Xaver Könneker
based in Rotterdam, NL
He is a visual artist, teacher, and researcher who merges cultural theory with photography. His work explores themes such as mortality, identity, and popular culture. Inspired by Lucian Freud’s quote, “The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real,” he focuses on how our social, cultural, and political backgrounds influence both the way we perceive and interpret the world (perception) and what can come into our field of perception (perceivability)
Education
BA of Liberal Arts and Science from University College Maastricht (focus on cultural theory)
MA Photography and Society from Royal Academy of Art, The Hague.
2014- 2017
2020 -
2022
Teaching
Xaver Könneker is currently a lecturer at the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague for the BA Photography Programme.
2022 - now
Recent
Residency at Goethe Institute Rotterdam
Group show GRAW 2023 at SOUP
Group show “Tilting at Windills” at Kunstmuseum Den Haag
2023
2023
2023
Grants & Prizes
Recipient of the Mondriaan Fund for visual arts and cultural heritage
Recipient of the Amarte Visual Art Development Grant
Nominated for Deloitte Photography Development Grant
Nominated for 18th edition of Lions Film Award 2023
Shortlisted for Source Photographic Review Writers Prize
2024
2023
2023
2023
2022
Publications
Article in Dust Magazine #25 The Smile Issue
Front cover of FOAM Magazine #57: In Limbo
Mentioned in British Journal of Photography: Exploring Loss through Photography 2020
2024
2020
2020
2020
2020