Art Basel 2025 is just around the corner. Promoted as a must-see highlight at this year’s show, renowned artist Katharina Grosse will take over the Messeplatz and the surrounding structures, transforming the space into a vivid chromatic environment (from Monday, June 16 to Sunday, June 22, 2025). For the Art Basel starting in a week, German artist Katharina Grosse transforms the entire Messeplatz, including the fountain and the facade of Hall 2, into a colorful urban landscape. Katharina Grosse’s art style is characterized by bold, large-scale, abstract installations and paintings that emphasize vibrant color, dynamic composition, and immersive environments. She is best known for her use of spray paint, applied with industrial spray guns, to create expansive, fluid fields of color that often spill beyond traditional canvas boundaries onto walls, floors, objects, and even outdoor spaces like the Messeplatz in Basel. Her work blurs the lines between painting, sculpture, and architecture, creating site-specific experiences that engage viewers spatially and sensorially.
