Xenia Toth

My creative work focuses mainly on video art, textile art, installations and performances. My constant theme is self-discovery, our struggles with ourselves and our society. In natural and artificial spaces, through the representation of the human body, I try to depict the inner tensions of our society, I am preoccupied with transformation as an experiment in materiality and illusion. Transformation, experiencing the familiar from a different perspective. I like to draw on classical and modern art historical antecedents, the theme of the works is transformation or even disguise. I express relationships with art as a whole, in a way that as moving paintings, another medium is detached from the plane one is endowed with visual space. My figures reflect on social and individual situations, rush and the struggle with time, where anxiety and the desire to conform prevail. An attempt to escape from the "routine", to modify "public" moods by transforming them. Visuality is meant to represent rigidity, the physical appearance of the person, the soul hidden behind physicality. For me, the sense of confinement is the -sculpture entity that feels separate from its wearer, and the panic when it experiences repeated confinement. The embodiment ...

(2016-2021) Magyar Képzőművészeti Egyetem, Festőművész szak, Budapest, Magyarország
(2020/2021) Erasmus in Accademia di Belle Arti, Szobrászat, Macerata, Olaszország
(2019) Erasmus in Akademie der Bildende Künste, Festőművész szak, Nürnberg, Németország
(2011-2012) Zichy Mihály Iparművészeti Gimnázium, Animációkészítő szak, Kaposvár, Magyarország
(2005-2011) Zichy Mihály Iparművészeti Gimnázium, Textiltervező szak, Kaposvár, Magyarország

I had solo shows titled NEAR ME performance, Budapest Fashion Week, Budapest, Hungary (2022); SOAP EXPEDITION, skin tone change, Performance, Budapest, Hungary (2020); GENERAL FEARS, Balatoni Múzeum, Keszthely, Hungary (2020); ANOTHER FASHION, Balaton Színház, Keszthely, Simándy room, Hungary (2016). LIFE ON IMAGES, Városi Könyvtár, Keszthely, Hungary (2015); DRESS WITH XÉNIA, Balaton Színház, Simándy room, Keszthely, Hungary (2013). PAINTINGS AND COSTUMES, Művház, Keszthely, Hungary (2012). COLORS, Golden Caffe, Innsbruck, Austria (2012)



I participates in the group; MOM PARK POP UP ART FAIR, MOM Park,Budapest, HU(2022); GODOT ART EXPÓ, Budapest, Godot ICA, Budapest, HU(2022); CSEH TAMÁS exhibition, Budavári Önkormányzat, Budapest, HU(2022); IN MEMORIAM HENRI MATISSE, Kortárs Galéria, Tatabánya, HU (2022); 11. GROTESZK Triennálé, Vaszary Képtár,Kaposvár, HU (2022); 11. GROTESZK Triennálé, Műcsarnok Budapest, HU, (2022); 2057-SZEMÉLYES UTÓPIÁK, MANK, Szentendre,HU, (2022); FINISSAGE, Balatoni Múzeum, Keszthely, Hungary, (2022); THE UNSEEN, The Holy Art Gallery, Virtual Exhibition, London, United Kingdom, MAGAM MÖGÖTT HAGYOM, Mersz Klub, Budapest, Hungary (2022); AZ ANDRÁSSY ÚTTÓL A MÚZEUM UTCÁIG, Balatoni Múzeum, Keszthely, ...