When painting goes beyond the canvas Katharina Grosse is one of today's most radical painters .
Her art spills beyond the canvas claiming entire rooms buildings and landscapes with bold
color and immersive gesture. Over two years she met with writer and theologian Klaus Dermutz
for a series of in-depth conversations exploring her thoughts on painting perception space
and time. This book brings together ten of these intense dialogues - deeper and more personal
than any previous publication. Grosse speaks about visibility and invisibility repetition and
origin methods and materials and how painting can be a physical spatial and conceptual
experience. Unpublished images from her personal archive complement this multifaceted insight
into her creative world. Highlights of the Book: Ten in-depth conversations offering new
insights into Katharina Grosse's artistic thinking Rare archival materials and previously
unpublished images Reflections on four decades of evolving techniques and concepts Part of the
acclaimed Hatje Cantz Text series A must-read for anyone interested in contemporary painting
artistic process and the power of visual thought. KATHARINA GROSSE (*1961 in Freiburg i. Br.)
has held professorships at Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin (2000-09) and Kunstakademie
Düsseldorf (2010-18). Her works are represented in numerous international collections. Most
recently the Albertina in Vienna presented her solo exhibition Why Three Tones Do Not Form a
Triangle 2023-24) and currently the Centre Pompidou - Metz is staging three large-scale
in-situ works ( Déplacer les étoiles until February 2025). Grosse lives and works in Berlin
and New Zealand. KLAUS DERMUTZ (*1960 in Judenburg Austria) is an author and publicist in the
fields of visual arts and theater. Since 1990 he has published in Die Zeit Süddeutsche
Zeitung Theater heute and others from 2001-09 he was co-editor of Edition Burgtheater. He
has written numerous books on theater e.g. on Andrea Breth Otto Sander Klaus Michael Grüber
Christoph Marthaler Peter Zadek he has also published of a volume of conversations with
Anselm Kiefer.
