Xenia Hahonina was born in Malinovka (Sibiria), USSR and moved to Slovenia in 1993. Her first work was exhibited in 1994 in Studio VIVO.
In 1995 and 1996 she attended the 1st and 2nd Ceramic and Pottery Fair in Ljubljana. In 1996 she attended Pottery Fair in Paderborn, Germany. In 1997 she won a prize for a participant below the age of thirty on Zagreb’s Triennial Exhibition Of Small Ceramics. She participated in International Ceramics Fair in Klagenfurt, Austria in 2002 and a Croatian exhibition ‘Vases For Flowers’.
In 2003 she finished her Master Degree in Journalism from Faculty Of Social Science, University of Ljubljana.
In 2005 the Journalists’ Association of Slovenia awarded her Consortium Veritatis Journalist Award for working in Mladina in 2005. Since 2006 she works and lives in London, UK.