Ferdinand Waas
ferdinand.waas@gmail.com
@waasinand
current:
06/2026 - ‘5 km from you’, TRIBECA, New York, US
exhibitions:
06/2026 - ‘Full Pivot’, the___servers x Tapiola Tower, Helsinki, FI
05/2026 - ‘les fleur du mal’, Thonk Tank, Antwerp, BE
02/2026 - 6 1/2 Weeks - Eurotrip Energy, Museum Folkwang, Essen (solo)
01/2026 - madmeg, Amsterdam
09/2025 - Coexist on 52 m², Rosenbaum, Berlin
09/2025 - Aktuell 2025, Städtische Galerie Haderbastei, Ingolstadt
07/2025 - YFD, Zilberman Gallery, Berlin, DE
05/2025 - Please RSVP, the___servers, The Hague, NL
05/2025 - Around, Buzz Culture/ GO_2025, Goriza, IT
02/2025 - ‘nada más que la verdad’ - segismundo, Guatemala City, GT (solo)
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 (solo)
09/2024 - ‘Show Match’, K4, Olso, NOR (solo)
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, DE
03/2022 - ‘opening hours’, Treptower Ateliers, Berlin, DE
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, DE
06/2020 - ‘hide&seek’, Antwerp, BE
11/2019 - ‘this human world festival’,Vienna, AT
07/2019 - ‘Blank’, Harderbastei, Ingolstadt, De
06/2019 - ‘Enhalon’ - Festival, Struga, NMK
06/2019 - ‘the real simulation’, die Angewandte, Vienna, AT
05/2019 - ‘Taifun’, Spektakel, Vienna, AT
film programming/curating:
10/2025 : Short, Long, Live, the_servers, The Hague, NL
04/2024: ‘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
09/2024 - ringsveen, Lillehammer, NOR
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
Ferdinand Waas, born 06.08.1998, Ingolstadt (GER) based in The Hague (NL) and Berlin (DE)
Ferdinand Waas, born 06.08.1998, Ingolstadt (GER) based between The Hague (NL) and Berlin (DE)
Ferdinand Waas is an artist and facilitator. Through working via conversational methods with subcultures, communities and his personal periphery he tries to formulate works in the vocabulary of the subject and context. His work is based on encounters, conversations, recordings, acts of recalling and documentation through different ways of note-taking. By retracing and storytelling of the often invisible and mostly unseen, centring the considered niche, to decode as well as challenge norms and further question set standards.
exhibitions:
06/2026 - ‘Full Pivot’, the___servers x Tapiola Tower, Helsinki, FI
05/2026 - ‘les fleur du mal’, Thonk Tank, Antwerp, BE
02/2026 - 6 1/2 Weeks - Eurotrip Energy, Museum Folkwang, Essen (solo)
01/2026 - madmeg, Amsterdam
09/2025 - Coexist on 52 m², Rosenbaum, Berlin
09/2025 - Aktuell 2025, Städtische Galerie Haderbastei, Ingolstadt
07/2025 - YFD, Zilberman Gallery, Berlin, DE
05/2025 - Please RSVP, the___servers, The Hague, NL
05/2025 - Around, Buzz Culture/ GO_2025, Goriza, IT
02/2025 - ‘nada más que la verdad’ - segismundo, Guatemala City, GT (solo)
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 (solo)
09/2024 - ‘Show Match’, K4, Olso, NOR (solo)
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, DE
03/2022 - ‘opening hours’, Treptower Ateliers, Berlin, DE
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, DE
06/2020 - ‘hide&seek’, Antwerp, BE
11/2019 - ‘this human world festival’,Vienna, AT
07/2019 - ‘Blank’, Harderbastei, Ingolstadt, De
06/2019 - ‘Enhalon’ - Festival, Struga, NMK
06/2019 - ‘the real simulation’, die Angewandte, Vienna, AT
05/2019 - ‘Taifun’, Spektakel, Vienna, AT
film programming/curating:
10/2025 : Short, Long, Live, the_servers, The Hague, NL
04/2024: ‘As long as I remember, as fast as I remember, as strong as I remember’, K4 galleri, Oslo, NOR
2023 - 2024: 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
09/2024 - ringsveen, Lillehammer, NOR
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