Staatsgalerie Stuttgart is getting a chromatic makeover with The Sprayed Expensive, the most recent solo exhibition by celebrated German artist Katharina Grosse. Primarily based between Berlin and New Zealand, Grosse has spent over three a long time redefining what portray will be, shifting past the canvas to embrace whole landscapes, buildings and sculptural kind.
For Grosse, a portray has no finish nor edge. Utilizing her signature spray method, she sweeps pigment throughout surfaces in immersive dreamlike waves whose borderless types create a harmonic unity. “For me, two-dimensional portray doesn’t exist,” the artist defined. “The canvas itself is a three-dimensional, haptic object and a portray can seem wherever. On an egg, within the criminal of your arm, in snow and ice or on the seashore.”
Circling this philosophy are three new works, produced particularly for the present. Amongst them is the titular piece, The Sprayed Expensive, which references the golden stag atop the museum and performs on the phrase “pricey” as one thing treasured. Additionally on view are Ghost, an enormous white styrofoam sculpture exploring floor and form, and Untitled, which reveals the sculptural soul of Grosse’s canvas work. Complementing these works are not often seen early sculptures from her scholar years on the Düsseldorf Artwork Academy, shedding gentle on a lesser-known dimension of her follow.
Alongside the exhibition, Grosse’s magnetic colour fields would be the focus of this yr’s Messeplatz Venture at Artwork Basel’s marquee truthful in June.
The Sprayed Expensive is now on view in Stuttgart by means of January 2026.
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart
Konrad-Adenauer-Straße 30-32,
70173 Stuttgart, Germany
