Xenia Benivolski is a writer, curator and educator. Since 2022 she has been organizing the digital program YCTM at e-flux.com where she commissioned texts, works and performances by Ryuichi Sakamoto, Sung Tieu, Felicia Atkinson, Nicolas Jaar, Steve Reich, and others. In Toronto, she was the director of SUGAR, and a founder of the 8eleven project gallery. Xenia writes about art and music, contributing regularly at Artforum, the Wire, and e-flux. In 2022 She co-directed the residency “The weapon of theory as a conference of the birds” with Ayesha Hameed, Suzanne Kite and Jota Mombaça at the Banff Centre for the Arts. In 2023, she published a number of commissioned essays and book chapters about visual art, theory and music at PUBLICS,Triple Ampersand and UBC. She teaches Curatorial Practice in the graduate department of OCAD University, Art Theory at York University, and is a research affiliate with Max Haiven’s RiVAL lab project “Worker as Futurist ” at Lakehead University.
Curator Xenia Benivolski looks at the work of Zanis Waldheims (1909–1993), a self-taught Latvian artist who lived in exile in Canada and spent most of his life on a series of about six hundred geometrically abstract drawings. Benivolski considers the thinking behind Waldheims’s work and its meaning in terms of exile, diaspora, and art historical…
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