GROUP SHOW WITH XENIA HAUSNER
IN THE SPIRIT OF FRIENDSHIP

DOM MUSEUM WIEN, VIENNA, AUSTRIA
27 SEPTEMBER 2024 – 24 AUGUST 2025

Friendship is a basic human need: relationships with others, spiritual closeness, and chosen family shape our lives. Its universal significance as a part of human social behavior, whether on a personal or socio-political level, makes it a recurring theme of artistic exploration.Dom Museum Wien approaches the topic using graphics, painting, sculpture, photography, video, and installations that form a space for exploring the facets of friendship. In addition to national and international loans and newly commissioned works, the show also offers insights into the collections of Dom Museum Wien - from the Middle Ages to the present. With works by Xenia Hausner, among others.
© Images by Studio Xenia Hausner

FEATURED ARTIST

XENIA HAUSNER

Xenia Hausner (b. 1951 in Vienna, Austria) lives and works in Vienna and Berlin. She studied stage design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. From 1977 to 1992 she was a successful set designer for international theatre and opera productions. In 1992 Hausner began focusing exclusively on her painting practice. She is also a founding member of Women Without Borders.

Hausner‘s work has been shown in numerous museum solo and group exhibitions, such as at Albertina Modern, Vienna, Austria (2023); Galleri Würth, Hagan, Norway (2023); Art Contemporani, CC Andratx, Spain (2022); Franz Gertsc...
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