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Katharina Grosse (*1961, Freiburg im Breisgau) is among the present day’s most important female artists. Her painted works captivate viewers with their power and chromatic intensity. Like the proverbial “savage mind,” Grosse is experimental and unpredictable in her thinking, effecting a balancing act between coincidence and control. Expansion and continual transgression, freedom and autonomy represent the main pillars of this oeuvre. The artist, who lives and works in Berlin and in Auckland, New Zealand, frequently goes beyond classic canvas formats: her paintings, assemblages, and installations in their respective spaces emphasize and characterize said spaces, drawing on their respective genii loci. Katharina Grosse’s vibrating fields of color extend across entire architectures, objects, and large spaces in the public realm. Surfaces are folded and protrude into the third dimension, with the artist making liberal use of a compressor-driven airbrush in order to accomplish fine chromatic mists, hard transitions, and subtly shifting hues. Light and shadow serve to amplify her images.