Extra Academy is a collaboration between the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp, Sint Lucas Antwerp and Royal conservatory of Antwerp. They organize an open program of lectures, performances, workshops and screenings around artistic practices, reflection and research. Since September 2024 they hold there monthly meetings at Stadsform. The program is in English and open for non students also, no need to register!
Ian Waelder in 1996 next to the sculpture “Noia evadint-se” (1967) by Joan Miró. Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona
For his lecture at EXTRA ACADEMY, Ian Waelder will introduce his work through a selection of recent works and exhibitions. Together with thoughts on seeing space and exhibition making as a medium, the importance of the encounter, things that can happen in the studio, materiality, Phyllida Barlow, Bas Jan Ader, Norm Macdonald, and how an understanding of anarchy helped him to survive the many times non-sense of the art world.
Ian Waelder (b. 1993, Madrid) is a Spanish-American artist and publisher. He divides his time between Mallorca, where he grew up, and Frankfurt am Main, where he studied at the Städelschule (with Prof. Haegue Yang)
His practice explores 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. Waelder’s work unfolds through the mediums of photography, sculpture, exhibition, sound, and installation.
His work has been shown, among others, at diez, Liste Basel (2024), carlier | gebauer, Berlin (2024); Super Super Markt, Berlin (2024); Es Baluard Contemporary Art Museum, Palma (2023-2024); Galerie Rolando Anselmi, Rome (2023); Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona (2023); Delfina Foundation, London (2023), ethall gallery, Barcelona (2022); Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden (2021); Centro Párraga, Murcia (2018); The Finish Museum of Photography, Helsinki (2018); La Casa Encendida, Madrid (2014). Since 2019, and in parallel to his artistic practice, he runs Printer Fault Press, a small-scale publishing house for books, editions and a variety of projects with other artists and writers.
Currently, he is a resident in WIELS Centre for Contemporary Art and is preparing an upcoming exhibition at carlier | gebauer in Berlin, opening at the start of 2025.