Katharina Grosse
Katharina Grosse is known for large-scale, immersive paintings that transform architecture and space through vibrant colour and sprayed pigment. Her work dissolves boundaries between painting and environment, defined by movement, scale, and perception. These signed Katharina Grosse prints and editions translate her distinctive painterly language into collectible artworks.
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Katharina Grosse (born 1961 in Freiburg, Germany) is one of the most influential German contemporary painters, celebrated for her monumental spray-painted installations that transform architectural spaces, landscapes, and objects into immersive fields of colour. Working primarily with an industrial spray gun rather than a brush, Grosse creates large-scale artworks that dissolve the boundaries between painting, sculpture, and architecture — extending painting into three-dimensional space and creating environments where colour becomes a physical presence.
Grosse's artworks are characterised by their explosive chromatic intensity and radical engagement with site and context. She applies vibrant, layered sprays of acrylic paint directly onto walls, floors, soil, buildings, and found objects, creating installations that envelop viewers in saturated colour fields. This approach transforms painting from a static, framed object into a dynamic spatial experience that activates entire environments — work she has described as a form of tender aggression, close and immediate rather than held at arm's length.
Printmaking also plays an important role in her practice. Katharina Grosse prints and limited editions translate her investigations into colour, gesture, and spatial dynamics into highly collectible formats. These artworks capture the chromatic intensity and gestural energy of her larger installations while functioning as autonomous works for collectors worldwide.
Throughout her career, Grosse has remained committed to expanding the possibilities of painting beyond traditional supports. Her installations, paintings, prints, and editions continue to challenge viewers to reconsider the relationship between colour, space, and perception.
Katharina Grosse's exhibition history reflects her central position within contemporary painting and installation art. She has participated in major international exhibitions including the Venice Biennale (2003, 2015) and documenta in Kassel (2009), establishing her reputation as a leading figure in spatial painting.
Major solo exhibitions have been staged at institutions worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York (2020), which presented Rockaway!, a monumental outdoor installation on the city's Rockaway peninsula. Additional landmark exhibitions include the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin (2008), MASS MoCA in North Adams, Massachusetts (2015), and the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas (2018).
More recently, Grosse has continued to expand her international presence with CHOIR, a sprawling public commission covering the façade and Messeplatz of Art Basel (2025); Wunderbild at Deichtorhallen Hamburg (2025); and The Sprayed Dear, a major solo exhibition at the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart running into 2026. Alongside these institutional projects, her work has been presented at Gagosian Gallery locations worldwide and at the South London Gallery (2022).
Her artworks — including Katharina Grosse prints, screenprints, and signed limited editions — are held in major international collections, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Tate Modern in London, and the Kunstmuseum Bonn.
Katharina Grosse (born 1961 in Freiburg, Germany) is one of the most influential German contemporary painters, celebrated for her monumental spray-painted installations that transform architectural spaces, landscapes, and objects into immersive fields of colour. Working primarily with an industrial spray gun rather than a brush, Grosse creates large-scale artworks that dissolve the boundaries between painting, sculpture, and architecture — extending painting into three-dimensional space and creating environments where colour becomes a physical presence.
Grosse's artworks are characterised by their explosive chromatic intensity and radical engagement with site and context. She applies vibrant, layered sprays of acrylic paint directly onto walls, floors, soil, buildings, and found objects, creating installations that envelop viewers in saturated colour fields. This approach transforms painting from a static, framed object into a dynamic spatial experience that activates entire environments — work she has described as a form of tender aggression, close and immediate rather than held at arm's length.
Printmaking also plays an important role in her practice. Katharina Grosse prints and limited editions translate her investigations into colour, gesture, and spatial dynamics into highly collectible formats. These artworks capture the chromatic intensity and gestural energy of her larger installations while functioning as autonomous works for collectors worldwide.
Throughout her career, Grosse has remained committed to expanding the possibilities of painting beyond traditional supports. Her installations, paintings, prints, and editions continue to challenge viewers to reconsider the relationship between colour, space, and perception.
Katharina Grosse's exhibition history reflects her central position within contemporary painting and installation art. She has participated in major international exhibitions including the Venice Biennale (2003, 2015) and documenta in Kassel (2009), establishing her reputation as a leading figure in spatial painting.
Major solo exhibitions have been staged at institutions worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York (2020), which presented Rockaway!, a monumental outdoor installation on the city's Rockaway peninsula. Additional landmark exhibitions include the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin (2008), MASS MoCA in North Adams, Massachusetts (2015), and the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas (2018).
More recently, Grosse has continued to expand her international presence with CHOIR, a sprawling public commission covering the façade and Messeplatz of Art Basel (2025); Wunderbild at Deichtorhallen Hamburg (2025); and The Sprayed Dear, a major solo exhibition at the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart running into 2026. Alongside these institutional projects, her work has been presented at Gagosian Gallery locations worldwide and at the South London Gallery (2022).
Her artworks — including Katharina Grosse prints, screenprints, and signed limited editions — are held in major international collections, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Tate Modern in London, and the Kunstmuseum Bonn.
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