15 Jan – 28 Feb 2026
Berlin, Germany
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Katharina Grosse is widely regarded as one of the most influential painters working today, known for a practice that treats color as both material and action. Since the late 1990s, her use of industrial spray techniques has expanded painting beyond the canvas, carrying saturated color across walls, floors, ceilings, and constructed forms. These works position space itself as an active surface, where color operates with physical force and immediacy, shaping perception through scale, speed, and intensity.
Alongside these in-situ interventions, Grosse continues to develop studio paintings that compress this sense of movement onto the canvas. In her recent works, loops of vivid color hover against white ground, creating the impression of suspended motion and layered depth. Balancing chance with control, these paintings explore density, velocity, and the instability of form, remaining resistant to narrative interpretation while sustaining a heightened, immersive visual experience.
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