Katharina Grosse. Im Gespräch mit Klaus Dermutz

The cover of the book Katharina Grosse Im Gespräch mit Klaus Dermutz. The cover art is a close-up photograph of hands covered in thick, wet paint. Fingers smeared with red, yellow, and green interact with other fingers coated in glossy white and blue paint against a pale background.

A paperback book titled Katharina Grosse Im Gespräch mit Klaus Dermutz, shown at an angle on a white surface. The cover features a photograph of several intertwined hands in gloves, some of which are white while others are splattered with vibrant red, yellow, and blue paint.

An open book displays a photograph of a monumental art installation inside a vast, industrial hall. Two long, continuous banners of fabric, covered in vibrant, abstract, multicolored paint, are draped from the high ceiling, creating a canyon-like walkway down the middle. A lone, distant figure emphasizes the immense scale of the artwork.

An open book showing a grainy, two-page color photograph of a street corner at dusk. A modern, emerald-green building has large windows that glow from within with a fiery red and orange light, revealing dark graffiti silhouettes. In the foreground, long exposure captures the light trails of a passing car on the dark street.

An open book viewed from above on a white surface. The left page shows a full-bleed close-up photo of a textured, crumbly substance in vibrant red, orange, and blue. The right page contains German text with a large heading, Ich bin mit allen Elementen gleichgestellt, and several paragraphs below it, with the page number 45 in the corner.

The back cover of a book with German text against a white background. At the top left, there is a barcode and an ISBN. A large block of text fills the upper portion of the cover. At the bottom are the logos for the publisher Hatje Cantz and the Deichtorhallen Hamburg, along with a list of ISBNs for different formats.

A table of contents in German, titled Inhalt. The page lists sections with corresponding page numbers on the right. The sections are Vorwort, Wunderbild, Gespräche, Widmung und Dank, and Fotonachweis. The Gespräche section contains a list of eleven titled chapters.

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An art gallery installation featuring a floor covered in large, colorful mounds of powdered pigment in greens, blues, yellows, and oranges, with a path winding through the center. On the white gallery walls in the background hang two large, abstract paintings with vibrant, swirling colors that echo the installation on the floor.

Two artists in white hazmat suits create a massive, colorful abstract art installation in a large hall with high, arched ceilings. The entire floor and several towering sculptures are covered in vibrant, swirling streams of red, blue, and yellow paint. One artist stands on a ladder, spray-painting a sculpture, while the hall's columns are wrapped in protective plastic.

A wide, outdoor shot of multiple train tracks in the foreground on a sunny day. Beside the tracks, a large patch of overgrown land and a concrete wall are completely covered in a vibrant, hot pink, fibrous material, creating a striking art installation against the green trees and blue sky with white clouds.

A view from inside a train, looking through a rounded window at a railway track and a steep embankment. The ground, lower bushes, and some tree trunks along the track are covered in a vibrant, artificial red-orange powder, which contrasts sharply with the green trees and foliage in the background under a pale sky.

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An aerial view of a long, derelict building on a sandy beach, covered in a massive, swirling art piece of red and white paint that spills from the roof onto the surrounding pavement, with the ocean in the background.

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A page from a book with German text on the left and a color photograph on the right. The photo, taken in 1982, shows a young woman, artist Katharina Grosse, sitting cross-legged on the ground in a sunlit forest. Behind her, a large white sheet of paper is stretched between two trees, forming an outdoor art installation.

A vibrant and chaotic art installation in a gallery featuring large, uprooted tree trunks and tangled roots spray-painted in bold shades of blue, yellow, orange, and purple. The sculpture is set against a matching multicolored fabric backdrop between stone pillars.

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An overhead view of a massive, immersive art installation inside a large warehouse. People walk through a valley created by enormous sheets of brightly colored, tie-dye style fabric that hangs from the ceiling and pillars, covering the floor in vibrant waves of red, blue, orange, and yellow.

A two-page book spread. The right page shows two people on a mechanical lift spray-painting a single-story building and the ground with vibrant red and white paint under a clear blue sky. The roof is painted with red and white stripes, and the ground is saturated with red. The left page contains a caption in German.

A long-exposure photograph of a one-story building at dusk, located on a street corner. The building's facade is bathed in a vivid green light, while its large windows are illuminated from within, revealing a fiery, abstract pattern of red, orange, and black. In the dark foreground, red and white light trails from a passing vehicle streak across the pavement.

Katharina Grosse. Im Gespräch mit Klaus Dermutz

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Contributions by: Katharina Grosse

Edited by: Klaus Dermutz

July 2025, 244 Pages, 64 Ills., 64 Photos

Paperback with Flaps

140mm x 210mm

ISBN: 978-3-7757-5947-2

HATJE CANTZ VERLAG
Mommsenstr. 27
10629 Berlin
Germany
E-Mail: contact@hatjecantz.de

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Over a period of two years, Katharina Grosse and author Klaus Dermutz met in the artist's Berlin studio to conduct a series of very concentrated, lengthy conversations. This volume brings together ten in-depth interviews that delve deeper into central themes of Grosse's artistic work, such as the haptic image, the border, reversal, repetition without origin, interruption, the visible and the invisible, and time.

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.