KATHARINA GROSSE
PSYCHYLUSTRO

PHILADELPHIA, USA
2014

This large-scale, site-specific public artwork, visible primarily to passengers on the train, is a temporary installation that will transform over time as the elements reclaim the space. The work will unfold in a series of seven passages — from vast, dramatic warehouse walls to small buildings and stretches of green spaces — meant to be framed through the windows of the moving train, creating a real-time landscape painting that explores shifting scale, perspective and the passage of time.© Images Steve Weinik
© 2019 Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

FEATURED ARTIST

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...