Xenia Gottenkieny

painting - audiovisual

Xenia Gottenkieny
Multidisciplinary artist. Living and working in Rotterdam (NL)

In her artistic practice Xenia Gott prefers an intuitive approach when she captures her random (online) impressions into figurative collage sketches ..
Influenced by shape, color and rhythm Xenia combines layer upon layer with drawings, texts, and magazine snippets.
She's found this randomized method appeals to her imagination and works well with the fragmentary manner in which she paints her stories on canvas.

Some recurring themes in her works are: society, city & struggle.

Exhibitions / performances: Art Blaak House, W139, Melkweg gallery 'Graukunst', Paradiso, Incubate festival, Liberation festival, Route du Nord, Photo festival Schiedam, Worm, Roodkapje, Municipality of Rotterdam, See Me (Times Square, NY), HAFF ..

Co-Founder of non-profit organization Plus-X-Creative (2013).
Its main aim: to play an active and supporting role in providing a platform for creative empowerment.

  • Portfolio
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    • – infinite lines

    Project

    • 28-10-2020 t/m 28-02-2021
    • In collaboration with: Meshprintclub, Manfred Gstrein
    • Location: Online (streaming), PXC Studio, Rotterdam, The Hague, Tilburg, Paris, Portsmouth
    • During recordings of her 2nd album, Xenia will conduct research into multidisciplinary collaboration via online platforms such as Ohm and Upstage. Objective: to examine optimal online collaboration during the corona pandemic. What are useful tools? What do online platforms have to offer? During this trajectory artists will share their experiences (and live streaming performances) on a regular basis in a blog.. Album release date: February 2021
    • http://www.plus-x-creative.com

    Pop up platform Bieute

    Residencies / exchange

    • 01-08-2019
    • In collaboration with: Woodstone Kugelblitz
    • Location: Europe, Coulanges (Fr), Rotterdam
    • International pop-up meeting place where creatives and local residents playfully and creatively investigate how major environmental problems affect the 'small' rural / urban life and what the possible scenarios of impact and reaction are. First edition took place at the 'Residency for the End of Time' in Coulanges (France) in August 2019.
    • http://www.plus-x-creative.com/platform-bieute

    Fake Photo Booth

    Project

    • 26-12-2014
    • Location:, Rotterdam
    • An experimental performance/installation project where photos are taken of visitors in front of a green screen. With the help of photo editing these persons are then placed in a new setting. This can be an exotic location or a dream world. Anything is possible. Fake Photobooth tries to stimulate the public to participate in the creative process. Through Fake Photobooth Gottenkieny offers a stage where multiple disciplines can come together and new forms of cooperation can arise.
    • http://www.plus-x-creative.com/fpb

    Acknowledgments

      Pricing

    • UWV art congress, 1st prize. Presentation at Kröller-Müller Museum

    • 2011
      Publication

    • Help, we're popular!

    • 2016
    • book (illustration)
    • NAI010 - Fresh Concrete
      Publication

    • Gonzo (Circus)

    • BE/NL Music Magazine (illustrations)
    • Gonzo Circus vzw in collaboration with Virtùmedia BV - Gonzo (Circus)
      Publication

    • Don't Watch This Movie

    • 2013
    • Docudrama (music, sound FX and artwork)
    • Lopez Carlos Productions - Lopez Carlos Productions
      Publication

    • 8 (Xenia)

    • 2018
    • Album (music, production, artwork)
    • Plus-X-Creative - Xenia Gottenkieny
      Publication

    • We are the world (Drops)

    • 2016
    • Album (vocals, synthesizer)
    • Published in-house - Droppings band
      Publication

    • X-enia '8'

    • 2018
    • NTB magazine 'Music world', album review
    • Kunstenbond/NTB - NTB
      Publication

    • Graukunst in Schunck: attacking extremes

    • 2014
    • Article, exhibition review
    • Harry Prenger - Harry Prenger
      Publication

    • l'Intolerance

    • 2019
    • magazine (illustration)
    • Woodstone Kugelblitz - Woodstone Kugelblitz
      Publication

    • X-enia

    • 2018
    • Article, interview
    • Pop Union - Pop Union