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Katharina Grosse

Katharina Grosse, Untitled, 2000 Acrylic on wall, 14 feet 9 ¼ inches × 39 feet 4 ⅜ inches (4.5 × 14.5 × 12.5 m), Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Germany, 2001© Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany 2018. Photo: Werner Hannappel

Katharina Grosse, Untitled, 2000

Acrylic on wall, 14 feet 9 ¼ inches × 39 feet 4 ⅜ inches (4.5 × 14.5 × 12.5 m), Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Germany, 2001
© Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany 2018. Photo: Werner Hannappel

Katharina Grosse, Untitled, 2001 Acrylic on billboard, 14 feet 9 ¼ inches × 39 feet 4 ⅜ inches (4.5 × 12 m), Auckland, New Zealand, 2001© Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany 2018. Photo: Katharina Grosse

Katharina Grosse, Untitled, 2001

Acrylic on billboard, 14 feet 9 ¼ inches × 39 feet 4 ⅜ inches (4.5 × 12 m), Auckland, New Zealand, 2001
© Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany 2018. Photo: Katharina Grosse

Katharina Grosse, Untitled, 2003 Acrylic on wall, 29 feet ⅜ inches × 57 feet 5 inches × 77 feet 1 ¼ inches (8.9 × 17.5 × 23.5 m), Pearson International Airport, Toronto© Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany 2018. Photo: Isaac Applebaum

Katharina Grosse, Untitled, 2003

Acrylic on wall, 29 feet ⅜ inches × 57 feet 5 inches × 77 feet 1 ¼ inches (8.9 × 17.5 × 23.5 m), Pearson International Airport, Toronto
© Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany 2018. Photo: Isaac Applebaum

Katharina Grosse, Double Floor Painting, 2004 Acrylic on wall, bookshelf, and canvases, 22 feet 3 ¾ inches × 124 feet 8 inches × 36 feet 1 ⅛ inches (6.8 × 38 × 11 m), Kunsthallen Brandts Klædefabrik, Odense, Denmark© Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany 2018. Photo: Torben Eskerod

Katharina Grosse, Double Floor Painting, 2004

Acrylic on wall, bookshelf, and canvases, 22 feet 3 ¾ inches × 124 feet 8 inches × 36 feet 1 ⅛ inches (6.8 × 38 × 11 m), Kunsthallen Brandts Klædefabrik, Odense, Denmark
© Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany 2018. Photo: Torben Eskerod

Katharina Grosse, Untitled, 2006 Acrylic on wall and canvas, 19 feet 8 ¼ inches × 75 feet 5 ½ inches × 9 feet 10 ⅛ inches (6 × 23 × 3 m), Museum Bochum, Germany© Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany 2018. Photo: Olaf Bergmann

Katharina Grosse, Untitled, 2006

Acrylic on wall and canvas, 19 feet 8 ¼ inches × 75 feet 5 ½ inches × 9 feet 10 ⅛ inches (6 × 23 × 3 m), Museum Bochum, Germany
© Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany 2018. Photo: Olaf Bergmann

Katharina Grosse, Cincy, 2006 Acrylic on wall, floor, glass, styrofoam, and soil, 15 feet 9 inches × 24 feet 3 ⅜ inches × 38 feet 8 ⅝ inches (4.8 × 7.4 × 11.8 m), Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, October 27, 2006–May 06, 2007© Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany 2018. Photo: Tony Walsh and Katharina Grosse

Katharina Grosse, Cincy, 2006

Acrylic on wall, floor, glass, styrofoam, and soil, 15 feet 9 inches × 24 feet 3 ⅜ inches × 38 feet 8 ⅝ inches (4.8 × 7.4 × 11.8 m), Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, October 27, 2006–May 06, 2007
© Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany 2018. Photo: Tony Walsh and Katharina Grosse

Katharina Grosse, Untitled, 2006 Acrylic on wall, floor, glass, Styrofoam, and soil, 15 feet 1 ⅛ inches × 34 feet 5 ⅜ inches × 26 feet 3 inches (4.6 × 10.5 × 8 m), Taipei Fine Arts Museum, November 4, 2006–February 25, 2007© Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany 2018, photo by Katharina Grosse

Katharina Grosse, Untitled, 2006

Acrylic on wall, floor, glass, Styrofoam, and soil, 15 feet 1 ⅛ inches × 34 feet 5 ⅜ inches × 26 feet 3 inches (4.6 × 10.5 × 8 m), Taipei Fine Arts Museum, November 4, 2006–February 25, 2007
© Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany 2018, photo by Katharina Grosse

Katharina Grosse, Untitled, 2008 Acrylic on various objects, 24 feet 7 ¼ inches × 39 feet 4 ½ inches × 16 feet 4 ¾ inches (7.5 × 12 × 5 m), New Orleans, November 1, 2008–January 18, 2009© Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany 2018. Photo: Studio Grosse

Katharina Grosse, Untitled, 2008

Acrylic on various objects, 24 feet 7 ¼ inches × 39 feet 4 ½ inches × 16 feet 4 ¾ inches (7.5 × 12 × 5 m), New Orleans, November 1, 2008–January 18, 2009
© Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany 2018. Photo: Studio Grosse

Katharina Grosse, Un altro uomo che ha fatto sgocciolare il sui pennello, 2008 Acrylic on wall and floor, polyester resin, soil, canvas, and various objects, 26 feet 3 inches × 36 feet 1 ⅛ inches × 36 feet 1 ⅛ inches (8 × 11 × 11 m), Galleria Civica di Modena, Italy, September 19, 2008–January 6, 2009© Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany 2018. Photo: Paolo Terzi

Katharina Grosse, Un altro uomo che ha fatto sgocciolare il sui pennello, 2008

Acrylic on wall and floor, polyester resin, soil, canvas, and various objects, 26 feet 3 inches × 36 feet 1 ⅛ inches × 36 feet 1 ⅛ inches (8 × 11 × 11 m), Galleria Civica di Modena, Italy, September 19, 2008–January 6, 2009
© Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany 2018. Photo: Paolo Terzi

Installation view, Katharina Grosse: Stuntweed, Neues Museum Nürnberg, Germany, May 1–September 13, 2009 © Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany 2018. Photo: Wilfried Petzi

Installation view, Katharina Grosse: Stuntweed, Neues Museum Nürnberg, Germany, May 1–September 13, 2009

© Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany 2018. Photo: Wilfried Petzi

Installation view, Katharina Grosse: Shadowbox, Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin, April 10–June 14, 2009 © Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany 2018. Photo: Jens Ziehe

Installation view, Katharina Grosse: Shadowbox, Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin, April 10–June 14, 2009

© Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany 2018. Photo: Jens Ziehe

Katharina Grosse, One Floor Up More Highly, 2010 Acrylic on wall, floor, clothing, Styrofoam, and fiberglass reinforced plastic, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, Massachusetts, April 4, 2010–January 1, 2012© Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany 2018. Photo: Art Evans

Katharina Grosse, One Floor Up More Highly, 2010

Acrylic on wall, floor, clothing, Styrofoam, and fiberglass reinforced plastic, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, Massachusetts, April 4, 2010–January 1, 2012
© Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany 2018. Photo: Art Evans

Katharina Grosse, In Seven Days Time, 2011 Acrylic on fiberglass reinforced plastic, 30 feet 2 ¼ inches × 63 feet 11 ¾ inches × 4 ¾ inches (9.2 × 19.5 × .1 m), Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany© Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany 2018. Photo: Olaf Bergmann and David Ertl

Katharina Grosse, In Seven Days Time, 2011

Acrylic on fiberglass reinforced plastic, 30 feet 2 ¼ inches × 63 feet 11 ¾ inches × 4 ¾ inches (9.2 × 19.5 × .1 m), Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany
© Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany 2018. Photo: Olaf Bergmann and David Ertl

Katharina Grosse, Third Man Begins Digging through Her Pockets, 2012 Acrylic on wall, 39 feet 6 ⅞ inches × 36 feet 1 ⅛ inches × 30 feet 11 ¾ inches (12.1 × 11 × 9.4 m), Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Ohio, October 8, 2012–September 1, 2013© Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany 2018. Photo: Tim Safraneck

Katharina Grosse, Third Man Begins Digging through Her Pockets, 2012

Acrylic on wall, 39 feet 6 ⅞ inches × 36 feet 1 ⅛ inches × 30 feet 11 ¾ inches (12.1 × 11 × 9.4 m), Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Ohio, October 8, 2012–September 1, 2013
© Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany 2018. Photo: Tim Safraneck

Katharina Grosse, Third Man Begins Digging through Her Pockets, 2012 Acrylic on wall, 39 feet 6 ⅞ inches × 36 feet 1 ⅛ inches × 30 feet 11 ¾ inches (12.1 × 11 × 9.4 m), Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Ohio, October 8, 2012–September 1, 2013© Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany 2018. Photo: Tim Safraneck

Katharina Grosse, Third Man Begins Digging through Her Pockets, 2012

Acrylic on wall, 39 feet 6 ⅞ inches × 36 feet 1 ⅛ inches × 30 feet 11 ¾ inches (12.1 × 11 × 9.4 m), Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Ohio, October 8, 2012–September 1, 2013
© Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany 2018. Photo: Tim Safraneck

Katharina Grosse, Sie trocknen ihre Knie mit einem Kissen, 2012 Acrylic on wall and canvas, 19 feet 8 ¼ inches × 52 feet 5 ⅞ inches × 27 feet 10 ⅝ inches (6 × 16 × 8.5 cm), Sammlung Hoffmann, Berlin© Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany 2018. Photo: Nic Tenwiggenhorn

Katharina Grosse, Sie trocknen ihre Knie mit einem Kissen, 2012

Acrylic on wall and canvas, 19 feet 8 ¼ inches × 52 feet 5 ⅞ inches × 27 feet 10 ⅝ inches (6 × 16 × 8.5 cm), Sammlung Hoffmann, Berlin
© Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany 2018. Photo: Nic Tenwiggenhorn

Katharina Grosse, Just Two of Us, 2013 Acrylic on fiberglass reinforced plastic, dimensions variable, MetroTech Plaza, Brooklyn, New York, October 27, 2013–July 13, 2014© Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany 2018. Photo: James Ewing

Katharina Grosse, Just Two of Us, 2013

Acrylic on fiberglass reinforced plastic, dimensions variable, MetroTech Plaza, Brooklyn, New York, October 27, 2013–July 13, 2014
© Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany 2018. Photo: James Ewing

Katharina Grosse, Wunderblock, 2013 Acrylic on canvas, soil, and wall, 14 feet 1 ⅜ inches × 8 feet 6 ⅜ inches × 66 feet 11 ¼ inches (4.3 × 2.6 × 20.4 cm), Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, Texas, June 1–September 1, 2013© Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany 2018. Photo: Kevin Todora

Katharina Grosse, Wunderblock, 2013

Acrylic on canvas, soil, and wall, 14 feet 1 ⅜ inches × 8 feet 6 ⅜ inches × 66 feet 11 ¼ inches (4.3 × 2.6 × 20.4 cm), Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, Texas, June 1–September 1, 2013
© Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany 2018. Photo: Kevin Todora

Installation view, Katharina Grosse: Two Younger Women Come In and Pull Out a Table, De Pont Museum, Tilburg, The Netherlands, February 16–June 9, 2013 © Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany 2018. Photo: Peter Cox

Installation view, Katharina Grosse: Two Younger Women Come In and Pull Out a Table, De Pont Museum, Tilburg, The Netherlands, February 16–June 9, 2013

© Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany 2018. Photo: Peter Cox

Installation view, Katharina Grosse: Two Younger Women Come In and Pull Out a Table, De Pont Museum, Tilburg, The Netherlands, February 16–June 9, 2013 © Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany 2018. Photo: Peter Cox

Installation view, Katharina Grosse: Two Younger Women Come In and Pull Out a Table, De Pont Museum, Tilburg, The Netherlands, February 16–June 9, 2013

© Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany 2018. Photo: Peter Cox

Installation view, Katharina Grosse: Inside the Speaker—Leinwandsaal, Kunstpalast Düsseldorf, Germany, September 30, 2014–February 1, 2015 © Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany 2018. Photo: Nic Tenwiggenhorn

Installation view, Katharina Grosse: Inside the Speaker—Leinwandsaal, Kunstpalast Düsseldorf, Germany, September 30, 2014–February 1, 2015

© Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany 2018. Photo: Nic Tenwiggenhorn

Katharina Grosse, Inside the Speaker—Erdraum, 2014 Acrylic on fabric, soil, and glass fiber reinforced plastic, 14 feet 9 ¼ inches × 136 feet 9 ¾ inches × 61 feet 4 ¼ inches (4.5 × 41.7 × 18.7 cm), Kunstpalast Düsseldorf, Germany, September 30, 2014–February 1, 2015© Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany 2018. Photo: Nic Tenwiggenhorn

Katharina Grosse, Inside the Speaker—Erdraum, 2014

Acrylic on fabric, soil, and glass fiber reinforced plastic, 14 feet 9 ¼ inches × 136 feet 9 ¾ inches × 61 feet 4 ¼ inches (4.5 × 41.7 × 18.7 cm), Kunstpalast Düsseldorf, Germany, September 30, 2014–February 1, 2015
© Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany 2018. Photo: Nic Tenwiggenhorn

Katharina Grosse, psychylustro—The Warehouse, 2014 Acrylic on wall and various objects, 68 feet 10 ⅞ inches × 475 feet 8 ¾ inches (21 × 145 cm), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania© Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany 2018. Photo: Steve Weinik

Katharina Grosse, psychylustro—The Warehouse, 2014

Acrylic on wall and various objects, 68 feet 10 ⅞ inches × 475 feet 8 ¾ inches (21 × 145 cm), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
© Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany 2018. Photo: Steve Weinik

Katharina Grosse, psychylustro—The Drama Wall, 2014 Acrylic on wall, floor, and various objects, 41 feet ⅛ inches × 328 feet 1 inch × 14 feet 9 ¼ inches (12.5 × 100 × 4.5 m), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania© Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany 2018. Photo: Steve Weinik

Katharina Grosse, psychylustro—The Drama Wall, 2014

Acrylic on wall, floor, and various objects, 41 feet ⅛ inches × 328 feet 1 inch × 14 feet 9 ¼ inches (12.5 × 100 × 4.5 m), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
© Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany 2018. Photo: Steve Weinik

Katharina Grosse, Wer, ich? Wen, Du? (Who, I? Whom, You?), 2014 Acrylic on foam and floor, 22 feet 8 ⅛ inches × 111 feet 6 ⅝ inches × 180 feet 5 ⅜ inches (6.9 × 34 × 55 m), Kunsthaus Graz, Austria, June 6–October 12, 2014© Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany 2018. Photo: Nicolas UMJ Lackner

Katharina Grosse, Wer, ich? Wen, Du? (Who, I? Whom, You?), 2014

Acrylic on foam and floor, 22 feet 8 ⅛ inches × 111 feet 6 ⅝ inches × 180 feet 5 ⅜ inches (6.9 × 34 × 55 m), Kunsthaus Graz, Austria, June 6–October 12, 2014
© Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany 2018. Photo: Nicolas UMJ Lackner

Katharina Grosse, yes no why later, 2015 Acrylic on fabric and wood, 18 feet ⅝ inches × 59 feet ¾ inches (5.5 × 18 × 44 m), Garage Pavilion, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, June 1–August 9, 2015© Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany 2018. Photo: Egor Sliziak

Katharina Grosse, yes no why later, 2015

Acrylic on fabric and wood, 18 feet ⅝ inches × 59 feet ¾ inches (5.5 × 18 × 44 m), Garage Pavilion, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, June 1–August 9, 2015
© Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany 2018. Photo: Egor Sliziak

Katharina Grosse, Untitled, 2015 Acrylic on canvas, 94 ½ × 152 ¾ inches (240 × 388 cm)© Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany 2018. Photo: Olaf Bergmann

Katharina Grosse, Untitled, 2015

Acrylic on canvas, 94 ½ × 152 ¾ inches (240 × 388 cm)
© Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany 2018. Photo: Olaf Bergmann

Installation view, Katharina Grosse: Sieben Stunden, Acht Stimmen, Drei Bäume, Museum Wiesbaden, Germany, July 10–October 11, 2015 © Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany 2018. Photo: Nic Tenwiggenhorn

Installation view, Katharina Grosse: Sieben Stunden, Acht Stimmen, Drei Bäume, Museum Wiesbaden, Germany, July 10–October 11, 2015

© Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany 2018. Photo: Nic Tenwiggenhorn

Katharina Grosse, Untitled Trumpet, 2015 Acrylic on wall, floor, and various objects, 21 feet 7 ¾ inches × 68 feet 10 ¾ inches × 42 feet 7 ⅞ inches (6.6 × 21 × 13 m), Biennale di Venezia, Venice, May 9–November 22, 2015© Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany 2018. Photo: Nic Tenwiggenhorn

Katharina Grosse, Untitled Trumpet, 2015

Acrylic on wall, floor, and various objects, 21 feet 7 ¾ inches × 68 feet 10 ¾ inches × 42 feet 7 ⅞ inches (6.6 × 21 × 13 m), Biennale di Venezia, Venice, May 9–November 22, 2015
© Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany 2018. Photo: Nic Tenwiggenhorn

Katharina Grosse, Untitled, 2016 Acrylic on canvas, 114 ¼ × 76 inches (290 × 193 cm)© Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany 2018. Photo: Jens Ziehe

Katharina Grosse, Untitled, 2016

Acrylic on canvas, 114 ¼ × 76 inches (290 × 193 cm)
© Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany 2018. Photo: Jens Ziehe

Katharina Grosse, Rockaway!, 2016 Acrylic on wall, floor, and various objects, 19 feet 8 ¼ inches × 49 feet 2 ⅝ inches × 114 feet 10 inches (6 × 15 × 35 m), Gateway National Recreation Area at Fort Tilden, New York, July 3, 2016–September 15, 2017© Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany 2018

Katharina Grosse, Rockaway!, 2016

Acrylic on wall, floor, and various objects, 19 feet 8 ¼ inches × 49 feet 2 ⅝ inches × 114 feet 10 inches (6 × 15 × 35 m), Gateway National Recreation Area at Fort Tilden, New York, July 3, 2016–September 15, 2017
© Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany 2018

Katharina Grosse, This Drove My Mother up the Wall, 2017 Acrylic on wall and floor, 22 feet 11 ⅝ inches × 68 feet 10 ¾ inches × 32 feet 9 ¾ inches (7 × 21 × 10 m), South London Gallery, September 28–December 3, 2017© Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany 2018

Katharina Grosse, This Drove My Mother up the Wall, 2017

Acrylic on wall and floor, 22 feet 11 ⅝ inches × 68 feet 10 ¾ inches × 32 feet 9 ¾ inches (7 × 21 × 10 m), South London Gallery, September 28–December 3, 2017
© Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany 2018

Katharina Grosse, Untitled, 2018 Acrylic on canvas, 86 ⅝ × 59 ⅛ inches (220 × 150 cm)© Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany 2018. Photo: Jens Ziehe

Katharina Grosse, Untitled, 2018

Acrylic on canvas, 86 ⅝ × 59 ⅛ inches (220 × 150 cm)
© Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany 2018. Photo: Jens Ziehe

Katharina Grosse, It Wasn’t Us, 2020 Acrylic on floor, polystyrene, and bronze, 22 feet 11 ⅝ inches × 83 feet 8 inches × 183 feet 8 ¾ inches (7 × 25.5 × 56 m), Hamburger Bahnhof–Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, June 14, 2020–January 10, 2021© Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany 2020. Photo: Jens Ziehe

Katharina Grosse, It Wasn’t Us, 2020

Acrylic on floor, polystyrene, and bronze, 22 feet 11 ⅝ inches × 83 feet 8 inches × 183 feet 8 ¾ inches (7 × 25.5 × 56 m), Hamburger Bahnhof–Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, June 14, 2020–January 10, 2021
© Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany 2020. Photo: Jens Ziehe

About

A painting is simply a screen between the producer and the spectator where both can look at the thought processes residing on the screen from different angles and points in time. It enables me to look at the residue of my thinking.
—Katharina Grosse

Widely known for her in situ paintings, in which explosive color is sprayed directly onto architecture, interiors, and landscapes, Katharina Grosse embraces the events and incidents that arise as she works, opening up surfaces and spaces to the countless perceptual possibilities of the medium. Approaching painting as an experience in immersive subjectivity, she uses a spray gun, distancing the artistic act from the hand, and stylizing gesture as a propulsive mark.

Born in Freiberg im Breisgau, Germany, Grosse began painting at an early age, always attuned to the ways that color and light merged with thought itself. In her works on canvas from the 1990s, she juxtaposed colors of various densities and temperatures, repeating vertical, transparent brushstrokes. These led to related works painted directly onto the wall, where she lined hallways and staircases in sublime fields of artificial color. Introducing the spray gun as a painting tool, she began to paint across architectural interiors and exteriors. She produced her first work, a monochrome, using this technique at the Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland, in 1998, spray painting the upper corner of a gallery in a deep green that spread partially down two adjacent walls and onto the ceiling. In 2000 Grosse became a professor at the Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weissensee; and she taught the Kunstakademie Dusseldorf from 2010–2018.

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Grosse combined the intersecting streaks of previous works with the cloud-like forms and mists made possible by the spray gun. The in situ paintings expanded in scale as she explored the liquidity and vast reach of the medium. In 2004, at the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, she sprayed the gallery interior along with clothing, papers, eggs, and coins scattered across the floor; and in 2005, at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris, she hung two huge canvases on the wall: one already painted, and one blank. She painted the latter on site, as well as the wall on which it hung. She then took down the painted canvas and leaned it against the wall on the floor, leaving a blank white rectangle.

For Grosse, there are no distinctions between painting, sculpture, and architecture. In addition to painting on canvases and over found materials like buildings and trees she also creates large polyurethane, Styrofoam, and cast-metal sculptures that act as abstract armatures for her paintings. Her in situ painting Untitled Trumpet was included in the Biennale di Venezia, in 2015, and Museum Wiesbaden, Germany, presented a major survey of her works on paper that same year. In 2016, adding to a sequence of significant public commissions in the US, she created a work for MoMA PS1’s Rockaway! series at Fort Tilden in the Rockaways, New York, transforming a derelict aquatics center with sprays of red, white, and magenta. The following year, Gagosian presented Grosse’s first solo exhibition in New York, featuring major works from several interconnected suites of paintings, and one cast-metal sculpture. In these canvases, monadic forms migrate from one painting to another, appearing in new layers or fusing into clusters that advance and retreat. The paintings record Grosse’s ongoing reflections on color, density, and velocity, as well as her use of stencils applied directly to the surface throughout the painting process.

In her most recent site-responsive paintings, Grosse has incorporated lengths of painted fabric, draped from the ceiling and spilling onto the floor, thus adding even more dimensionality to her immersive paintings. The Horse Trotted Another Couple of Metres, Then It Stopped (2018) for Carriageworks, Sydney, was comprised of more than 27,000 square feet of suspended fabric, draped, knotted and folded across and through the nineteenth century industrial architecture of the building. In Wunderbild (2018), for the National Gallery in Prague, Grosse produced an imposing enfilade of paintings on loose cloth, draped from the walls on two sides. Painted on the floor of her Berlin studio, Wunderbild creates a bridge between Grosse’s studio canvases and in situ paintings, and its aqueous fields of color are punctuated by white palimpsests of negative space. This development continued in Prototypes of Imagination, at Gagosian Britannia Street (2018), in which an entire wall of the gallery was covered by a sheet of painted fabric, asserting new spatial and temporal transformations.

Katharina Grosse

Photo: Mitro Hood, Baltimore Museum of Art

A painting by Katharina Grosse, the left side includes lime green brush strokes and the right includes magenta brush strokes

All I Wanted To Do Was Paint: A Conversation between Katharina Grosse and Sabine Eckmann

The exhibition Katharina Grosse Studio Paintings, 1988–2022: Returns, Revisions, Inventions premiered at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Saint Louis, in September 2022. It continues its tour with presentations at the Kunstmuseum Bern, through June 2023, and the Kunstmuseum Bonn, opening in April 2024. To mark this momentous survey, the show’s curator, Sabine Eckmann, met with Grosse to discuss the evolution of her practice.

Richard Avedon’s Marilyn Monroe, actor, New York, May 6, 1957 on the cover of Gagosian Quarterly, Summer 2023

Now available
Gagosian Quarterly Summer 2023

The Summer 2023 issue of Gagosian Quarterly is now available, featuring Richard Avedon’s Marilyn Monroe, actor, New York, May 6, 1957 on its cover.

Installation view of Katharina Grosse: Repetitions without Origins at Gagosian, Beverly Hills

In Conversation
Katharina Grosse and Graham Bader

On the occasion of her exhibition Katharina Grosse: Repetitions without Origin at Gagosian, Beverly Hills, the artist spoke with art historian Graham Bader, associate professor of art history at Rice University, about the throughlines in her practice.

Portrait of the painter with the spray gun.

Gagosian Quarterly Films
Katharina Grosse: Think Big!

From October 21 to 23, 2021, Gagosian Quarterly presented a special English-language online screening of Claudia Müller’s Katharina Grosse: Think Big!

David Reed, #714, 2014–19, acrylic, oil, and alkyd on polyester.

David Reed

David Reed and Katharina Grosse met at Reed’s New York studio in the fall of 2019 to talk about his newest paintings, the temporal aspects of both artists’ practice, and some of their mutual inspirations.

Installation view, "Katharina Grosse: Is It You?," Baltimore Museum of Art, March 1–June 28, 2020.

Katharina Grosse: The Movement Comes from Outside

Katharina Grosse discusses her exhibition Is It You? at the Baltimore Museum of Art with Jona Lueddeckens. They consider what sets the Baltimore installation apart from its predecessors, and how Grosse sees the relationship of the human body to her immersive environments as opposed to her canvases.

Installation view, Katharina Grosse: Is It You?, Baltimore Museum of Art, March 1, 2020–January 3, 2021.

Katharina Grosse: I see what she did there

On the occasion of the artist’s exhibition at the Baltimore Museum of Art, Terry R. Myers muses on the manipulations of time in Grosse’s work.

Featuring Joan Jonas’s Mirror Piece 1 (1969) on its cover.

Now available
Gagosian Quarterly Summer 2020

The Summer 2020 issue of Gagosian Quarterly is now available, featuring Joan Jonas’s Mirror Piece 1 (1969) on its cover.

The cover of the Spring 2020 edition of the Gagosian Quarterly magazine. A Cindy Sherman photograph of herself dressed as a clown against a rainbow background.

Now available
Gagosian Quarterly Spring 2020

The Spring 2020 issue of Gagosian Quarterly is now available, featuring Cindy Sherman’s Untitled #412 (2003) on its cover.

Katharina Grosse: Mumbling Mud

Katharina Grosse: Mumbling Mud

We take a visual tour through Katharina Grosse’s Mumbling Mud and the installation process behind it as the artist discusses the effects of the work’s merging of built and painted space.

Trouvé and Grosse: Villa Medici

Trouvé and Grosse: Villa Medici

Tatiana Trouvé and Katharina Grosse discuss their exhibition Le numerose irregolarità, at the French Academy in Rome, Villa Medici, with curator Chiara Parisi.

Gagosian Quarterly Spring 2018

Gagosian Quarterly Spring 2018

The Spring 2018 Gagosian Quarterly with a cover by Ed Ruscha is now available for order.

Fairs, Events & Announcements

Gagosian’s booth at West Bund Art & Design 2023. Artwork, left to right: © Zeng Fanzhi; © Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany 2023; © Spencer Sweeney; © Yayoi Kusama. Photo: Alessandro Wang

Art Fair

West Bund Art & Design 2023

November 9–12, 2023, booth A102
West Bund Art Center, Shanghai
www.westbundshanghai.com

Gagosian is pleased to participate in West Bund Art & Design with an extensive group presentation. The gallery will exhibit works by Harold Ancart, Georg Baselitz, Glenn Brown, Urs Fischer, Katharina Grosse, Hao Liang, Damien Hirst, Thomas Houseago, Alex Israel, Jia Aili, Anish Kapoor, Yayoi Kusama, Takashi Murakami, Takashi Murakami & Virgil Abloh, Albert Oehlen, Nam June Paik, Ed Ruscha, Alexandria Smith, Spencer Sweeney, Cameron Welch, Jonas Wood, and Zeng Fanzhi.

Gagosian’s booth at West Bund Art & Design 2023. Artwork, left to right: © Zeng Fanzhi; © Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany 2023; © Spencer Sweeney; © Yayoi Kusama. Photo: Alessandro Wang

Gagosian’s booth at Frieze Seoul 2023. Artwork, left to right: © Jadé Fadojutimi, © Jen Guidi, © Alexandria Smith, © Mehdi Ghadyanloo, © Rick Lowe Studio, © Jonas Wood. Photo: Sebastiano Pellion di Persano

Art Fair

Frieze Seoul 2023

September 7–9, 2023, booth C14
COEX, Seoul
www.frieze.com

Gagosian is pleased to participate in Frieze Seoul 2023 with a presentation of contemporary works by gallery artists, including Derrick Adams, Georg Baselitz, Dan Colen, Edmund de Waal, Jadé Fadojutimi, Urs Fischer, Cy Gavin, Mehdi Ghadyanloo, Nan Goldin, Katharina Grosse, Jennifer Guidi, Thomas Houseago, Alex Israel, Rick Lowe, Takashi Murakami, Nam June Paik, Giuseppe Penone, Ed Ruscha, Alexandria Smith, Anna Weyant, Stanley Whitney, Jonas Wood, and Richard Wright, among others.

Coinciding with the fair is the arrival of Jiyoung Lee, who was recently appointed to lead the gallery’s operations in Korea. Lee joins Gagosian following nearly fifteen years based in Seoul working on behalf of both Korean and Western galleries. Her appointment builds on the gallery’s establishment of a business entity in Korea last year, and provides for expanded activities in the region.

Gagosian’s booth at Frieze Seoul 2023. Artwork, left to right: © Jadé Fadojutimi, © Jen Guidi, © Alexandria Smith, © Mehdi Ghadyanloo, © Rick Lowe Studio, © Jonas Wood. Photo: Sebastiano Pellion di Persano

Katharina Grosse, Untitled, 2023 © Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany 2023

Talk

The Artists and the Collector
Katharina Grosse, Firelei Báez, Komal Shah

Thursday, June 15, 2023, 3pm
Hall 1 Auditorium, Messeplatz, Basel
artbasel.com

As part of the 2023 Art Basel Conversations program, artists Katharina Grosse and Firelei Báez and collector Komal Shah will speak about the challenges they have had to overcome to present female perspectives in their respective practices and collections, as well as discuss possible frameworks needed to address underrepresentation. Moderated by Mark Godfrey, the discussion will offer insight into the connections between individuals shaped by their shared vision of art and underscore the importance of the artist-collector relationship in the art world. The event is free to attend.

Katharina Grosse, Untitled, 2023 © Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany 2023

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Museum Exhibitions

Installation view, Katharina Grosse: Warum Drei Töne Kein Dreieck Bilden, Albertina, Vienna, November 1, 2023–April 1, 2024. Artwork © Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany 2023. Photo: Sandro E. E. Zanzinger Photographie

On View

Katharina Grosse
Warum Drei Töne Kein Dreieck Bilden

Through April 1, 2024
Albertina, Vienna
www.albertina.at

In this exhibition, whose title translates to Why Three Tones Do Not Form a TriangleKatharina Grosse has created vast, immersive images that spread out over the walls, ceiling, and floor, and into the space itself, of the Columned Hall at the Albertina in Vienna, allowing an immediate, walk-in experience of art. Grosse temporarily relocated her studio to the Albertina and executed the work on-site, inviting viewers to see the paintings at different stages between work in progress and completion.

Installation view, Katharina Grosse: Warum Drei Töne Kein Dreieck Bilden, Albertina, Vienna, November 1, 2023–April 1, 2024. Artwork © Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany 2023. Photo: Sandro E. E. Zanzinger Photographie

David Reed, #679, 2015–17, Kunst Museum Winterthur, Switzerland © David Reed/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: SIK-ISEA, Zürich, Philipp Hitz

On View

Von Gerhard Richter bis Mary Heilmann
Abstrakte Malerei aus Privat und Museumsbesitz

Through April 28, 2024
Kunst Museum Winterthur, Switzerland
www.kmw.ch

This exhibition, whose title translates as From Gerhard Richter to Mary Heilmann: Abstract Art from Private Collections and the Museum’s Holdings, explores a shift in painting from the 1980s onward. At this time artists—painters in particular—developed a newfound freedom in relation to the work of the historical avant-garde, successfully combining the language of abstraction with reality, and in so doing creating something entirely new and fresh. Work by Richter and Heilmann will be shown alongside paintings from both the museum’s holdings and private collections, including work by Katharina Grosse and David Reed.

David Reed, #679, 2015–17, Kunst Museum Winterthur, Switzerland © David Reed/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: SIK-ISEA, Zürich, Philipp Hitz

Katharina Grosse, Ingres Wood Seven, 2017 © Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany 2019 Photo: Jens Ziehe

On View

Katharina Grosse in
Collezione MAXXI. Lo spazio dell’immagine

Opened November 21, 2018
Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome
www.maxxi.art

The spirit and the identity of the museum are being renewed with a display of more than thirty works by twenty-six artists. Dedicated to the museum’s new acquisitions, this group show aims to create a counterpoint between the abstract and the figurative. Work by Katharina Grosse is included.

Katharina Grosse, Ingres Wood Seven, 2017 © Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany 2019 Photo: Jens Ziehe

Installation view, Katharina Grosse Studio Paintings, 1988–2022: Returns, Revisions, Inventions, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University, St. Louis, September 23, 2022–January 23, 2023. Artwork © Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany 2023. Photo: Josh White

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Katharina Grosse Studio Paintings, 1988–2022

March 3–June 25, 2023
Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland
www.kunstmuseumbern.ch

This exhibition explores Katharina Grosse’s studio-based paintings, from her earliest works in the 1990s to her most recent. The show highlights the role that thirty-seven paintings have played throughout her career in her experiments with the aesthetic potentials and physical and optical properties of color and paint. This exhibition has traveled from the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University, St. Louis.

Installation view, Katharina Grosse Studio Paintings, 1988–2022: Returns, Revisions, Inventions, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University, St. Louis, September 23, 2022–January 23, 2023. Artwork © Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany 2023. Photo: Josh White

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