Media Recommendation: Preview of the exhibition with the artist Katarina Gross – The Source

WHO: Artist Katarina Grosse

WHAT: Media review of “Paintings in the Studio of Katharina Gross, 1988-2022: Returns, Revisions, Inventions.”

WHERE: Mildred Lane Kemper Museum of Art at Washington University in St. Louis

WHEN: 2:00 p.m. Thursday, September 22

Katharina Grosse is internationally known for her large-scale works on location, which she paints in built and natural environments. But to date, less attention has been paid to her studio practice, which – like her celebrated in situ works – explores and expands the physical properties, material presence, optical effects and aesthetic potential of color and paint. Each canvas is an organic fragment of something larger.

This fall, the Kemper Art Museum, in collaboration with Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland, and Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany, will debut Katharina Grosse’s Studio Paintings, 1988-2022: Returns, Revisions, Inventions. The first major survey to focus on Grosse’s studio-based works, the exhibition will explore the important role large-scale canvases have played throughout her career.

“Returns, Revisions, Inventions” will open at the Kemper Art Museum on September 23, 2022 and remain on view until January 23, 2023. In addition, the museum and German publisher Hatje Cantz will publish a bilingual scholarly volume, the first in-depth study of Grosz’s works on canvas. Featuring numerous rarely seen works and documentary images, the book will serve as both a record of the exhibitions and a larger reference to this key aspect of her practice.

Directions and Parking: The Kemper Museum of Art is located on the east end of the University of Washington’s Danforth campus, near the intersection of Skinker and Lindell avenues. Parking passes will be available for the University’s East End Garage. Entrances to the garage are located at Forsyth Boulevard and Forest Park Parkway, just west of the respective intersections with Skinker.

TOUR AND INTERVIEWS: The preview will include a brief exhibition tour led by the artist and the William T. Kemper Museum’s Sabine Ekman, Director and Chief Curator. To arrange individual interviews afterward, please contact Liam Otten at 314-874-6331 or Liam_Otten@wustl.edu.