Eva Lootz was born in Vienna in 1940, the city where she graduated in Film and Television Direction and later expanded her knowledge by studying Musicology, Philosophy and Plastic Arts. At the end of the 60s she moved to Madrid, where she began her artistic journey by participating in her first exhibitions. The Ovidio Gallery in Madrid hosted her first exhibition, and she participated in the first issue of the iconic Humo Magazine. Developing a mainly sculptural work, her beginnings deal with the devaluation of matter towards the idea through ephemeral materials such as cotton, soil or seeds coated in paraffin.
It is clear that Lootz’s work is strongly marked by the interaction between matter and language. For this reason, she has a great influence on the knowledge of the materials used and how they behave. However, and delving deeper into the themes addressed, we can find concepts as varied as transit, movement and travel, or freedom and femininity, as well as the passage of time and nature. Her work proposes a continuous art, where each proposal envelops the space and the viewer through an intersensory gaze.
It is worth noting that her work also travels through heterogeneous registers such as drawing, engraving, video or photography. Although her most characteristic work is developed through sculptural installation.
Regarding her exhibition route, she has developed mainly in northern Europe, in spaces such as the Barbara Farber Gallery in the Netherlands, the Museum of Public Art in Sweden or the Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik in Denmark; and in Spain, spaces such as the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, the MACBA or the Centro de Artes Visuales Fundación Helga de Alvear. His work can be found in the collections of most Spanish art centers, foundations and museums, totaling more than twenty.
In 2024, the Suñol Foundation dedicated the exhibition ‘Walking with the River’ to him, which included several works by the artist and others lent by institutions and private collections.
List of artworks
Sense títol , 1980
Sense títol , 1980
Sense títol , 1980
Sense títol , 1980
1970 – 2001
Josep Suñol Collection
Conceptual art, minimal art and arte povera of extreme radicalism in its thinking, in dramatic contrast to attitudes since...
Hidrotopías - La escritura del agua
Act 13: Eva Lootz
An exhibition that reflects on the importance of water in our lives and on the reprehensible use made of...
5th Anniversary
Josep Suñol's Collection
A fresh insight into his collection that can help us understand the function of art in...
Everything Solid Fades Away
In Three Acts
The second act, titled Everything Solid Fades Away, is a journey through a group of works that allow us to understand the extent to which the abstract pulsation did...
Walking With the River
Eva Lootz
From September 28th to March 2nd, 2024, the Fundació Suñol presents Walking With the River, an exhibition dedicated to Eva Lootz, artist of the Suñol Soler Collection. The artist...
Eva Lootz at the IDIBAPS
2023
The collaboration between the Suñol Soler Collection and IDIBAPS aims to bring art and science to new audiences, bringing art closer to the research environment and opening its access to researchers, health professionals...
Intrusive Dialogues. Everything is the present
2021
Museu Nacional d'Art de...
Japanese shodō 書道 calligraphy demonstration
By Mitsuru Nagata
Within the framework of the public program of the Walking With the River exhibition, the Fundació Suñol will invite the calligraphy master Mitsuru Nagata to present the secrets of...
Admirable! lightning and no one understands anything
With Clara Garí, Marc Caellas and Esteban Feune de Colombi
Thursday, February 8, we will invite the artist, writer and walker Clara Garí and the performers Marc Caellas and Esteban Feune de Colombi (La Soledad) to talk about walking...
Guided tour
Walking with the River. Eva Lootz
We invite you to visit the exhibition Walking with the River by the artist Eva Lootz with the help of a member of the educational team of the Fundació...
Walking with the River
Adult Workshop
Within the framework of the exhibition presented at the Suñol Foundation, to create this workshop we started from the idea of drawing as a medium that transports us to...
Ways to draw
Conference by Eva Lootz
On the occasion of the exhibition Andar con el río we invited the artist Eva Lootz to give a conference about her work and the creation processes that have...
We flow! Sound, movement and drawing
Familiar workshop
Family workshop on the occasion of the exhibition Andar con el río by the artist Eva Lootz. The drawings, made with semi-automated movements, are the result of the relationship...
Performance by Alicia Narejos
Opening 'Walking with the river' by Eva Lootz
On the occasion of the opening of the exhibition Andar con el rio (Walking with the River) by the artist Eva Lootz, there will be a dance performance by...
Les Escales
In 1976 Josep Suñol moved his residence to Les Escales, an address specially designed to house his growing collection of works of...
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