Work

  • Ohne Titel, 2018 • acrylic on canvas, 240 x 157 cm
    Ohne Titel, 2018 • acrylic on canvas, 240 x 157 cm
  • Ohne Titel, 2001 • acrylic on aluminium, 76 x 56 cm
    Ohne Titel, 2001 • acrylic on aluminium, 76 x 56 cm
  • Unpainting, 2017 • Installation view at the Art Gallery NSW, Sydney, Australia (AUS)
    Unpainting, 2017 • Installation view at the Art Gallery NSW, Sydney, Australia (AUS)
  • Katharina Grosse, 2016 • Installation view for MoMA PS1’s Rockaway! series, New York, USA
    Katharina Grosse, 2016 • Installation view for MoMA PS1’s Rockaway! series, New York, USA

News

Katharina Grosse x Gotthard Graubner

Nov 1, 2019 – Jan 26, 2020

Summit meeting between two great painters: Works by the internationally acclaimed painter Katharina Grosse (*1961) are juxtaposed with the famous “bodies of colour space” by Gotthard Graubner (1930-2013). Two abstract artists from two generations, each adopting a very different artistic approach, being interlinked with each other due to the years both spent at the Düsseldorf Academy of the Arts during the 1980s and the belief in the existential power of colour. The outcome is an exhibition of “attracting opposites” and an intense dialogue of colour painting.

Mural: Jackson Pollock | Katharina Grosse

Jul 1, 2019 – Feb 23, 2020

Stretching nearly twenty feet wide by eight feet high, Mural (1943) is the largest painting Jackson Pollock (1912–1956) ever made, and it proved a breakthrough for the artist. Across the painting’s dense and vibrant surface, Pollock’s bold brushstrokes appear to dance rhythmically. Today, Mural is recognized as one of the pivotal achievements of Pollock’s career, the moment when he left figuration behind, expanded the scale of his work, and started to develop his signature drip technique. “I took one look at it,” the critic Clement Greenberg later said, “and I knew Jackson was the greatest painter this country had produced.”

At the MFA, Mural is presented alongside a newly commissioned work by German painter Katharina Grosse (b. 1961). Known for her large-scale site-related installations, Grosse is one of the most important painters of her generation. Since the late 1990s, she has used an industrial paint-sprayer to apply prismatic swaths of color to a variety of surfaces, eroding the distinction between two and three dimensions to create immersive visual experiences.

The unprecedented pairing of Pollock and Grosse’s work demonstrates how the artists have each transformed painting through their innovative techniques and approaches to color on a massive scale.

The Way We Are 1.0

Mar 30, 2019 – Jan 5, 2020

Opening: Mar 29, 2019, 7 pm

Starting at the end of March 2019, the collection presentation “The Way We Are 1.0” will be featured on two floors constituting more than half of the overall exhibition space of the Weserburg. The exhibition includes works from a large number of collections, some of which have enjoyed a long association with the institution while others are new additions; also on display will be works from the Weserburg’s own collection as well as loans by artists who will be participating in a show at the Weserburg for the first time. The Way We Are 1.0 investigates more than one hundred and forty works by eighty artists from various contexts and times with regard to both their contents and their form. This focus gives rise to a succession of spaces which identify the thread connecting works of art from the 1960s all the way to today and which approach the themes of these works from various perspectives. The exhibition tracks down images of nature or special aspects of daily life; it explores such themes as the body, time or memory; it turns its attention to urban spaces or characteristics of language; and it presents fundamental positions of painterly abstraction or minimalist formal language.

Gallery Exhibitions

Group Show (Adieu Gessnerallee!)

Jan 15 – Mar 12, 2011