Katharina Grosse, professor at the Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weissensee presents Yvonne Grootenboer [NL 1979]. Grootenboer studied at the Academie in Kampen, Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weissensee and the Ateliers in Amsterdam.

‘Grootenboer understands painting as the most direct means she can employ to digest the complexity of the world around her. Taking up the ideas of story-telling she processes iconic narrative scenarios in largely monochromatic, all-over pictorial structures. This doubling of narrative and painterly form sets up an information drop-off, resulting in enigmatic pictures that circumvent any particular or defineable reading. A gap results between the iconic narratives she employs and the way these are painted, setting up a void. She empties both the narrative structure and the idea of painting activity itself. This is precisely the positive potential of her work.’ [Katharina Grosse, 2006]

In outLINE Grootenboer presents monumental figurative works on paper. The forms where she comes to are the result of intensive studies, diverse from medieval miniatures to lingerie advertisements on billboards. Grootenboer paints with self-made paint so that the quality of it is by her own hand.