Alina Birkner (b. 1989) is a German painter, living and working in Murnau. In 2016, she received her MFA from the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and received apprenticeship training from Jean-Marc Bustamante.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.
Solo exhibitions include Venusian Song solo show Kenna Xu Gallery, Shenzhen (2023);
Group exhibitions include Future Light / New York Wind group show Kenna Xu Gallery, Shenzhen (2024); Whimsical Reveries group show Tang Yao Gallery, Beijing (2024); West Bund Art & Design, Schanghai, China (2024); Art Shenzhen Fair, Shenzhen, China (2024); Selected group show Kenna Xu Gallery, Shenzhen (2023); Weggefährten group show Studio Alexander Iskin, Various Others, Munich (2023); Stable Friends II group show the Stable, S-Chanf (2023); West Bund Art & Design, Shanghai, China (2023); Art Shenzhen Fair, Shenzhen, China (2023); Jingart Fair, Beijing, China (2023); Glimmer Shrine group show Tang Contemporary, Hong Hong (2022); Paradise Room group show GOODROOM, Berlin (2022); Stable Friends group show Never at Home, Vienna (2022); West Bund Art & Design, Shanghai, China (2022); Shadows group show The Stable, S-Chanf (2021); West Bund Art & Design, Shanghai, China (2021); Art Shenzhen Fair, Shenzhen, China (2021); Jingart Fair, Beijing, China (2021); This is where a Line begins group show Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami (2020); Viennacontemporary, Art Fair, Vienna, Austria (2017); Art Paris Art Fair, Paris, France (2017); Viennacontemporary, Art Fair, Vienna, Austria (2016).