28/05/2026
KATHARINA GROSSE’s solo exhibition ‘Arrels‘ with the Esbaluard Museu at La Llotja de Palma in Mallorca is now on view until 31 JAN 2027.
Grosse makes no distinction between painting, sculpture and architecture or between inside and out, surface and volume, wall and floor, viewer and participant. All is painting. In “Arrels,” the artist is creating a model of a landscape within a historic structure that she cannot touch.
Grosse’s intervention marks a particularly significant moment in her career, as it directly engages with the historical and symbolic dimension of the site in an unprecedented way. Unlike previous interventions in which architecture functioned as a surface, here the site also becomes the subject: the work responds to its history as one of Palma’s most emblematic heritage spaces, its original function as a vital space of exchange, and its open and permeable condition. In the artist’s own words, it is one of the clearest examples to date of integration between installation and architecture.
Images: Katharina Grosse, Arrels, 2026, La Lotja, Palma de Mallorca, May 28, 2026 – February 2027, Acrylic on clay, tree and floor, 360 x 2,380 x 3,600 cm
Photo: Bruno Daureo. Courtesy Es Baluard Museu, 2026, (c) VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2026