The German artist Katharina Grosse turns the Llotja de Palma into a large pictorial landscape with Arrels, an ambitious artistic intervention that can be visited from 28 May 2026 to 31 January 2027. The exhibition, co-produced by the Government of the Balearic Islands and Es Baluard Museu d’Art Contemporani in Palma, offers an immersive experience that completely transforms one of the most emblematic Gothic buildings in Mallorca.

Katharina Grosse Arrels Llotja Palma

Arrels is a co-production between the Government of the Balearic Islands and Es Baluard Museu. Photo: CAIB.

Curated by David Barro, the exhibition establishes a dialogue between contemporary painting and the historic architecture of the Llotja. To this end, Katharina Grosse creates a landscape made up of mounds of earth and a huge tree, uprooted and partially buried, all covered in paint to blur the boundaries between nature, sculpture, architecture and colour.

Internationally renowned for taking painting beyond the canvas, Grosse transforms the space into a multi-sensory experience in which visitors become part of the work. The artist conceives the installation as an open, enveloping environment that alters the perception of both the place and the viewer.

An artistic intervention that redefines the Llotja de Palma

During the official presentation, the president of the Balearic Government, Margalida Prohens, highlighted the international scope of the project and said the artist had “shaken up the Llotja, transforming it into a living experience”. She also recalled that more than one million people have visited the exhibitions held in the building since it reopened three years ago.

For her part, Katharina Grosse explained that in Arrels “the container and the work are completely one and the same thing”, while David Barro defined the project as “a radical relationship between painting and space” that turns the exhibition into an environment that can be explored and inhabited.

Who is Katharina Grosse?

Born in Freiburg im Breisgau in 1961, Katharina Grosse is one of the leading artists on the international contemporary scene. Her work has been shown at institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art, the Centre Pompidou-Metz and the Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart. The intervention Arrels is one of the most ambitious site-specific projects carried out to date at the Llotja de Palma.