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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
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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

Left: Katharina Grosse. Photo: Larissa Hofmann. Right: Sabine Eckmann. Photo: Bryan Schraier

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

Katharina Grosse, Untitled, 2021 © Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany 2022. Photo: Jens Ziehe

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

Katharina Grosse, Destroy Me Once, Destroy Me Twice, 2022, installation view, Roskilde, Denmark. Artwork © Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany, 2022. Photo: Jens Ziehe

Commission

Katharina Grosse
Destroy Me Once, Destroy Me Twice

Katharina Grosse has been commissioned to create a 2,000-square-meter dance floor for the 2022 Roskilde Festival in Denmark, to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the festival, which runs from June 25 to July 2. Titled Destroy Me Once, Destroy Me Twice (2022), the expansive outdoor painting transforms the hilly landscape of the festival’s campsite and is intended to inspire a sense of community, presence, and togetherness in keeping with this year’s theme, “Solidarity–Time to Act!” Since 1971, Roskilde Festival, the largest of its kind in Northern Europe, has been a melting pot that merges music and art. To attend the festival, purchase tickets at www.roskilde-festival.dk.

Katharina Grosse, Destroy Me Once, Destroy Me Twice, 2022, installation view, Roskilde, Denmark. Artwork © Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany, 2022. Photo: Jens Ziehe

Katharina Grosse. Photo: Larissa Hofmann

In Conversation

Katharina Grosse
Dan Cameron

Wednesday, March 2, 2022, 5pm
SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia
www.scadmoa.org

For the keynote event of SCAD deFINE ART 2022, honoring Katharina Grosse, the artist will be joined by curator Dan Cameron in a discussion about her life and artistic practice. SCAD deFINE ART is the Savannah College of Art and Design’s annual program of talks, tours, and exhibitions featuring work by contemporary art’s most vital voices. Grosse’s exhibition Chill Seeping will be on view at the SCAD Museum of Art from February 28 through July 11, 2022. The event is free and open to the public.

Katharina Grosse. Photo: Larissa Hofmann

Katharina Grosse, Untitled, 2019 © Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany 2021

In Conversation

Katharina Grosse
Margaret Andera

Friday, May 7, 2021, 1pm EDT

Join the Milwaukee Art Museum’s Contemporary Art Society for a virtual conversation between Katharina Grosse and the museum’s interim chief curator and curator of contemporary art, Margaret Andera. The pair will discuss Grosse’s Untitled (2019), which the museum recently acquired. The painting is the first work by the artist to enter the collection as well as the first by a female artist in the museum’s collection of contemporary German paintings. To join the online event, register at us02web.zoom.us.

Katharina Grosse, Untitled, 2019 © Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany 2021

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Katharina Grosse, Canyon, 2022 © Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany/ADAGP, Paris, 2022. Photo: Jens Ziehe, courtesy Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris

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

Still from “Katharina Grosse: Rockaway!”

Video

Katharina Grosse
Rockaway!

In 2016, MoMA PS1 invited Katharina Grosse to transform an abandoned building at Fort Tilden in the Rockaways, New York, into an artwork using her technique of spraying brightly colored paint directly onto the structure. In this video, produced by the museum and featuring footage of the work being made, Grosse explains the concepts and process behind the project, and her interest in color and scale.

Still from “Katharina Grosse: Rockaway!”

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

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
Returns, Revisions, Inventions

September 23, 2022–January 23, 2023
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University, St. Louis
www.kemperartmuseum.wustl.edu

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.

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

Installation view, Katharina Grosse: Apollo, Apollo, Espace Louis Vuitton Venezia, April 23–November 27, 2022. Artwork © Katharina Grosse and VG Bild, Bonn, Germany 2022. Photo: Jens Ziehe

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Katharina Grosse
Apollo, Apollo

April 23–November 27, 2022
Espace Louis Vuitton Venezia
www.fondationlouisvuitton.fr

Created specifically for Espace Louis Vuitton Venezia, Katharina Grosse’s installation Apollo, Apollo features a composite image of the artist’s hands printed on a metallic mesh fabric draped across the floor and wall. Depicting a moment where boundaries—between the artist’s body and the flowing material, with its transparent, opaque, and reflective surfaces—blur, the work opens a gateway to a dreamlike world in which visitors question their own perceptions of reality and illusion. Produced within the framework of Fondation Louis Vuitton’s Hors-les-murs program, the exhibition is a collateral event of the 59th Biennale di Venezia.

Installation view, Katharina Grosse: Apollo, Apollo, Espace Louis Vuitton Venezia, April 23–November 27, 2022. Artwork © Katharina Grosse and VG Bild, Bonn, Germany 2022. Photo: Jens Ziehe

Katharina Grosse, Untitled, 2020 (detail) © Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany, 2022. Photo: Markus Wörgötter

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Katharina Grosse
Wolke in Form eines Schwertes

April 1–September 4, 2022
Saarlandmuseum–Moderne Galerie, Saarbrücken, Germany
www.modernegalerie.org

This exhibition, whose title translates to Cloud in the Form of a Sword, highlights Katharina Grosse’s recent experimental working methods. Canvases incorporating branches, twigs, and driftwood are coated in paint, fusing the natural materials into sculptural structures. With gestural, colorful, and material force, the works reach far into the viewer’s space, resulting in multidimensional pictorial sites.

Katharina Grosse, Untitled, 2020 (detail) © Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany, 2022. Photo: Markus Wörgötter

Steven Parrino, Skeletal Implosion, 2001 © Steven Parrino, courtesy the Parrino Family Estate. Photo: Marc Domage

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La Couleur en fugue

May 4–August 29, 2022
Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris
www.fondationlouisvuitton.fr

This exhibition, whose title translates to Fugues in Color, features works where paint escapes the confines of the canvas, with color consuming surrounding spaces, including walls, floors, and ceilings. The diverse variations of color extend into the architecture in close interaction with the Frank Gehry–designed building. Work by Katharina Grosse and Steven Parrino is included.

Steven Parrino, Skeletal Implosion, 2001 © Steven Parrino, courtesy the Parrino Family Estate. Photo: Marc Domage

Installation view, Katharina Grosse: Chill Seeping, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia, February 28–July 11, 2022. Artwork © Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany 2022

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Katharina Grosse
Chill Seeping

February 28–July 11, 2022
SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia
www.scadmoa.org

Katharina Grosse: Chill Seeping is presented on the occasion of SCAD deFINE ART 2022. The exhibition features works on canvas created since 2006 alongside an expansive site-related textile installation. The exhibition highlights Grosse’s relentless exploration of color and its agency in space, inviting viewers into an immersive dialogue with the environment.

Installation view, Katharina Grosse: Chill Seeping, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia, February 28–July 11, 2022. Artwork © Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany 2022

Installation view, Katharina Grosse: Chill Seeping from the Walls Gets between Us, Helsinki Art Museum, June 8, 2021–January 23, 2022. Artwork © Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany 2021. Photo: Hanna Kukorelli/HAM Helsinki Art Museum

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Katharina Grosse
Chill Seeping from the Walls Gets between Us

June 8, 2021–January 23, 2022
Helsinki Art Museum
www.hamhelsinki.fi

Katharina Grosse is taking over the main exhibition halls on the museum’s upper level with two new installations, one of which has been painted on-site. Focusing on painting as a process and intervention, she transforms the exhibition spaces into artworks engaging in an active correspondence with the architecture, where visitors become participants as they move through her boldly colored installations.

Installation view, Katharina Grosse: Chill Seeping from the Walls Gets between Us, Helsinki Art Museum, June 8, 2021–January 23, 2022. Artwork © Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany 2021. Photo: Hanna Kukorelli/HAM Helsinki Art Museum

Katharina Grosse, Shutter Splinter, 2021, installation view, Helsinki Biennial, June 12–September 26, 2021. Artwork © Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany 2021. Photo: Hans Grosse

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Katharina Grosse in
Helsinki Biennial: On the Shores of the Same Sea

June 12–September 26, 2021
Various sites on Vallisaari Island and on mainland Helsinki
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The inaugural Helsinki Biennial brings contemporary art to the unique surroundings of Vallisaari Island, a short ferry ride from mainland Helsinki. Artworks are installed along a three-kilometer-long trail and inside the island’s historical buildings, as well as on the mainland. Exploring themes of interconnectedness and mutual dependence, the biennial includes work by forty artists and collectives from Finland and around the world, including Katharina Grosse, who converted Vallisaari’s old derelict school building and its surroundings into a painting.

Katharina Grosse, Shutter Splinter, 2021, installation view, Helsinki Biennial, June 12–September 26, 2021. Artwork © Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany 2021. Photo: Hans Grosse

Georg Baselitz, B. für Larry (Remix), 2006 © Georg Baselitz 2021

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Wonderland

May 7–September 19, 2021
Albertina Modern, Vienna
www.albertina.at

Inspired by Lewis Carroll’s 1865 novel Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, this exhibition features more than a hundred contemporary artworks from the Albertina’s collection organized into seven different “chapters” conceived as independent yet loosely connected “worlds.”  Work by Georg Baselitz, Katharina Grosse, Anselm Kiefer, Roy Lichtenstein, Albert Oehlen, Andy Warhol, and Franz West is included.

Georg Baselitz, B. für Larry (Remix), 2006 © Georg Baselitz 2021

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