Katharina Grosse. In Conversation with Klaus Dermutz, Flexibler Einband

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When painting goes beyond the canvas

Katharina Grosse is one of today's most radical painters . Her art spills beyond the canvas, claiming entire rooms, buildings, and landscapes with bold color and immersive gesture. Over two years, she met with writer and theologian Klaus Dermutz for a series of in-depth conversations exploring her thoughts on painting, perception, space, and time.

This book brings together ten of these intense dialogues - deeper and more personal than any previous publication. Grosse speaks about visibility and invisibility, repetition and origin, methods and materials, and how painting can be a physical, spatial, and conceptual experience. Unpublished images from her personal archive complement this multifaceted insight into her creative world.

Highlights of the Book:

• Ten in-depth conversations offering new insights into Katharina Grosse's artistic thinking
• Rare archival materials and previously unpublished images
• Reflections on four decades of evolving techniques and concepts
• Part of the acclaimed Hatje Cantz Textseries

A must-read for anyone interested in contemporary painting, artistic process, and the power of visual thought.

KATHARINA GROSSE (*1961 in Freiburg i. Br.) has held professorships at Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin (2000-09) and Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (2010-18). Her works are represented in numerous international collections. Most recently, the Albertina in Vienna presented her solo exhibition Why Three Tones Do Not Form a Triangle, 2023-24) and currently the Centre Pompidou - Metz is staging three large-scale in-situ works (Déplacer les étoiles, until February 2025). Grosse lives and works in Berlin and New Zealand.

KLAUS DERMUTZ (*1960 in Judenburg, Austria) is an author and publicist in the fields of visual arts and theater. Since 1990, he has published in Die Zeit , Süddeutsche Zeitung , Theater heute, and others; from 2001-09 he was co-editor of Edition Burgtheater. He has written numerous books on theater, e. g., on Andrea Breth, Otto Sander, Klaus Michael Grüber, Christoph Marthaler, Peter Zadek; he has also published of a volume of conversations with Anselm Kiefer.