Terryfied Club

My name is Teresa Welte (Terryfied Club). I was born in 1997 and am studying Fine Art at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe, initially in Painting and Printmaking under Marijke van Warmerdam, and since 2023 in Sculpture under John Bock.

I specialise in installation-based, site-specific and narrative approaches. I see my practice as the transformation of emotion into object, where experience becomes structure; as a space for emotional and social negotiation in which repetition, nonsense, humour and gravity coexist; composed of fragments, glitches and childishly earnest distortions. These become installations comprising objects, images, images as objects, moving images and/or performative processes; characterised by concept and a breaking free from meaning. A focus on process and the invisible strength born of fragility form the core of my work.

Recently, alongside my larger projects, I have been creating repetitive miniatures which can stand on their own even as individual pieces and could just as easily belong to you.

Don’t worry. Welcome. At the Terryfied Club, this attitude becomes an open invitation – a space for those who find themselves caught in the tensions of a self-image defined by insurmountable pressure to perform, utopian expectations, failing laughter and a smile quietly choking in their throat.

Best wishes,

Teresa

2025–2026

State Academy of Fine Arts, Karlsruhe

Fine Art (Sculpture):

Visiting Professor at Kennedy+Swan

2023 – present

State Academy of Fine Arts, Karlsruhe :

Fine Art Diploma (Sculpture) under John Bock

2022 – 2023

Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design: Visiting student :

Exhibition Design and