Susanne Guzei-Taschner was born in Vienna in 1953 and studied graphic art under Prof. Oswald Oberhuber at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna from 1974-78 (graduated in 1978). This was followed in 1979 by a scholarship abroad at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow (Poland), the Vienna Art Fund Award and a state scholarship for fine arts. Member of the Vienna Künstlerhaus since 1980. Member of the Professional Association of Austrian Visual Artists since 2017. 1982-1995 worked for ORF Vienna (graphics department). The step into self-employment followed in 1995. 2002 foundation and management of the Mandala Center in Lower Austria.
Since 1978 numerous exhibitions in Austria, Italy, the UK and Poland.
The multi-faceted, interdisciplinary Lower Austrian is a painter and textile object artist. Her complex picture collages, in which she models various fabrics, canvases, jute, nets, cords, driftwood and stones, are inspiring. The sewn pictorial elements lend the works a remarkable plasticity and independence. The experiment plays an important role in Guzei-Taschner's work. Unexpected things often develop during the design process that deviates from the original concept. This freedom and flexibility is based on the artistic flow, which the artist knows how to combine perfectly with craftsmanship. Nature leaves its mark on almost all of her works.
Inspired by her worldwide travels and by the art of indigenous peoples and their shamanic ritual objects, her works express a universal language that allows the viewer to come into contact with deeper levels of being. In this way, the artist interprets and reflects her habitat and preserves it for posterity with a great deal of empathy and magic.
Guzei-Taschner lives and works in Gänserndorf (Lower Austria).