Katharina Grosse
b. 1961
Katharina Grosse was born in 1961 in Freiburg im Breisgau and lives and works in Berlin. She studied at the art academies in Münster and Düsseldorf. From 2000 to 2010 she was a professor at Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee, and from 2010 to 2018 she taught painting at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. Grosse became known for her large-scale in situ paintings. For these she applies paint with a spray gun directly onto walls, floors, architecture and landscape. The first of these works was made in 1998 at Kunsthalle Bern. She also paints on canvas in the studio. Her work has been shown at venues including Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart in Berlin, MoMA PS1's Rockaway! series in New York, Carriageworks in Sydney, Centre Pompidou-Metz and the 56th Biennale di Venezia. Her works are held in collections including the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Centre Pompidou in Paris. In 2014 she received the Oskar Schlemmer Prize.
Works
Biography
Education 1982–1986 Kunstakademie Münster, Münster 1986–1990 Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf Solo exhibitions (selection) 2025 Wunderbild, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg 2025 The Sprayed Dear, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart 2024 Déplacer les étoiles, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz 2023 Warum Drei Töne Kein Dreieck Bilden, Albertina, Vienna 2022 Studio Paintings, 1988–2022, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis 2021 Chill Seeping from the Walls Gets between Us, HAM – Helsinki Art Museum, Helsinki 2020 It Wasn't Us, Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin 2018 The Horse Trotted Another Couple of Metres, Then It Stopped, Carriageworks, Sydney 2018 Wunderbild, National Gallery Prague, Prague 2016 Rockaway!, MoMA PS1, Fort Tilden, New York 2014 psychylustro, City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program, Philadelphia 2010 One Floor Up More Highly, MASS MoCA, North Adams Group exhibitions (selection) 2019 Frozen Gesture, Kunst Museum Winterthur, Winterthur 2017 Unpainting, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney 2017 Paint on. Dimensions of the Painterly, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich 2015 All the World's Futures, 56th Biennale di Venezia, Venice 2013 Wall Works, Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin 2006 Tokyo-Berlin/Berlin-Tokyo, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo 2006 Taipei Biennial, Taipei 2005 Extreme Abstraction, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo 2002 25th Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo 2002 Urgent Painting, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris 2000 Preis der Nationalgalerie für junge Kunst, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin 1998 Every Day, 11th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney Awards 2015 Otto Ritschl Art Prize 2014 Oskar Schlemmer Prize (Grand State Prize for Visual Arts of Baden-Württemberg) 2003 Fred Thieler Prize for Painting, Berlin 2002 Andy Warhol Residency Award, Headlands Center for the Arts, San Francisco 2001 Artist in Residence, Elam School of Fine Arts, Auckland 1999 Artist in Residence, Chinati Foundation, Marfa 1995 Grant from Stiftung Kunstfonds, Bonn 1993 Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Grant 1992 Villa Romana Prize, Florence Collections Museum of Modern Art, New York Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Centre Pompidou, Paris Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart Publications 2025 Katharina Grosse: The Sprayed Dear, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart 2024 Katharina Grosse: Déplacer les étoiles, Centre Pompidou-Metz 2023 Katharina Grosse: Warum Drei Töne Kein Dreieck Bilden / Why Three Tones Do Not Form a Triangle, Albertina, Vienna 2022 Katharina Grosse: Studio Paintings 1988–2022. Returns, Revisions, Inventions, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum / Kunstmuseum Bern / Kunstmuseum Bonn 2022 Separatrix, artist's book with Alexander Kluge 2020 Katharina Grosse: It Wasn't Us, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin 2018 Katharina Grosse: Mumbling Mud, chi K11 art museum, Shanghai 2015 Katharina Grosse: psychylustro, City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program, Philadelphia 2014 Katharina Grosse: Inside the Speaker, Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf 2013 Katharina Grosse, monograph, edited by Ulrich Loock and Annika Reich 2012 Katharina Grosse: One Floor Up More Highly, MASS MoCA, North Adams 2009 Katharina Grosse: Atoms Inside Balloons, Renaissance Society, Chicago