ALINA GRASMANN was born in Munich, Germany, in may of 1989, 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 attended a master class led by Karin Kneffel and got her diploma of the fine arts in Feburary 2017. From 2017 to 2018 Alina was based in New York City, where she took part in the artist-in-residence program of the NARS Foundation in Brooklyn. The artist lives and works in Munich.