Intimate moments and closeness characterize the multifaceted work of the German artist Asta Gröting. Originally and still working as a sculptor, she has expanded her artistic practice to include film and video. She has been one of the most influential figures in contemporary German art since the 1990s. In her work, she renders the invisible visible by focusing on processes that often go unnoticed in everyday life, as well as on interpersonal relationships.
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- Schaumainkai 63, 60596 Frankfurt am Main
Current notice
Due to two events, the exhibition “Asta Gröting. A Wolf, Primates, and a Breathing Curve” will only be accessible from 2 pm on Friday, 12 September, and until 3 pm on Sunday, 28 September. We kindly ask for your understanding.
Programme
Discover out-of-the-ordinary museum experiences, special guided tours or individually bookable offers.
About the exhibition
The Städel Museum will present a solo exhibition of Asta Gröting’s (b. 1961) work, featuring eight works created between 2015 and 2025, including seven video works and one laser projection specially developed for the exhibition. This selection enables to experience the fluid transitions between nature and culture, intimacy and distance, the familiar and the foreign. The videos capture or stage moments from Gröting’s own environment and human existence. Her deliberate manipulation of time lends the works a particular intensity.
In her work, Asta Gröting focuses on things that often escape our attention, such as subtle gestures of everyday life, empty spaces and the relationships between humans and animals.
Asta Gröting (b. 1961)
Matthias, Helge and Asta, 2025
Photo: Konstantin von Sichart
Courtesy of carlier | gebauer
© VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2025
Asta Gröting (b. 1961)
Wolf and Dog, 2021
Courtesy of carlier | gebauer
© VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2025
Asta Gröting (b. 1961)
Things, 2018
Courtesy of carlier | gebauer
© VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2025
Asta Gröting’s films are more than visual representations of our environment: they open up contemplative spaces that encourage reflection on the intricacies of hidden relationships and their dynamics. Through her work, Gröting shows how art can act as a medium for interpersonal connections by capturing intimate and intense encounters. Her sensitive translation of captivating moments into moving images invites to explore the subtle, often hidden liminal states of existence, and experience the poetry of the moment anew. Highlights of the exhibition include the work “Breathing Curve”, 2025, created especially for the exhibition, and the premiere of her latest video work, “Matthias, Helge and Asta” (2025), featuring Matthias Brandt, Helge Schneider and Asta Gröting herself as protagonists.
Curator
Svenja Grosser, Head of Contemporary Art, Städel Museum
Project Manager
Gioia Mattner, Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art, Städel Museum
Gallery
Asta Gröting
Photo: Jennifer Endom
© 2025 Asta Gröting, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
Asta Gröting
Touch, 2015
Courtesy of carlier | gebauer
© VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2025
Asta Gröting
First Drink, 2018
Courtesy of carlier | gebauer
© VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2025
Gröting’s work represents an artistic practice that addresses social and existential issues in a multilayered way.
About Asta Gröting
Asta Gröting (b. 1961 in Herford, Germany) lives and works in Berlin. From 1981 to 1986, Gröting studied sculpture at the Düsseldorf Academy of Art in the class of Klaus Rinke. Since moving to Berlin in 1993, she has staged performances and increasingly worked with the medium of video. Gröting taught sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich from 1997 to 2003 and held a professorship at the Braunschweig University of Art from 2009 to 2025. She has received numerous awards, most recently the Gerhard Altenbourg Prize in 2023. Her works are represented in important international collections, including the Centre Pompidou (Paris), the Museum Ludwig (Cologne), the Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (Ghent), the Saint Louis Art Museum, the Goetz Collection (Munich) and the Städel Museum (Frankfurt am Main). Important solo exhibitions have taken place at the Kunsthaus Biel Centre d’art Bienne in Biel, the KINDL – Centre for Contemporary Art in Berlin, the Kunstraum Dornbirn, the ZKM | Centre for Art and Media Karlsruhe, the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein – n.b.k. in Berlin, the Lentos Kunstmuseum in Linz, the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds, Marta Herford and the Lindenau Museum in Altenburg.
Städel Invites
Asta Gröting
Live event on 5 September with artist talk, music and drinks
