Summary
- Katharina Grosse is a featured artist on the Messeplatz Project Committee at the Swiss Market in Basel this year.
- Title choirimmersive artwork wrapped in a blooming fair entrance to magenta spray, performs a powerful meditation in the hustle and bustle of waiting inside.
- Until June 22, the work was intoxicated by ephemeral and other texts – “It seems like a huge painting has flew past, landed briefly and abandoned the residue,” the artist said.
Katharina Grosse It has been Art Baselthis year her contribution is not only a must-see, but it is almost impossible to miss. For the 2025 Messeplatz project, the fair invites groundbreaking German artists with choir, Her largest urban intervention to date.
Grosse has wrapped the space designed by Herzog & de Meuron with its industrial spray gun in a large amount of magenta. Familiar structures are destroyed and reconceived as the surface dissolves into bright colors. Curated by London’s serpentine Natalia Grabowska, the work creates a completely immersive environment that reshapes the venue itself into a work of art, inspiring everything waiting in the exhibition hall.
In Gross’ words choir The human “obsession with control” and “desire for freedom” are studied, comparing the work to a polyphonic chorus, a series of sounds that instantly combine in a harmonious way. The paint-cut surface works in the otherwise tight interior, tempting spontaneity, impermanence and everyday destruction.
A place and a moment, “choir The artist in the latest postal. “It seems like a huge painting has flew past, landed briefly and abandoned the residue. It belongs to everyone, no one.”
The work is now in Switzerland as of June 22. View Art Basel website Learn more choir, This year’s edition of Messeplatz project and programming.
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Messeplatz 10
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