Segismundo
Segismundo (Guatemala City)
Established in Guatemala City in 2022, Segismundo is a common ground for like-minded individuals to engender narratives for the world to come.
Proposal
The proposal focuses on the work of Ferdinand Waas and Robert Denburg Tenenbaum, whose explorations range from Mexico City’s vampire subculture to reflections on intimacy and the small pleasures of everyday life, as well as the manifold encounters that arise from both pursuits.
Ferdinand Waas
Ferdinand Waas (b. 1998, Ingolstadt, Germany) is an artist and facilitator based between The Hague and Berlin. He studied at the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague (fine arts), Athens School of Fine Arts, the University of Vienna (social and cultural anthropology) and TU Vienna (theory of architecture), and has been a tutor in the fine arts department at KABK since 2025. 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, he decodes as well as challenges norms and further questions set standards. Recent solo exhibition include ‘Eurotrip Energy’, Museum Folkwang, Essen; ‘nada más que la verdad’, Segismundo, Guatemala City; ‘Pirate Bay and Chill’, DDD Kunst House, Yerevan; and ‘Show Match’ , K4 galleri, Oslo. Recent group exhibitions include ‘5 km from you’, TRIBECA, New York; ‘Full Pivot’ , the___servers, Helsinki; ‘Young Fresh Different’, Zilberman Gallery, Berlin; and ‘tense tides’, Nieuw Dakota, Amsterdam.
Robert Denburg Tenenbaum
Robert Denburg Tenenbaum (b. 1998, Guatemala City) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Paris whose work spans architecture, photography, sculpture, drawing, and editorial publishing. Each medium informs the next as a way of investigating the traces of human presence and the organization of space. Grounded in observation, his practice explores the relationships between atmosphere, material, image, and the intangible. Denburg Tenenbaum approaches making as a process of careful looking through photographs, objects, drawings, publications, and spatial interventions, revealing latent narratives embedded within ordinary environments and constructing moments of stillness where composition, light, and material reshape perception. Developed across multiple cultural contexts, his work is characterized by a quiet formalism, a sensitivity to the overlooked, and an anthropological interest in how behavior, thought, and human presence leave traces.
