Katharina Grosse

Katharina Grosse’s oeuvre has continued to occupy one of the most important positions in international painting since the early 1990s. Constant innovation and variable perspectives run through her ideas and work, in which she systematically questions and expands the notion of painting in a remarkable way. Grosse says recently in an interview with Louise Neri, “painting allows me the most direct transmission of thinking into action, my paintings are the direct physical residue of my thinking.” She first began using various paint brushes before she began primarily working with a spray paint gun in 1998 to heighten our awareness of painting as a relational, spatial, fundamentally performative phenomenon under conditions of radical subjectivity.

KATHARINA GROSSE born in 1961 in Freiburg, Breisgau, Germany, lives and works in Berlin. She was awarded in 2003 the Fred-Thieler-Prize, in 2014 the Oskar-Schlemmer-Prize – the Grand State Prize of Baden-Württemberg and in 2015 the Otto-Ritschl-Kunstpreis.