Guinness Book of Records title holder of world’s youngest artist opens exhibition in Sweden

Marbella artist, John Christian Caldeira Weibull, born on December, 12 2023, is lining up a three-day exhibition in Malmo next November, two years after Guinness World Records named him the youngest male artist in the world. Officials verified the title in October 2024, when he was 10 months and seven days old. Relatives say colour arrived before speech, and the forthcoming hang is billed Art: my first language.

Record booked before he could walk

Mum Rubia Caldeira gave him an LED drawing tablet at five months. Scribbling started almost at once, according to Guinness World Records, which later logged photos and video of those first marks. Paints and canvases followed at six or seven months. Record staff called him active and observant, and he kept going as his hands grew stronger.

A Marbella exhibition on the same October day as the verification sold several pictures. And at another at Villa Padierna, he is said to have sold five works went before the doors even opened.

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Three days in Malmo this November

MIVA Fine Art Gallery in Malmo will show his pictures from 20 to 22 November. Gallery notes say the hang will follow his path from tablet doodles to later canvases. John turns three in December and still paints. Details of the space sit on the gallery site at mivafineart.com.

His father is Swedish and his mother Brazilian, which helps explain a Costa del Sol toddler heading north. Marbella already has a growing Swedish community and a Swedish school, as EWN has covered. Families looking for kids’ painting sessions on the coast can also find local classes in our Costa del Sol kids’ art round-up.

Whether Swedish collectors treat a three-year-old’s pictures as curios or as serious work remains to be seen. For now, a Marbella boy who once dragged a finger across a glowing screen has a date in a Swedish gallery.