Katharina Grosse has been commissioned to produce a large-scale, site-responsive installation for the Messeplatz Project at Art Basel 2025. Widely known for her immersive environments of explosive colour sprayed directly onto architecture, interiors and landscapes, Grosse will transform the city’s Messeplatz and its surrounding architecture into a vivid, chromatic experience. The work will be situated outside the exhibition hall as part of this special project, curated this year by Natalia Grabowska, Curator at Large of architecture and site-specific projects at the Serpentine Gallery in London.

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.’

Museum Reinhard Ernst

For her exhibition Shifting the Stars, Katharina Grosse will occupy the Centre Pompidou-Metz’s monumental Grande Nef, a space that soars to a height of more than 20 metres. Some 8000 m² of fabric suspended from the ceiling by enormous knots will form a new space inside the gallery, taking the form of billowing drapery whose exuberant colours and energy will spill out from the Grande Nef onto the forecourt of the Centre Pompidou-Metz. The exhibition invites visitors to pass through a screen of paint,  plunging them into Grosse’s world of colour and movement.

Centre Pompidou Metz

Published in conjunction with the artist’s first solo exhibition at Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin: Spectrum Without Traces, 17 March – 30 April 2023.

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