Lavinia Xausa was born in 1992 in Bassano del Grappa, Italy. She studied at the faculty of Literature and Philosophy in Bologna where she earned her bachelor's degree with honors in Visual culture and media studies in 2015. In 2017 she accomplished her master’s degree in photography at AKV St. Joost in the Netherlands.
She works, lives and struggles to learn Dutch in Rotterdam.
The center of her artistic practice consists in applying semiotics and sacred art research to an ongoing, participatory art practice, by involving groups of people on self-analysis and auto-recognition of their own role in history.
In 2021 she won the RTM Film Pitch awarded by IFFR for her project Truly, Madly, Deeply about Feyenoord identity. In 2020 she was selected for the HCA year program as artist in residence at Roodkapje (Rotterdam, NL). In 2019 she achieved the Stipendium for emerging Artists by the Mondriaan Fund. Her works have been shown at International Film Festival Rotterdam, Noorderlicht International Photography Festival, (Groningen, NL), Organ Vida (Zagreb, HR) and at TENT and Lantaren Venster (Rotterdam, NL).
Email: Lavinia.x@live.it
Instagram: lavinia_xausa
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Education
2015 - 2017 | MA, Photography, AKV | St. Joost, The Netherlands
2014 | BA Erasmus in Art and Media studies, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany 2011 - 2015 | BA in Visual culture and media studies (Cum Laude), Bologna, Italy 2012 | Certificate, Digital Photography, Spazio Labò, Bologna, Italy
Selected Exhibitions
Solo
2022 | Truly, Madly, Deeply, Roodkapje, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2020-2021 | Further than Hip Hop for Joined narratives, Tent, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2016 | Who the heck is Benjamin?, St. Oberlholz Ballroom, Berlin, Germany
Group
2022 | RTM Program, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2021 | (R)oma, Stedelijk Museum, Breda, The Netherlands
2021 | Prospects, Van Nelle Fabriek, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2020 | With open arms, Roodkapje, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2020 | Generation Z, Noorderlicht Festival, Museum Belvedere, Heerenveen, The Netherlands
2020 | Through the looking glass, Garage Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2020 | Blind spot, Roodkapje, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2020 | Covid Room, Online
2020 | Woulda, Shoulda, Coulda, Roodkapje, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2019 | Binge at Fringe, Brakkere Ground, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2019 | Time Window Testival, Time Window, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2018 | Hubbub le Scope, Borderline, Palermo, Italy
2018 | Open Doek Festival, Lantaren Venster, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2018 | Hubbub le Scope, Elektro Arts festival, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
2018 | Testival, Time Window, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2017 | Hubbub Le Scope, Wolf Art project space, Rotterdam 2017 | Really Real, Organ Vida, Zagreb, Croatia
2017 | Really Real, Roodkapje, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2016 | There is something about my family, EYE Film Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Residencies and grants
2021 | Post-production subsidy, Gemeente Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2021 | Research and development grant, CBK Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2021 | Winner RTM Film Pitch, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2021 | Makers Loket, Droom en Daad, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2020 | Music Production support, Popunie, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2020 | Production support, Amarte Fund, The Netherlands
2020 | Tijdelijke Werkbijdrage Productie, Presentatie en Research, CBK, Rotterdam
2019 - 2020 | One year residency at HCA, Roodkapije, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2019 | Stipendium for Emerging Artists, Mondriaan Fund, The Netherlands
2019 | Community in residency, Fringe, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2018 | Regeling Incidentele Bijdrage Buitenland, CBK Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2018 | Research and development grant, CBK Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2018 | Re:vive initiative, Beeld en Geluid Archief, The Netherlands
2017 | 1 month Foundation B.A.D., Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2017 | 1 week 168H Project, Remote Web, The Netherlands
2016 | 2 months Residency Derivé, Beius Foundation, Berlin, Germany
Publications
2019 | Catalogue Open Studio Borgerstraat, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2018 | Catalogue Open Studio Borgerstraat, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2018 | Conversas Rotterdam, Series 101-110, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2018 | Conversas Rotterdam, Issue #1, Berlin, Germany