Maria Bussmann was born in 1966 in Würzburg, Germany. From 1987 to 1993, she studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg, followed by a doctorate in art and philosophy at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna in 1999. From 2002 to 2004, she was a visiting scholar at the State University of New York as an Erwin Schrödinger Fellow. She has been a member of the Vienna Secession since 2010. The artist works primarily in the medium of drawing at the interface of art and philosophy, of word and image, of thoughts and their visualisation. Bussmann’s oeuvre, who prefers to work in large picture cycles, is rooted in the philosophies of Baruch Spinoza, Maurice Merleau-Ponty or Hannah Arendt. At the same time, she creates fragile mini ready-mades from paper, paint and glue, which usually have a landscape-related content: Glaciers, waterfalls or forests. The artist, who has had numerous national and international exhibitions, lives and works as an artist, curator and author in Vienna and New York.