Xenia Hausner

Xenia Hausner was born in 1951 into an Austrian family of artists. She studied stage design at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London.

From 1977 to 1992, she designed sets for theater and opera productions, including at the Covent Garden Theatre in London, the Salzburg Festival and the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels. Since 1981, she has maintained a studio in Berlin. In 1992, she turned to painting. She is a founding member of Women Without Borders.

Her works have been shown in numerous galleries, at art fairs and in museums, including the Albertina Vienna, the Museum Franz Gertsch in Burgdorf and König Galerie Berlin. Further exhibitions and institutional presentations include the Batliner Art Foundation, Belvedere Museum Vienna, Käthe Kollwitz Museum Berlin, Shanghai Art Museum, Today Art Museum Beijing, Hong Kong Arts Centre, the Russian State Museum in St. Petersburg, Museum Würth France Erstein, the Würth Collection Oslo, the European Central Bank in Frankfurt, the collateral project of the 57th Venice Biennale in 2017, “Glasstress,” at Palazzo Franchetti in Venice; the 8th Moscow Biennale at the State Tretyakov Gallery; Forum Gallery New York; Bienalsur, South America’s art biennial, in 2019 with “Juntos Aparte” in Colombia; and “This will have been another happy day!” at PalaisPopulaire of the Deutsche Bank Collection in Berlin in 2020.

Xenia Hausner lives and works in Vienna and Berlin.