KATHARINA GROSSE BIOGRAPHY

1961

Born in Freiburg/Breisgau, Germany
Lives and works in Dusseldorf and Berlin

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2007

INCAMERA, Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich, Germany
Serralves, Museu de Arte Contemporanea, Porto
Renaissance Society, Chicago
Queensland Art Gallery South Bank, Brisbane, Queensland

2006

Town and County, Factory of Art and Design, Copenhagen
Contemporary Art Center, Zaha Hadid Building, Cincinnati, OH
Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich
Holey Residue, De Apppel Centre for Contemporary Art, Amsterdam
Galerie Mark Müller, Zürich
Faux Rock, Galeria Helga de Alvear, Madrid

2005

Bee Troot, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Constructions a cru, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
Alumen Chromicum Comp, Solvent Space, Virginia Commonwealth University,
Richmond, VA

2004

Kunsthalle Dusseldorf and Kunstverein fur die Rheinlande and Westfalen, Dusseldorf, Germany
Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense, Denmark
SAFN Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland
Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
Infinite Logic Conference, Magasin 3, Stockholm Konsthall, Sweden
Galeria nachst St. Stephan, Vienna
Galeria Filomena Soares, Lisbon, Portugal
Viafarini, Milan, Italy

2003

Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, California
Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
Galerie Mark Muller, Zurich, Switzerland
Fred Thieler Award, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Galerie Conrads, Dusseldorf, Germany

2002

White Cube, London, England
Kunsthalle Zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany
Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, United Kingdom
Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany
Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, St. Gall, Switzerland

2001

UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California
Georg Fraser Gallery/Billboard, Auckland, New Zealand
Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Artsonje Museum, Kyongju, Korea
Galerie Nächst St. Stephan, Vienna, Austria

2000

Galerie Mark MŸller, Zurich, Switzerland
Galerie Sfeir-Semler, Hamburg, Germany

1999

Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn, Germany
Galerie Barbara Gross, Munich, Germany
Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas

1998

Kunstverein Heilbronn, Germany
Todd Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Projektraum, Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland
Sightspecific, Kunstverein Bremershaven, Germany

1997

Petra Bungert Gallery, New York, New York
Galerie Conrads, Dusseldorf, Germany

1996

Overbeck-Gesellschaft, Lubeck, Germany

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2008

No Room, curated by Sharon Johnston and Mark Lee, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

2006

GERMAN WALL PIECES Seven Scenarios of New German Painting, Museion Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Bolzano, Italy
Berlin-Tokyo/Tokyo-Berlin. The Art of Two Cities, Neue-Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany
Berlin-Tokyo/Tokyo-Berlin. The Art of Two Cities, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Der Blaue Reiter im 21. Jahrhundert. Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich
Taipei Biennial, Taipei

2005

Drawing, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
The Devil’s Punchbowl, Curator, Christopher Grimes Gallery,
Santa Monica, CA
Extreme Abstraction, Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY.

2004

Extreme Abstraction, Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY.
25th Anniversary, The LA Years, Part II, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Final Cuts, Curated by Milvan Farronato, Union Gallery, London, England
raumfürraum, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf and Kunstverein für die Rheinlande and Westfalen, Dusseldorf

2003

Grazie, Schloss Dyck, Juchen, Germany
Final Cuts, Union Projects, London
First Glance, Sammlung Regina und Erich Krian at Museum am
Ostwall in Dortmund
Process, Kiasma, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland.
Painting: 4 Propositions, Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University,
Waltham, MA
Busan Metropoliton Art Museum, South Korea
New abstract painting-painting abstract now, Museum Morsbroich
Leverkusen, Germany
3D, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, curated by Mark Fletcher
Breaking the Charmed Circle, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa
Monica, California
Meyer-Riegger Galerie, Karlsruhe, Germany
Deutschemalereizweitausenddrei, Frankfurt, Germany

2002

Bienal de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Urgent Painting, Musse d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France

2001

Milano Europa 2000, PAC, Milano, Italy
Ex(o)DUS, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel
Casino 2001, SMAK, Gent, Belgium
Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, St. Gall, Switzerland

2000

Zeitwenden, Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, Austria
Bleibe, Akademie der Kunste, Berlin, Germany
Das Gedochtnis der Malerei, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland
Preis der Nationalgalerie fur junge Kunst, Nationalgalerie im Hamburger
Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany
Dr. Paint, Galerie Monika Reitz, Frankfurt, Germany
Pictures at an Exhibition, Galerie Nichst St. Stephan, Vienna, Austria

1999

Chroma, Kunsthalle Nurnberg, Germany
Square and Cosmos, Amden und Kunsthaus Glarus, Switzerland
Ausloten, Kunstverein Gottingen, Germany
Selections Fall '99, The Drawing Center, New York, New York
Zeitwenden, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany

1998

Every Day, 11th Biennial of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

1997

Abstraction/Abstractions – Geómétries Provisoires, Musee d'Art Moderne, Saint-Etienne, France
Topping Out, Stadtische Galerie Nordhorn, Nordhorn, Germany

1996

Farbe ö Malerei der 90er Jahre, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany

1995

Karo Dame, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Stipendiaten, Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, Germany

PUBLIC SCULPTURE PROJECTS

2001

"Antonio Carlos Jobim Memorial" Commissioned by the Rio de Janeiro City Hall (expected completion 2001)

1997

"Espelho sem Aco (Mirror without Steel)," Permanent sculpture installed at Avenida Paulista, Sao Paulo

1996

"Escultura para o Rio (Sculpture for Rio)," Permanent sculpture installed at Centro da Citade Rio de Janeiro, Av. Beira Mar.

1994

"Omkring (Around)," Permanent sculpture installed at Paseo de Las Americas, Punta del Este, Uruguay

1992

"Formato Cego (Blind Shape)," Permanent sculpture installed at Paseo de Las Americas, Punta del Este, Uruguay

1989

"Software," Temporary light sculpture installed at Vale do Anhagabau, Sao Paulo
"O Jardim Instantanco (The Instant Garden)," Permanent sculpture garden installed at Parque do Carmo, Sao Paulo

BIBLIOGRAPHY

2006

Katharina Grosse, Holey Residue, essays byTheo Tegelaers and Janneke
Wesseling Amsterdam, De Appel, exhibition catalogue, 2006
Katharina Grosse, Article from Beautiful Decay Magazine, 2006

2005

Katharina Grosse, Beautiful/Decay, Issue M, 2005
Katharina Grosse/Richard Serra/Bernard Frize, Parkett, No. 74, 2005
Katharina Grosse, Art In America, June/July 2005
Building for Art, Art In America, June/ July 2005
“What Makes a Painting a Painting?”, Art News, April, 2005
“Where Boundaries Get Blurred”, Los Angeles Times, April 1, 2005
Art Talk, KCRW, March 29, 2004
Dea, Cynthia, “Bold, unusual use of color”, Los Angeles Times,
March 31, 2005
“Inner Cites” Art Review, March 2005
“Project Room”, Tema Celeste, February, 2005

2004

Katharina Grosse. Double Floor Painting, Kunsthallen Brandts Klædefabrik,
Odense 2004, with an essay by Tor Nørretranders and an interview
by Cecilie Bepler.
Art Talk, Edward Goldman, KCRW, March 29, 2004
Köhnen, Ralph: From System to Rhizome, in: Künstler, Kritisches Lexikon der Gegenwartskunst, Ausgabe 66, Munich 2004.
Katharina Grosse. Infinite Logic Conference, Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm 2004, with an essay by Lars Mikael Raattamaa..

2003

Katharina Grosse, Art Investor, January 2003
Katharina Grosse, Brentwood, March, 2003
Katharina Grosse. Fred Thieler Preis für Malerei 2003, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin 2003, with a laudation of Armin Zweite.
Katharina Grosse, Kunstmuseum, Artforum, January 2003
Top Ten, Los Angeles Magazine, April 2003
Myers, Holly, Colors’ energy defies words, Los Angeles Times, April 25, 2003

2002

Cool Puppen, Flash Art, July – September, 2002: 56.
East London, The New York Times, December 8, 2002
Katharina Grosse, Cool Puppen, exhibition catalogue Ikon Gallery, Birmingham;Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich; Kunstmuseum St. Gallen Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Wolfratshausen 2002, with essays by Jonathan.
Katharina Grosse, exhibition catalogue Kunstverein Ruhr, Essen 2002, with an essay by Peter Friese
Katharina Grosse, Location, Location, Location, Dusseldorf 2002, with essays by Beat Wismer, Steffen Boddeker, Angela Schneider, Retrograde Strategies Cooperative, Judy Millar and Roman Kurzmeyer.
Katharina Grosse, Nuevo Disegno, August 2002
Vitamin P. New Perspectives in Painting, New York 2002, with an essay by Eric de Chassey.

2001

Russ, Sabina. Katharina Grosse (exhibition brochure), UCLA HammerMuseum, 2001.
Fuchs, Rainer. Painting – A Game of Relation – Notes on Katharina Grosse, in: Parkett, Nr. 63, 2001, S. 154-162.

2000

Katharina Grosse, Spiegel, July 2000.

1999

Doll, Nikola. Katharina Grosse (exhibition catalogue). Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn: 1999.
Kurzmeyer, Roman. Ausloten: Fünf Positionen autonomer Malerei (exhibition catalogue), Kunstverein Göttingen, Göttingen: 1999.
Schreier, Christoph. Katharina Grosse (exhibition catalogue). Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn: 1999.

1998

Kurzmeyer, Roman. Katharina Grosse, Nürnberg 1998.
Seifermann, Ellen. Katharina Grosse, Nürnberg 1998.
Zweite, Armin. Katharina Grosse, Nürnberg 1998.

1996

Jonas-Edel, Justus. Farbe – Malerei der 90er Jahre (exhibition catalogue), Kunstmuseum Bonn: 1996.

1995

Denk, Andreas. Katharina Grosse. Schmidt-Rottluff Stiftung, Düsseldorf: 1995.

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Belgacom in Brussels
Bosch Stiftung, Stuttgart
Centre Pompidou, Paris
Centro Galogo Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela
DEKA Bank, Frankfurt/M (wallpiece)
Deutsche Ausgleichsbank, Bonn
Dresdner Bank, Frankfurt/ Königstein (wallpiece)
Honart Museum Touranto Building, Teheran
Industriekreditbank, Dusseldorf/Frankfurt
IVAM Valencia Arte Contemporaneo
Kunsthalle Kiel, Germany
Kunsthaus Zurich
Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland
Kunstmuseum Bonn
Lenbachhaus Munich
Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall
Microsoft, Redmond, WA
NDR, Hamburg
Raad vor de Kinderbescherming, Lelystad, Netherlands
Schloß Dyck, Jüchen, Germany
Sammlung Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn
Sammlung Daimler Chrysler, Berlin
Sammlung Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt/M
Sammlung Deutscher Bundestag, Berlin
Sammlung Mondstudio
Sammlung Richterich, Riehen
Sammlung UBS AG, München/Zurich
Siemens, Büro Orange, Munich (wallpiece)
Siemens, Büro Orange, Nurnberg (wallpiece)
Sprengel Museum, Hannover
Staatsarchiv in Zurich
Telekom, Bonn
Telekom, Wesel (wallpiece)
Toronto Airport, Canada (mural)
Trinkaus& Burkhardt, Dusseldorf
WGZ-Bank, Dusseldorf (wallpiece)

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