Xenia Benivolski

Xenia Benivolski is a writer, curator and educator whose work explores how landscape, acoustics, and musical composition contribute to the formation of social and political structures with a particular focus on the study of musical instruments through a material lens. Since 2022 she organizes the digital program YCTM at  e-flux.com  where she commissioned texts, works and performances by artists and musicians including Ryuichi Sakamoto, Felicia Atkinson, Steve Reich and many others. She was a founder and co-director of 8eleven gallery in Toronto from 2013-2017.

Xenia writes about art and music, contributing regularly at Frieze, the Wire, Texte Zur Kunst, and e-flux. In 2022 She co-directed the visual art and music 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 and 2024, she published many commissioned essays and book chapters about visual art, theory and music. Most recently she has lectured at Lund University, Kunsthall Trondheim, Harvard University, the Tate Modern and CCS Bard.