About

Short Bio

Throughout 29 years of constant engagement with art, in the streets as well as in galleries, Claudia Walde has worked her way up to one of the worlds top urban contemporary artists and is best know under her graffiti name “MadC”. Her monograph “From Street to Canvas”, written by Luisa Heese, was published by HENI London in 2021. Her canvases are exhibited in solo and group exhibitions worldwide and are sought after by art collectors. She is best known for her large scale murals, some of them the largest that have ever been painted by one person. MadC was invited to paint murals for Sinkka Museum in Finland, The Dulwich picture gallery in London, for the city of Abu Dhabi in the UAE and by the prestigious Mural Arts Program in Philadelphia, just to name a few.

One of her most recent work can be found as a spectacular, permanent installation at the Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt Germany, which was finished in May 2024 and stretches from floor to walls. Also in 2024, Museum Reinhard Ernst has opened its doors in Germany, featuring five of her stunning glass pieces, produced by renown Derix Glasstudios. MadC has worked with the museum and Maki and Associates architects Japan, to create the permanent glass installations for the museum building. In 2023 the Deutsche Post (Germany mail) acknowledged her work with a stamp, showing her work. Since 2022, she has won Art in Public space competitions in Germany and even moved her work into the three dimentional space.

MadC’s style has its roots in urban art, resulting in vividly colored, dynamic calligraphy and transparency where all layers shine through and thereby capture the energy of painting on a massive scale in the street, without using language. Her unique use of color, composition and layering are perfectly paired with the spontaneously and fast painted lines of the calligrapher. The abstract paintings boast of energy and depths. They draw you in and capture the viewer in a universe universally understood, surpassing languages and cultures.

 

 

Publications

  • “MadC: Color Rhythms” HENI London, UK, 2023, ISBN 978-1-912122-71-4
  • “MadC – Street to Canvas” by Luisa Heese, HENI London, UK, 2021, ISBN 978-1-912122-43-1
  • “Wir und die Kunst” Documentary by Milan Skrobanek featuring MadC, Funny van Dannen, Sarah Bosetti and
    Jan Georg Schütte, 2021

 

Projects

  • winner Art in public space, Schiller Gymnasium Koenigs Wusterhausen, Germany, August 2025
  • “Never Stop Moving“, folding table in collaboration with einszueins, November 2024
  • “Color Rhythms”, a generative Art NFT project, May 2022
  • “Art in Architecture” winner, painting of bridge abutment in Magdeburg, Phase 1 finished in 2022
  • “Fliegende Bilder” art works painted digitally and projected live on the LED screens of the tower of Dortmunder U in Dortmund, Germany, together with Soten and Adolf Winkelmann, March 2021

 

Selected Solo Shows

  • “Color Rhythms” HENI Gallery, London, UK 2025
  • “Thank God it’s Friday” Cammann Studios, Chemnitz, Germany 2024
  • “Returning Flow of Colors” GAOS Gallery Beijing, China, 2023
  • “Street to Canvas” HENI Gallery London, UK, 2021-2022
  • „Goddess“ GAOs Gallery, Taiyuan, China 2020
  • „Inside/Outside“ Brugier-Rigail Galerie, Paris, France 2019
  • “Dialog” Brenners Park Hotel, Baden-Baden, Germany 2019
  • “Pink Power” Kolly Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland 2018
  • “Rush Hour” Wallworks New York, New York City, USA 2018
  • “Southern Lights” Galerie Nicolas-Xavier, Montpellier, France 2018
  • “Daydreaming” 44309 Gallery, Dortmund, Germany 2018
  • “Home Sweet Home” Galerie Brugier-Rigail, Paris, France 2016
  • “Kaleidoscope” Kolly Gallery, Zürich, Switzerland 2016
  • “Bits and Pieces” Wallworks New York, New York City, USA 2015
  • “Night and Day”, 44309 Gallery, Dortmund, Germany 2015
  • “Character” Pure Evil Gallery, London, UK 2015

 

Selected Group Shows

  • “Knotenpunkt” Affenfaust Galerie, Hamburg, Germany, September 12th – October 26 2025
  • “Field Day” Design Museum Chicago, USA, summer 2024
  • “Wonderwalls” NRW-Forum, Düsseldorf, Germany, September 30th 2022 – February 2023
  • “Next Wave” Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, USA, June 18 – August 28 2022
  • „Iconoclast“ Miaja Gallery, Singapore 2019/2020
  • „Conquête Urbaine“ Musée de beaux Arts, Calais, France 2019
  • „Calligraphy now“ National Museum of Korea, Seoul, Korea 2018
  • “Street Color” Institute Bernard Magrez, Bordeaux, France 2018
  • “Searching for Surfaces” Vertical Gallery, Chicago, USA 2017
  • “Compendium” Treason Gallery, Seattle, USA 2017
  • “For the Love of Freedom” Sinkka Museum, Kerava, Finland 2017
  • “Abstract Forum” FORUM Przestrzenie, Krakau, Poland 2017
  • “Adventures in Modern Abstraction” Stolen Space Gallery, London 2017
  • “Who’s your Daddy” Kolly Gallery, Phnom Penh, Cambodia 2017
  • “Urban Art Biennale” Völklinger Hütte, Germany 2017
  • “Marrakech Biennale” Marrakech, Morocco 2016