Alina Maria Birkner
* 1989, Munich
2010 - 2016 Academy of Fine Arts Munich
Lives and works in Munich, Germany
Selected Exhibitions
2019
-"Jahresgaben" Kunstverein München
-"Primordial Synthetic" group show Ambacher Contemporary, München
-"Chroma" group show, WIP Gallery, Beirut
2018
-"Spectrum" solo show NDC Art, Knokke, Belgium
- "Sirens“ group show This Orient Magazine, München
- "In Search Of" group show VSOP Projects, New York
- "Hyperland" group show the Orange Garden, Rome
2017
-"The Power of the Line", group show Art Encounters Biennale, Jecza Gallery, Timisoara
- "3000 Years Rhadamanthys Foundation" group show easy!upstream, München
- "Finir en beauté" group show Galerie der Künstler, München
2016
- " cosmic love / rosy dawn" solo show Miranda Kuo Gallery, New York
- "I'm a rainbow,too" solo show curated by Rosali Wiesheu, Centercourt Gallery
- "Diplom 2016" Akademie der bildenden Künste München
2015
- "recommended by" group show at easy!upstream München
-"Good for nothing (cracks in the mirror)" group show at Goodroom Munich
- "Jahresausstellung" Akademie der bildenden Künste München
Art Fairs
Viennacontemporary 2017
Art Paris Art Fair 2017
Viennacontemporary 2016
Press // Interviews
Artist Statement
In her work, Alina Birkner explores the interaction of colour and light, perception and the effects both have on the viewer. Gradients and colors melt together softly, creating shimmers, through which it seems as if the colour is freed from the canvas's materiality, developing a life of its own. Pulsating, contracting, expanding - sometimes calming, at other times unsettling, it challenges the observers visual habits. Rainbows, after images, blurring - visual phenomena like these are dealt with in her paintings, that are created in careful application of many layers of diluted acrylic paint, resulting in a weightless luminosity. She often works in series, which gives her the opportunity to explore and vary a wider spectrum of color combinations, whilst leaving the composition unchanged. Painting here serves as a means of communication for questions that can not be answered on an intellectual level, but can only be dealt with through conscious or subliminal experience.
Alina Birkner