Xenia Hausner
b. 1951
Xenia Hausner was born in Vienna in 1951; her father was the painter Rudolf Hausner. From 1972 to 1976 she studied stage design at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. Until 1992 she designed sets for theatre, opera and film, including for the Burgtheater, the Salzburg Festival, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London and the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels. Since 1992 she has devoted herself to the visual arts, above all to painting, alongside photography, mixed media and sculpture. Solo exhibitions have been held at the Albertina in Vienna, the Shanghai Art Museum, the Today Art Museum in Beijing and the Museum Franz Gertsch in Burgdorf, among others. In 2000 she received the Ernst Barlach Prize. Her work is held in collections including the Albertina, the Belvedere and the Wien Museum. Xenia Hausner lives and works in Berlin and Vienna.
Works
Biography
Education 1972–1976 Stage design studies, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, London Solo exhibitions (selection) 2024 XENIA HAUSNER. Atemluft, European Capital of Culture Bad Ischl Salzkammergut 2024 2023 XENIA HAUSNER. Female Measure, Galleri Würth, Hagan (Norway) 2022 XENIA HAUSNER. True Lies, Museum Franz Gertsch, Burgdorf 2021 XENIA HAUSNER. True Lies, Albertina, Vienna 2020 Xenia Hausner – This will have been another happy day!, Palais Populaire, Berlin 2019 Xenia Hausner – Displaced – Storie in Movimento, Palazzo Ducale, Mantua 2014 Look Left – Look Right, Today Art Museum, Beijing, and The Pao Galleries, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong 2012 Xenia Hausner – ÜberLeben, Essl Museum, Klosterneuburg 2011 Xenia Hausner – Damage, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai 2006 Xenia Hausner – Glücksfall, Kunsthaus Wien, Vienna 2000 Xenia Hausner – Heart Matters, Käthe Kollwitz Museum, Berlin, and State Russian Museum, St Petersburg 1997 Xenia Hausner – Liebesfragmente, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, and Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig Group exhibitions (selection) 2023 AUSTRIA – GERMANY. PAINTING 1970–2020, Albertina Modern, Vienna 2020 8th Moscow International Biennale of Contemporary Art, State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow 2020 Schiele – Rainer – Kokoschka / Der Welt (m)eine Ordnung geben, Landesgalerie Niederösterreich, Krems 2019 Juntos Aparte, BIENALSUR, Cúcuta (Colombia) 2019 Warhol bis Richter, Albertina, Vienna 2017 Glasstress, Palazzo Franchetti, Venice (collateral event of the 57th Venice Biennale) 2017 Personal Structures: Crossing Borders, Palazzo Bembo, Venice 2015 From Hockney to Holbein. The Würth Collection in Berlin, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin 2013 Sie. Selbst. Nackt., Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum, Bremen 2012 5th Beijing International Art Biennale, Beijing 2010 Trailblazer – Gabriele Münter Prize 2010, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin 1996 Die Kraft der Bilder, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin Awards 2000 Ernst Barlach Prize, Ernst Barlach Society, Hamburg Collections Albertina, Vienna Belvedere, Vienna Essl Collection, Klosterneuburg Wien Museum, Vienna Museum Würth, Künzelsau Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai European Central Bank, Frankfurt am Main George Economou Collection, Athens Publications 2020 True Lies, Hirmer Verlag 2014 Look Left – Look Right, Brandstätter Verlag 2012 ÜberLeben, Brandstätter Verlag 2012 Flagrant délit, Swiridoff Verlag 2011 Damage, Hirmer Verlag 2008 You and I, Prestel Verlag 2005 Hide and Seek, Prestel Verlag 2003 Ladies First: Second Thoughts, Wienand Verlag 2003 Heart Matters, Wienand Verlag / D.A.P. 1997 Liebesfragmente, Wienand Verlag 1996 Menschenbilder, Edition Galerie Thomas 1990 Rätselraum Fremde Frau, Braus Verlag