Katharina Grosse Interview: On the Edge of Something Else
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“As artists we produce alternatives. Constantly. We are manufacturing alternatives for whatever.”
Meet German artist Katharina Grosse in this very personal conversation in which she reflects on her upbringing, the importance of traveling, different elements meeting each other, and the idea of given back to society.
Katharina Grosse uses painting, sculpture, and architecture in her artworks, which tend to be large-scale, site-related installations. Her international reputation has grown steadily over the past years. Born in 1961 in Freiburg, Germany, she attended art academies in Düsseldorf and Münster. After her education, she taught at the Art Academy Berlin-Weissensee for more than a decade between 2000 and 2010. From 2010 to 2018, Grosse was a painting professor at the Düsseldorf Art Academy.
She currently lives and works in Berlin - a city, that she has known since childhood, but used to have split feelings about: “I did not really love the city. Today my staying here has a lot to do with the people that I meet from the different areas - writing, theatre, music. So when you have an invitation at night and you meet people, you never know what’s coming out of it, who are you going to be with, what’s the night going to do with you and your thinking.”
Eventually, Grosse built her own studio in the center of the city that incorporates all necessary features for her large scale formats. “There is only skylight, the paintings are super sharp, you can see everything.” At the same time traveling and working abroad are still central elements in Grosse’s life and work: “I like to get to know a new place. I like to be a stranger to a place. And to come as a person that is not part of a place, a space, a location - to come as somebody who doesn’t know it. So being abroad became a very important part of my studio-life.”
Grosse continues reflecting upon central elements in her work: color, places, structures, the role of art, social responsibility, and the importance of having grown up in Germany in the 1960s and 1970s with its dark shadow of history. Also for her artistic development shadows played a vital role: “When I woke up in the morning, I would see shadows in the room and I would imagine a paintbrush to paint them away. I was very convinced of things even though they couldn’t work. And I was very convincing even though my results did not match my conviction. Sometimes my surroundings wouldn’t agree and I was surprised. I was truly imagining something that maybe wasn’t visible. I was always very confident in terms of art. Without reason really. I mean, I wasn’t like Picasso drawing pigeons.”
Today, Katharina Grosse is working and exhibiting around the globe and has won numerous recognitions for her work. “I don’t know whether or not I can describe myself as outgoing. I like to be by myself, I have no problem being by myself for days and days and days. But I do believe that I make the work for somebody else. I don’t think about the public as such. But I absolutely want it to be seen. And I think it has to be loud and noisy.”
Katharina Grosse was interviewed by Marc-Christoph Wagner at her studio in Berlin in August 2020.
Camera: Niclas Reed Middleton
Edit: Klaus Elmer
Produced by: Marc-Christoph Wagner
Copyright: Louisiana Channel, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2021
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I could listen to her all day long.
I loved watching this - my daughter watched with me and the next day she had so much fun creating an art instillation in our house and I’m sure it was a direct response to seeing the artwork in this video - so good to see art or large scale and in different situations.
I admire Katharine Grosse as an artist, philosopher and thinker. What a talent she has for articulating her experience. Thanks for publishing this video.
She is one of the most interesting refreshing and intelligent artist I have some across in a long time! Very impressive!
I love this Channel - its a fine place to come close to the works of contemporary artists
So happy this video was made, always loved her work
Good for her for deciding take up space and working on a large scale, more women should aspire to doing this and I hope they are inspired by this video.
Absolutely fantastic.
I'm still a paper artist. She makes me rise up. It's a wonderful art. Ich bin auch noch ein Papierkünstler. Sie macht mich verrückt. Es ist eine wunderbare Kunst.
I love this woman, love her mind, energy and work. Love this channel so much!
@thelouisianachannel
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you, we so much appreciate to hear this.
@icegallery7318
3 жыл бұрын
Agreed! This was a great video. And this channel is great, it inspired me to start mine this month.
Just beautiful!
great interview
Amazing works! Either you get it or you don't. Visually expansive. Cheers !
very interesting art!!
I love how sure she is of work, she almost has her own language.
Beautiful
I’d love to see her do the exterior of some of those buildings, i am amazed how society doesn’t “do” colour
Love
I 'effing love this!! I don't understand how anyone who has a personal issue with contemporary art would even bother with Louisiana Channel. Go back to your Grant Wood or Norman Rockwell if this interview prompts you to commit your dissatisfaction to words on some insignificant youtube comment section.
@icegallery7318
3 жыл бұрын
I agree. Love this channel it inspired me to start mine this month.
Liked her views
Neo Rauch.....works in a factory....Kiefer melts lead...this lady’s studio is bigger than most museums....Ah the Germans !
The hair!!
@KayInMaine
Жыл бұрын
So 80s. Love it!
Hey, does anyone know if those suits connected to an air supply almost completely isolate “you” from aerosols?! If so, wow. I mean, really, wow> peh
Do some Graff! Ossilakkentante!
Mario sunshine anyone? 😊
This attack on the environment is insane.
Press the edges as far as possible
You put paint on stuff yes?! Wow! Such amaze!
@TANKE777
3 жыл бұрын
jajaj, my thoughts exactly
@johanroing927
3 жыл бұрын
Uh? What is that? Duh... Art? Hard to understand. I don't get it... But I don't tell anyone, because THAT is embarrassing.
@mannequin3000
3 жыл бұрын
@@johanroing927 Enlighten me. Please tell me how much you UNDERSTAND this art.
@itsmethecmp
3 жыл бұрын
@@mannequin3000 You can make it simple for your self or complicate everything. Art is free of any boundaries whether physical or mental . You could call yourself an artist. Of your life for example. As well if you make stuff or use a medium to express something. But apparently you don't - and don't want. As well as you probably do not find a canvas she paints 'nice' or 'beautiful'. It may only matter of something looking good. Who cares. Just accept or not accept someone else's mind being. You can see your comment as art of your working hands..which developed throughout tens of thousands of years. A sentence can be art - if you see it as such. Goethe did good there. That is the difference - the understanding. She paints and makes millions and makes herself a name by doing what is fun for her. It's amazing along the work and that I find great.
@mannequin3000
3 жыл бұрын
@@itsmethecmp The problem i have with this 'type' of Art is that it does not do justice to Art. I think this is under-representing the true value of what art can be and what artist, who have, and are still working in the field of art (wether it be painting, sculpture, conceptual, dance, writing comments, et cetera et cetera) can do. I objectively don't like Grosse's proces nor the end result and i think there is also a objective point to make that this art is not worthy of the attention she is getting. Gauguin said; Art is either a form of plagiarism or revolution. I'n my opinion, Grosse's work is neither and just shows that all you have to do in Art is be a hip person in a hip place at the right time with the right friends (mOnEY).
Umweltverschmutzung
@lalewilan
3 жыл бұрын
That is my only criticism on her work. Especially because she is an important thinker of our time.
Environmental disaster
You didn't grow up, only the size grew.
Meh!!!