Katharina Grosse

Katharina Grosse (born 1961, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany) is a German artist who lives and works in Berlin, and is widely known for expanding painting into immersive, site-responsive environments. Working across spray paint, canvas, sculpture, architecture and landscape, she uses vivid colour and sweeping gestures to transform interiors, exteriors and objects into spatial experiences. Her practice frequently addresses perception, scale, surface, movement and the unstable boundary between painting and the built world. Grosse’s work is held in major public collections including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Centre Pompidou, Paris, and other leading European and American institutions, and she has received notable distinctions such as the Karl-Ströher Prize and the Oskar Schlemmer Prize. She is firmly established internationally, with strong institutional recognition and a robust primary market; her secondary market is active but relatively selective, as many of her most ambitious works are site-specific, which makes trading less liquid than for more conventional studio-based painters.