Katharina Grosse - Der Stuhl

Katharina Grosse is celebrated for her expansive, site-specific paintings that dissolve boundaries between object, space, and color. With Der Stuhl (The Chair), 2020, she translates her immersive practice into a more intimate, collectible format. The print depicts the artist’s own studio, turning color itself into a central motif. Here, pigment is not just surface treatment but a spatial marker, enveloping everyday objects and transforming them into part of her painterly universe.

The artwork reveals traces of the creative act while engaging in an aesthetic inquiry into the origins of painting. The small format mirrors the instantaneousness of photography, presenting Der Stuhl as a kind of miniature snapshot of Grosse’s day-to-day studio process. It offers a tantalizing glimpse into the artist’s working environment, while preserving the essential opacity of artistic creation.

As a limited edition of only 100, hand-signed and numbered, this Katharina Grosse print encapsulates the dynamism, intensity, and conceptual rigor of one of today’s most influential contemporary painters.

Katharina Grosse is a renowned contemporary artist known for her innovative and bold approach to painting and installation art. Born in Germany in 1961, Grosse has made a significant impact on the art world with her large-scale, vibrant, and immersive works. She is celebrated for her use of unconventional materials and techniques, often employing spray guns to create explosive and dynamic compositions that transcend traditional boundaries of painting. Katharina Grosse‘s art blurs the lines between painting and sculpture, as she often transforms entire spaces with her colorful, abstract forms, leaving viewers immersed in a world of vivid imagination. Her work challenges preconceived notions of art and space, inviting audiences to engage with art in a multisensory and experiential way. Grosse’s large-scale installations have graced galleries, museums, and outdoor settings around the world. Some of her most important museum exhibitions include the groundbreaking display at the Venice Biennale in 2015, where Katharina Grosse‘s vibrant, site-specific installation took over the German Pavilion, and solo exhibitions at the Albertina in Vienna, Kunstmuseum Bern, Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin and the renowned Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas in 2019, which showcased her ability to engage with both indoor and outdoor spaces.