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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Larissa Kikol will be reading from her new publication Neue Abstrakte Malerei on Saturday, 8 August, at Galerie Max Hetzler’s location at Bleibtreustrasse 45, Berlin. Spanning the innovations of artists such as Katharina Grosse, Albert Oehlen and André Butzer, as well as recent movements including Dirty Minimalism and Post-Vandalism, the book offers insights into modes of painting that place emotion, colour and form at their core. Neue Abstrakte Malerei is published by DCV Books, Berlin. Please note the reading will be held in German.

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Works by Matthew Barney, Katharina Grosse and Thomas Struth are included in A Thousand Times Berlin at the Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin. Marking the museum’s 30th anniversary, this exhibition presents a new iteration of the collection focusing on Berlin’s art scene in global dialogue from 1989 to today. Featuring over 70 works by more than 50 artists, including paintings, drawings, sculptures, photographs and video installations, the exhibition reflects Berlin’s myth of hedonism and subculture in an international context.

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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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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 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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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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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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