Galerie van Almsick Galerie

www.zellervanalmsick.com
Franz-Josefs-Kai 3
1010 Vienna
Partner gallery: Jean-Claude Maier

Xenia Lesniewski

Xenia Lesniewski (born 1985, Frankfurt am Main) lives, teaches, and works as a multidisciplinary artist in Vienna and Offenbach. Her practice encompasses painting, photography, installation, and performance; she is also co-founder of the artist collective CLUB FORTUNA. At the intersection of the personal and the political, Lesniewski explores how spaces, objects, and ritual mechanisms of power produce and reveal social norms and identity constructs. She transforms familiar places into scenarios that oscillate between functionality and fiction, humor and criticism, opening up new perspectives on everyday situations for viewers. Lesniewski studied at Goethe University Frankfurt, HfG Offenbach, and the University of Applied Arts Vienna.

She currently teaches in Gunter Reski's painting department at the HfG Offenbach. Her work has been Exhibitions in numerous national and international Exhibitions , including solo exhibitions at MQ Vienna, Dortmunder Kunstverein, MLAG Bergen, SØ Copenhagen, La Misericordia, Florit/Florit Palma, and Galerie Oel-Früh, Hamburg. Video works have been shown at the Berlinale, the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, and the Rencontres Internationales Berlin/Madrid/Paris.

With CLUB FORTUNA, she exhibited works as part of the collateral events of MANIFESTA 12 in Palermo, at the Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, and most recently at the Kunsthaus Graz. Her works are represented in important public and institutional collections, including Deutsche Bank (Frankfurt), the City of Vienna, the Wien Museum/MUSA Artothek, Raiffeisenbank Vienna, the collection of the Federal Ministry of Art, Culture, Civil Service, and Sport (Austria), the Kammerhofmuseum Gmunden, and numerous private collections.