July, August, September | 2005

Wiebke Grösch

Visual Art
  • Groesch Metzger © Privat

Wiebke Grösch’s artistic practice centers on the investigation of socio-cultural and urban questions. Together with her long-term collaborator Frank Metzger, she explores how historical events, utopias, and power structures are inscribed in urban space, seeking out traces and hidden narratives and relating them to the present. Her work is particularly interested in how the meanings of events, ideas, places, and objects shift over time, and in the losses and transformations that occur as personal experience transitions into historical record, from biography to historiography.

Urban space, for Grösch, is a living archive-shaped by performances, role assignments, and the mechanisms of representation and order that govern architecture and social environments. Her projects critically examine these structures through installations, site-specific performative interventions, objects, photography, video, and text.

During her residency at Villa Aurora, Grösch developed the project “A Village in the City, Disappearing,” a photographic research work investigating the transformation of Los Angeles’s urban landscape, using the history of the 1932 Olympic Village as a starting point.

Her work has been shown in numerous exhibitions in Germany and internationally, including:

  • Frankfurter Kunstverein (solo, 2012)

  • VISIT TINGBJERG, Copenhagen (2012)

  • La Kunsthalle – Centre d'art contemporain, Mulhouse, France (2011)

  • Akademie der Künste, Berlin (2010)

  • CAC Bretigny, France (2010)

  • Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck, Remagen (2010)

  • Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt/Main (2009)

  • basis, Frankfurt/Main (solo, 2008)

  • ZKM – Museum für Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe (2008)

  • Skulpturenpark Berlin_Zentrum, Berlin (solo, 2007)

  • Museum für angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt/Main (2007)

  • Bildmuseet, Umeå, Sweden (2007)

  • Bergen Kunsthall, Norway (2006)

  • Museum der Bildenden Künste Leipzig (2006)

  • NGBK, Berlin (2006)

  • Preus Museum, Horten, Norway (2006)

  • Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin (2005)

  • Kunstmuseum Bonn (2005)

  • Bonner Kunstverein (2003)

  • Kunsthalle Bremen (2003)

  • Halle für Kunst, Lüneburg (2003)

Grösch’s work continues to interrogate the shifting narratives and power dynamics embedded in the urban landscape, offering nuanced perspectives on the interplay between memory, history, and space.