Alina Grasmann

Alina Grasmann is a realist painter whose large-scale, site-specific series blur fact and fiction. Her works are inspired by architecture, literature and film. Each series contains about 10-20 paintings, all based on specific locations. Grasmann researches places and then visits them in real life, recording her experiences and the atmosphere on site. Rather than illustrating existing myths, she aims to create a space for personal association, utilizing the locations as settings for pictorial chamber plays, where new stories unfold. Alina Grasmann was born in Munich, Germany, where she studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in the class of Karin Kneffel. From 2012 to 2013 she was based in Vienna, studying at the University of Applied Arts in the class of Gabriele Rothemann. In 2016 she became  "Meisterschülerin" (a title, traditionally given to the best students in a class at German Art Academies) of Karin Kneffel and graduated with a diploma of the fine arts in Feburary 2017. From 2017 to 2018 Grasmann was based in New York City, where she took part in the artist-in-residence program of the NARS Foundation in Brooklyn. From 2021 to 2022 she was an artist in residence at Rocking S Art Ranch in Phoenix, Arizona and at Fridman Gallery in Beacon, New York. Grasmann's work is most frequently exhibited in Germany and the United States but the artist also has had exhibitions in the UK, Italy and elsewhere. Alina Grasmann lives and works in Munich.