KATHARINA GROSSE
THE GARDEN, END OF TIMES, BEGINNING OF TIMES

AROS, AARHUS, DENMARK
3 JUNE – 30 JULY 2017

The opening of "The Present and The Future" completes a five-kilometer art zone and the most ambitious exhibition in the history of ARoS Aarhus Art Museum

THE GARDEN - END OF TIMES, BEGINNING OF TIMES. "The Present and The Future" will introduce visitors to more than 30 works by Danish and international contemporary artists. Major names include Fujiko Nakaya, Doug Aitken, Alicja Kwade, Tomás Saraceno, Katharina Grosse, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Simon Starling, Tacita Dean, Yto Barrada, Elmgreen & Dragset og Superflex, and 24 of the works were created especially for the Triennial.

"The Present and The Future" will take place on the roof of ARoS, in the heart of Aarhus, at the Natural History Museum, Aarhus, in the park Mindeparken, in the street M.P. Bruuns Gade, at the local nightclub Shen Mao, in several warehouses in the city’s industrial harbour, and along a coastal stretch from Tangkrogen to Ballehage.

With site-specific installations, "The Present and The Future" will create a variety of takes on the garden and nature as contradictory places characterised by complex cultural differences. Common to all the artists taking part is their approach to the garden as materiality and mythology with symbolic and historical significance and changeability, says Marie Nipper, external curator of "The Present and The Future".
© Anders Sune Berg
© Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, 2017

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KATHARINA GROSSE
Katharina Grosse (b. 1961 in Freiburg/Breisgau, Germany) lives and works in Berlin, Germany and New Zealand. Grosse held professorships at the Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin, Germany from 2000-2009 and at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Germany from 2010-2018. For more than twenty-five years, the artist Katharina Grosse has been internationally present in the art world. Her painting maintains a position outside the categories of representation and abstraction: it operates in reality and on reality. For her, painting can precipitate everywhere and anywhere – on any surface and any object that sprayed paint can reach.Her recent institu...
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