As part of Sydney Festival 2018 Carriageworks, the largest and most significant contemporary multi-arts centre of its kind in Australia, hosts The Horse Trotted Another Couple of Metres, Then it Stopped, the monumental site-specific installation by renowned German artist Katharina Grosse – a special opportunity for Australian audiences to experience Grosse’s extraordinary vision and transformative beauty.

Representing the third in the Schwartz Carriageworks series of major international projects, the in situ work is an ambitious, mind-blowing encounter between Grosse’s multi-dimensional, daring, and kaleidoscopic art practice and the unique architecture and grand scale of Carriageworks’ heritage building. Grosse envelops the Public Space of the regenerated building with its distinctive nineteenth century industrial atmosphere in more than 8250 square meters of suspended fabric – draped, knotted and hung across and through the architectural elements of the historic structure. The vast surface is molded and shrunk by the artist who folds or hides what’s there, and applies a palette of raw color to create a vast painting over the layers of folds.

Regarded internationally as one of the most influential and inventive visual artists of our time, Grosse (born in 1961 in Freiburg/Breisbau, Germany) is best known for her works of immersive subjectivity, kaleidoscopic color, and epic scale. By breaking out of the traditional boundaries of painting she’s able to transform space and create sublime, otherworldly environments where visitors are engaged both as observers and participants. Her work is featured in the collections of many of the world’s leading institutions such as the Centre George Pompidou in Paris, the Kunsthaus in Zurich and the MoMA in New York.