Works by Elmgreen & Dragset, Katharina Grosse and Beatriz Milhazes are featured in MINEBANE! Contemporary Art - The Taguchi Art Collection, a group exhibition at Akita Museum of Art and Akita Senshu Museum of Art in Japan. The exhibition takes the term ‘Minebane’ – a word used in Akita dialect meaning ‘must-see’ – as its starting point, and explores themes of nature, humanity, monochrome and colour. Carefully selected from the Taguchi Art Collection, the presentation displays around 100 works by some 80 artists, including painting, photography, sculpture and video art, across two different spaces.

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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.

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Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, will present Katharina Grosse’s Wunderbild, a walk-in installation consisting of two ceiling-high panels up to 60 metres long, which can be viewed from both sides. Originally created for the Messepalast of the National Gallery in Prague, Grosse has adapted the spectacular installation for the Deichtorhallen's 3,000 square meter Hall of Contemporary Art and expanded it with a sound installation produced for the exhibition.

The large-format installation will be complemented by a new work developed for the exhibition as well as individual paintings, a film, and archival materials consisting of sketches and studies of her works. As a result, viewers are encouraged to explore Grosse’s boundary-breaking practice and question what it means to experience art directly and to make painting physically tangible.

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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.’

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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