Lothar Götz

Lothar Götz is renowned for work that uses the language of abstraction to remake, play with and shift viewers’ readings of architecture and space. His practice spans drawing and painting through to full size wall paintings and site-specific installations for settings including museums, underground stations and hospitals.

Born in Günzburg, Bavaria in 1963, Götz, who lives in London and Berlin, is Associate Professor of Fine Art at Sunderland University and has exhibited widely in the UK and internationally. Götz was  honoured with the prestigious Abbey Fellowship at The British School at Rome in 2010, the Chocheme Fellowship at Byam Shaw/Central St Martins School of Art, London in 2006 and the Artist Links Residency in Shanghai/Chinanin in 2004.

Recent solo exhibitions include The Four Seasons, domobaal, London; Volcano, Petra Rinck Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany (2023); Pool, curated by Zoe Watson, Holden Gallery, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester (2021); SALVATION, domobaal (2020) Dance Diagonal at Towner, Eastbourne (2020); If Only, Petra Rinck Galerie, Dusseldorf, Germany (2019) and Xanadu at Leeds City Art Gallery. Group exhibitions include Maud Cotter: a collect of will, installed on Lothar Götz's site specific mural The Four Seasons, with Special Guest Simon Cutts, domobaal.

Public site-specific installations have included at Piccadilly Underground Station, London; at the Miro Foundation, Barcelona; Southbank Centre, London; Pallant House Gallery, Chichester; Leeds Art Gallery; MIMA, Middlesbrough and at Towner Eastbourne, which was his first major commission on the south coast and the first time an artist has been commissioned to create an artwork for Towner’s exterior.

Götz has work in public art collections in London and Germany including the Government Art Collection, London, UK; Collection and Usher Museum, Lincoln, UK; Mead Gallery, Warwickshire, UK; Ja–Li–Ma Collection Köln/Düsseldorf, Germany and Museum Kunstpalast Düsseldorf, Germany.

Represented by domobaal, London.