XENIA RAW
artist and video artist
+971 58 585 56 95
xenia.raw@gmail.com
Currently based in Tbilisi, Georgia.
BIO
Xenia Raw, born in 1988 in Moscow, is a multidisciplinary artist with a background in cinematography and experience in theatre, based in Georgia.
The main theme of her art is error as the key to humanity, which she explores through the prism of acute social themes and political systems.
Since emigration in 2022 Xenia focused on her personal career in contemporary art and incorporated previous experience in shaping her personal style.
She participated as a performer and video artist in the creation of performances by Golden Mask winners ("RODINA" and “ZANOS” by Sorokin), made video art for Pushkin Theatre, created lazer scenography opposition performance in the Kremlin of Nizhny Novgorod (which was very brave) and made a documentary film at the Tolstoy festival in Yasnaya Polyana.
Now Xenia is represented by Helm Contemporary gallery in New York. She lives on the road, since 2022 has been working on new artpieces in Armenia, Turkey, Thailand, the UAE and Georgia.
EDUCATION
2010-2011
2006-2009
Foothill College
California, USA — Fine arts. Art history
NUCT (Nuova Università del Cinema e della Televisione)
Rome, Italy — Film Directing
VIDEO-ART
2022
2021
2020
2019
Performance “Repentance”, Kremlin, Nizhny Novgorod
Performance "Rakurs" (Foreshortening), L'Appartement
Opening performance of the Moscow Museum of Cryptography
Leba’s Concert "Zaresnichnaya Strana», Yarovit Hall Yakimanka
Performance "Big Love", Gogol Center Theater for Mini Cooper
Performance "Mashalava", Pushkin Theater
Ethno show as part of the annual charity evening, Russian-German House of Culture
Performance «Zanos» based on the play by Vladimir Sorokin, Praktika Theater, 2019, winner of the Golden Mask award
EXHIBITIONS
2022
2021
Group exhibition “Wow!”, gallery “Here on Taganka”, Moscow, curated by Ksenia Gorbatyuk
Personal exhibition "Bed-ins for Peace ver.20.22" in the artist's studio, Moscow
Group exhibition of theater artists “Support”, Hydra, Moscow, curators Daria Werner and Evgenia Petrovskaya
PERFORMATIVE PRACTICE:
2018-2019
Performance "MOTHERLAND", The Meyerhold Center, winner of the Golden Mask award
PRESS
2024
2022
2021
2020
Interview for OnStudy and Maria Sedoshenco /read
Review of the performance "Repentance" in the "Petersburg Theater Magazine" /read
Golden Mask, Russian performing arts festival and national theatre award. Performanses "Zanos" and "Motherland"
IN COLLECTIONS:
The paintings are in private collections in New York, Dubai, Moscow, St. Petersburg and Tarusa
LANGUAGES
SOFTWARE
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English (B2)
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Italian (B2)
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Russian (NATIVE)
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Blender (3D)
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Photoshop
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Final Cut
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Resolume