Asta Gröting creates works that translate psychological and social relations into physical forms. She produces a lexicon of video and sculpture to draw our attention to absence and the physical and emotional gaps between people, animals, facades, and other things.
She is a professor at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig. Gröting had international solo exhibitions like Centre Pasquart in Biel/Bienne, KINDL – Centre for Contemporary Art, Berlin; ZKM Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologien, Karlsruhe; n.b.k., Berlin; Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz; Henry Moore Institute, Leeds; and MARTa Herford. She has participated in numerous large-scale international exhibitions, including Musée des Beaux-Arts, Paris; James-Simon-Galerie; Staatliche Museen zu Berlin; Kunsthalle Bielefeld; 22nd São Paulo Biennial; the 8th and 14th Biennale of Sydney, and the 44th Venice Biennale.
Selected Works
Asta Gröting
Gelée Royale, 2023
blade of grass, polyester, polyurethane, steel
89 × 57 × 30 cm
Asta Gröting
Wolf and Dog, 2021
4K digital video with sound
9.58 min
Asta Gröting
Palast der Republik, 2023
glass, anodized aluminum
234 × 198 × 206 cm
Asta Gröting
Space Between Two People Having Sex, 2022
Polyurethan resin, stainless steel (polished)
37 × 75 × 165 cm
Asta Gröting
Not feeling too cheerful, 2018
colored glass
23 × 33 × 33 cm
unique
Asta Gröting
Grashalm | Blade of Grass, 2023
Blade of grass, acrylic glass, polyurethane
84 × 33 × 31 cm
Asta Gröting
3D Studio, 2023
4K UHD video, color, sound, 11.15 min
c|g Exhibitions
From Deep Sea Odyssey to Space Between Two People Having Sex | Madrid
08.05.–26.07.2025
Surrounding You: Part II | Berlin
02.05.–21.06.2025
I Opened the Curtain to See What Lays Behind | Berlin
24.02.–13.04.2024
Fortune | Berlin
16.09.–18.11.2023
We Belong To Each Other | Berlin
17.09.–16.11.2022
Looking Through the Threshold | Berlin
30.04.–11.06.2022
Standing | Berlin
05.03.–21.04.2022
Basel By Berlin | Berlin
17.–26.06.2020
Not feeling too cheerful: reclining figures, facades and more | Berlin
27.04.–01.06.2019
dispositiv (1) fortlaufend | Berlin
11.03.–15.04.2017
TOUCH and Ghost | Berlin
09.01.–06.02.2016
Asta Gröting | Berlin
01.05.–06.06.2015
Going Going Gone | Berlin
18.01.–01.03.2014
Die Wahrscheinlichkeit, dass nichts passiert | Berlin
19.01.–02.03.2013
Die Reisekutsche von Goethe, der Mercedes von Adenauer und mein smart | Berlin
03.03.–14.04.2012
Familienwerkbänke | Berlin
19.03.–23.04.2011
External Exhibitions
Solo Exhibition
Facies | Techne Sphere, Leipzig
26.07.–31.10.2024
Solo Exhibition
Das Wesen von “x” | Lindenau-Museum, Altenburg
20.08.–30.10.2023
Group Exhibition
City Limits | Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
11.06.–14.08.2022
Solo Exhibition
Berlin Fassaden Teil I | KINDL – Zentrum für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Berlin
10.09.–03.12.2017
Videos
Selected Publications
Asta Gröting, Berlin Facades, Sternberg Press, KINDL, 2017
Asta Gröting, Die Geschichte der Werkzeuge ist das aufgeschlagene Buch der menschlichen Psychologie/ The History of Tools is the open Book of Human Psychology, VfmK, 2017
Asta Gröting Asta Gröting, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2010