Asta Gröting´s work focuses on the social and psychological spaces that are not visible to the naked eye and that shape the complex relationships between humans, animals, and things. A continuous thread throughout her work is the question of communication and its failures: what happens between people, what cannot be conveyed, and what is lost in the process of exchange.
Gröting had international solo exhibitions like Städel Museum, Frankfurt; 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. Her work is held in the collections of Städel Museum Frankfurt, Museum Ludwig Cologne, Hamburger Bahnhof Berlin, and Centre Pompidou Paris, among others. Upcoming exhibitions include “Asta Gröting: Things”, Belvedere, Vienna (September 2026) and “Ruin Echoes”, konschthal, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg (October 2026).
Selected Works
Asta Gröting
Dancing Queen, 2024
silicone
25 × 130 × 75 cm
Asta Gröting
Space Between Two Women Having Sex, 2024
Silicone, plaster
25 × 60 × 115 cm
Asta Gröting
Space Between Two People Having Sex, 2022
Polyurethan resin, stainless steel (polished)
37 × 75 × 165 cm
Asta Gröting
Deep Sea Odyssey, 2024
epoxy resin, sawdust, polyamide flock
180 × 190 × 35 cm
Asta Gröting
Gelée Royale, 2023
blade of grass, polyester, polyurethane, steel
89 × 57 × 30 cm
Asta Gröting
Acker, 2012
epoxy and leaf gold, 24K
195 × 190 × 32 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
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
Herz | Berlin
17.01.–07.03.2026
From Deep Sea Odyssey to Space Between Two People Having Sex | Madrid
08.05.–23.08.2025
Surrounding You: Part II | Berlin
02.05.–23.08.2025
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
Ein Wolf, Primaten und eine Atemkurve | Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main
05.09.2025–12.04.2026
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