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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

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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

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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

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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
helsinkibiennaali.fi

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

Installation view, Sphinx Opera, Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich, June 24–July 31, 2021. Artwork © Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany 2021. Photo: Wilfried Hösl

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Sphinx Opera

June 24–July 31, 2021
Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich
www.staatsoper.de

This exhibition visualizes significant productions, faces, and voices that have shaped the Bayerische Staatsoper, or the Bavarian State Opera, in Munich. Over the past thirteen years, writer and filmmaker Alexander Kluge has filmed the goings-on at the renowned opera house under Nikolaus Bachler’s directorship. Work by artists including Georg Baselitz and Katharina Grosse are presented alongside Kluge’s video works and bring the interaction of the arts to the center of attention in an unconventional way.

Installation view, Sphinx Opera, Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich, June 24–July 31, 2021. Artwork © Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany 2021. Photo: Wilfried Hösl

Katharina Grosse, The Horse Trotted a Little Bit Further, 2020, installation view, Fondazione Merz, Turin, Italy, © Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany 2021. Photo: courtesy Fondazione Merz

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Katharina Grosse in
Push the Limits

September 7, 2020–February 28, 2021
Fondazione Merz, Turin, Italy
www.fondazionemerz.org

Push the Limits is an exhibition that investigates how art probes cultural, geographical, sexual, social, and visual limits to expand horizons of thinking, perception, and speech. Each work on display is a push forward in a space where current codes of behavior are suspended and transformation becomes possible. Work by Katharina Grosse is included.

Katharina Grosse, The Horse Trotted a Little Bit Further, 2020, installation view, Fondazione Merz, Turin, Italy, © Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany 2021. Photo: courtesy Fondazione Merz

Katharina Grosse, It Wasn’t Us, 2020, installation view, Hamburger Bahnhof–Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin © Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany 2020. Photo: Jens Ziehe

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Katharina Grosse
It Wasn’t Us

June 14, 2020–January 10, 2021
Hamburger Bahnhof–Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin
www.smb.museum

Katharina Grosse will use the historical hall of the Hamburger Bahnhof and the outdoor area behind the building as the site for a new work that radically destabilizes and renegotiates the existing order of the space of the museum. Incorporating the floor of the hall and Styrofoam sculptural elements as a pictorial ground, her painting will extend beyond the building’s walls and into public space, inviting us to reconsider our habits of seeing, thinking, and perceiving.

Katharina Grosse, It Wasn’t Us, 2020, installation view, Hamburger Bahnhof–Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin © Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany 2020. Photo: Jens Ziehe

Installation view, Katharina Grosse: Is It You?, Baltimore Museum of Art, March 1, 2020–January 3, 2021. Artwork © Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany 2020. Photo: Mitro Hood, courtesy Baltimore Museum of Art

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Katharina Grosse
Is It You?

March 1, 2020–January 3, 2021
Baltimore Museum of Art
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For this exhibition Katharina Grosse presents five recent paintings and a new site-related environment. The central gallery is transformed with an expansive, immersive fabric installation that is partially suspended from the ceiling, creating a cloth “room” with vibrantly painted undulating walls.

Installation view, Katharina Grosse: Is It You?, Baltimore Museum of Art, March 1, 2020–January 3, 2021. Artwork © Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany 2020. Photo: Mitro Hood, courtesy Baltimore Museum of Art

Katharina Grosse, Stage 2—The Profit, 2019 © VG Bild-Kunst Bonn, 2020

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Katharina Grosse in
Alexander Kluge: The Power of Music / The Opera: Temple of Seriousness

October 20, 2019–April 19, 2020
Kunsthalle Weishaupt and Museum Ulm, Germany
museumulm.de

At the core of this exhibition was the power of music, which reaches special levels of expression in opera. The emotional power of socially relevant themes was explored through film, science, literature, and art, including work by Katharina Grosse.

Katharina Grosse, Stage 2—The Profit, 2019 © VG Bild-Kunst Bonn, 2020

Installation view, Mural: Jackson Pollock | Katharina Grosse, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, July 1, 2019–February 23, 2020. Artwork, left to right: © 2020 The Pollock-Krasner Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; © Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst Bonn, 2020

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Mural
Jackson Pollock | Katharina Grosse

July 1, 2019–February 23, 2020
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
www.mfa.org

Jackson Pollock’s Mural (1943) is recognized as one of the pivotal achievements of the artist’s career, the moment when he left figuration behind, expanded the scale of his work, and started to develop his signature drip technique. The MFA has commissioned German artist Katharina Grosse to respond to this work, in an effort to demonstrate how the two artists have respectively transformed painting through their innovative techniques and approaches to massive scale.

Installation view, Mural: Jackson Pollock | Katharina Grosse, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, July 1, 2019–February 23, 2020. Artwork, left to right: © 2020 The Pollock-Krasner Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; © Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst Bonn, 2020

Katharina Grosse, Untitled, 2018 © Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2019

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Farbe absolut
Katharina Grosse × Gotthard Graubner

November 1, 2019–January 26, 2020
MKM Museum Küppersmühle für Moderne Kunst, Duisburg, Germany
www.museum-kueppersmuehle.de

Work by Katharina Grosse is juxtaposed with work by Gotthard Graubner (1930–2013) to show how the two abstract artists from different generations adopted varied artistic approaches to color. Both artists spent time at the Düsseldorf Academy of the Arts during the 1980s.

Katharina Grosse, Untitled, 2018 © Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2019

Katharina Grosse, Untitled, 2011 © Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst Bonn, 2019

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Frozen Gesture
Gesten in der Malerei

May 18–August 18, 2019
Kunst Museum Winterthur, Switzerland
www.kmw.ch

In 1965 Roy Lichtenstein created his famous Brushstrokes and in doing so highlighted the fundamental elements of the image, such as the appearance of the colors and the pigment, the color fields and their limits, and not least the application of paint in the form of a gesture. This exhibition aims to explore the sheer range of gestures in contemporary painting. Work by Katharina Grosse, Roy Lichtenstein, and David Reed is included.

Katharina Grosse, Untitled, 2011 © Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst Bonn, 2019

Katharina Grosse, Untitled, 2014 © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2019

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Katharina Grosse in
In Bester Gesellschaft

April 13–August 4, 2019
Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin
www.smb.museum

In bester Gesellschaft, which translates to In Good Company, presents a selection of the Berlin Kupferstichkabinett’s most important acquisitions from the past ten years, ranging from those dating to the late Middle Ages to recent works. Work by Katharina Grosse is included.

Katharina Grosse, Untitled, 2014 © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2019

Katharina Grosse, Untitled, 2015 © Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst Bonn, 2019

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Katharina Grosse in
German Forest

May 23, 2017–June 12, 2019
Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Germany
albertinum.skd.museum

This exhibition of works from the first half of the nineteenth century brings together works from the collection of Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden related to themes of forests, trees, and hunting. A monumental work by Katharina Grosse appears alongside these Romantic and early Realist paintings, acting as both a corrective to and shift away from the earlier work.

Katharina Grosse, Untitled, 2015 © Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst Bonn, 2019

Installation view, Katharina Grosse: Mumbling Mud, chi K11 art museum, Shanghai, November 10, 2018–February 24, 2019. Artwork © Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst Bonn, 2019. Photo: JJYPHOTO, courtesy K11 Art Foundation and Galerie nächst St. Stephan, Vienna

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Katharina Grosse
Mumbling Mud

March 30–June 2, 2019
Guangzhou K11 Art Mall, China
www.k11artfoundation.org

Guangzhou’s K11 Art Mall hosts a major exhibition originally created by Katharina Grosse for Shanghai’s chi K11 art museum.

Installation view, Katharina Grosse: Mumbling Mud, chi K11 art museum, Shanghai, November 10, 2018–February 24, 2019. Artwork © Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst Bonn, 2019. Photo: JJYPHOTO, courtesy K11 Art Foundation and Galerie nächst St. Stephan, Vienna

Katharina Grosse, Untitled, 2017, installation view, Amulet or He calls it chaos, 500 Capp Street Foundation, San Francisco, March 9–June 1, 2019. Artwork © Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst Bonn, 2019. Photo: Preston/Kalogiros 

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Amulet or He calls it chaos

March 9–June 1, 2019
500 Capp Street Foundation, San Francisco
500cappstreet.org

This two-part exhibition uses sculpture, video, and painting as a way to restructure the narrative. Amulet or He calls it chaos chooses the illogical, philosophical, yet recognizable material world of magical realism, while also addressing the power and sensitivity of architecture, gender, politics, and mortality. Work by Katharina Grosse and Cindy Sherman is included.

Katharina Grosse, Untitled, 2017, installation view, Amulet or He calls it chaos, 500 Capp Street Foundation, San Francisco, March 9–June 1, 2019. Artwork © Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst Bonn, 2019. Photo: Preston/Kalogiros