Katharina Grosse - Shifting the Stars

Catalogue of the exhibition ‘Katharina Grosse - Shifting the Stars’, presented at the Centre Pompidou Metz (1 June 2024 - 24 February 2025).

For over thirty years, artist Katharina Grosse (born in Germany in 1961, lives and works in Berlin and New Zealand) has been using spray paint to create immersive paintings. Inspired by Renaissance frescoes, she incorporates architecture into her art, leading to a three-dimensional shift in her approach.

The book accompanying the exhibition is devoted to Katharina Grosse's in situ work. Introduced by an essay by Chiara Parisi, it stands as a reference work bringing together all the ephemeral works the artist has created since the late 1990s and will address the temporal aspects of her creation.

In conversation with the artist, American art critic Jarrett Earnest reflects on the creative process, temporality and the idea of localisation-dislocation-relocalisation in Katharina Grosse's installations.

How can a work that is essentially ephemeral and site-specific be made to exist over time? Donatien Grau's contribution focuses on the circulation of concepts and approaches in painting.