Eva Lootz moved to Spain in 1967 along with the Austrian artist Adolfo Scholsser. In Vienna she studied at the Institute for Film and Television and at the same time took courses in Philosophy and Art.
Her first exhibition in Spain took place in 1973 at the Ovidio Gallery. At that time, she was using materials such as paraffins, lacquers and felt and belonged to the post-minimalist school. She approached the poetry of objects in a style that led her to installations, a field which she helped pioneer in Spain. Coming into contact with the artists at the Buades Gallery was a turning point for her. This gallery was a focal point for discussion and experiences involving conceptual and plastic arts. Others who frequented the venue included Adolfo Schlosser, Spanish architect, painter and sculptor Juan Navarro Baldeweg and Chilean writer Patricio Bulnes. They took part in the exhibition 'En tres dimensiones' ['In Three Dimensions'] organised by the Caja de Pensiones Foundation in Madrid (1984). This exhibition set out new paths for expanded sculpture in Spain. As she herself said, it was an experiment in search of 'continuous art'.
Lootz then began to take the physical properties and processes of change in malleable materials (mercury, bronze, paraffin, dry ice, lacquer, cotton, sand, salt, etc.) as a starting point for tracking down their connections with history through mining, processing, trading and use; and for showing how those processes left their mark on the landscape and on language.
Her works have been shown at the Palacio de Cristal building of the Museo Reina Sofía (Madrid, 2002), the Contemporary Art Museum in Barcelona (1997 & 2014), the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Basque Country in Vitoria-Gasteiz (2015), the Círculo de Bellas Artes (Madrid, 2012), the Patio Herreriano Museum (Valladolid, 2015) and the Contemporary Art Centre of Galicia (Santiago de Compostela, 2016 & 2017). She has won the National Award for Plastic Arts (1994), the Tomás Francisco Prieto Award from the Real Casa de la Moneda (2009), the Award for Women in Visual Arts (2010), the Arte y Mecenazgo Foundation Award (2013) and the José González de la Peña Award (Royal Academy of San Fernando, 2014).
Eva Lootz moved to Spain in 1967 along with the Austrian artist Adolfo Scholsser. In Vienna she studied at the Institute for Film and Television and at the same time took courses in Philosophy and Art.
Her first exhibition in Spain took place in 1973 at the Ovidio Gallery. At that time, she was using materials such as paraffins, lacquers and felt and belonged to the post-minimalist school. She approached the poetry of objects in a style that led her to installations, a field which she helped pioneer in Spain. Coming into contact with the artists at the Buades Gallery was a turning point for her. This gallery was a focal point for discussion and experiences involving conceptual and plastic arts. Others who frequented the venue included Adolfo Schlosser, Spanish architect, painter and sculptor Juan Navarro Baldeweg and Chilean writer Patricio Bulnes. They took part in the exhibition 'En tres dimensiones' ['In Three Dimensions'] organised by the Caja de Pensiones Foundation in Madrid (1984). This exhibition set out new paths for expanded sculpture in Spain. As she herself said, it was an experiment in search of 'continuous art'.
Lootz then began to take the physical properties and processes of change in malleable materials (mercury, bronze, paraffin, dry ice, lacquer, cotton, sand, salt, etc.) as a starting point for tracking down their connections with history through mining, processing, trading and use; and for showing how those processes left their mark on the landscape and on language.
Her works have been shown at the Palacio de Cristal building of the Museo Reina Sofía (Madrid, 2002), the Contemporary Art Museum in Barcelona (1997 & 2014), the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Basque Country in Vitoria-Gasteiz (2015), the Círculo de Bellas Artes (Madrid, 2012), the Patio Herreriano Museum (Valladolid, 2015) and the Contemporary Art Centre of Galicia (Santiago de Compostela, 2016 & 2017). She has won the National Award for Plastic Arts (1994), the Tomás Francisco Prieto Award from the Real Casa de la Moneda (2009), the Award for Women in Visual Arts (2010), the Arte y Mecenazgo Foundation Award (2013) and the José González de la Peña Award (Royal Academy of San Fernando, 2014).