marti
Jack O’Brien
Una Szeemann
Ian Waelder
Phillip Zach

Curated by:
Alana Alireza and Geraldine Belmont.

24.06.2023

FOMO Art Space
Enzianweg 4,
8048 Zurich



GROUP SHOW*

BALUSTERS
Francis Irv, New York

Artists:

Lotte Andersen
Nicholas Bierk
Asta Lynge
Ian Waelder

From Jan 13 to Feb 12, 2023

Documentation:
https://francisirv.com/Balusters



ONLINE PRESS/REVIEW*

“Is it like today”, ethall gallery exhibition review:
“How to draw a family tree” by Luisa Del Prete for Passe-Avant

http://www.passe-avant.net/reviews/how-to-draw-a-family-tree-ian-waelder-ethall-gallery-luisa-del-prete




GROUP SHOW*

LOSING BY WINNING – EDITH STEIN
Museum Stift Stams, Austria
Curated by Dr. Hubert Salden

Artists:

Philippe Agostini
Kenneth Anger
Dieter Appelt
Gabriele Aulehla
Kahled Barakeh
Monica Bonvicini
Louise Bourgeois
Pina Bausch
Christine Colditz
Michael Croissant
Günther Förg
François Gérard
Tue Greenfort
Thomas Hirschhorn
Ali Kaaf
Ursula Kaufmann
Yves Klein
Christiane Löhr
Nina Mair
Thomas Merton
Gustav Metzger
Marcel Odenbach
Albert Oehlen
SUSI POP
Ad Reinhard
Thomas Riess
Andres Serrano
Erik Steinbrecher
Luc Tuymans
Ian Waelder
Mark Wallinger
Franz Wassermann
Lois Weinberger

More info:
https://edith-stein.info/



GROUP SHOW/PERFORMANCE SERIES*

Participation at “Future School” with Slow Signal
Korean Pavilion
Venice Architecture Biennale 2021:

https://www.labiennale.org/en/architecture/2021/korea-republic

https://futureschool.kr/en/slow-signal


NEWS*

Addition to the collection of Es Baluard Contemporary Art Museum:

https://www.esbaluard.org/en/prensa/es-baluard-museu-amplia-la-seva-col%C2%B7leccio-incorporant-38-obres/

http://www.esbaluard.org/en/coleccion/artistas/ian-waelder/



GROUP EXHIBITION*

“Touch Release”
Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden

Curated in collab with Tom Engels

Artists:

Andreas Amble
Moriah Askenaizer
Cudelice Brazelton IV
Alex Chalmers
Arnaud Ferron
Lorenz Ganthaler
Zishi Han
Aerin Hong
Mariam Kvirikashvili
Guy Lee
Antonis Magoulas
David Moser
Thủy Tiên Nguyễn
Emmilou Rößling
Alex Thake
Maria Toumazou
Francisco M.V.
Ian Waelder
Matt Welch
Alicja Wysocka
Miran Yang


http://www.kunstverein-wiesbaden.de/en/details/touch-release



BOOK*

Participation in the book “Breadcrumb: Art & Sandwiches”
Ed. Cristina Ramos & Eliot Z. Felde.

Published by Onomatopee Projects.

“A sandwich can be so much more than an item of food consisting of bread with a filling.
The making of a sandwich is a tasteful and relational creation, sprinkling community, criticality and cultural economy.
Ranging from sculpture, found imagery, drawing and much more, Breadcrumb compiles and reflects upon forty-one sandwich recipes by artists from different places across the globe, presenting the sandwich as a fuzzy, expanding object, lacking strict definition. The Breadcrumb cookbook brings artistic value to everyday life and instigates thought as well as food for digestion. Buen provecho.”

Preface by Eliot Z. Felde and Cristina Ramos

Introduction by Jimmie Durham

Sandwich recipes by:
Bea Turner, Nadine Lohof, Lara Smithson, Rafael Pérez Evans, Rubén Grilo & Sonia Fernández Pan, Thomas Pausz, katrinem & Sam Auinger, Soy Division, Esther Kokmeijer, Gillies Adamson Semple & Harry Smithson, Diana Duta, Matei Bellu & Andrea Bellu, Nestor García, Verena Buttman, Vasile Leac, Alex Hamburger, Lucia Cuba, Daniela Pălimaru, Daria Blum, Mădălina Zaharia & Ross Taylor, Ian Waelder, LH, Anastasia Alekseeva, David Martínez Suárez, Ran Zhang, David Reiber Otálora, the Mycological Twist, Esther Gatón, Felix Leon Westner, Bakudapan Food Study Group, Jin Ningning, Hannah Lees, Fermín Jiménez Landa, Sara Rodrigues & Rodrigo B. Camacho, Mariana Sarraute, Víctor Payares, Sophie Mackfall, Aya Fukami, Gabriel Pericàs.

https://www.onomatopee.net/exhibition/breadcrumb/#publication_16564



ONLINE PRESS*

Solo exhibition “¿Por qué no son todos así, como yo debiera ser” (L21, 2021)
at Mousse Magazine Online with text by Sofia Lemos:

http://moussemagazine.it/ian-waelder-por-que-no-son-todos-asi-como-yo-debiera-ser-at-l21-gallery-palma-2021/



ONLINE PRESS*

Interview with Louisa Behr at Gallery Talk.net (2021):

https://www.gallerytalk.net/interview-ian-waelder-exhibition-l21/



EXHIBITION*

Video tour of the solo exhibition
“¿Por qué no son todos así, como yo debiera ser” (L21, 2021):

https://youtu.be/py5w2lmZGFM



CURATED PROJECTS*

“ONCE UPON A PLACE”
exhibition curated by
Ian Waelder & Óscar Florit
Can Marqués (Palma, 2021).

Artists:
Dasha Shishkin
Jordi Ribes
Iman Issa
Felix Treadwell
Karl Holmqvist
Dara Friedman
Kemang Wa Lehulere
Valerie Krause
Jaime Hayón
Hannah Fitz
Lúa Coderch
Simon Demeuter
Ignacio Uriarte
Erika Hock
Bas Jan Ader

Documentation:
http://www.l21gallery.com/exhibition/can-marques-once-upon-time/





ONLINE PRESS*

Interview with
Javier González-Pesce
Rotunda Magazine (2020):

http://www.rotundamagazine.com/en/ian-waelder-conversation-javier-gonzalez-pesce/



CURATED PROJECTS*

“The Printer Fault Press Radio Show”
a radio exhibition curated and presented by
Ian Waelder

TOWN
Radio X Frankfurt
 
With sound works by:
Elif Saydam
Sarah Księska
Mahya Ketabchi
Juan López
Diogo da Cruz
Alex Thake
David Ostrowski
Claudia Pagès
Hadas Auerbach
Tomás Maglione
Alicja Wysocka
Sonia Knop
Karl Holmqvist
Aileen Murphy
Mariam Kvirikashvili
Nina Nadig

And musical interruptions by
Clinic, OOIOO, Amyl and The Sniffers, Daniel Johnston, B.Wurtz.

https://printerfaultpress.com/The-Printer-Fault-Press-Radio-Show-Pilot-Episode



PRESS IN PAPER*

“The Exodus of Spanish Artists”.
Article by
Aurélien Le Genissel
Artpress Magazine
(Issue July/August 2020):

https://files.cargocollective.com/c873380/artpress-exode-artistes-espagnols-waelder_web2.pdf



RESIDENCY*

Residency at
HANGAR, Lisbon
January–March 2016

https://hangar.com.pt/ian-waelder/



ONLINE PRESS*

“7 Spanish Artists You Need to See at ARCOmadrid”.
Article by Abigal Cain
Artsy Editorial (2017):

https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-7-spanish-artists-arcomadrid



BOOKS*

“Una Mesa en La Verónica”.
Publication edited by
Diego Díez and Juan Jesús Torres.
MACBA Collection

https://www.macba.cat/en/aprendre-investigar/arxiu/mesa-laveronica-conversaciones-sobre-arte-contemporaneo-cap-3



Photo documentation on this website by:
John Forest, Natasha Lebedeva, Lúa Oliver, Ivan Murzin, Iain Emaline, Juan David Cortés, Paul Levack, Jiyoon Chung, Augustine Paredes, Juande Jarillo, Eva Carasol, Sebastiano Luciano, Nick Ash
© Ian Waelder, 2024