KATHARINA GROSSEArrels
Current Museum Exhibition
Es Baluard Museu d’Art Contemporani de Palma
Palma de Mallora
Spain
27 May 2026 – 31 Jan 2027
Internationally recognized for her expansive practice, Katharina Grosse has redefined the field of painting for over three decades, pushing it beyond the canvas into direct engagement with architecture, landscape, and public space. Grosse sees the world as a space for painting. In “Arrels”, she transforms La Llotja into an active field of experience using colour as a force to unify disparate elements, alter perception and generate a multisensory immersion in space. Grosse makes no distinction between painting, sculpture and architecture or between inside and out, surface and volume, wall and floor, viewer and participant. All is painting. In “Arrels,” the artist is creating a model of a landscape within a historic structure that she cannot touch. Grosse’s intervention marks a particularly significant moment in her career, as it directly engages with the historical and symbolic dimension of the site in an unprecedented way. Unlike previous interventions in which architecture functioned as a surface, here the site also becomes the subject: the work responds to its history as one of Palma’s most emblematic heritage spaces, its original function as a vital space of exchange, and its open and permeable condition. In the artist’s own words, it is one of the clearest examples to date of integration between installation and architecture. “Arrels” is a co-production between the Government of the Balearic Islands and Es Baluard Museu. Developed under the curatorship of David Barro, the project’s conception was shaped in collaboration with Christoph Steinmeyer, while overall coordination was led by Jackie Herbst in close collaboration with the artist’s studio.
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- Bruno Daureo
- Courtesy: Es Baluard Museu d’Art Contemporani de Palma
- © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2026
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