Katharina Grosse

Katharina Grosse (born 2 October 1961) is a German artist.

Life and education

Grosse was born in 1961 in Freiburg/Breisgau, Germany.

She studied at the art academies in Münster and Dusseldorf, taught at the Art Academy Berlin-Weissensee from 2000 to 2010, and has been a professor of painting at the Dusseldorf Art Academy since 2010.^[1]

Grosse lives and works in Berlin.

Public commissions (selected)

• Untitled, Greater Toronto Airports Authority (2003)^[2]
• Seven Days Time, Kunstmuseum Bonn (2011)^[3]
• Blue Orange, Vara Bahnhof, Sweden (2012 design)^[4]
• Just Two Of Us, MetroTech Commons, Public Art Fund, New York (2013)^[5]
• Untitled, Ehrenhof Dusseldorf (2014)
• Untitled, The Cologne Public Transport Company - KVB, stop Chlodwigplatz , Cologne (2015)
• Untitled, Marie-Elisabeth-Lüders-Haus, Berlin (commissioned by Federal Republic of Germany for House of Representatives) (2015)
• Untitled, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, USA (commissioned by the Gary M. Sumers Recreation Center) (2016)^[6]
• Rockaway!, for MoMA PS1, Fort Tilden, NY (2016)^[7]

Collections

Grosse's work is held in the following permament collections:

• Museum of Modern Art, New York
• QAGOMA, Brisbane, Australia
• Pérez Art Museum Miami, FL
• İstanbul Modern, Turkey
• Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris

Awards

• Villa Romana Prize, Florence, Italy (1992)
• Schmidt-Rottluff Stipend, Germany (1993)
• Stiftung Kunstfonds Bonn, Germany (1995)
• The Chinati Foundation's Artist in Residence program, Marfa, TX, USA (1999 )
• Artist in Residence at Elam School of Fine Art program, Auckland, New Zealand (2001)
• Andy Warhol Residency Award, Headlands Foundation, San Francisco, CA, USA (2002)
• Fred Thieler Award, Berlin (2003)
• Oskar-Schlemmer-Award, Great State Prize for Visual Arts of Baden-Wuerttemberg (2014)
• Otto-Ritschl-Kunstpreis (2015)

Publications (catalogues)

• Location, Location, Location. Contributions by Steffen Bodekker, Roman Kurzmeyer, Judy Millar, Retrograde Strategies Cooperative, Angela Schneider, Beat Wismer, Dusseldorf, 2002.
• Katharina Grosse. Kunstverein Ruhr. Contribution by Peter Friese, Essen 2002.
• Cool Puppen / Der weisse Saal trifft sich im Wald / Ich wüsste jetzt nichts. Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, München; Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, St. Gallen; Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kiel. Contributions by Marion Ackermann, Beate Ermacora, Jonathan Watkins, Roland Wäspe, Wolfratshausen 2002.
• Katharina Grosse. Fred Thieler Preis für Malerei 2003. Berlinische Galerie, Berlin. Contribution by Armin Zweite, Berlin 2003.
• Infinite Logic Conference. Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Sweden. Contributions by Richard Julin, Lars Mikael Raattamaa, Stockholm 2004.
• Double Floor Painting. Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, Denmark. Contributions by Lene Burkard, Tor Nørretranders, Cecilie Bepler, Odense 2004.
• Holey Residue. de Appel, Amsterdam. Contribution by Janneke Wesseling, Amsterdam 2006.
• Picture Park. Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art. Contributions by Nicholas Chambers, Robert Leonard, Brisbane 2007.
• The Poise of the Head und die anderen folgen. Kunstmuseum Bochum. Contributions by Hans Gunther Golinski and Katharina Grosse, Nuremberg 2007.
• Atoms Outside Eggs. Museu de Arte Contemporânea (Fundação de Serralves), Porto. Contributions by Leonhard Emmerling, Ulrich Loock, Porto 2007.
• Another Man Who Has Dropped his Paintbrush. Galleria Civica di Modena. Contributions by Arno Brandlhuber & Katharina Grosse, Milovan Farronato, Angela Vettese, Cologne 2008.
• The Flowershow / SKROW NO REPAP. FRAC Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand. Contribution by Jean-Charles Vergne, Cologne 2008.
• Ich wünsche mir ein grosses Atelier im Zentrum der Stadt. Contributions by Georg Augustin, Laura Bieger, Andreas Denk, Ulrich Loock, Philip Ursprung, Baden, Switzerland 2009.
• Shadowbox. Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin. Contributions by Laura Bieger, Katja Blomberg, Uta Degner, Antje Dietze, Alexander Koch, Gerd G. Kopper, Cologne 2009.
• Atoms Inside Balloons. The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, Chicago, ILL, USA. Contributions by David Hilbert, Nana Last and Hamza Walker, Chicago 2009.
• Barbara und Katharina Grosse. Museum für Neue Kunst Freiburg. Contributions by Walter von Lucadou, Isabel Herda, Nuremberg 2010.
• Transparent Eyeballs. Quadriennale 2010, Kunsthalle Dusseldorf. Contributions by Gregor Jansem, Annika Reich, Uwe Vetter, Dusseldorf 2011.
• Eat child eat. Contribution by Ulrich Wilmes, Berlin, 2011.
• One floor up more highly. MASS MoCA, MA, North Adams, USA. Contribution by Susan Cross, Massachusetts 2012.
• Wunderblock, Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX, USA. Contributions by Jeremy Strick, Catherine Craft, Dallas 2013.
• Katharina Grosse. Monograph. Contributions and published by Ulrich Loock, Annika Reich, Katharina Grosse, Cologne 2013.
• Wer, ich? Wen, Du?. Kunsthaus Graz, Austria. Contributions by Peter Pakesch, Katrin Bucher Trantow, Adam Budak, Graz 2014.
• Inside the Speaker. Museum Kunstpalast, Dusseldorf. Contributions by Dustin Breitenwischer, Philipp Kaiser, Ulrich Loock, Beat Wismer, Cologne 2014.
• psychylustro. City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program. Contributions by Douglas Ashford, Anthony Elms, Jane Golden, Daniel Marcus, Elizabeth Thomas, Cologne 2015.
• Katharina Grosse: Seven Hours, Eight Voices, Three Trees. Museum Wiesbaden. Contributions by Ann Cotten, Dustin Breitenwischer, Jörg Daur, Alexander Klar, Sally McGrane, Teresa Präauer, Annika Reich, Monika Rinck, Cologne, 2015.
• Katharina Grosse. Museum Frieder Burda. Contributions by Helmut Friedel and Katrin Dillkofer (both in German), Cologne, 2016.

See also

• List of German women artists

References