Daniel Burkhardt was born in 1977 in Bochum, Germany. He studied audio-visual media at the media art department, Kunsthochschule für Medien in Cologne (KHM). Since 1998 he has developed and produced a variety of experimental videos, video concerts and installations. As a young artist, he has won several German Video Art Awards. In 2008, digital sparks award was granted to him in public at European Media Art Festival by Fraunhofer-Institut IAIS and Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, Germany. He also won the 13. Marl Video-Art Award in 2008. In 2006, he got the Special Prize of 12. Marl Video Art Award. In 2007, he won the Jury's award of 15. Festival für Video und Film, Bochum. In the same year, his works got the Special Mention to attend the KunstFilmBiennale Cologne. In addition, he has also participated in many international art exhibitions in Europe and Asia such as in Korea, Japan, and Taiwan. His work was also displayed in German Pavilion at Shanghai World Expo this year. As a young artist, he has already had a lot of experience in international exhibitions.
 
The video works of Daniel Burkhardt are often drawn from travels and daily life. The  pictures are very light, very empty, and therefore almost invisible. They are recorded in public spaces and show interchangeable urban situations or scenes of natural settings such as a forest of white birches or the breaking of waves at a lonesome coast.  These locations have no specific historical background, but are perceived by the artist himself. Altogehter they are forming an archive of personal experience.
 
The artist uses his collected material for reduction, extraction and conversion. The documentary fragments were processed into imaginative, flexible and subjective pictures. He extended their time in order to make these moving images display a more subtle effect of space under the constraints of time. The displayed works are moving images with a special relation of time and space and they have a combined effect between senses and reasons.