Xenia Hausner

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Xenia Hausner (* 1951 in Vienna ) is an Austrian painter .

Life

Xenia Hausner comes from a family of artists . She is the daughter of the Austrian painter Rudolf Hausner , her sisters are the film director Jessica Hausner and the costume designer Tanja Hausner . Between 1972 and 1976 Hausner studied stage design at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. From 1977 to 1992 equipment for theater and opera, among others for Covent Garden London, Burgtheater Vienna, Theâtre de la Monnaie Brussels and the Salzburg Festival.

Since 1992 she has been working exclusively as a painter. Her works are shown internationally in galleries and museums. She lives and works in Berlin and Vienna.

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Stage design

Her first stage sets were material collages from demolished houses, junkyards and rubbish dumps. From there she fetched her raw material, from which she assembled rooms that lived on the tension between naturalistic meticulousness and abstract cipher, between history and actuality. Her favorite figure was the oxymoron, the combination of opposites, the concentrated union of everything that tears apart chaotically.

painting

From 1990 Xenia Hausner turned to painting. In her painterly work she deals with people. Thematically, it leads the viewer into a puzzling world of images. The situations are ambiguous, the viewer should explore the picture with his own life. Xenia Hausner's large-format works are descriptions of society and tell of the mysterious world of interpersonal relationships; they are deliberately fragmentary situations and snapshots from everyday life. In contrast to classic portraits, those portrayed in the pictures play their roles in someone else's biographies, they are cast like actors in a play. She uses an expressive style and a richly colored palette, which is particularly evident in the flesh of the protagonists. Xenia Hausner also deals with works on paper and mixed-media works, in which she further develops her large-format photographs in a painterly manner and incorporates various materials into the image carrier as set pieces. In her artistic work, she brings together the current state of knowledge of painting with that of photography. This creates a new condensation of images and a construction of reality using different techniques. Hand-picked unique pieces in small editions on hand-made paper may refer to the themes of your painting in terms of motifs, but new pictorial inventions emerge that form an independent area technically and medially. With the preparations for the exhibition “Damage” in 2011 in the Shanghai Art Museum, she began to work intensively with Asian, primarily Chinese, motifs. Their inclusion in their special handwriting gives an insight into the networks of global, contemporary art.

Projects

In addition to painting, photography is an essential element of her work and her collection of materials. She is involved with Women Without Borders and their project SAVE (Sisters Against Violent Extremism) and uses the camera to document people with extreme experiences. There is a strong interest in architecture-related projects - such as the wrapping of the Ringturm in Vienna in 2011 or the design or design of church windows (Kilian's Church in Heilbronn, St. Johannis Church in Gehrden, St. Johannes and St. Laurentius Merseburg Cathedral ).

Quote

"Women are the fairer sex".

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 2018 "THE GESTURE masterpieces from the Peter and Irene Ludwig Collection", Ludwig Gallery Schloss Oberhausen
  • 2017 “Glasstress”, Palazzo Franchetti, Venice
  • 2017 “Xenia Hausner - Exiles” in Personal Structures: Crossing Borders, Palazzo Bembo, Venice
  • 2017 "Unleashed. Contemporary painters ”, Achberg Castle
  • 2017 “Fleischeslust”, Galerie Deschler, Berlin
  • 2017 “Modern & Contemporary Art”, Forum Gallery, New York
  • 2017 “10 - Alive and Kicking”, Dominik Mersch Gallery, Sydney
  • 2017 "Menagerie. An Animal Show from the Würth Collection ", Forum Würth Rorschach, CH
  • 2016 “Frau im Bild - Female Portraits from the Würth Collection”, Gallery Würth, Oslo
  • 2016 “Rendezvous, Masterpieces from the Essl Collection”, Essl Museum, Klosterneuburg
  • 2015: From Hockney to Holbein. The Würth Collection in Berlin , Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin
  • 2015: Personal Structures: Crossing Borders , Palazzo Mora, Venice
  • 2015: Soft Power , Leo Gallery, Shanghai
  • 2015: Girl, Girls, Girls , Galerie Deschler, Berlin
  • 2015: Some Hope , FO.KU.S, Innsbruck
  • 2014: Look Left - Look Right , Today Art Museum, Beijing
  • 2014: Look Left - Look Right , The Pao Galleries, Hong Kong Arts Center, Hong Kong
  • 2014: highlights. Masterpieces of contemporary stained glass in Naumburg Cathedral , Naumburg
  • 2014: The Other View , Essl Collection , Klosterneuburg
  • 2013: you. Self. Naked . Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum, Bremen
  • 2013: Painting Water , Berlin Art Week, Galerie Deschler
  • 2013: AEIOU - Austrian Aspects in the Würth Collection , Museum Würth, Künzelsau
  • 2012: ÜberLeben Essl Collection , Klosterneuburg
  • 2012: The fifth Bejing International Art Biennale (BIAB)
  • 2012: Xenia Hausner - Flagrant délit , Musée Würth France, Erstein
  • 2012: 21st century stained glass , Center intern. Du Vitrail, Chartres
  • 2011: Damage , Shanghai Art Museum , Shanghai
  • 2011: The sense of family wrapping the Ringturm , Vienna
  • 2011: Modern stained glass , Badisches Landesmuseum, Karlsruhe
  • 2010: Intimacy. Bathing in art , Ahlen Art Museum , Ahlen
  • 2010: Trailblazer , Gabriele Münter Prize 2010, Martin-Gropius-Bau , Berlin
  • 2009: Longing for the image. The portrait through the ages , Kunsthalle Krems
  • 2009: Xenia Hausner , Palais Liechtenstein, Forum for Contemporary Art, Feldkirch
  • 2008: Montijo International Biennal ON EUROPE 2008, Portugal
  • 2008: You and I , Forum Gallery, New York
  • 2007: Back to the figure , Kunsthaus Wien
  • 2007: Two , Galerie von Braunbehrens, Munich
  • 2006: Austria: 1900 - 2000. Confrontation and continuities , Essl Museum , Klosterneuburg
  • 2006: Back to the figure - contemporary painting , Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung , Munich
  • 2006: Xenia Hausner - Waschtag , Galerie Boisserée, Cologne
  • 2006: Hide and Seek , Forum Gallery, New York
  • 2006: Lucky Fall , KunstHausWien , Vienna
  • 2005: Physiognonomy of the 2nd Republic , Österreichische Galerie Belvedere , Vienna
  • 2005: Rundlederwelten , Martin-Gropius-Bau , Berlin
  • 2005: Xenia Hausner - Glücksfall , Ludwig Museum , Koblenz
  • 2004: Foreign. Reports also close , Kunstfest Weimar Pèlerinages
  • 2004: The 2nd Nature , Charim Gallery, Vienna
  • 2004: Upper Class - Working Girl , Gallery of the City of Salzburg
  • 2003: New Paintings , Forum Gallery, Los Angeles
  • 2003: Women's choice , Deschler Gallery, Berlin
  • 2002: Xenia Hausner - painting , Galerie Kämpf, Basel
  • 2002: Xenia Hausner - painting , Galerie Hohmann, Hamburg
  • 2001: New works , Rupertinum , Salzburg
  • 2001: Xenia Hausner - paintings and graphics , Galerie Thomas, Munich
  • 2000: Kampfzone , Käthe-Kollwitz-Museum Berlin and in the State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
  • 2000: Xenia Hausner - people , Ernst Barlach Museum, Hamburg / Wedel
  • 2000: Heart Matters , Forum Gallery, New York
  • 1999: Figuration , Rupertinum Salzburg, Museion Bozen and Ursula Blickle Foundation, Kraichtal
  • 1998: Reality and Dream , Berlin Gallery, Berlin
  • 1998: Xenia Hausner - painting , Kunsthalle, Koblenz
  • 1998: Xenia Hausner - fragments of love , Jesuit church, gallery in Aschaffenburg
  • 1997: Fragments of Love , Kunsthalle Wien and Museum of Fine Arts , Leipzig
  • 1997: Contemporary art from Austria , European Monetary Institute, Frankfurt am Main
  • 1996: The power of images , Martin-Gropius-Bau , Berlin
  • 1996: Xenia Hausner - Images of People , Galerie Thomas, Munich
  • 1996: Masterpieces of Austrian contemporary art , Heike Curtze Gallery, Salzburg

Movie

  • Arte, Metropolis stories of loneliness and closeness - a studio visit to Xenia Hausner in Vienna. First broadcast on January 26, 2013, 4:45 p.m.
  • 3sat, Kulturzeit: Harald Wilde, grande dame of portrait painting - Xenia Hausner in the Essl Museum in Klosterneuburg, October 24, 2012
  • Arte, Metropolis: The artist Xenia Hausner, first broadcast October 11, 2003

Public collections and museums

Her work can be found in the following collections and museums, among others:

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Knut Boeser: In search of possible places. In: Xenia Hausner: Rätselraum Fremde Frau, Braus Verlag, Heidelberg 1990, pp. 16-18.
  2. ↑ Xenia Hausner: I remain a mystery to myself. In: Global Art Affairs Foundation: “PERSONAL STRUCTURES - Crossing Borders”. European Cultural Center, Venice 2015, ISBN 978-94-90784-18-8
  3. ↑ Xenia Hausner, You and I, Prestel Verlag, Munich, Berlin, London 2008, pp. 108–111
  4. ^ Peter Assmann, Damage, Hirmer Verlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-7774-4281-5
  5. ↑ Chang Tsong-Zung: Xenia Hausner in China. In: Xenia Hausner Look Left - Look Right. Brandstätter Verlag, 2014, ISBN 978-3-85033-841-7
  6. ↑ "IN THE STREETS OF HONG KONG THE EYE RUSH BEGINS ..." ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) INHK - the German-language magazine for Hong Kong: Interview with Nina Gassauer: "In the streets of Hong Kong begins for me the eye rush ... "
  7. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from August 16, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.frauen-ohne-grenzen.org
  8. ^ Holger Brülls: Contemporary glass painting in Germany. Center International du Vitrail, Chartres 2012, pp. 210-217, ISBN 978-2-908077-06-3
  9. ↑ Wieland Schmied: The act of painting as an act of love. About Xenia Hausner's images of man. In: Xenia Hausner: KAMPFZONE, Wienand Verlag, Cologne 2003, pp. 13–24, ISBN 3-87909-803-4 "
personal data
SURNAME Hausner, Xenia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter and set designer
DATE OF BIRTH 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna