11 Facts About Katharina Grosse

Katharina Grosse was born on 2 October 1961 and is a German visual artist.

Katharina Grosse is known for her large-scale, site-related installations to create immersive visual experiences.

Katharina Grosse has been using an industrial paint-sprayer to apply prismatic swaths of color to a variety of surfaces since the late 1990s, and often uses bright, unmixed sprayed-on acrylic paints to create both large-scale sculptural elements and smaller wall works.

Katharina Grosse was born in 1961 in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany.

Katharina Grosse studied at the Kunstakademie Munster from 1982 to 1986, and Kunstakademie Dusseldorf from 1986 to 1990.

Katharina Grosse has been commissioned with various site-specific installations, including for the Federal Labour Court in Erfurt Gate 122 of Terminal 1 at Toronto Pearson International Airport in Toronto and the German Parliament in Berlin.

Katharina Grosse was a professor of painting at the Kunstakademie Dusseldorf from 2010 to 2018.

Since 2021, Katharina Grosse has been chairing the board of KW Institute for Contemporary Art.

Katharina Grosse is represented by Galerie Max Hetzler and Gagosian Gallery.

Katharina Grosse has been living and working in Berlin since 2000.

Katharina Grosse's work is held in several permanent collections, including the following:.