Xenia Fink: Too little, too soon, too much, too late.
Zeitgenössische Kunst Ausstellung
Verbindung zu esel.at
“Xenia Fink’s work has primarily focused on drapery as a subject. As a draftsperson, she is interested in the mutability of the textile form, especially in the way drapery can represent physicality, and how, as material excess, it is repeatedly associated with the decorative and thus with the “feminine.” Fink, however, conceives drapery as a fluid and capacious form. In her drawings, the ornamental meets restraint in an equal desire for openness.
Fink not only explores the feminine connotations of draped fabric, but also combines it with the motif of hair. In her drawings, both emerge as kindred arabesques. Against the white background, hatched and entangled lines pulsate, gather, or spin around themselves, only to dissolve on the white of the background. A sensual pleasure of looking is built through an accumulation of lines, only to become two-dimensional again.”
The exhibition opens 03.04.2026 – artist talk at 19:00- 18-22:00 and is on view until 24.04.2026 each Friday from 18-22:00.
Last Little Haven is a site-specific installation that reimagines a (fictional) lesbian/queer bar from the 1930s to the 1950s. The so-called Art Bar functions as both a participatory and cooperative exhibition space. Visitors are invited to actively participate in the project by visiting the bar. A special highlight is the presentation of the world’s largest private collection of artefacts relating to lesbian bar history, which is being made publicly accessible here for the first time.