Katharina Grosse's paintings can appear anywhere.
Her expansive works are multidimensional visual worlds in which walls, ceilings, objects and entire buildings and landscapes are covered with bright colors. For the exhibition “Katharina Grosse. "It Wasn't Us", the artist has transformed the historical hall of the Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Aktuell - Berlin as well as the outdoor area behind the building into an expansive image that radically destabilizes the existing order of the museum space. Unlimited painting
For her site-specific paintings, Katharina Grosse has transcended the boundaries of the building with grand gestures and bright colors: “I paint myself out of the building,” is how the artist describes her work. In a week-long process, an expansive image was created that extends beyond the Historical Hall into the public space, spreads across the extensive area behind the museum and finally ends up on the facade of the so-called Rieckhallen, which was added to the museum in 2004. This kaleidoscopic, multidimensional visual world brings together the colors and shapes designed by the artist, the natural and man-made environments, and the visitors as participants in an all-encompassing, pulsating color event. The boundaries between individual objects, between horizontal and vertical orientation, become fluid, and the proportions change depending on the point of view. As we move through the image, artificial spaces rich in associations and yet completely real open up, which renegotiate our viewing habits, ways of thinking and perceiving.