Since the 1990s, Katharina Grosse has built up a repertoire consisting of large painted canvasses and bright acrylic colours sprayed onto both interior and exterior walls, ceilings and floors. It is a way of working related to Color Field Painting and Abstract Expressionism, between Impressionism and graffiti, performance, process and installation art. She investigates the limits of painting by using different concepts belonging to contemporary and traditional artistic expression, in which making and presenting paintings continues to occupy an important place.
The spray gun and the spray can are the tools that Grosse employs. Canvasses, strips of paper, walls and ceilings, as well as organic materials and objects are her supports. Re-use is central to Grosse’s work, so that the development of her ideas becomes visible and transparent. This accessibility ensures that the viewer becomes part of the painting process, as he has to immediately look for points of contact and to reconstruct the different parts from which Grosse’s narrative installations are constructed.
Dressed from head to foot in protective white overalls and wearing a mask, gloves and earplugs, Grosse looks like a scientist making tests in a laboratory or a member of a team clearing up after a toxic disaster when you see her at work. It has little in common with the traditional way of painting but everything that is characteristic of painting - light, colour, composition, texture and painterly treatment - also underlies her art practice. These impressive works bring painting back to its essence: the applying of pure colour onto a surface. By repainting, removing and relocating parts, the dynamism of the working process is revealed. The complex works possess a large degree of drama. Sometimes they are light and airy, but more often they are dark and destructive. There is always more to discover: Grosse’s unorthodox work deserves to be viewed meticulously. The detail demands just as much attention as the whole that obtains a three-dimensional dimension. Her paintings run effortlessly from wall to ceiling or floor, bending round corners of adjacent surfaces. You are literally standing in the middle of a painting.
Katharina Grosse was born in 1961. She studied from 1986 till 1990 at the Düsseldorfer Akademie. Since 2000 she has been teaching at the Kunsthochschule in Berlin-Wiessensee. Grosse lives and works in Berlin and Düsseldorf. She has completed numerous installations around the world in museums and other public environments including De Appel Centre for Contemporary Art, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX; Magasin 3, Stockholm, Sweden; White Cube, London, UK; UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA and the Toronto Airport, Canada.
Her works are represented in public and private collections such as those of the Centre Pompidou, Paris, France, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, the Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland and the Kunstsammlung NRW, Düsseldorf, Germany.
Works by the artist were recently acquired by the Centre Pompidou, Paris, France, the Kunsthalle, Kiel, Germany, the Kunstmuseum, Bern, Switzerland and the Museu Serralves in Portugal.
SELECT RECENT SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2024
'Katharina Grosse: Déplacer les étoiles' (Shifting the Stars), Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France (6/1/2024 - 2/24/2025)
'Katharina Grosse: The Super Eight', Galerie Max Hetzler Marfa, Marfa, TX (5/9 - 12/8)
'Katharina Grosse Studio Paintings, 1988–2022: Returns, Revision, Inventions', Kunstmuseum, Bonn, Germany (4/25 - 9/1)
2023
'Katharina Grosse: Warum Drei Töne Kein Dreieck Bilden (Why Three Tones Do Not Form a Triangle)', Albertina Museum, Vienna, Austria
'Katharina Grosse: Touching How and Why and Where', Gagosian Gallery, Central, Hong Kong
'Katharina Grosse Studio Paintings, 1988–2022: Returns, Revision, Inventions', Kunstmuseum, Bern, Switzerland
2022
'Katharina Grosse: Canyon' (commission), Fondation Louis Vutton, Paris, France
'Katharina Grosse Studio Paintings, 1988–2022: Returns, Revision, Inventions', Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
'Katharina Grosse: Destroy Me Once, Destroy Me Twice' (commission), Roskilde Festival, Roskilde, Denmark
'Katharina Grosse: Apollo, Apollo', Espace Louis Vutton Venezia, Venice, Italy
'Katharina Grosse: Wolke in Form eines Schwertes (Cloud in the Form of a Sword)', Saarland Museum, Modern Gallery, Saarbrücken, Germany
'Katharina Grosse: Chill Seeping', SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA
2021
'Katharina Grosse: Repetitions without Origin', Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA
'Katharina Grosse: Chill Seeping from the Walls Gets between Us', Helsinki Art Museum (HAM), Helsinki, Finland
2020
'Katharina Grosse: Separatrix', Gagosian Gallery, Rome, Italy
'Katharina Grosse: Berlin kommt nach Niedersachsen', Hall Art Foundation, Schloss Derneburg Museum, Derneburg, Germany
'Katharina Grosse: It Wasn't Us', Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany
'Katharina Grosse: Is It You?', Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
2019
'Katharina Grosse | Tatiana Trouvé', Gagosian Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
'Mural: Jackson Pollock | Katharina Grosse', Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) Boston, Boston, MA
'Frozen Gesture: Gesture in painting – from Roy Lichtenstein to Katharina Grosse' (group exhibition), Kunst Museum Winterthur (KMW), Winterthur, Switzerland
'Katharina Grosse: Mumbling Mud', Guangzhou K11 Art Space, Guangzhou, China
2018
'Katharina Grosse: Mumbling Mud', Chi K11 Art Museum, Shanghai, China
'Katharina Grosse: Prototypes of Imagination', Gagosian Gallery, London, UK
'Katharina Grosse: Wunderbild', National Gallery Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
'Katharina Grosse and Tatiana Trouvé: Le Numerose Irregolarità', Villa Medici, Rome, Italy
'Katharina Grosse: The Horse Trotted Another Couple of Metres, Then It Stopped', Carriageworks, Sydney, Australia
2017
'Katharina Grosse: This Drove my Mother up the Wall', South London Gallery, London, UK
'Deutschland 8 - German Art in China' (group exhibition), Eight Venues, Beijing, China
'ARoS Triennial: THE GARDEN—End of Times; Beginning of Times' (group exhibition), ARoS Aarhus Art Museum, Aarhus, Denmark
'Katharina Grosse', Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY
2016
'Katharina Grosse: Rockaway!', Gateway National Recreation Area at Fort Tilden, Breezy Point, NY
'Katharina Grosse', Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden, Germany
2015
'Katharina Grosse: yes no why later', Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
'Katharina Grosse: The Smoking Kid', König Gallery, Berlin, Germany
'Wizz Eyelashes: Katharina Grosse, Sol LeWitt and Walter De Maria', Magasin III Museum & Foundation for Contemporary Art, Stockholm, Sweden
2014
'Katharina Grosse: Who, I? Whom, you?', Kunsthaus Graz, Österreich, Austria
2013
'Katharina Grosse: Wunderblock', Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX
2012
'Katharina Grosse: Can You Spell Mixing', Dirimart Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
'The Slide Show' (group exhibition), Fonds Régional d'Art Contemporain (FRAC), Dijon, France
'Katharina Grosse: They Had Taken Things Along To Eat Together', Galerie Johann König, Berlin, Germany
'The Indiscipline of Painting: International Abstraction from the 1960s to Now' (group exhibition), Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
2011
'Katharina Grosse: In Seven Days Time', Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany
2010
'Katharina Grosse: One Floor Up More Highly', MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA
'Katharina Grosse: Come Niño Come', Galería Helga de Alvear, Madrid, Spain
'Katharina Grosse: Mr. Caplan', Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
'Looking Back Ahead: Katharina Gross, Dirk Skreber, Björn Dahlem', Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
2009
'Katharina Grosse: UTOPIA - Hello Little Butterfly I Love You What's Your Name', ARKEN Museum of Modern Art, Skovvej, Denmark
'Embrace!' (group exhibition), Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
'Katharina Grosse: The Greedy I', Galerie Mark Müller, Zürich, Switzerland
'Katharina Grosse: Stuntweed', Neues Museum, Staatliches Museum für Kunst und Design in Nürnberg, Nürnberg, Germany
'Katharina Grosse: Shadowbox', Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin, Germany
2008
'Prospect. 1 New Orleans' (group exhibition), New Orleans, LA
'Katharina Grosse: Un altro uomo che ha fatto sgocciolare il suo pennello (Another Man Who Has Dropped His Paintbrush)', Palazzina dei Giardini, Galleria Civica di Modena, Modena, Italy
'Katharina Grosse', Christopher Grimes Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
'Katharina Grosse: Fo´Faux Rocks', Edition Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
2007
'Katharina Grosse: The Flowershow', FRAC Auvergne - Ecuries de Chazerat, Clermont-Ferrand, France
'room 3: Accrochage' (group exhibition), Galerie Mark Müller, Zürich, Switzerland
'To Be Continued...' (group exhibition), Magasin 3, Stockholm, Sweden
'Katharina Grosse: Picture Park', Queensland Art Gallery, South Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
'Door Cycle' (group exhibition), Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, NY
'Katharina Grosse: This Is Not My Cat', Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
'Katharina Grosse', Renaissance Society, Chicago, IL
'Katharina Grosse: Atoms Outside Eggs', Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves, Porto, Portugal
2006
'Katharina Grosse: Incamera', Barbara Gross Galerie, München, Germany
'Katharina Grosse', Contemporary Arts Centre (CAC), Cincinnati, OH
'Dirty Yoga' (group exhibition), Taipei Biennal, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
'Katharina Grosse', Galerie Mark Müller, Zürich, Switzerland
'Katharina Grosse: Faux Rock', Galería Helga de Alvear, Madrid, Spain
'DEUTSCHE WANDSTÜCKE: Sette scene di nuova pittura germanica (GERMAN WALL PIECES: Seven Scenarios of New German Painting)' (group exhibition), Museion – Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Bolzano, Italy
'Katharina Grosse: Town and Country', The Factory for Art and Design, Copenhagen, Denmark
'Katharina Grosse: Holey Residue', De Appel Centre for Contemporary Art, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2005
'Katharina Grosse: Bee Troot', Christopher Grimes Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
'Katharina Grosse: Alumen Chromicum Comp', Solvent Space, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia
'Katharina Grosse: Constructions à cru', Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
'Katharina Grosse: Something Leadlight', Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway
'Katharina Grosse: Quote of the Day"', Galerie Conrads, Düsseldorf, Germany
2004
'Katharina Grosse', Galerie nächst St. Stephan, Vienna, Austria
'Katharina Grosse: Infinite Logic Conference', Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
'Katharina Grosse', Kunsthallen Brandts Klædefabrik, Odense, Denmark
'Katharina Grosse', SAFN, Reykjavik, Iceland
'Katharina Grosse', Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
'Katharina Grosse: Some Atlas', Galeria Filomena Soares, Lisbon, Portugal
'Katharina Grosse', Galerie Viafarini, Mailand, Italy
2003
'Katharina Grosse: Fred Thieler Preis 2003', Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, Germany
'Katharina Grosse', Christopher Grimes Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
'Katharina Grosse: Ohne Sattel Reiten ll', Galerie Conrads, Düsseldorf, Germany
'Katharina Grosse', Galerie Mark Müller, Zürich, Switzerland
2002
'Katharina Grosse', Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK
'Katharina Grosse', Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, München, Germany
'Katharina Grosse', Barbara Gross Galerie, München, Germany
'Katharina Grosse', Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Germany
'Katharina Grosse: Antipodes 3', White Cube, London, UK
'Katharina Grosse', Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Germany
2001
'Katharina Grosse', UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
'Katharina Grosse: Billboard', George Fraser Gallery, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
'Katharina Grosse', Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney, Australia
'Katharina Grosse', Artsonje Museum, Gyeongju, Südkorea
'Katharina Grosse', Galerie nächst St. Stephan, Vienna, Austria
'Katharina Grosse', Kunstverein Ruhr, Essen, Germany
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