Liza Grobler, Those who walk the land, 2025
Liza Grobler
AVA Exhibition: Frozen Tales (Group Show) | 24.04.25 - 05.06.25
Liza Grobler is a South African artist who works with a variety of media often exploring ideas that bring together physical and psychological spaces and historical and ecological scapes. Her practice is built around process, putting materiality and ephemerality of the objects and media she works with in tension.
Grobler has been selected as the 2023 festival artist for the Klein Karoo National Arts Festival. In 2022 she was the recipient of the Centre Luigi di Sarro VAA Award (Italy) for her short film ‘Voices From a Divided Fountain’ - screened at the international Film and Photography Festival in Verona (2022).
At Context Art Miami (2019), director Julian Navarro mentioned her as one of five artists to watch. In 2016, she was a recipient of the Africa Centre Award and IZIKO Museums commissioned a site-specific work for the National Gallery. Other career highlights include: a performative collaboration with world renowned marimbist Magdalena De Vries (2020), solo project for Cape Town International Art Fair (2017), a commissioned public artwork for Cape Town International Design Capital (2015) and the screening of her short film ‘Voices from a Divided Fountain’ as part of a traveling exhibition in Serbia (2019). Two other films ‘21st Century family portrait’ and ‘Diary of a Nanosatellite’ were respectively screened at the ADDIS International Video Arts Festival (Ethiopia & Cape Town) and at MOFO for Forever Now (Tasmania and Deep Space, 2015). She was nominated for The Norval Sovereign African Art Prize (2021+22), Helgaard Steyn National Award for Contemporary Painting (2015), as well as short-listed for the Commonwealth Arts and Craft Award (2006). She attended residencies in Norway, Finland, Switzerland, Serbia, Belgium, France, Mexico, India, the United States (ARTOMI and Residency Unlimited) and initiated an interdisciplinary international residency and exhibition ‘Smokey Signals from the Groot Karoo’ in Cape Town and Richmond, South Africa (2017).
Exhibitions include solo exhibitions in South Africa and Belgium and international group and numerous site-specific projects. Blindfolded Line, Dancing Through Time (2014), traveled to various museums in South Africa. She is represented by Everard Read Galleries (Cape Town, Johannesburg, London) and Uitstalling Gallery (Belgium).
Instagram: @lizagrobler
