Ellen Semen, born in Hamburg in 1971, studied painting at the Stuttgart Academy of Fine Arts and continued her training in Moscow and Marseille. She has received several scholarships and awards, including the Academy Prize of the Stuttgart Art Academy. Since 1996, she has exhibited in Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Her works, which show a longing for a conflict-free world, are interspersed with unexpected, often unpleasant pictorial elements that challenge the viewer.

Rifaae (Refaayi Ahmad), born in northern Syria, graduated from the FINE ART ACADEMY in Damascus and gained international recognition early on through exhibitions of young Syrian artists, including the Spring series. His works, which combine tradition and modernity, have been exhibited in galleries from Kuwait to Germany. In 2010 and 2011, the National Museum in Damascus honored his art. After fleeing to Austria in 2016, he exhibited in Feldkirchen, Klagenfurt and Vienna and took part in workshops at the Albertina.

Ladislav Černý, born in Bratislava in 1965, received his artistic training at the School of Applied Arts in Bratislava and the Dresden University of Fine Arts, where he graduated with a degree in restoration in 1991. His passion for painting and sculpture was deepened by working with important teachers such as Prof. Hort Jokusch and Prof. Günter Jakob. He has been exhibiting internationally since 1999 and is a member of several artists' associations. Černý is also a sought-after restorer whose works captivate with their monumentality and expressive directness.

Born in Keflavik (Iceland) in 1968, the artist studied journalism and communication science in Salzburg and has lived in Linz since 2000. Her abstract, minimalist works in palette knife technique use light and perspective to create relief-like structures that are constantly changing. Inspired by Icelandic nature, she works with materials such as the ash from the Eyjafjallajökull volcano, which symbolizes transience and transformation.

Cordelia Lehmann-Reinthaller, born in Vienna in 1959, initially worked as a TV presenter and assistant to Prof. Oskar Luksics before studying theater studies, acting and architecture. After the death of her husband in 1999, she turned to ceramics and continued her education in France. Since 1987, she has exhibited in Austria, Italy and Great Britain, and in 2009 she undertook an expedition to Mongolia. In 2017, she began her artistic work as a "wanderer between worlds".

The Spanish artist Aurora CID, a master of sculptural extraction, completes the exhibition. She moved from architectural geometry to natural geometry, affirming the transition from computational geometry to random geometry. The artist oscillates between the geometry of architecture and the geometry of nature, playing with sameness and difference, calculation and chance, continuity and variation, dynamism and tension, thus creating a unique S Extraction the exhibition.

Back in 2019, Tiziana Trezzi presented the exhibition Imprints of life - the female perspective at BURN-IN. The master of chromatology inspires with her surrealist and hyperrealist works. She skillfully conceives formal spaces in evocative paintings and underpins them with expressive messages. Parallels with Frieda Kahlo emerge. Both report on the very personal imprints, the traces of life and those of society on the protagonists. Both describe the beauty, but also the cruelty, from their very personal, female perspective.

Ellen Semen's large-format oil on canvas It's no longer Superman must be here from 2007 describes the current mood in a clear visual language. Full of longing, she flirts with the hero and presents a modern Robin Hood who fights for good and acts as a tireless troubleshooter. If you delve into the character's history, he also reveals himself to be an exponent of the free world during the Cold War - keyword Justice League. What a parallel to the current political situation. There is only one striking difference: the shifting of the blocs.