London-based gallery White Cube will now represent artist Katharina Grosse. Her first exhibition with the gallery will be in April 2026 at its Bermondsey space in London; the gallery will also exhibit a new painting by the artist in its booth at Art Basel Miami Beach next month.
Grosse will continue to share representation with Gagosian, Galerie Max Hetzler, and Galerie nächst St. Stephan.
Grosse’s relationship with the gallery dates back to 2002 when founder Jay Jopling mounted an exhibition for the artist at the gallery’s former location in Hoxton Square.
“I’ve closely followed her trajectory ever since and feel privileged to be collaborating with an artist whose curiosity remains boundless and whose work continues to redefine the language of painting,” Jopling told ARTnews in an email.
Grosse is best known for her vibrantly hued abstractions, which are created using acrylic paint and an industrial spray gun. Working primarily on canvas, her practice has also extended to making several site-responsive installations. The first of these occurred in 1998 when she sprayed her paint directly onto the architecture of the Kunsthalle Bern in Switzerland. In 2016, she memorably transformed a derelict structure in New York’s Rockaway Beach that was damaged by Hurricane Sandy in 2012 for Rockaway!. More recently, she spray-painted the Messeplatz during the Swiss edition of Art Basel earlier this year.
Her work is currently the subject of a solo exhibition at the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart in Germany. Oslo’s Munch museum will stage a solo for her in September 2026. She was the subject of a traveling retrospective in 2022 that debuted at the Kemper Art Museum in St. Louis and then traveled to Kunstmuseum Bern and the Kunstmuseum Bonn. Her work has been featured in the 2015 Venice Biennale and the Prospect.1 triennial in New Orleans in 2008.
“Katharina Grosse is a pioneering artist of her generation,” Jopling said. “What has consistently drawn me to her work is the absolute sense of freedom with which she approaches the practice of painting, and her fearless determination to explore and expand its potential.”
