Alex Grein
Alex Grein (*1983) studied at the University of Applied Sciences Düsseldorf (2004-2010) and at the Düsseldorf Art Academy as a Meisterschülerin of Andreas Gursky (2010-2016). Since 2018, Alex Grein has been Assistant Professor and researcher in the department of art with a focus on digital photography at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne. She has won several prizes and grants including Kunststiftung NRW and KunstSalon Cologne. Her work has been exhibited, amongst others, at the NRW-Forum Düsseldorf, Spinnerei Leipzig, and KIT - Kunst im Tunnel Düsseldorf. Alex Grein is represented in private and public collections, including the DZ Bank Art Collection, the Kunsthaus NRW Collection and Philara Collection.
Link: www.alexgrein.de
Alex Grein: Falling, Archival Pigment Print, 70x46 cm, 2019
Alex Grein uses either found film footage or material that she has photographed herself with her smart phone. She then places miniature models of everyday objects (such as custom-made model glasses or similar) on the phone’s screen, on top of the images she has created or found. This ensemble is finally photographed in high-resolution and printed out as an inkjet-print. In the final image, the scaled-down objects seem to be actual fragments of the originally photographed space, and appear to hover there, peculiarly. Grein uses this approach to address „augmented reality“ visualisations with mostly simple, analog-digital, low-tech tools. While following a classical-documentary approach that is photographic in nature, her working process raises questions about the digital realm.
Text: Michael Reisch
Alex Grein: Rolling, Archival Pigment Print, 120x90 cm, 2019, Courtesy: Galerie Gisela Clement, Bonn
