Hannah Kaufmann, born in Graz in 1978, moves between architecture, photography and fine art - a connection that runs through her entire career. After studying architecture in Vienna and Graz, her focus increasingly shifted to artistic processes, which she developed further at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Her graduation in 2024 with distinction is exemplary of her analytical and intuitive approach to art. Her training was complemented by a degree in artistic photography at the Friedl Kubelka School and a formative year abroad in Mexico.
Kaufmann's work has been shown many times, including at Parallel Vienna, Galerie Raum mit Licht, Jan Arnold Gallery, Galerie im Ersten, the Afro-American Institute and the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Her artistic practice was recognized early on: The Schütte-Lihotzky project grant from the BMUKK (2012) recognized her research-based exploration of social space, followed in 2021 by a grant from the Arts and Culture Section of the BMKOES for her photo book on Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky. The consistent combination of theory and practice, documentation and artistic reflection still characterizes her work today.
Living and working in Vienna, Hannah Kaufmann pursues an artistic line that combines analytical structures with poetic precision. Her sense of space and time, her fine powers of observation and her ability to translate everyday movements into artistic concepts make her work a multi-layered examination of perception and memory in contemporary art.