Artist CV
Artist's statement
(b 1982ZA. Lives and works in Johannesburg)
Lötz’s current artistic interests reference places of emotional resonance as part of a search for enchantment in natural terrain. His work manipulates the capacity for paint to render organic forms and natural cycles of growth and decay. “With my work I hope to trace a connection with the land itself through its hidden narratives of displacement and loss – to find a solace in the regenerative cycles of nature by binding outer place (landscape) and inner world (mind-state).”Solo exhibitions
- 2020
- Unearthly, Association For Visual Arts Gallery, Cape Town
- 2018
- Memory Exposure, Hazard Contemporary, Johannesburg
- 2013
- True Colours, Tonic Showroom, Johannesburg
- 2011
- The Special Danger, Outlet Project Rooom, Johannesburg
- 2010
- Endless Glee, Tonic Showroom, Johannesburg
Group exhibitions
- 2020
- Apartment Vol. 2 , The Fourth, Cape Town
- Latitudes Art Fair, online
- Cape Town Art Fair, Association For Visual Arts Gallery, Cape Town
- 2017
- Turbine Art Fair, No End Contemporary, Johannesburg
- All The Voices, Fried Contemporary, Pretoria
- 2016
- Turbine Art Fair, No End Contemporary, Johannesburg
- 2015
- Vampyr, National Arts Festival, Port Elizabeth
- Design Days Dubai, Southern Guild, Dubai
- 2014
- Play, Nirox Sculpture Park, Muldersdrift
- Reprinted, Bayliss Gallery, Johannesburg
- I Take It All Back, Nirox Project Space, Johannesburg
- Design Days Dubai, Southern Guild, Dubai
- L’atelier Top 100, Absa Gallery, Johannesburg
- 2013
- Southern Guild, Museum Of African Design, Johannesburg
- L’atelier Top 100, Absa Gallery, Johannesburg
- 2012
- Cmyk, Circa, Johannesburg
- Southern Guild, Everard Read, Johannesburg
- Delft, Johannesburg Artfair, Curated By Gavin Rooke, Johannesburg
- L’atelier Top 100, Absa Gallery, Johannesburg
- 2010
- Them & Us curated By Richard Hart, Cape Town, Durban, London
- Asymptote, Fnb Dance Umbrella, Johannesburg
- Undoing, National Arts Festival, Port Elizabeth
- Johannesburg Art Fair, Southern Guild, Johannesburg
- 2009
- X-Store, Co-Op, Johannesburg
- Lab Research, Addict Lab, Johannesburg
- 2008
- Drawing Show, David Krut, curated by Michael Macgarry, Johannesburg, Cape Town
- Good Luck/Bad Luck, Ello Gallery, New York City
- 2007
- Collagist, The Gallery Premises, Johannesburg
- 2006
- Thought Traffic, The Gallery Premises, Johannesburg
Awards & residencies
- 2018
- The Villa Residency, Johannesburg
- 2018
- Spring Session Residency 108, Upstate New York, USA
- 2017
- Silence Awareness Existence Arteles Creative Center Residency, Rural Finland
Press & publications
- 2020
- Review: "Undoing Form" artthrob.co.za, Misha Krynauw, (https://artthrob.co.za/2020/02/14/undoing-of-form-givan-lotzs-unearthly/)
- “New Medium Waxed” wantedonline.co.za, Gary Cotterell, (https://www.wantedonline.co.za/voices/2020-02-10-givan-ltz-has-new-medium-waxed- in-his-new-show-unearthly-landscape-as-mindstate/)
- Interview: ava.co.za, (https://www.ava.co.za/journal/interview-givan-lotz)
- 2018
- Feature: residency108.org, http://www.residency108.org/givan-ltz
- 2012
- Feature: “Where it’s at” Design Indaba, Richard Hart
- 2009
- Feature / interview: “Interversion”, Design Indaba
Collections
Residency 108
Coca-Cola
Commair
Slow Lounge
Southern Guild
Tonic Showroom
Teaching
- 2012, 2019
- Guest Lecturer Visual Arts & Design, University of Pretoria
Education
- 2001, 2004
- BA (Hons) Information Design, University of Pretoria, Pretoria