Eva Lootz

She is one of the great pioneers of the 1970s, and yet her work is only now being discovered in its abundance and astonishing topicality: Eva Lootz, born in Vienna in 1940 and living in Madrid since the 1960s, decided to live and work in Spain at a time of political and social upheaval. Art-making, as Lootz understands it and understood it from the very beginning, is and was therefore also characterized by political resistance and social and private resilience. For Lootz, political means above all looking closely, listening and understanding what is said or read. The materials she uses emphasize the soft, poetically flowing - even when they are made of marble or bitumen - and at the same time tell of the origin of their extraction: salt, sand, water, stone. Her work includes drawings, sculptures, videos, photographs, (wall) paintings and interventions on site.
In cooperation with the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía Madrid and in close collaboration with the artist herself, this exhibition is the first presentation of this kind in a German-speaking country.