ALINA SCHMUCH
Starting from photography and its extension in the medium of film, Alina Schmuch (*1987) develops artist books and video installations. She studied media art at the HfG Karlsruhe and was part of the postgraduate program at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht. Her work has been shown in exhibitions, screenings or lectures at ZKM Karlsruhe (2018) and Museum Folkwang Essen (2017), among others, and internationally at MAK Center Los Angeles (2017) or (together with Forensic Architecture) at the 15th Architecture Biennale (2016). In 2014, her artist’s book Script of Demolition was published by Spector Books, Leipzig.
In 2021 she received the 27th Videokunst Förderpreis Bremen and the scholarship Junge Szene of the Kunststiftung NRW.
From January to March 2022, Alina Schmuch was a resident in the program Zu Gast at Urbane Künste Ruhr in Essen. Until November 20, 2022, the work »Amphibian Paths« can be seen at the Museums Böttcherstraße in Bremen.