The German artist Katharina Grosse has realized her dream of a tailor-made studio, a place that has enough space for her room-filling works and combines industrial atmosphere with soft light and neutral wall surfaces. In close cooperation with the artist, the firm Augustin und Frank Architekten planned the studio in Berlin's Mitte neighborhood and realized it in 2007.
The result is a compact reinforced concrete cube containing workrooms, storerooms, an archive, and office and living space. The publication focuses on the dialogue between the artist and the architects. Extensive graphic material documents both the naked architecture as well as the artist's appropriation of the space. Also included is an essay section in which prominent authors discuss the topic of "The Artist as Building Sponsor," which will take center stage at the symposium due to accompany the opening of Katharina Grosse's exhibition at the Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin (Temporary Art Gallery, Berlin) on April 3, 2009
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