Alina Niedermark

I was born in Moers, Germany, in 1993. As a child I loved playing with friends, being outside, being wild, but at the same time I always had a very quiet, withdrawn nature. As soon as I could read, I sank into books and fantasy worlds. Early on I sought self-expression through writing, drawing and painting.
At a young age, I crafted the wildest, endlessly thick books, wrote countless stories in them, created worlds and characters and glued unthinkable things onto these pages: Leaves and flowers - fresh from the garden -, glitter, stickers, sand, stones, fabrics and figures, liquids sealed in foil, bird seed. I painted as much as I could, I believed in elves and fairies and magic and the reality of dreams, I believed in a parallel existence of all these worlds, and today I think that all of that was an attempt to somehow grasp my very rich, deep inner self and make it tangible for others. Further down the line, my fascination with the complex was partly mirrored by my constant interest in the unconscious and the desire to gain an intense access to it. I noticed my pronounced ability to empathize and also observed that my intuition became increasingly stronger and astonishing the more authentically I was connected with myself and the...

From an early age I was very interested in creativity and art, which only increased as I grew up, so I decided that I wanted to pursue this path professionally. When I was 20 years old, I began studying art at the Alanus University near Bonn, Germany. In 2016, I completed my Bachelor’s degree and in 2018, I finished my Master’s degree in Art Therapy.