Biography
Lothar Götz (b. Günzburg, Germany 1963) studied in Aachen, Düsseldorf and Wuppertal and at the Royal College of Art, London (1996-98), after which he has divided his time between England and Germany. He is Professor of Fine Art at the University of Sunderland and has taught at the Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford. Götz has exhibited widely in the UK and abroad, with solo shows at galleries such as domobaal (London); Gasworks (London), the Chisenhale (London), Mappin Art Gallery (Sheffield), Hatton Gallery, (Newcastle), Museum Goch (Germany), David Risley Gallery (Copenhagen) and the Petra Rinck Gallery (Dusseldorf), and has been included in group exhibitions in Amsterdam, Dublin, Hamburg, Hanover, Salamanca, Wilhelmshaven and Wuppertal. He also participated in the Prague Triennale. From 1993 Götz has focused on wall paintings using the geometrical vocabulary of Constructivism, as in his site-specific work for the Goethe-Institut in 2000. He has also participated in art residencies in New York, Shanghai and Guangzhou, and the Abbey Fellowship at the British School at Rome in 2010.
Götz contributed a major work to an international showcase exhibition on wall painting at the Miró Foundation, Barcelona (2010). His other public commissions include Platform for Art at Piccadilly Circus London underground station in 2007; a collaboration with Caruso St John Architects at the Arts Council England Offices in 2008; a commission at Haymarket Metro Station, Newcastle in 2009; and site-specific wall-painting projects such as Xanadu at Leeds Art Gallery in 2017; Composition for a Staircase at Pallant House Gallery, Chichester in 2016, and Dance Diagonal at Towner Gallery in Eastbourne in 2019.