Ferdinand Waas 
 

ferdinand.waas@gmail.com 
@waasinand 


Ferdinand Waas, born 06.08.1998, Ingolstadt (GER) based in The Hague (NL)

current:

12/2024 - ‘Tense Tides’ - Niuew Dakota, Amsterdam, NL  (coming up) 

11/2024 - ‘Old - New’ - weseeitems, Tbilisi, GEO  (ongoing)  

11/2024 - ‘A Letter from a Friend’ - bacio_collective, Bern, CH  (ongoing) 

exhibitions: 

10/2024 -  ‘Piratebay  and Chill’, DDD Kunst House, Yerevan, AM

09/2024 - ‘Show Match’, K4, Olso, NOR  

09/2024 - ‘De Wasstraat’ , NAP+, Amsterdam, NL 

12/2023 - ‘Praxis’ , fluent space, Santander, ESP 

07/2023 - ‘how do we grieve?’, Garage Grande, Wien, AT 

07/2023 - ‘Oerlikon Dream House’, Hürst Haus, curated by Matteo Kramer, Zürich, CH

06/2023 - ‘everything that grows underground’, West, The Hague, NL 

09/2022 - ‘Diagonale 4/ Transfinite', Verwalterhaus, Berlin, DEU

07/2022 - ‘But s/he endorsed the sheen’, Vrij Palais, Amsterdam, NL 

05/2022 - ‘Mmmmmmmmmarshmellow Cube’, Gallery 1, KABK, The Hague, NL 

03/2022 - ‘Tread Carefully’, Einar Jonsson Museum, Reykjavik, IS 

06/2022 - ‘The Creation of the world the now the end’, Aeden II, Berlin, DEU 

03/2022 - ‘opening hours’, Treptower Ateliers, Berlin, DEU

03/2022 - ‘take over’, Kunsthal Extra City, Antwerp, BE

02/2022 - ‘James P. Sullivan, the soul of the tragedy is the prolonging of the  uncertainty as much as possible’, h__s, Antwerp, BE 

02/2022 - ‘theater as a frame’, eye museum, Amsterdam, NL

11/2021 - ‘UA006050455LV’ white box KHIO, Oslo, NOR 

09/2021 - ‘URLAUB’, Wilhelm Hallen 2, Berlin, GER

04/2021 - ‘solar fiction’, Galleria Aarni+Aalto university, Helsinki, FIN 

09/2020 - ‘a means to an end’, Basement Berlin/atelier rosenbaum, Berlin, GER

06/2020 - ‘hide&seek’, Antwerp, BE

11/2019 - ‘this human world festival’,Vienna, AT

07/2019 -  ‘Blank’,Harderbastei, Ingolstadt, GER 

06/2019 - ‘Enhalon’ - Festival, Struga, NMK

06/2019 - ‘the real simulation’, die Angewandte, Vienna, AT

05/2019 - ‘Taifun’, Spektakel, Vienna, AT


film programming/curating:

2024: ‘As long as I remember, as fast as I remember, as strong as I remember’, K4 galleri, Oslo, NOR 

2023 - ongoing: Make Dox, Skopje, NMK

2023 - ongoing: Anafi International Film Festival, Anafi, GR

2022 : Kunsthall Extra City/ Het Bos, Antwerp, BE


movies: 

2023: art direction - ‚football pikante‘/espn, MX 

2023: production design - ‚no future kids‘, GR 

2022: production design  - ‘Einzelteile’, AUT 

2021: production design  - ‘Az utca vege’, AUT/HU

2021: creative supervisor - ‘5pm seaside’, AUT/GR


publications:

2023: Love after love, Editor: Wu Mengwhua, The Greenroom

2023: Radical Fashion Exercises - A Workbook for Modes and Methodes, Editors: Laura Gardner, Daphne
Mohajer va Pesaran, Valiz, ISBN 978-94-93246-19-5

2024: Wie wir trauern. On Loss and Transformation, Editor: highbrow institude


residencies: 

09-11/2024 - weseeitems/ Goethe Institute, Tiblisi, GEO 

10/2024 - sleepover reseidency, :DDD Kunst House, Yerevan, AM 

09/2023 - Foundation 17, Pristina, RKS 

10/2022 - Secret Club, Athens, GR 

05/2019 - Brashnar Creative Project, Skopje, NMK


education:

2020-2024, BA fine arts, KABK, the Hague, NL, 

2023 fine arts, ASFA, Athens, GR

2018-2020 BA social and cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna, AT

2018-2020 theory of architecture, TU Vienna, AT 



Show Match



In the framework of a Show Match on the 16th of June 2024, two memory athletes, Katie Kermond and Don Michael Vickers, were playing an altered version of a usual match. In a usual competition match, the categories in which the athletes are competing use randomly generated data as grounds to compare their memory capacities.

For this particular match, the data devoid of meaning was replaced with emotional/personal data sourced from the athletes’ own lives, such as birthdays of loved ones, pictures of known faces and locations, and words they use a lot in their daily life

The match was hosted and streamed live on Twitch as a show match for the memory sports community in collaboration with Johannes Mallow, a two time memory world champion and an active ambassador for memory sports and the official outlet of Memory League, an online memory sports platform. The recording is show in the form of a video projection.

2024 
video 1:32:23