September 2011 / Katharina Grosse on the cover of Art in America



Reiterating her international profile, Gallery Artist Katharina Grosse is on the cover and the feature story of the current issue of Art in America.

The subject of Art in America magazine's September cover story, Chromatic Theatre, the work of German painter and installation artist Katharina Grosse, is currently on view in a major exhibition at Mass MoCA, North Adams, Mass., through Oct. 31. To further explore the aims and endeavours of an artist in the midst of expanding the very definition of painting, the author recently proposed some discerning questions for her in person in New York, and via email from her Berlin studio. Get your copy  or visit their website to read more.

February 2011 / Katharina Grosse Exhibitions

Katharina Grosse continues a busy exhibition schedule with four exhibtions running concurrently. Ellipse is now on at the Quadriennale 2010, Dusseldorf (until July 17) and works are included in Portfolio Berlin 01, Rostock (until March 21). In Stuttgart her work can be seen in the exhibition Kosmos Rudolf Steiner and  her exhibition One Floor Up More Highly is on in Massachusetts (until October 31). (image: One Floor Up More Highly, installation detail)

FEBRUARY 2011 / KATHARINA GROSSE AT MASS MOCA

 

Katharina Grosse: One Floor Up More Highly now on at Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art. "Katharina Grosse is known for the vibrant palette and exuberant gestures of her large-scale canvases and raucous installations which merge painting, sculpture, and architecture. Wielding a spray gun instead of a brush, Grosse often paints directly on the walls, floors, or facades of her exhibition sites, altering the logic and scale of architecture itself. In an effort to liberate her works from the Euclidian space of wall and floor, Grosse also incorporates into her multidimensional paintings a variety of unexpected objects, including beds, clothes, balloons, shaped canvases, and soil. Joining these incongruous elements in a continuous flow of color, Grosse opens up a new path for painting while rearranging conventions, hierarchy, and our very habits of seeing.

At MASS MoCA the artist has applied her atmospheric veils of paint to four mounds of soil which seem to spill from the upper balcony into the enormous space below. Stacks of Styrofoam shards rise out of the seductive mountains of color, mirroring the white of the gallery walls -- the metaphorical canvas of Grosse's tremendous painting. While the sprawling installation provokes associations with a psychedelic, glacial landscape, Grosse's work is not representational. Her electric, sometimes dissonant palette is meant to temper the impulse to read the work as a recognizable image. Instead, the anarchic work embraces a state of ambiguity that allows for alternative ways of processing what is seen - whether in the installation's vast changes in scale or the shifting identities of its components in which mountains become piles of raw pigment and sliced Styrofoam appears tectonic."  (source Mass MoCA website)

The exhibition runs through October 2011. Read an interview with Grosse in Art Forum's 500 Words Column here.



April 2010 / Katharina Grosse: Current and Upcoming exhibitions

Katharina Grosse will be exhibiting in Rudolf Steiner und die Kunst der Gegenwart at the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg next month. The exhibition brings together contemporary artworks which reflect, in some way, the influence of Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925) and a retrospective view of Steiners work. The exhibition runs 13 May - 3 October, 2010 and will travel to Kunstmuseum Stuttgart February 5th - May 22, 2011.

Hello Little Butterfly I Love You Whats Your Name is now on at the Arken Museum of Modern Art. December 12, 2009 - November 7, 2010.

(Image: Hello Little Butterfly I Love You Whats Your Name, 2009, Arken Museum for Modern Art, Denmark. Photo: Anders Sune Berg)



March 2010 I Katharina Grosse - Art Goes Underground



Four internationally renowned artists including Katharina Grosse have been chosen to create artistic concepts for the stations of the new North-South Municipal Railway in Cologne. In conjunction with the new archaeological zone and the distinct architectural design of the new stations by different renowned architects, this art project completes the final realisation and scope of the project. Tue Greenfort, Werner Reiterer, Heimo Zobernig and Katharina Grosse will each create works for stations along the line. Grosse will realise a large, colourful wall painting at Chlodwigplatz station using her spraypainting techniques.

More information can be found on the KVB website.  (image: Grosse installing at Odense)

13. 02. 2009 I Katharina Grosse featured in"Retrospective 1959-2009"
Katharina Grosse will be part of a group exhibition at Den Frie Edition Copenhagen, Copenhagen Denmark.
The show runs from February 14 - March 8, 2009



25. 01. 2009 I Katharina Grosse in Zurich