Klaus Welp is a visual artist with Finnish and German nationalities and works through his comapany Welp Ltd and Welp Productions.

He has studied different fields of visual communication at the Aalto University Helsinki, the University of Plastic Arts Xalapa Mexico and at the Berlin University of the Arts. During his four year stay in Mexico, he founded the  bar ”Tabu” and produced exhibitions, dance-, theatre- and live-music performances. After two years stay in Berlin, he worked for eight years as the art director and photographer for the Finnish culural-political magazine Voima. He also lead the parody advertisement group ”Adbusters Finland”, publishing monthly subverts in the Voima-magazine and in the web. The project culminated in the book and exhibition ”Louserit Vuittuun” and was also awarded with the Salli Journalism Award.

In visual journalism and illustration, he has contributed to all major Finnish newspapers and magazines, and has designed over 100 stamps for the national postal service in Finland. Welp has contributed to numerous NGO-projects and also made various projects for Greenpeace Finland. He has been awarded multiple times both internationally and nationally for his work in illustration, graphic design, stamps and videos. Welp has teached illustration and culture jamming at the Helsinki Aalto University, the University of Tampere and the University of Applied Sciences in Kauniainen. He has been part of many national and international competition juries, for example Lahti International Poster Biennial, the Internation Poster Biennial Mexico and TISDC-Taiwan.

Welp has made music videos, film festival trailers, publicity for cultural events and short documentaries for various purposes. Welp Productions is fully equipped for largescale videoproductions (camera, drone, audio, light), has a greenscreenstudio and a large network of professionals for camera, light, audio, scenography, catering, postproduction etc. Welp’s studio is Located in Helsinki in the former mental hospital of Lapinlahti, that has been converted into sociocultural center during the last years. 

Languages: Finnish, English, German, Swedish and Spanish

mail: klaus@welp.fi
tel: +358 (0)505880133

Postal adress:
Welp Oy/Ltd, Welp Productions
Lastenkodinkatu 2-10 R 4
00180 Helsinki, Finland

Studio at the Lapinlahti-center:
Lapinlahdenpolku 8, Helsinki