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With my painting I seek to incite agitation. I want us to be so disturbed, positively or negatively, that we develop the desire to change something—preferably immediately and repeatedly.
—Katharina Grosse

Gagosian is pleased to announce Touching How and Why and Where, an exhibition of new studio paintings by Katharina Grosse, presented to coincide with Art Basel Hong Kong. It follows Katharina Grosse Studio Paintings, 1988–2022: Returns, Revisions, Inventions, which began its tour at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum in St. Louis in September 2022, and is now on view at the Kunstmuseum Bern until June 25, 2023—the artist’s first major survey in Switzerland.

Grosse is known for her use of a compressor-driven spraying technique to blast vividly colored paint across panels, objects, architectural interiors and exteriors, and even entire landscapes. In these spectacular yet nuanced explorations of physical gesture and sensory effect, she expands the scope and potential of painting beyond its conventional territories. Conducting a kind of controlled improvisation, she sparks new interactions between hand, eye, material, and site.

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

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.

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.

Katharina Grosse and Graham Bader

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.

Katharina Grosse: Think Big!

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

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.

Katharina Grosse: The Movement Comes from Outside

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.

Katharina Grosse: I see what she did there

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.

Gagosian Quarterly Summer 2020

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.

Gagosian Quarterly Spring 2020

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.

Katharina Grosse at Carriageworks

Katharina Grosse at Carriageworks

On the occasion of Katharina Grosse’s latest in situ painting The Horse Trotted Another Couple of Metres, Then It Stopped, at Carriageworks, Sydney, a series of video interviews with the artist was created.

C.T.S.T.

C.T.S.T.

Katharina Grosse reflects on the work of Cy Twombly.

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.

Cover of the book Katharina Grosse, published in 2018

Katharina Grosse

$120
Cover of the book Katharina Grosse: It Wasn't Us

Katharina Grosse: It Wasn’t Us

$55
Front of the Katharina Grosse × Parley Ocean Tote Bag

Katharina Grosse × Parley Ocean Tote Bag

$50
Cover of the book To Bend the Ear of the Outer World

To Bend the Ear of the Outer World: Conversations on contemporary abstract painting

$125
Cover of the book Great Women Painters with dust jacket

Great Women Painters

$70
Cover of the Summer 2020 issue of Gagosian Quarterly magazine, featuring artwork by Joan Jonas

Gagosian Quarterly: Summer 2020 Issue

$20
Cover of the Spring 2020 issue of Gagosian Quarterly magazine, featuring artwork by Cindy Sherman

Gagosian Quarterly: Spring 2020 Issue

$20
Cover of the Spring 2018 issue of Gagosian Quarterly magazine, featuring artwork by Ed Ruscha

Gagosian Quarterly: Spring 2018 Issue

$20
Cover of the Spring 2017 issue of Gagosian Quarterly magazine, featuring artwork by Rudolf Stingel

Gagosian Quarterly: Spring 2017 Issue

$20