KATHARINA GROSSE
UNTITLED

LESTER B. PEARSON INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, TORONTO, CANADA
PERMANENT INSTALLATION SINCE 2003

Katharina Grosse spray-painted walls in Pier D at Lester B. Pearson International Airport in Toronto, Canada. The color becomes a phenomenon and illusion of space and movement. It describes perfectly the condition at an airport, when you are just inbetween of coming from somewhere and going somewhere else.
© Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst Bonn, 2022
© Images Isaac Applebaum

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.

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