ABOUT


XENIA

LESNIEWSKI

*1985 Frankfurt am Main

based in Vienna

DE/PL

Xenia Lesniewski is an ultra-contemporary, multidisciplinary artist. Her practice evolves in fluid transitions between painting, installation, video, performance, and collective practice. Her work operates at the interface of art and everyday life and engages with contemporary social developments and public space. Multiplicity and simultaneity manifest themselves in her cross-disciplinary and process-oriented practice. She is a co-founder and active member of the artist collective CLUB FORTUNA. Many of Lesniewski's interventions are linked by an activist approach that liquefies classical categories and role models of the art world.


Lesniewski has participated in numerous national and international exhibitions. Solo exhibitions have included the Dortmunder Kunstverein, MLAG Bergen and Quartier21 in Vienna. She has presented her video works at the Berlinale, the International Film Festival Oberhausen and several times at the Rencontres Internationales Berlin/Madrid/Paris. Lesniewski’s work with her artist collective Club Fortuna has been shown at the 12th Krasnoyarks Museum Biennale in Siberia, as part of the colleteral events of MANIFESTA 12 in Palermo, and most recently at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb.



Foto Simon Veres, 2023.

EDUCATION, ACADEMIC & PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND

2010 - 2015

  • Class for Painting, Tapestry and experimental Animation at the University of Applied Arts Vienna (AUT)
  • Diploma with honors by Prof. Judith Eisler


2005 - 2013

  • Visual Communication with focus on Philosophy/Aesthetics, Experimental Spacial Concepts and Painting at University of Art and Design Offenbach (DE)
  • Diploma with honors by Prof. Juliane Rebentisch and Prof. Adam Jankowski


2004 - 2005

  • Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt (DE), arthistory


TEACHING

2023

  • Lectureship for painting at University of Art and Design, HfG Offenbach (DE)


2019/20

  • Lectureship for sculpture – transmedial space with CLUB FORTUNA at the University of Art and Design Linz (AT)




SELECTED STIPENDS & PRICES

2024

  • CCA Andratx AiR Programme (ESP)
  • Salt Lake Cities STOPs and STATIONs AiR Programme of the European Capital of Culture Bad Ischl (AUT)

2022

  • AIR 101, Gmunden (AUT)

2021

  • Mentoring programme 2021, Bundeskanzleramt für Kunst und Kultur (AUT)

2020

  • START-Stipendium bildende Kunst, Bundeskanzleramt für Kunst und Kultur (AUT)

2016

  • OFFCITY AiR 2016, Artists-in-residence program Pardubice (CZ)
  • Artists-in-residence Shirayevo Biennale, (RUS/CF)

2014

  • Fellowship Universität für angewandte Kunst Vienna (AUT)

2010

  • Residence program Vienna / Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (DE)
  • Drematrix Development Award / Internationales Filmfest Dresden (DE) 
  • Next Generation 2010 / German Films in Cannes (FRA)

2008 - 2012

  • Fellowship Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (DE)

2009

  • 2.Muvi-Award, Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen (DE)
  • Movies and Stills Award, Videor Art Foundation 2009 (DE)

2008

  • 3 Sat Förderpreis I Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen (DE)



PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

  • Photo collection of the Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport / BMKÖS
  • Collection of the City of Graz (CF)
  • Raiffeisenbank Collection, Vienna
  • Collection of the City of Vienna (CF)
  • DieAngewandte Artcollection, Vienna (CF)
  • Wien Museum, MUSA Artothek
  • Deutsche Bank Collection, Frankfurt


SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

SOLO/DUO


2024

  • CONCRETE CURTAINS, curated by Raquel Victoria, La Misericordia, Fase V, Palma (ESP)

2023

  • WHATEVER THE WEATHER, Galerie 0el-Früh Hamburg (DEU)
  • REEL 2 REAL, with Rene Wagner, Zeller van Almsick, Vienna (AUT)

2022

  • Best before end, MLAG Bergen (NOR)
  • INSTANT SOLUTIONS, sommer.frische.kunst Bad Gastein (AUT)

2021

  • INSTANT SOLUTIONS, Bildraum 01. Vienna (AUT)

2020

  • Guiltv Pleasure 2K20. Parallel Vienna (AUT)
  • Guiltv Pleasure, Josef Boys 2k20. Media Pertormance, ATV, (AUT)

2019

  • AINEX, Galerie kunstbuero, Vienna (AUT)
  • Agnes Varnai & Xenia Lesniewski, WAF Schaulager, Vienna (AUT)

2016

  • STRADA DEL SOLE, SØ Kopenhagen (DNK)

 2014

  • DAS GRÜNE KREUZ HOFFNUNG, Dortmunder Kunstverein (DEU)
  • ORLANDO, Oel-Früh Cabinet, Hamburg (DEU)

2012

  • HYPER BLOCH, Galerie Oel-Früh, Hamburg (DEU)
  • THE SENSATION CLUB, Förderverein aktuelle Kunst Münster, (DEU)

2010

  • Ein Vor- oder Rückfall, Blau - Zimmer für Kunst und Andere, Hamburg (DEU)

2009

  • HARDCORE, 1822 Forum, Frankfurt (DEU)



GROUP


2024

  • GRIT, Zeller van Almsick, Vienna (AUT)

2023

  • SYSTEMRELEVANT, Künstlerhaus Vienna (AUT)
  • AUTOFOKUS, Projektraum Victor Bucher Vienna (AUT)
  • BODY AND TERRITORY, Kunsthaus Graz, (AUT/CF)
  • NEW BALANCE, Schauspielhaus Vienna, (AUT/CF)

2022

  • BODY AND TERRITORY, MSU Zagreb (HRV/CF)
  • DIAMANT, Museum Of Urban Culture, Offenbach (DEU)
  • Point of no return, Quartier am Hafen, Cologne (DEU)
  • APOCALYPSO, AIR 101, Salzkammergut Festwochen (AUT)
  • A shop Is a shop Is a shop, Kunsthalle Vienna (AUT)

2021

  • Everlasting Love, House of losing control, Vienna (AUT)
  • WICHTIG IST GUTE LAUNE, Hochsommer, LandART Eisenberg (AUT/CF)
  • Impatience of the Future, Shore x Zeller van Almsick, Vienna (AUT)
  • IT'S NOT OVER TILL IT'S OVER, Kunstverein Eisenstadt (AUT/CF)

2020

  • Hortus Conclusus, Skulpturenpark Schloss25, Vienna (AUT)
  • BODYLOTION, Zeller van Almsick, Vienna (AUT)

2019

  • BLACKOUT, KS Room, Kornberg (AUT/CF)
  • WICHTIG IST GUTE LAUNE, Hochsommer, LandART Eisenberg (AUT/CF)
  • Über das Neue, OMG at Belvedere 21, Vienna (AUT)

2018

  • Newstalgia, Austrian Cultural Forum London (UK/CF)
  • Another world. initiated bv Tracev Emin. Frieze. London (UK)
  • VOGLO SOLO. Collateral event of the MANIFESTA 12 PALERMO (ITA/CF)
  • CLUB FORTUNA / Amt zur Reklamation vergeudeter Lebenszeit, KUNSTSAELE Berlin (DEU/CF)

2017

  • TONIC, GOMO artspace Vienna, (AUT/CF)
  • JAWBREAKER II, mir, 12th Krasnoyark’s Museum Biennial Siberia (RUS/CF)
  • BÜRO SCHLEIM, Büro Weltausstellung Vienna (AUT/CF)
  • Der Mensch muss unter die Leute, Bräuning Contemporary Hamburg (DEU)
  • GNAWZ IMAMAN, Internationales Frauenfilmfestival Dortmund/Köln (DEU/CF)

2016

  • JAWBREAKER, 9. Shirayevo Biennale (RUS/CF)

2015

  • FIT FOR SECESSION, Secession Vienna (AUT/CF)




Club Fortuna = (CF)

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