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 class at the Offenbach University of Art and Design.
Her artistic practice encompasses painting, photography, installation, and performance. She is also a co-founder of the artist collective CLUB FORTUNA. At the intersection of personal experience and political analysis, Lesniewski explores the interactions between spatial structures, ritualized power dynamics, and the constitution of social norms. Her works often take familiar everyday environments as their starting point, which she transforms into ambivalent scenarios that oscillate between functionality and fiction, humor, and critical reflection. In this way, she invites viewers to reconsider everyday spaces and the mechanisms of social control inscribed within them.
Her 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, 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). The artist's works can be found in important public and institutional collections, including those of Deutsche Bank Frankfurt, the City of Vienna, the Vienna Museum, Raiffeisenbank Vienna, the collection of the Federal Ministry of Art, Culture, Civil Service, and Sport (Austria), the Kammerhof Museum in Gmunden, and numerous 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.
