Alina Grasmann is a realist painter whose large-scale, site-specific series blur fact and fiction. Her works are inspired by her travels, architecture, film, and literature. 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 through photographs.

Drawn to the narratives of each place, the sites become chamber play-like stages for reflections on memory, identity, and transience, inviting viewers to step inside and become part of the scene. Rather than illustrating existing myths about a place, she aims to create spaces for association in which new stories can emerge.

Grasmann lives and works in Munich, Germany, having studied at the prestigious Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. Grasmann’s work has been exhibited at several museums in Germany, including Pinakothek der Moderne München, Kunstverein München, Brühler…