Olga Burkard

Artist Statement

I work between pixels and paint. My practice reflects a duality that runs through my life: Swiss and Mexican roots, the daughter of a tailor and a scientist, trained as a designer in Mexico City and Basel.

I am drawn to the dialogue between opposites: digital and handmade, geometric and organic, intuition and structure. My work begins with the most basic elements—lines, dots, and shapes—that I repeat, distort, and layer into complex systems, echoing the shifting patterns and connections of nature and daily life.

Much of my recent work is hybrid—hand-drawn digital elements combined with layers of paint. I also explore each medium on its own to distill their essential qualities. For me, pixels and paint are not opposites but companions: a way to bring tenderness and presence into the digital space, where the human hand can still be felt, and to project a vision of a future where technology and humanity coexist in harmony.

Olga Burkard

Bio

Olga Burkard is a Swiss-Mexican artist whose work explores the dialogue between pixels and paint.

Born and raised in Mexico and now based in Geneva, she creates abstract compositions that balance the geometric and the organic, the digital and the handmade. Her work begins with elemental forms that evolve through repetition, layering, and transformation, echoing the systems and connections that shape both nature and human life.

Olga studied graphic design at the Ibero-American University in Mexico City and completed postgraduate studies at the Schule für Gestaltung Basel. Before dedicating herself fully to art, she built a long international career in design and art direction.

Since 2024 she has worked full-time as an artist, projecting through her practice a vision of a future where technology and humanity coexist in harmony. Her work is represented by Mabe Gallery in Geneva and by EDNA Contemporary in San Luis Obispo, California, and is held in private collections in over ten countries.

Selected Exhibitions & Features

Gallery Representation

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

Upcoming Group Exhibitions | 2025

  • Summer#2: FLOW Art Space, Basel, August 2025
  • Group Exhibition: Mabe Gallery, Geneva, September 2025
  • Group Exhibition: Galerie Katapult, Basel, December 2025

Group Exhibitions | 2025

  • Summer#1, FLOW Art Space, Basel (during Art Basel)
  • Global Horizons IV, Artio Gallery (Online)
  • Viva le Printemps!, Mabe Gallery, Geneva
  • Art Awakening, Galerie Calabro, Zurich

Group Exhibitions | 2024

  • Winter Show, Mabe Gallery, Geneva

Featured

  • Open Call for Artists, Interview, “Meet Olga Burkard: An Artist Who Found Healing Through 200 Days of Art”, 2025
  • AATONAU, Abstract Worlds Born of Thread and Thought, June 2025
  • L’Art à Genève, Viva le Printemps!, Mabe Gallery, 2025
  • Artmosphere Magazine, Issue Nr. 36, pp. 22–23
  • New & Abstract, Interview, “Five Questions to Olga Burkard”

Education

  • 1989–1991: Weiterbildung Grafik (Advanced Training in Graphic Design), Schule für Gestaltung Basel
  • 1984–1988: Bachelor’s in Graphic Design, Ibero-American University, Mexico City

Background

Olga Burkard is a Swiss-Mexican artist who began working full-time as a visual artist in 2023, after a long international career in design and art direction. Until March 2024, she worked as a full-time designer.

Other Details

  • Nationalities: Swiss and Mexican
  • Languages: English (Fluent), Spanish (Fluent), German (Fluent), French (Intermediate)