Louis Vuitton welcomes Katharina Grosse to the Escape Louis Vuitton Venezia for the Venice Biennale. The new installation is as part of the Fondation Louis Vuitton “Hors-les-murs” programme. The programme spreads across the global Escape Louis Vuitton locations, and shares the foundation’s commitment to make international projects more accessible. 

Since the 1990s, Grosse has aimed to make her personal paintings a tool to transform the world. Her works often spread beyond a canvas, and take over floors, ceilings, and even entire landscapes to create multidimensional works. Now, Grosse looks to other mediums, such as printing photographs on fabric, to broaden her artistic scope. 

For Escape Louis Vuittion Venezia, Grosse creates Apollo Apollo. In the middle of a black room sits multicolored mesh fabric. Bright hues of green, red pink, blue, and yellow cascade over the glittering mesh. Hidden in the colors are the artist’s hands and shoes. The piece intends to explore the relationship between an artist’s body and the boundaries between themself and the act of creating. “The image is chosen from a series of photographs showing situations or actions, connected to my painting practice in some way or another,” said Grosse. 

The piece takes cues from the Venetian context through its water like movement. As Venice is housed on the side of water, Apollo Apollo uses the metallic hues of its fabric in conjunction with the light to create a free flowing effect, similar to that of the Venetian water ways. 

The piece is on display during the Venice Biennale at the Escape Louis Vuitton Venezia. This May, the La Couleur en fugue exhibition at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris are showing Grosse’s works. The Foundation Louis Vuitton Paris this fall is installing an original piece from Grosse in the fall as well.