Katharina Grosse

Katharina Grosse (born 1961 in Freiburg, lives and works in Düsseldorf and Berlin) covers things with color. Since the late 1990s she applies acrylic paint to various grounds with a spray gun, which creates either very atmospheric, loose coverings or thick applications. More and more Grosse used the spray paint as a direct way to cover walls or architecture with colors: spare museum rooms or minimal industrial spaces. In these works, she always reveals the ability to incite both seduction and disgust, playing off sweet colors with harsh execution. For her, painting is the paradoxical mixing of ornament with puke.