»Ein Baum könnte ein Pinsel sein.« / »A Tree Could be a Paintbrush.«

Over a period of two years, Katharina Grosse and author Klaus Dermutz met in the artist's Berlin studio to conduct a series of very concentrated, lengthy conversations. This volume brings together ten in-depth interviews that delve deeper into central themes of Grosse's artistic work, such as the haptic image, the border, reversal, repetition without origin, interruption, the visible and the invisible, and time.

KATHARINA GROSSE (*1961 in Freiburg i. Br.) has held professorships at Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin (2000–09) and Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (2010–18). Her works are represented in numerous international collections. Most recently, the Albertina in Vienna presented her solo exhibition Why Three Tones Do Not Form a Triangle, 2023–24) and currently the Centre Pompidou – Metz is staging three large-scale in-situ works ( Déplacer les étoiles , until February 2025). Grosse lives and works in Berlin and New Zealand.

KLAUS DERMUTZ (*1960 in Judenburg, Austria) is an author and publicist in the fields of visual arts and theater. Since 1990, he has published in Die Zeit , Süddeutsche Zeitung , Theater heute , and others; from 2001–09 he was co-editor of Edition Burgtheater. He has written numerous books on theater, e.g., on Andrea Breth, Otto Sander, Klaus Michael Grüber, Christoph Marthaler, Peter Zadek; he has also published of a volume of conversations with Anselm Kiefer.