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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.

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.

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 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.

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

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.

Wednesday, December 16, 2020, 6pm EST

Using the exhibition Katharina Grosse: Is It You? at the Baltimore Museum of Art as a starting point, Grosse and fellow artist Eric N. Mack will discuss the intersections of their practices, processes, and inspirations. The talk will be moderated by critic and art historian Molly Warnock as part of the museum’s Violet Hour series. To watch the live conversation, visit BMA’s Facebook.

Tuesday, November 24, 2020, 1pm EST (7pm CET)

Katharina Grosse will speak with writer, theorist, and filmmaker Alexander Kluge about his writings on Leibniz’s theory of the “separatrix” and its key impact on her new body of watercolors and paintings on canvas, on view at Gagosian, Rome, through January 7. The conversation will be moderated by special guests Joachim Bernauer, director of Goethe-Institut Italien, and Julia Draganović, director of Accademia Tedesca Roma Villa Massimo, Rome. For this online discussion, Bernauer and Draganović will be speaking live from the gallery while Grosse and Kluge will join remotely. To join, complete this form.

November 30, 2020–January 31, 2021
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Gagosian is pleased to announce The Future, the sixth in a series of annual thematic exhibitions presented by Gagosian and Jeffrey Deitch during Art Basel Miami Beach. Previously staged at the historic Moore Building in the Miami Design District, this year the collaborative project will be hosted on a new stand-alone website.

November 16–December 14, 2020

Gagosian is pleased to support the Coalition for the Homeless’s Artist Plate Project fundraiser. Artwork by fifty artists, including Cecily Brown, Katharina Grosse, Sterling Ruby, Ed Ruscha, Sarah Sze, Andy Warhol, Jonas Wood, and Christopher Wool, is featured on limited-edition dinner plates produced by Prospect and made available through Artware Editions to support the Coalition’s lifesaving programs. All of the funds raised by the sale of the plates will provide food, crisis services, housing, and other critical aid to thousands of people experiencing homelessness and instability. The purchase of one plate can feed seventy-five homeless and hungry New Yorkers.

Tuesday, November 10, 2020, 1pm EST (7pm CET)

Katharina Grosse will speak with Bartolomeo Pietromarchi, director of Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo (MAXXI) in Rome, as part of the museum’s Conversazioni d’autore series. The pair will discuss her artistic practice, including such works as Ingres Wood Seven (2018) in the MAXXI collection, as well as her latest paintings and works on paper on view in Separatrix at Gagosian, Rome, through January 7. The event is organized in collaboration with Gagosian; Accademia Tedesca Roma Villa Massimo, Rome; and Goethe-Institut, Rome. To watch the live conversation, visit MAXXI’s Facebook.

September 15–29, 2020

The nonprofit visual art space LAXART is hosting a benefit auction, featuring works by Katharina Grosse, Jennifer Guidi, and Ed Ruscha. Proceeds will help the organization continue its mission to promote emerging and under-recognized talent and engage with key issues of our time through exhibitions, publications, and public programs. The live auction begins at 5pm edt on September 15 on Artsy. The works will also be available for viewing at LAXART by appointment beginning September 15. To register to bid, visit artsy.net.

Sunday, September 13, 2020, 7:30pm, 8:15pm, and 9pm
Hamburger Bahnhof–Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin
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As part of Berlin Art Week, Katharina Grosse and musician Stefan Schneider will present three performances together in the exhibition Katharina Grosse: It Wasn’t Us at the Hamburger Bahnhof–Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin. The pair released their first album Tiergarten three years ago after a series of joint spontaneous musical dialogues incorporating analogue synthesizers. To attend the event, purchase tickets at www.berlinartweek.de.

Katharina Grosse is available for online reading from May 13 through June 12 as part of Artist Spotlight: Katharina Grosse. The book documents the artist’s 2017 exhibition at Gagosian in New York, as well as important in situ works such as Rockaway (2016). The publication includes essays by Dan Cameron and Okwui Enwezor, additional texts by Louise Neri, and a conversation with the artist by Isabelle Graw.

Friday, October 25, 2019, 6–7pm
Gagosian Shop, New York

Gagosian Shop is pleased to host a launch event with Katharina Grosse and Parley for the Oceans, a nonprofit environmental organization dedicated to promoting ocean sustainability. To benefit Parley for the Oceans, Grosse has produced a series of uniquely painted surfboards constructed from sustainably sourced wood—reducing foam, resin, and fiberglass use. There will be remarks by Grosse and Cyrill Gutsch, founder of Parley, and the artist’s 2018 Gagosian monograph will be available for purchase. To attend the free event, RSVP to grossersvp@gagosian.com.

Download the full press release (PDF)

Opening reception: Saturday, October 12, 6:30–8pm
October 12–20, 2019
Galeries Lafayette Champs-Élysées, Paris
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In celebration of FIAC in Paris, Gagosian is pleased to collaborate with Galeries Lafayette Champs-Élysées on a two-floor pop-up takeover featuring products related to Gagosian artists. On the first floor, the Coin Culture section will feature catalogues, posters, apparel, and audio productions. The second floor, the Library, will house an additional selection of limited-edition books, publications, and catalogues raisonnés.

Download the full press release in English (PDF) or French (PDF)

Tuesday, October 29, 2019, 7–8pm
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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Since the late 1990s, Katharina Grosse has sprayed prismatic swaths of color onto architectural structures, objects, and landscapes, eroding the distinction between two and three dimensions to create immersive visual experiences. On the occasion of her exhibition Mural: Jackson Pollock | Katharina Grosse, on view at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Grosse will discuss her work to date, including her newly commissioned painting for the exhibition, with Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Caroline A. Jones. To attend the free event, reserve tickets at www.mfa.org.

Wednesday, November 29, 2017, 7pm
Camberwell College of Arts, London
www.southlondongallery.org

Katharina Grosse will discuss her practice and current solo exhibition at the South London Gallery as part of the Open-Talks series. Conceived by the South London Gallery and the Camberwell College of Arts, this series offers an alternative curriculum that synthesizes the current interests and research focus of both institutions. To attend the event, purchase tickets at www.tripgiving.uk.

Sunday, October 1, 2017, 8pm
South London Gallery
www.southlondongallery.org

Katharina Grosse and musician Stefan Schneider present the UK premiere of Tiergarten, a performance based upon material from their recent collaborative LP named after the park in central Berlin. Playing together, the artists move between analogue synthesizers and spoken word, “interacting, communicating, contemplating, complementing each other through their instruments and intuitions.”

To book, call +44 20 7703 6120

Each year at their annual gala, the Hirshhorn celebrates incredible artists from around the world who throughout their careers continue to challenge and inspire. This year Hirshhorn director Melissa Chiu is proud to honor thirty-one outstanding female artists—from pioneers of performance and video art to emerging painters and sculptors—whose collective contributions to the field have transformed the way we look at art and set the stage for generations of creative talents yet to come. Artists to be honored include Rachel Feinstein, Katharina Grosse, Taryn Simon, and Tatiana Trouvé. The gala will take place on November 6 at Lincoln Center in New York. 

The new Gagosian Quarterly offers unprecedented behind-the-art access, and insightful editorials by leading art world professionals. The Spring 2017 launch issue features a cover by Rudolf Stingel, along with articles on Pablo Picasso, Jeff Koons, Cy Twombly, and Taryn Simon. Highlights include conversations with Katy Siegel and Christopher Wool, Nicolas Berggruen, Katharina Grosse, Thomas Houseago, Alex Israel and Bret Easton Ellis, among others.