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Katharina Grosse

January 19–March 11, 2017
555 West 24th Street, New York

Installation view Artwork © Katharina Grosse und VG Bild-Kunst Bonn, 2017. Photo: Rob McKeever

Installation view

Artwork © Katharina Grosse und VG Bild-Kunst Bonn, 2017. Photo: Rob McKeever

Installation view Artwork © Katharina Grosse und VG Bild-Kunst Bonn, 2017. Photo: Rob McKeever

Installation view

Artwork © Katharina Grosse und VG Bild-Kunst Bonn, 2017. Photo: Rob McKeever

Installation view Artwork © Katharina Grosse und VG Bild-Kunst Bonn, 2017. Photo: Rob McKeever

Installation view

Artwork © Katharina Grosse und VG Bild-Kunst Bonn, 2017. Photo: Rob McKeever

Installation view Artwork © Katharina Grosse und VG Bild-Kunst Bonn, 2017. Photo: Rob McKeever

Installation view

Artwork © Katharina Grosse und VG Bild-Kunst Bonn, 2017. Photo: Rob McKeever

Installation view Artwork © Katharina Grosse und VG Bild-Kunst Bonn, 2017. Photo: Rob McKeever

Installation view

Artwork © Katharina Grosse und VG Bild-Kunst Bonn, 2017. Photo: Rob McKeever

Installation view Artwork © Katharina Grosse und VG Bild-Kunst Bonn, 2017. Photo: Rob McKeever

Installation view

Artwork © Katharina Grosse und VG Bild-Kunst Bonn, 2017. Photo: Rob McKeever

Installation view Artwork © Katharina Grosse und VG Bild-Kunst Bonn, 2017. Photo: Rob McKeever

Installation view

Artwork © Katharina Grosse und VG Bild-Kunst Bonn, 2017. Photo: Rob McKeever

Installation view Artwork © Katharina Grosse und VG Bild-Kunst Bonn, 2017. Photo: Rob McKeever

Installation view

Artwork © Katharina Grosse und VG Bild-Kunst Bonn, 2017. Photo: Rob McKeever

Installation view Artwork © Katharina Grosse und VG Bild-Kunst Bonn, 2017. Photo: Rob McKeever

Installation view

Artwork © Katharina Grosse und VG Bild-Kunst Bonn, 2017. Photo: Rob McKeever

Installation view Artwork © Katharina Grosse und VG Bild-Kunst Bonn, 2017. Photo: Rob McKeever

Installation view

Artwork © Katharina Grosse und VG Bild-Kunst Bonn, 2017. Photo: Rob McKeever

Installation view Artwork © Katharina Grosse und VG Bild-Kunst Bonn, 2017. Photo: Rob McKeever

Installation view

Artwork © Katharina Grosse und VG Bild-Kunst Bonn, 2017. Photo: Rob McKeever

Installation view Artwork © Katharina Grosse und VG Bild-Kunst Bonn, 2017. Photo: Rob McKeever

Installation view

Artwork © Katharina Grosse und VG Bild-Kunst Bonn, 2017. Photo: Rob McKeever

Installation view Artwork © Katharina Grosse und VG Bild-Kunst Bonn, 2017. Photo: Rob McKeever

Installation view

Artwork © Katharina Grosse und VG Bild-Kunst Bonn, 2017. Photo: Rob McKeever

Installation view Artwork © Katharina Grosse und VG Bild-Kunst Bonn, 2017. Photo: Rob McKeever

Installation view

Artwork © Katharina Grosse und VG Bild-Kunst Bonn, 2017. Photo: Rob McKeever

Installation view Artwork © Katharina Grosse und VG Bild-Kunst Bonn, 2017. Photo: Rob McKeever

Installation view

Artwork © Katharina Grosse und VG Bild-Kunst Bonn, 2017. Photo: Rob McKeever

Works Exhibited

Katharina Grosse, Untitled, 2016 Acrylic on canvas, 114 ⅛ × 76 inches (290 × 193 cm)© Katharina Grosse und VG Bild-Kunst Bonn, 2017. Photo: Jens Ziehe

Katharina Grosse, Untitled, 2016

Acrylic on canvas, 114 ⅛ × 76 inches (290 × 193 cm)
© Katharina Grosse und VG Bild-Kunst Bonn, 2017. Photo: Jens Ziehe

Katharina Grosse, Untitled, 2016 Acrylic on canvas, 114 ⅛ × 76 inches (290 × 193 cm)© Katharina Grosse und VG Bild-Kunst Bonn, 2017. Photo: Jens Ziehe

Katharina Grosse, Untitled, 2016

Acrylic on canvas, 114 ⅛ × 76 inches (290 × 193 cm)
© Katharina Grosse und VG Bild-Kunst Bonn, 2017. Photo: Jens Ziehe

Katharina Grosse, Untitled, 2016 Acrylic on canvas, 114 ⅛ × 76 inches (290 × 193 cm)© Katharina Grosse und VG Bild-Kunst Bonn, 2017. Photo: Jens Ziehe

Katharina Grosse, Untitled, 2016

Acrylic on canvas, 114 ⅛ × 76 inches (290 × 193 cm)
© Katharina Grosse und VG Bild-Kunst Bonn, 2017. Photo: Jens Ziehe

Katharina Grosse, Untitled, 2016 Acrylic on canvas, 118 ⅛ × 78 ¾ inches (300 × 200 cm)© Katharina Grosse und VG Bild-Kunst Bonn, 2017. Photo: Jens Ziehe

Katharina Grosse, Untitled, 2016

Acrylic on canvas, 118 ⅛ × 78 ¾ inches (300 × 200 cm)
© Katharina Grosse und VG Bild-Kunst Bonn, 2017. 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

Gagosian is pleased to present new paintings and sculpture by Katharina Grosse. A prominent figure on the international art circuit, this is her first gallery exhibition in New York and at Gagosian, following a series of significant public commissions in the United States in recent years.

Grosse approaches painting as an experience in immersive subjectivity. With a spray gun, she distances the artistic act from the hand, stylizing gesture as a propulsive mark. The resulting pictures are distinct, but never predetermined. Spatial tensions rise through shifts in chromatic temperature. Challenging boundaries, she reintroduces her body as an active agent within a vision of contemporary existence that is at once physically isolated and densely networked.

Embracing the events and incidents that arise as she paints, Grosse opens up surfaces and spaces to the countless perceptual possibilities of the medium. While she is widely known for her temporary and permanent in situ work, which she paints directly onto architecture, interiors, and landscapes, her approach begins in the studio. With calculated focus, she allows new patterns and procedures in her paintings to emerge from action, further multiplying this potential with stencils cut from cardboard and thick foam rubber—tools with which to develop further cuts, layers, and perspectival depths. Grosse’s gestures unfold all at the same time in unmixed acrylic colors, engulfing the viewer in a toxic sublime.

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Katharina Grosse

Katharina Grosse

An interview between Katharina Grosse and Louise Neri. The two discuss Grosse’s process and examine the countless perceptual possibilities of her medium.

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.