Katharina Grosse and musician Stefan Schneider will perform at the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart on Friday, 9 May, with Farida Amadou and Sofia Jernberg.  Ever since their student days at the Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf in the early 1990s, Grosse and Schneider have been engaged in an ongoing musical dialogue. They develop their performances with electro-acoustic instruments according to their environment, without prior rehearsals.

Farida Amadou (Bass guitar), Katharina Grosse (Synthesizer), Sofia Jernberg (Voice) and Stefan Schneider (Electronics).

Please note admission to this event is free.

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Katharina Grosse will be in conversation with author Annett Gröschner at the Akademie der Künste, Berlin. Their discussion will focus on the history surrounding the Akademie’s current exhibition, Ein Dorf 1950–2022, which explores photography in the Thuringian village of Berka, East Germany, at the end of the Second World War in 1945. Grosse acts as a contemporary ‘witness’ to this exhibition, as her studio was formerly situated in what was previously the cattle combine of the Jeserig Völkerfreundschaft agricultural co-operative from 1961 to 1991. Grosse and Gröschner’s talk will focus on the history of this space, whilst digging into archives, and bringing together a variety of voices and documents to investigate this historically weighty time period.

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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

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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