born 1961 in Freiburg/Breisgau

1999/2000
Guest professorship Hochschule für Bildende Künste Bremen

1999/2000
Guest professorship Hochschule der Bildenden Künste Karlsruhe

EDUCATION
1990
Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Akademiebrief

GRANTS AND PRIZES
2003
Fred Thieler-Preis

1993
Schmidt-Rottluff Stipendium
Chinati-Foundation, Marfa, Texas

1992
Villa Romana-Preis, Florenz

SOLO EXHIBITIONS SINCE 1994
2022
Wolke in Form eines Schwerts, Saarlandmuseum – Moderne Galerie & Studigalerie, Saarbrücken, Germany
Chill Sleeping, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA, USA

2021
From the Foam’s Fudged Edge, König Galerie, Seoul, South Korea
Repetitions without Origin, Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA, USA
Chill Seeping from the Wall gets between us, Helsinki Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland

2020
It Wasn’t Us, Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany
Is It You?, The Baltimore Museum of Art, USA

2019
Absolute color, MKM Museum Küppersmühle für Moderne Kunst, Duisburg, Germany
Mural: Jackson Pollock I Katharina Grosse, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, USA (two-person show with Jackson Pollock)
Mumbling Mud, chi K11 art space, Guangzhou, China

2018
Mumbling Mud, chi K11 art museum, Shanghai, China
Prototypes of Imagination, Gagosian, London, United Kingdom
Wunderbild, National Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
Le numerose irregolarità: Katharina Grosse / Tatiana Trouvé, Villa Medici, Rome, Italy (two-person show with Tatiana Trouvé)
The Horse Trotted Another Couple Of Meters, Then It Stopped, Carriageworks, Sydney, Australia

2017
This Drove my Mother up the Wall, South London Gallery, London, United Kingdom

2016
Katharina Grosse, MoMA PS1’s Rockaway! series, New York, NY, USA
Katharina Grosse, Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden, Germany

2015
Seven Hours, Eight Rooms, Three Trees, Museum Wiesbaden, Germany (including permanent indoor installation)
yes no why later, Garage – Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
The Smoking Kid, KÖNIG Galerie, Berlin, Germany

2014
psychylustro, City of Philadelphia Mural Arts, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Who, I? Whom, you?, Kunstmuseum Graz, Austria
Inside the Speaker, Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, Germany

2013
Two younger women come in and pull out a table
De Pont Foundation for Contemporary Art, Tilburg, Netherlands,WUNDERBLOCK
Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas
mein schreibtisch, das schneefeld/Kurt- Kurt, Berlin

2012
Galerie Johann König, Berlin
Can You Spell Mixing , Dirimart, Istanbul, Türkei

2011
Galerie Barbara Gross, Munich
Kunstmuseum Bonn

2010
MassMoCA, North Adams
Galeria Helga de Alvear, Madrid
Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica
Museum für Neue Kunst, Freiburg im Breisgau

2009
Temporäre Kunsthalle, Berlin, Neues Museum, Nürnberg
Arken – Museum for Moderne Kunst, Kopenhagen
Galerie Nächst St.Stephan, Vienna
Galerie Mark Müller, Zurich

2008
SKROW NO REPAP, FRAC Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand (cat.)

2007
„Die Präsenzproduzenten“, Columbus Art Foundation, Ravensburg
„Renaissance Society“, Chicago
„Die Kunst zu sammeln Museum Kunst Palast“, Düsseldorf
Museu Serralves, Porto
fine art fair frankfurt 2007, Art Frankfurt
„Artists for Tichy – Tichy for Artists“, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Wörlen, Passau
INCAMERA Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich
Taipei Biennial 2006 Biennale Taipeh
Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati

2006
„Town and Country“, Fabrikken for Kunst og Design, Copenhagen
Galeria Helga de Alvear, Madrid
„Der Blaue Reiter im 21. Jahrhundert“, Lenbachhaus, Munich
Galerie Mark Müller, Zurich
„Anstoß Berlin – Kunst macht Welt“, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin
„Berlin-Tokyo / Tokyo-Berlin“, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
ARQUIVAR TORMENTAS CGAC Santiago de Compostela
De Appel, Amsterdam

2005
Christopher Grimes Gallery, Los Angeles
Solvent Space, Richmond, Virginia
Palais de Tokyo, Paris
Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen
Galerie Conrads, Düsseldorf

2004
Galerie nächst St. Stephan, Vienna
Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm
Kunsthallen Brandts Klædefabrik, Odense, Denmark
SAFN, Reykjavik
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston
Galeria Filomena Soares, Lissabon
Viafarini, Mailand

2003
Fred-Thieler-Preis, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin
Christopher Grimes Gallery, Los Angeles
Galerie Conrads, Düsseldorf
Galerie Mark Müller, Zurich

2002
Kunsthalle zu Kiel
Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich (cat.)
Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Switzerland

2001
UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Artsonje Museum, Kyongju, Korea
Galerie Nächst St. Stephan, Vienna

2000
Galerie Mark Müller, Zurich

1999
Galerie Conrads, Düsseldorf
Chinati-Foundation, Marfa Texas
Institut für moderne Kunst, SchmidtBank-Galerie, Nürnberg (cat.)
Alte Rotation, Rhein.Landesmuseum, Bonn (cat.)
Kunstverein Bochum

1998
Kunsthalle Bremerhaven (cat.)
Kunsthalle Bern
Kunstverein Heilbronn
Todd Gallery, London
Galerie Sfeir-Semler, Hamburg

1997
Galerie Conrads, Düsseldorf
Petra Bungert Gallery, New York
Galerie Mark Müller, Zurich

1996
Overbeck-Gesellschaft, Lübeck (cat.)
Galerie Sfeir-Semler, Kiel

1995
Galerie Conrads, Düsseldorf

1994
Altes Kunstmuseum, Bonn (cat.)

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022
OrtswechelMuseum GierschFrankfurt/MainGermany
Mythos WaldKunsthalle in EmdenEmdenGermany
Female VoicesGrieder Contemporary – ZürichZurichSwitzerland
20 years of the DA2 Collection and the Coca-Cola Foundation Collection facebook icon twitter iconDA2 – Domus Artium 2002SalamancaSpain
Ruins and FragmentsGagosian GalleryAthensGreece

2021
Chengdu Biennale 2021 Super Fusion, Sichuan, China
Helsinki Biennial, Helsinki, Finland
From the Collections of the Albertina Museum Andy Warhol to Cecily Brown, Albertina, Vienna, Austria
One Decade Of Female Sculptors, König Galerie im KHK, Vienna, Austria
Nothing to see ness, Akademie der Künste Pariser Platz, Berlin, Germany
La Couleur crue, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes, Rennes, France

2020
100 Artists. 1 Mission, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Push the Limits, Fondazione Merz, Turin, Italy
Joint Gesture, CONRADS, Dusseldorf, Germany

2019
Frozen Gesture: Gesture in painting from Roy Lichtenstein to Katharina Grosse, Kunst Museum Winterthur, Switzerland
In the Best of Company – Selected acquisitions of the Berlin Kupferstichkabinett, 2009-2019, Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin, Germany
German Forest, Galerie Neue Meister – Albertinum, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
Collezione MAXXI. Lo spazio dell’immagine, MAXXI Museo nazionale, Rome, Italy

2017
ARoS Triennial: THE GARDEN – End of Times; Beginning of Time, Aarhus, Denmark

2015
All the World’s Futures, 56th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy

2013
6a Bienal de Curitiba, Curitiba, Brazil

2011
The Indiscipline of Painting, Tate St. lves, Cornwall, United Kingdom

2009
Embrace!, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO, USA Space as Medium, Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL, USA

2008
Shake Before Using, Artium de Álava, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
Prospect.1, New Orleans Biennial, New Orleans, LA, USA

2007
Franchise, Stichting VHDG, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands

2006
Tokyo–Berlin / Berlin–Tokyo, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Deutsche Wandstücke – Sette scene di nuova pittura germanica, Museion, Bolzano, Italy
Dirty Yoga, Taipei Biennial, Taipeh, Taiwan

2003
Contemporary Art of Germany, Busan Metropolitan Art Museum, Busan, South Korea
Process, Kiasma – Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland

2002
25ª Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil Urgent Painting, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France

2001
Casino 2001: 1 st Quadrennial, S.M.A.K., Ghent, Belgium

1998
Every day, 11th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia