Xenia Hausner

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Xenia Hausner (* 1951 in Vienna, Austria) is an Austrian artist.

Life

Xenia Hausner is the daughter of the Austrian painter Rudolf Hausner and the sister of film director Jessica Hausner. From 1972 to 1976 she studied Stage Design at the Viennese Akademie der Bildenden Künste and at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. During the years 1977 to 1992 she created sets for more than 100 theater and opera productions; some of them at the Burgtheater in Vienna, Covent Garden in London and the Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels. Since 1992 she has been working exclusively as a painter and, beginning in 1996, has had many exhibitions at home and abroad. Xenia Hausner lives and works in Berlin and Vienna.

Work

Hausner mainly focuses in her art work on the depiction of women whose relationship to each other are difficult for the viewer to really fathom. Her style is expressive and the range of her colors is extremely varied. This becomes especially evident in the flesh tones of her protagonists. She turned to painting in 1990 and from there increasingly to graphic works and mixed media, taking large-format photographs, painting them over and incorporating other materials, piecemeal, into her work. Her projects evolve into collages, rising above their original painterly basis.

Her themes lead the viewer into a puzzling world of images, enriched with codes and clues about their meaning. Her large format works recount tales from a mysterious world of interpersonal relationships, tales that are intentionally depicted in ambiguous and fragmentary situations. Her figures radiate a mixture of pride and the pain that comes with understanding. In the final analysis it is the emotional presence and the penetrating look of her actresses that fixates her audience.

She has had some well-known sitters for her paintings, for example novellist Elfriede Jelinek and Austrian President Heinz Fischer.[1]

Award

  • 2000 - Ernst Barlach Prize

Exhibitions

  • 2013: "Look Left - Look Right", The Pao Galleries, Hong Kong Arts Centre
  • 2012: "ÜberLeben" Sammlung Essl, Klosterneuburg [1]
  • 2012: Beijing International Art Biennale
  • 2012: "Xenia Hausner - Flagrant délit", Musée Würth France, Erstein
  • 2012: "Glasmalerei des 21. Jahrhunderts", Centre intern. du Vitrail, Chartres
  • 2011: "Damage", Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai
  • 2011: "Familiensinn" Verhüllung des Ringturms, Wien
  • 2010: "Intimacy. Baden in der Kunst", Kunstmuseum Ahlen, Ahlen
  • 2010: "Vorreiterin", Gabriele Münter Preis 2010, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin
  • 2009: "Sehnsucht nach dem Abbild. Das Portrait im Wandel der Zeit", Kunsthalle Krems
  • 2008: Montijo International Biennal ON EUROPE 2008, Portugal
  • 2008: "You and I", Forum Gallery, New York
  • 2007: "Zurück zur Figur", Kunsthaus Wien
  • 2007: "Österreich: 1900 - 2000. Konfrontation und Kontinuitäten", Essl Museum, Klosterneuburg
  • 2006: "Zurück zur Figur - Malerei der Gegenwart", Kunsthalle der Hypokulturstiftung, München
  • 2006: "Xenia Hausner - Waschtag", Galerie Boisserée, Köln
  • 2006: "Works on Paper", Forum Gallery, New York
  • 2006: "Glücksfall", KunstHausWien, Wien
  • 2005: "Physiognonomie der 2. Republik", Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Wien
  • 2005: "Rundlederwelten", Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin
  • 2005: "Xenia Hausner - Glücksfall", Ludwig Museum, Koblenz
  • 2004: "Fremd. Berichte aus ferner Nähe", Kunstfest Weimar "Pèlerinages"
  • 2004: "Die 2. Natur", Charim Galerie, Wien
  • 2003: "New Paintings", Forum Gallery, Los Angeles
  • 2003: "Damenwahl", Galerie Deschler, Berlin
  • 2001: "Neue Arbeiten", Rupertinum, Salzburg
  • 2001: "Xenia Hausner - Gemälde und Grafik", Galerie Thomas, München
  • 2000: "Kampfzone, Käthe Kollwitz Museum, Berlin und im Staatlichen Russischen Museum, St. Petersburg
  • 2000: "Xenia Hausner - Menschen", Ernst Barlach Museum, Hamburg/Wedel
  • 2000: "Heart Matters", Forum Gallery, New York
  • 1999: "Figuration", Rupertinum Salzburg, Museion Bozen und Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal
  • 1997: "Liebesfragmente", Kunsthalle Wien und Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig
  • 1996: "Die Kraft der Bilder", Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin
  • 1996: "Xenia Hausner - Menschenbilder", Galerie Thomas, München

Literature

Footnotes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Geheimnisvolle Welt der Beziehungen (in German)". Wiener Zeitung. 18 December 2012. Retrieved 22 April 2013. 

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