The Lathe Riders present Grit & Wheels at the Glasmuseum Frauenau. Thirteen artists, twenty works, one argument: cold work is a discipline of its own. Böttcher shows Flight and Croco Bear.
Selected for the international Fifteen x Fifteen exhibition at Blowfish Glass Gallery, Stourbridge, Lothar Bottcher joins 60 artists from 11 countries — each working within a strict 15 × 15 × 15 cm frame. His new piece Crystal Screen (2025) is on view 22 August – 22 October 2026.
W=M joins Eve-Song Exhibition at the University of Pretoria’s 2-1 Gallery
23 July – 13 August 2026.
The Moya African Glass Network presents Glass Safari 2026 — Past, Present, Future, closing showcase of its international glass-art biennale. Association of Arts Pretoria, 25 July – 15 August 2026. Free and open to the public. Live hot-glass demonstrations on opening day.
Darkroom photograms constructed from light, glass sculptures, and hand-cut stencils. Each image reveals itself only in the developer — analogue, irreversible, and unique. Edition of 5. Part of Echoes of Presence, Alliance Française Pretoria, June 2026.
Echoes of Presence brings together Lothar Böttcher and Caitlin Greenberg at Alliance Française de Pretoria, 11 June – 6 July 2026. Two glass artists working from opposite ends of time — one capturing shadows and placing sculptural screens within South African landscapes, the other giving presence to the phrases we bury. Free and open to the public.
We spend our lives believing the shadows on the wall in our caves are the real thing. We don’t even want to go outside any more. Our attention is the currency. We spend it freely.
A Beast trapped inside a screen. A sculpture revealed after the final polish. Lothar Böttcher on the two questions that drive his practice in glass.
Inducted into the Homo Faber Guide — the definitive international register of master artisans, recognising exceptional craft practitioners worldwide.
Home Sweet Home has been selected for New Glass Review 45 — the Corning Museum of Glass’ annual juried publication of international glass art.
