Lothar Böttcher presents cold-worked optical glass sculptures from his Apparatus and Anima enquiry in The Space Between — a group exhibition of nine artists at Artyli Gallery, Nelson Mandela Square, Sandton. Opening Saturday 31 October at 14:00, running until the end of November 2026.
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.
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.
Two new Precious Beasts from the Anima series will be shown at the Waldmuseum Zwiesel, Germany, as part of the international exhibition Mystische Kreaturen und Mythische Wesen (Mystical Creatures and Mythical Beings), 2026.
Glass Art & Design Paris presents Salon du Verre Paris14 with 30 international artists exhibiting from 9-12 October at Annexe de la Marie du 14e arrondissement.
Dirk van der Westhuizen is the main artist.
There are also new paintings by Zolile Phetshane, Willie Saayman, Cobus van Bosch, Luan Nel, Olaf Bisschoff and Anton Karstel.
Lothar Böttcher, acclaimed hard glass sculptor, is showing some of his sculptures.
The opening is on Thursday 9 October 2025, 17:30 – 20:00.
There is ample safe parking.
Dawid Ras Gallery, Old Castle Brewery, Woodstock.
From July 14 to August 8, 2025 SPARC*-Spazio Arte Contemporanea in Venice is hosting the group exhibition Fluid Matter – Humanature, curated by Mollified Venice.