Ferdinand Waas 
 

ferdinand.waas@gmail.com 
@waasinand 


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

current:

02/2025 - ‘nada más que la verdad’ - segismundo, Guatemala City, GT 



exhibitions: 

12/2024 - ‘Tense Tides’ - Niuew Dakota, Amsterdam, NL 

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

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

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, 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 



fast forward/rewind 




fast forward - The entire production budget was spent on 1,000 carbon dioxide canisters (12 kg of gas) which will be released over the course of the exhibition.

rewind - A tree was planted (52.1754479, 4.3986458), which will absorb an average of 12 kg CO2 over the course of the next year.

Spiraling around theory while googling in the shade. Accelerationism, the idea that ‘social processes, such as capitalist growth and technological change, should be drastically intensified to further radical social change.’ Alternatively, capitalism's internal contradictions and instabilities, as it speeds up, can jeopardize its growth and cause its collapse. Fading into speculative realism, ‘fatal strategies’.Land’s celebrated concept of Hyperstitions (hyper + superstitions). Ideas which, ‘once downloaded into the cultural mainframe, engender apocalyptic positive feedback cycles’. Which – by their very existence as ideas – function causally to bring about their own reality. Self-fulfilling prophecies. Untangling the nest. The ‘hyper-object’ of climate collapse; caught between leaving anxiety and proactive behavior. Sometimes wishing we’d gone into consulting or banking or water management.Feeling the chemical cold of the CO2 canister in the hand as it empties, while 59 km away an elderly couple talks about applying sunscreen, on the picnic bench near our tree.

Callaboration with Frans van Hoek 

Shown at ‘But s/he indorsed the sheen’ curated by the sirius collective, Vrij Palais, Amsterdam, NL/07/2022


2022
site - specific installation, performance