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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Works by Katharina Grosse and Karel Appel are 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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Works by André Butzer, Günther Förg, Katharina Grosse, Julian Schnabel and Grace Weaver feature in the group show I Will Look Into The Earth, at the Kunsthalle Helsinki, which opens on 1 November. Featuring over 100 works by more than 50 artists from the private Miettinen Collection, the exhibition delves into the core themes of landscape, nature and intimacy across historical and contemporary artworks.

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Work by Katharina Grosse will be featured in the exhibition The Scharf Collection. Goya – Monet – Cézanne – Bonnard – Grosse at Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin, from 24 October 2025. The presentation places Grosse’s work in dialogue with pieces by modernist and Impressionist masters from the Scharf Collection, including Claude Monet and Paul Cézanne.

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Work by Katharina Grosse is included in the group show Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection at Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis. Presenting a wide spectrum of artworks spanning almost eight decades, the exhibition juxtaposes contemporary practices with pathbreaking historical works to illuminate transgenerational affinities, influences and methodologies among artists from the postwar era to the present.

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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

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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