Johannes Lotz

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Johannes Lotz (* 1975 in Saarbrücken ) is a German painter .

Live and act

From 1995 to 2001 he studied at today's Academy of Fine Arts in Mainz with Friedemann Hahn . From 2002 to 2004 he did a postgraduate course in visual design and therapy with Gertraud Schottenloher at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich . In 2011 he had a teaching position at the Saar College of Fine Arts .

"With his work, Lotz stands in the great tradition of the liberation and deformation of the figurative, which in the genre of panel painting from El Grèco to Tizian, Paul Cézanne, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Caim Soutine to Francis Bacon and Maria Lassnig into the present enough to name just a few examples. " (1)

Christoph Wagner (2) writes about Lotz's artistic stance: "> The third eye <, the irritating look beyond things and between the levels of reality is what interests Johannes Lotz in this indissoluble dichotomy between painting and drawing as a great counterpoint to his art ( ...). "

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions (selection)

2007

  • Everything will be Musak , Galerie Michael Janssen, Cologne
  • Between us , Galerie Michael Janssen, Berlin

2008

2009

  • Marginal , gallery Parrotta, Stuttgart
  • Cellar and balconies , Saarland Artists' House, Saarbrücken

2010/2011:

  • Escape by L. , Parrotta Gallery, Stuttgart

2012

  • Diözesanmuseum Obermünster, Regensburg, exhibition for the award of the Schnell and Steiner culture prize "Art and Ethos"

2013

  • "No fairy tale", Parrotta Gallery, Stuttgart
  • "Trenches of Minne", Kramer Fine Art, Hamburg

2014

  • "I'm not a man in the world and it's getting dark around me", Saarländische Galerie, Berlin

2015

  • "Landscape with an insight", Dillingen Art Association in the Old Castle, Dillingen

Group exhibitions (selection)

2000

  • Nordwestpassage II , museums of the city of Lüdenscheid
  • Genre Painting , G7, Berlin

2003

  • Until the end of the world , Kunstverein Konstanz

2004

  • Painting , KHG Munich (with Anna Lachowicz)

2005

  • Iodine , Praterinsel Laboratory Munich and Fifi Leipzig

2006

  • A room with Heidenpeter, Dickreiter, Lotz, Maiwald, Mascher, Okon and Parkina , Galerie Michael Janssen, Cologne, curated by Gert & Uwe Tobias
  • You can`t smile without changing the landscape , Kunstforum Waldkirch

2007

  • Insert 1: who , Hamburger Kunstverein
  • Into the woods tonight , Parrotta Contemporary Art, Stuttgart / Berlin
  • Tension Space , Academy of Fine Arts, Munich
  • Blood Meridian , Galerie Michael Janssen, Berlin, curated by David Hunt

2008

  • Smaller work , 5 years room 500, room 500, Munich
  • Your country makes art , State Art Exhibition Saar, Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken

2009

  • Dipmaster III , Galerie Stephanie Bender, Munich
  • The sixth element , aspects gallery in Gasteig, Munich

2010

  • Step in the Arena , special workshop, Eurobahnhof district, Saarbrücken
  • HINTERHALT-QUELLENREICH , Artists' Forum Bonn
  • Hart am Glük - Temporary Local History Museum , Schleswig-Holstein House , Schwerin
  • Happy society , Parrotta Contemporary Art, Stuttgart

2011

  • Bread-mouth-mirror , Galerie Andreas Höhne, Munich
  • Crime and Image , Municipal Gallery Villingen-Schwenningen,
  • Exhibition room Ringstube Mainz and artists' association Walkmühle, Wiesbaden (cat.)
  • Hausen , Garden House of Art, AdBK Munich
  • Pop hits , dance school projects Munich

2012

  • All my clean friends and lovers ... , message salon / Perla Moden, Zurich
  • Landscape walker, Parrotta Contemporary Art, Stuttgart
  • Friends and Lovers in Jesterburg , Kunstverein Jesteburg
  • Something else is nice , Kultur- Eurobahnhof, Saarbrücken

2013

  • "Trippy Hippy Pastorale", Karlsdorf / Ilz Castle near Graz, Austria
  • “Béatitude”, Friends and Lovers in Underground chez 59 Rivoli, Paris, at the invitation of the Musée Igor Balut
  • “Château sauvage”, Museum Schloss Fellenberg, Merzig
  • "Pop hits & nightmare", Artspace Rheinmain, Offenbach
  • "Saar.Art 2013", Municipal Gallery Neunkirchen

2014

  • "Mini-Animism", Kling & Bang Gallery, Reykjavík
  • "In the jungle", Montez family art association, Frankfurt / Main
  • "Abstract Strategies", Bespoke Gallery & Studio, Düsseldorf
  • "2nd Klohäuschen-Biennale", Das Klohäuschen, Munich, curated by Matthias von Tesmar
  • "And it seems as if someone has lit a kind fire in their head", Kunstverein im Alten Schloss, Dillingen
  • "Château sauvage", Saarland Gallery, Berlin

2015

  • "Munich Draws II", Gallery of Artists, Munich
  • "Munich draws - the small format", Wäcker & Graupner, Munich
  • "Abstract strategies", Galerie Schütte, Essen

Literature (monographs)

  • "Johannes Lotz - I'm not a man in the world and it's getting dark around me, exhibition catalog, Berlin 2014, text: Prof. Dr. Christoph Wagner, ISBN 978-3-00-045197-3
  • Jeanne Dumoulin (text): Flucht durch L. Textem, Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-941613-40-9 (exhibition catalog).
  • "Johannes Lotz - Cellars and Balconies", exhibition catalog, with a conversation between Eva Meschede and Johannes Lotz, Verlag Saarländisches Künstlerhaus, 2009 ISBN 978-3-940517-21-0 .

Promotions and prizes

  • 1999: Montpellier grant from the Franco-German Youth Office
  • 2008: Bavarian studio funding program for visual artists
  • 2012: Schnell-und-Steiner-Kulturpreis Kunst und Ethos

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Lotz, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Saarbrücken