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.
Nino Perrone once again impresses with his works at the BURN-IN Gallery. The Bari-born artist takes his unmistakable pointillism to a new dimension - larger formats, altered worlds of color, an even deeper exploration of nature and light. Particularly noteworthy are the works Atmosfera estiva (1997) and Mediterranea (2021), which condense the Mediterranean attitude to life in vibrant symphonies of color, as well as Organismo vivente (2020), in which his precisely placed dots of color combine to form an organic structure.
Art at the heart of sustainable change.
Tiziana Trezzi, born in Magenta in 1955, was inspired by her mother and experimenting with colors at an early age. After graduating from the Brera Academy in Milan (1977), she successfully exhibited in regional galleries. In 1982, she began working with the gallery owner Mina Ruocco, who presented her work at international art fairs. After a career break from 2000, during which she worked as a designer and teacher, she returned to art with renewed vigor in 2007 following an illness. Her works gained increasing recognition.
Aurora CID, born in Córdoba, Spain, in 1950, has had numerous solo and group exhibitions in Spain, Belgium, Germany and Italy. Her works are represented in museums and collections, including the Antonio Saura Foundation and the Colección Jesús Bárcenas. CID has won several awards and combines nature, mathematics and geometry in her art. In 2017, BURN-IN met the artist at Artfair Málaga and in 2018 she conceived the exhibition Geometric Flow for the BURN-IN GreenART exhibition series. She lives and works in Valdepeñas, south of Madrid.
DG Smalling was born in Oklahoma and grew up in Switzerland, Cameroon and South Africa. His Choctaw heritage, international cultural experiences and artistic training shaped his youth, and he describes the influence of European culture as crucial to his artistic development. After graduating from high school in South Africa, he studied political science at the University of Oklahoma. Today, he works at the Oklahoma Justice Building and is active in organizing the annual Sovereignty Symposium and representing his Choctaw tribe.
Richard Fischer, born in Manila in 1951, has lived in Europe since 1963. He studied economics, art and photography and has worked on international film productions. He has run his own studio for visual concepts and photography since 1978. Fischer is known for his work on endangered floral beauties, which he documents in collaboration with international botanical gardens, using his unique light painting technique. He has been dedicated to sustainability for 20 years and published the illustrated book A Tribute to Flowers.
Susanne Guzei-Taschner, born in Vienna in 1953, studied graphic design at the University of Applied Arts and continued her education with a scholarship abroad at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. A member of the Vienna Künstlerhaus since 1980, she worked for the ORF until 1995 and founded the Mandala Center in Lower Austria in 2002. She is an interdisciplinary artist who works as a painter and textile object artist.