12/12/2015
Katharina Grosse
Subway Station, Koln
Her expansive wall painting with swaths of intense colors cover the entire western wall of the staircase leading down from the roundabout at Chlodwigplatz to the level of the tracks, then on the opposite side of the station up the staircase leading to Severinstorburg.
The Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder is proud to announce the completion of Katharina Grosse’s artwork in the Chlodwigplatz subway station on the North-South line of Cologne’s light rail system. Regular service will begin on Sunday, 13 December, 2015, when the first train on line 17 pulls in to the station at roughly 6:10 a.m.
Grosse’s expansive wall painting with swaths of intense colors cover the entire western wall of the staircase leading down from the roundabout at Chlodwigplatz to the level of the tracks, then on the opposite side of the station up the staircase leading to Severinstorburg. The paint was applied with a spray gun, leaving little of the concrete wall visible when viewed from the platform level.
This is the artist's first work in an underground metropolitan light rail station. She has demonstrated an affinity for train and airplane travel before, however, and has created works on a railway line in Philadelphia, in the train station in Vara, Sweden, and in the Toronto airport.
This wall painting in the Chlodwigplatz station is the last artwork to be completed in the Cologne transit authority KVB’s art competition to design stations along the North-South light rail line in Cologne. The city of Cologne sponsored both the competition and the completion of the artworks with a total of €1.75 million.
Image: Nic Tenwiggenhorn I Copyright: © Katharina Grosse und VG Bild-Kunst Bonn, 2015
Press contact:
David Ulrichs PR david@david-ulrichs.com +49 (0)176 5033 0135
Opening: Sunday, 13 December 2015
Subway Station Chlodwigplatz, Cologne