Katharina Grosse’s solo institutional exhibition Black Bed will open at MUNCH, Oslo, this autumn. The exhibition title is taken from a new installation that reimagines one of Grosse’s seminal pieces, Das Bett, 2004, in which the artist spray-painted her bedroom in Düsseldorf, along with her furniture, clothes and belongings, destroying them in the process of creating the work.

Grosse describes Black Bed as connecting to the emotional and psychological themes of life and death in the work of Edvard Munch. In preparation for this exhibition, Grosse will spend time working in Munch’s studio at Ekely in Oslo, creating new works that add another dimension to the dialogue between the two artists.

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Katharina Grosse presents Fünfunddreißig Jahre Schönheit, 2026, the artist’s third edition made in collaboration with TEXTE ZUR KUNST. Individually painted using the artist’s celebrated ‘spraying’ technique, the edition marks the magazine’s 35th anniversary. Grosse has taken back issues of the magazine as substrates for 35 unique and characteristically colorful paintings. From an edition of 35 + 5 AP, each piece is unique.

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Katharina Grosse’s work is the subject of a solo exhibition at La Llotja de Palma. For Arrels, Grosse creates a site-specific intervention within one of Palma’s most significant historical buildings. Transforming La Llotja into an active field of experience, Grosse uses colour to unify disparate elements, alter perception and generate a multisensory immersion in space. The exhibition is jointly organised by the Government of the Balearic Islands and Es Baluard Museu d’Art Contemporani de Palma.

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Work by Katharina Grosse is presented in the group exhibition Sweeter than Honey. A Panorama of Written Art, at Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich. Bringing together a selection of scriptural and text-based works from the institution’s collection, the exhibition presents writing as both an artistic medium and material from the mid-20th century to the present day. Drawing on art’s poetic power to convey and impart knowledge, Sweeter than Honey highlights a dynamic, socio-political dialogue between artists from a cross-cultural, global perspective.

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Katharina Grosse’s monumental artwork bLINK – a pink boulder the size of a three-storey building – emerges from the railway bridge of the West Link in Gothenburg. Through bLINK, Grosse invites the viewer to imagine a giant spotlight directing a pink light beam towards the ground. All the surfaces that are hit by the fictitious cone of light are engulfed in pink: the railway bridge, trusses, pavement, footpath and cycle lane. The project was commissioned by Public Art Agency Sweden and the Swedish Transportation Administration, as part of the artistic design of the West Link.

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The Staatsgalerie Stuttgart presents a solo exhibition focusing on the three-dimensional work of Katharina Grosse. Celebrated for her unique, spatial paintings, this exhibition offers the first comprehensive overview to include her lesser known body of plastic and sculptural work, shedding light on the beginnings of the internationally renowned painter’s career – from the 1980s to the present day.

From the artist’s early works of the 1980s through to the latest canvases, sculptures and in-situ works, The Sprayed Dear showcases Grosse’s diverse oeuvre and the inexhaustible range of materials on which she has painted, allowing her to redefine the possibilities of art.

Staatsgalerie Stuttgart

Katharina Grosse has unveiled her first ever work in glass, Ein Glas Wasser, bitte (A Glass of Water, Please), developed especially for the Museum Reinhard Ernst in Wiesbaden. Comprising a large stained-glass wall weighing several tonnes, the work harnesses the complementary colours blue and orange to examine ‘how these colours mix, cross, repel, disturb and enrich each other in a watery state.’ As the artist states: ‘This energy has a transformational power that can inspire and excite all who are in front of or behind the glass wall. It shows that the world is in flux.’

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