German painter (born 1961)
Katharina Grosse (born 2 October 1961) is a German visual artist. She is known for her large-scale, site-related installations to create immersive visual experiences. Grosse's work employs a use of architecture, sculpture and painting. She has been using an industrial paint-sprayer to apply prismatic swaths of color to a variety of surfaces since the late 1990s, and often uses bright, unmixed sprayed-on acrylic paints to create both large-scale sculptural elements and smaller wall works.
Early life and education.
Grosse was born in 1961 in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany. Grosse studied at the Kunstakademie Münster from 1982 to 1986, and Kunstakademie Düsseldorf from 1986 to 1990. In subsequent years, she completed artist-in-residence programs at the Villa Romana in Florence, Italy (1992); Chinati Foundation in Marfa, USA (1999); Elam School of Fine Art in Auckland, New Zealand (2001); and Headlands Center for the Arts in San Francisco, USA (2002).
Work.
Grosse maintains studios in Berlin's Moabit district (since 2008), Auckland and Groß Kreutz (since 2020).
Commissions.
Grosse has been commissioned with various site-specific installations, including for the Federal Labour Court in Erfurt (1999) Gate 122 of Terminal 1 at Toronto Pearson International Airport in Toronto (2003) and the German Parliament in Berlin (2015).
Other activities.
Grosse taught at the Weißensee Academy of Art from 2000 to 2010. She was a professor of painting at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf from 2010 to 2018. She was a member of the juries that selected Hito Steyerl as recipient of the Käthe Kollwitz Prize (2019) and Sheela Gowda of the Maria Lassnig Prize (2019).
Since 2021, Grosse has been chairing the board of KW Institute for Contemporary Art. In this capacity, she was part of the search committee that chose Emma Enderby as the KW's new director in 2023.
Art market.
Grosse is represented by Galerie Max Hetzler (since 2022) and Gagosian Gallery (since 2017). She previously worked with Johann König until 2022. 
Personal life.
Grosse is in a relationship with artist Judy Millar. She has been living and working in Berlin since 2000. In 2005, she purchased a former supermarket in Berlin's Friedrichshain district and turned it into her primary residence. 
Collections.
Grosse's work is held in several permanent collections, including the following:
References.
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