Last updated: 26 October 2026
Katharina Grosse is the German painter who sprays acrylic across rooms, buildings and landscapes. Here you will find the Katharina Grosse prints and editions you can buy in the UK, where her work is on show, recent auction results, and our 5/5 review of her 2026 White Cube Bermondsey show.
Our take on Katharina Grosse
Grosse paints with an industrial spray gun rather than a brush, and she does not stop at the canvas. Since her first sprayed room at Kunsthalle Bern in 1998 she has covered walls, floors, piles of soil, beds and clothes in bright, overlapping colour. “Painting has such an independence from space,” she says on White Cube’s exhibition page.
Her White Cube Bermondsey show this spring got 5/5 from me. “The rubble room is one of the most extraordinary single gallery spaces we have stepped into in years,” I wrote. “This is, unequivocally, a spectacle.”
Her canvases sell for six figures at auction, and Katharina Grosse prints are hard to find in the UK. The most affordable way in here is a textile edition from the South London Gallery.
Katharina Grosse: the essentials
- Born in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, in 1961, and lives and works in Berlin and New Zealand, according to Galerie Max Hetzler.
- Studied at the Kunstakademie Münster (1982 to 1986) and the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (1990), and later taught painting at Düsseldorf from 2010 to 2018.
- Showed Untitled Trumpet at the 56th Venice Biennale in 2015, and won the Oskar Schlemmer Prize in 2014.
- Made CHOIR, the Art Basel Messeplatz commission, in 2025.
- Represented by Gagosian, Galerie Max Hetzler, Galerie nächst St. Stephan in Vienna and, since November 2025, White Cube.
Katharina Grosse exhibitions: now on and recent
- Now on: Black Bed, new work made in Edvard Munch’s Ekely studio, MUNCH, Oslo, 26 September 2026 to 3 January 2027.
- Now on: Arrels, La Llotja, Palma de Mallorca, 28 May 2026 to 31 January 2027, co-produced with Es Baluard.
- I Set Out, I Walked Fast, White Cube Bermondsey, London, 22 April to 31 May 2026, free. Read our review. There is no UK show on at the moment.
- Point Rock, Galerie Max Hetzler, London, 15 January to 28 February 2026.
Recent Katharina Grosse auction results
Market signals
Averages over the last 36 months, in US dollars
Figures from the Artsy price database. Last checked: 26 October 2026.
Her large canvases regularly beat their estimates, and her editions sell in the thousands. Three recent lots:
- O.T., 2013, acrylic on canvas, 201 x 135cm (79 1/8 x 53 1/8in). Sold for £258,000 against an estimate of £120,000 to £180,000 at Phillips London, Modern & Contemporary Art Evening & Afternoon Sale, 26 June 2026.
- Untitled, 2017, oil on canvas, 152.1 x 118.9cm (59 7/8 x 46 3/4in). Sold for £125,775 against an estimate of £80,000 to £120,000 at Phillips London, Modern & Contemporary Art, 17 October 2026.
- o. T. (Untitled), 2021, pigment print mounted on aluminium, numbered from an edition of 60, 76 x 50cm (29 7/8 x 19 5/8in). Sold for £7,095 against an estimate of £6,000 to £8,000 at Phillips London, Evening & Day Editions, January 2026.
Prices include buyer’s premium. Last checked: 26 October 2026.
Where to buy Katharina Grosse prints and editions
- Heart and Hair, £1,200: a 2021 inkjet print on fabric, 200 x 140cm (78 3/4 x 55 1/8in), from an edition of 100 with a certificate signed and numbered by the artist, from the South London Gallery shop.
- Paper editions: Schellmann Art publishes her signed editions, priced in euros and on request.
Our reviews featuring Katharina Grosse
- Katharina Grosse at White Cube Bermondsey review (Cool Factor 5/5): “This is, unequivocally, a spectacle.”
Katharina Grosse FAQs
How much do Katharina Grosse prints cost?
Her Heart and Hair textile edition is £1,200 at the South London Gallery. At auction, a 2021 pigment print sold for £7,095 in January 2026, and her canvases sell for six figures.
Where can I see Katharina Grosse’s work now?
Black Bed is at MUNCH in Oslo until 3 January 2027, and Arrels is in Palma until 31 January 2027. Her White Cube Bermondsey show closed on 31 May 2026.
How does Katharina Grosse paint?
Mostly with acrylic paint and an industrial spray gun, a method she has used since the late 1990s, often directly onto walls, floors and objects.
Which galleries represent Katharina Grosse?
Gagosian, Galerie Max Hetzler, Galerie nächst St. Stephan and White Cube.
More from CoolCuration
- Cecily Brown at the Serpentine review: another painter of big, fast colour.
- Best affordable art in the UK: where to start collecting without auction prices.
- Gifts for artists: our edit of presents for people who make things.
- Olafur Eliasson Lifeworld: an edition from another artist who works at the scale of rooms.
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Main image: Katharina Grosse, Berlin, 2011. Photo: Oliver Mark via Wikimedia Commons, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped and framed by CoolCuration; the framed version is also CC BY-SA 4.0. Exhibition dates, prices, auction results and market figures last checked: 26 October 2026.
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