Artist Spotlight
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.
Created in response to the covid-19 pandemic, the Artist Spotlight series highlights individual artists, one week at a time, whose exhibitions have been affected by the health crisis. A single artwork by the artist is made available with pricing information for forty-eight hours only.
Artist Spotlight: Katharina Grosse features a recent work from the artist’s studio. For more information, please contact the gallery at collecting@gagosian.com.
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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
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.
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
Tatiana Trouvé and Katharina Grosse discuss their exhibition Le numerose irregolarità, at the French Academy in Rome, Villa Medici, with curator Chiara Parisi.
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.
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.
Related Exhibitions
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Commission
Katharina Grosse: Canyon
Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris
Canyon (2022), a new work by Katharina Grosse, will be on view at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris beginning October 5, 2022. Inspired by and in dialogue with the architecture of the Frank Gehry–designed building, this latest commission by the Fondation is composed of eight spray-painted aluminum sheets connected to a beam. The work is a response to Grosse’s question: “How can a painting appear in a space with no floor and no walls, where air, light, flow, and energies circulate?” It is a reference to the characteristics of the “canyon”—the name given to the void that is visible inside the Fondation Louis Vuitton building from the ground up.
Katharina Grosse, Canyon, 2022 © Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany/ADAGP, Paris, 2022. Photo: Jens Ziehe, courtesy Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris
In Conversation
Katharina Grosse
Sabine Eckmann
Friday, September 23, 2022, 5:30pm
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University, St. Louis www.kemperartmuseum.wustl.edu
Katharina Grosse will be in conversation with Sabine Eckmann, director and chief curator of the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, to celebrate the opening of the exhibition Katharina Grosse Studio Paintings, 1988–2022: Returns, Revisions, Inventions at the museum. The pair will discuss the artist’s studio-based paintings, from her earliest works in the 1990s to her most recent canvases, which are subject of this major survey. The event is free and open to the public.
Left: Katharina Grosse. Photo: Larissa Hofmann. Right: Sabine Eckmann. Photo: Bryan Schraier
Tour
Katharina Grosse Studio Paintings, 1988–2022
Returns, Revisions, Inventions
Saturday, September 24, 2022, 2pm
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University, St. Louis
www.kemperartmuseum.wustl.edu
Join student educators from the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum at Washington University in St. Louis for an interactive tour of the exhibition Katharina Grosse Studio Paintings, 1988–2022: Returns, Revision, Inventions. The show highlights the role that Katharina Grosse’s studio-based paintings—thirty-seven of which are on view—have played throughout her career in her experiments with the aesthetic potentials and physical and optical properties of color and paint. The event is free and open to the public.
Katharina Grosse, Untitled, 2021 © Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany 2022. Photo: Jens Ziehe
Museum Exhibitions
Opening this Week
Katharina Grosse Studio Paintings, 1988–2022
April 25–September 22, 2024
Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany
www.kunstmuseum-bonn.de
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 originated at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University, St. Louis.
Katharina Grosse, Untitled, 2023 © Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany 2024. Photo: Jens Ziehe
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
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
Closed
Katharina Grosse
Warum Drei Töne Kein Dreieck Bilden
November 1, 2023–April 1, 2024
Albertina, Vienna
www.albertina.at
In this exhibition, whose title translates to Why Three Tones Do Not Form a Triangle, Katharina 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