Art exhibition featuring works by artist Xenia Fink, October 30, 2026, through January 15, 2027, at the "tisch" Café & Coworking Space in Schwerin; opening reception: October 29, 6:30 p.m.
ON A SMALL SCALE with Xenia Fink
Exhibition at tisch – Café, Coworking, Events
Dates: October 30, 2026 – January 15, 2027
Opening Reception: October 29, 2026, 6:30 p.m.
Address: Wittenburger Str. 16 a/b | 19053 Schwerin
Hours: Monday–Friday, 10:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m.
Project Directors: Annekathrin Siems / Karen Obenauf
Curated by: Annekathrin Siems
Exhibition Series at tisch – Café, Coworking, Event
In 2025, an exhibition series titled IM KLEINEN RAHMEN launched at tisch in Schwerin, a space that combines a café, coworking space, and event venue. Upon entering, café visitors are greeted by contemporary art displayed on a wall spanning over six meters. At a time when encountering and engaging with art seems essential and deserves a special place in our daily lives, tisch creates a space where art meets everyday life, where colors enhance the coffee experience, where interplay of forms inspires work, and where artistic intentions flow into conversations. Every visit becomes a personal enrichment.
The exhibition series IM KLEINEN RAHMEN was initiated by art historian and curator Annekathrin Siems and illustrator and art director Karen Obenauf.
CONTACT
Project Directors: Annekathrin Siems | Karen Obenauf
Curation: Annekathrin Siems
hello@imkleinenrahmen.art
XENIA FINK
ARTIST STATEMENT
Xenia Fink uses the medium of representation—the figurative—to explore recurring motifs and discover new interpretations. Her artistic practice is rooted in drawing and, in addition to works on paper and Tyvek, includes installations, textile works, and animations.
Her drawings consist almost exclusively of lines that can be distinguished individually. Up close, her distinctive style is evident: the lines swell and recede, wind around one another, and condense, thereby taking on a concrete form.
In her current works, she uses drapery, decorative ornamentation, and hair to highlight, on the one hand, how these motifs are gendered—that is, perceived as feminine—and, on the other hand, to illustrate how arbitrary this categorization is. These forms take on a life of their own and become more abstract; at times, it becomes unclear whether lines are curving inward or outward. The folds become bodies. She feels most at home in this space between representation, metaphor, and dissolution, and this is where she situates her work.
BIOGRAPHY
• Studied communication design with a focus on illustration at Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle and in Hamburg (Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, HAW), graduating with a diploma.
• Berlin University of the Arts, studied Fine Arts, graduated in 2009 as a master’s student
• Bauhaus University Weimar, PhD program in Art and Design, to be completed in 2025.
As part of her research, she has been publishing in the field of queer-feminist art history since 2020
• Worked as a university instructor from 2017 to 2025, including at the Berlin University of the Arts, Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences, Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle, and the Bauhaus University Weimar, with a focus on drawing.
• Residencies at the scp in New York (2011) and Axeneo 7 in Gatineau (Quebec), Canada.
• Various grants, including from the Saxony-Anhalt Art Foundation, the bbk Federal Association, the German Artists’ Association, and a doctoral fellowship from the State of Thuringia.
• Since 2010, solo exhibitions at galleries in Berlin, art associations in Dessau, Coburg, and Leipzig, and exhibition venues in Halle; jointly with Claudia Rößger at Weltecho in Chemnitz, Galerie Bohai in Hanover, and the art associations in Norden and Zirndorf. Solo exhibitions abroad in León (Mexico), Miami, Baku, and this year in Vienna. With the collective Republic of the Other in Ottawa.
• Group exhibitions over the past 5 years: Schleswig-Holstein Haus, Motorenhalle Dresden, Kunststiftung Sachsen-Anhalt, Kunsthaus Erfurt, Museum Reinickendorf in Berlin, and Kunstverein Baden in Austria.
• Upcoming exhibitions in 2027 at the Kunsthaus Salzwedel and in Innsbruck.
• Living in the Mecklenburg Lake District since 2025.
CONTACT
www.xeniafink.de | IG: xeniafink
