Artist Statement

My work explores forms, organisms, and imagined landscapes that emerge through the interaction of two visual systems: a precise language built through digital drawing and a spontaneous language introduced through painting.

Using lines and dots, I construct structures that repeat, evolve, and transform. In dialogue with them, paint introduces atmosphere, materiality, and unpredictability. As these systems interact, they influence one another, giving rise to forms that exist between the organic and the constructed.

The edition works present these forms as integrated entities in which both systems become inseparable. In the original works, they continue to evolve through atmosphere and gesture, as if shaped by the environments they inhabit.

My practice approaches coexistence as a reflection on life itself: the ways people, systems, and environments influence one another and become part of something larger. Through abstraction, I explore emergence, interdependence, and continuous change.

Bio

Olga Burkard is a Swiss-Mexican visual artist based in Geneva. Her work explores the coexistence of two visual systems: a precise digital language and a spontaneous painted language. Through their interaction, new forms emerge that evoke living systems, organic structures, and imagined environments in continuous transformation.

She studied Graphic Design at Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City and completed postgraduate studies in design at the Basel School of Design. Before dedicating herself fully to her artistic practice in 2024, she developed an international career in design and art direction across Switzerland and Mexico.

Her work has been exhibited in Switzerland and the United States and is part of private collections in several countries. She is a member of Visarte Switzerland and is represented by Mabe Gallery in Geneva and EDNA Contemporary in California.

Selected Exhibitions and Features

Representation

  • Mabe Gallery — Geneva, Switzerland
  • EDNA Contemporary — California, USA

Solo Exhibitions

  • 2026 — Galería Claroscuro, Mexico City (July)
  • 2026 — Galerie Katapult, Basel (June-July)

Selected Group Exhibitions

  • 2026 — SGBK Group Exhibition, Switzerland (July)
  • 2026 — Summer #1, FLOW Art Space, Basel
  • 2026 — Spring #1, FLOW Art Space, Basel
  • 2025 — Winter #1, FLOW Art Space, Basel
  • 2025 — Christmas Exhibition, Galerie Katapult, Basel
  • 2025 — Summer #2, FLOW Art Space, Basel
  • 2025 — Summer #1, FLOW Art Space, Basel (during Art Basel)
  • 2025 — Spring #1, FLOW Art Space, Basel
  • 2025 — Global Horizons IV, Artio Gallery (Online)
  • 2025 — Viva le Printemps!, Mabe Gallery, Geneva
  • 2025 — Art Awakening, Galerie Calabro, Zurich
  • 2025 — Whisper of the Garden, Open Call for Artists (Virtual Exhibition)
  • 2024 — Winter Show, Mabe Gallery, Geneva

Selected Press & Features

  • Wall/Pepper® — 2026 Catalogue (Italy): Two artworks selected and adapted into wallpaper designs for the Wall/Pepper® international wallpaper collection.
  • Curatory Magazine — Artist feature, Volume 13, 2025
  • Curatory Magazine — Interview, “Olga Burkard”, 2025
  • Arts to Hearts Magazine — Artist feature, Issue 11, 2025
  • Arts to Hearts Project — Artist Interview, “Olga Burkard paints through dots & lines”, 2026
  • AATONAU — Abstract Worlds Born of Thread and Thought, June 2025
  • Artmosphere Magazine — Issue 36, pp. 22–23
  • New & Abstract — Interview, “Five Questions to Olga Burkard”
  • BaselLive — Coverage of Galerie Katapult Christmas Exhibition, Basel
  • Basler Zeitung (BaZ) — Mention of participation in Galerie Katapult Christmas Exhibition
  • L’Art à Genève — Mention of Viva le Printemps!, Mabe Gallery
  • Open Call for Artists — Interview, Meet Olga Burkard: An Artist Who Found Healing Through 200 Days of Art

Education

  • Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW, Switzerland — Postgraduate Studies in Graphic Design
  • Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City — Bachelor’s in Graphic Design

Professional Background (Design)

Prior to focusing full-time on her artistic practice, Olga Burkard worked internationally in design and art direction in Switzerland and Mexico.

Professional Memberships

  • Visarte Switzerland
  • SGBK (Swiss Society of Women Artists)

Additional Information

  • Nationality: Swiss / Mexican
  • Languages: English, Spanish, German (fluent), French (intermediate)