Jean-Claude Maier
www.jeanclaudemaier.de
Münchener Str. 38
60329 Frankfurt am Main
Partner gallery: Zeller van Almsick
Xenia Lesniewski
Xenia Lesniewski (born in Frankfurt am Main in 1985) lives and works as a multidisciplinary artist in Vienna and Offenbach. She studied at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, the Offenbach University of Art and Design, and Goethe University Frankfurt am Main. She currently teaches painting in Gunter Reski's department at the Offenbach University of Art and Design.
XL's practice encompasses painting, photography, installation, and performance. She is also a co-founder of the artists' collective CLUB FORTUNA. At the intersection of the personal and the political, she explores how social structures can be revealed and questioned in everyday objects, spaces, and rituals. Her works start from familiar environments, which she transforms into ambivalent scenarios between function and fiction, humor and criticism. Lesniewski reveals new perspectives on everyday spaces and the social orders inscribed in them.
The works have 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 de Mallorca, and Galerie Oel-Früh, Hamburg. Her video works have been shown at the Berlinale, the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, and the Rencontres Internationales Berlin/Madrid/Paris, among others.
Xenia Lesniewski is the recipient of the Austrian State Scholarship for Fine Arts (2026). Works by the artist can be found in important public and institutional collections, including Deutsche Bank, the City of Vienna, the Vienna Museum, Raiffeisen Bank, the Federal Collection (Austria), the Kammerhof Museum in Gmunden, and in many private collections.
With the CLUB FORTUNA collective, she has been represented at MANIFESTA 12 in Palermo as part of the collateral events, at the Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, and most recently at the Kunsthaus Graz.
