LIZE KRÜGER | A SPOTLIGHT ON SOCIAL & POLITICAL INJUSTICES

LIZE KRÜGER | A SPOTLIGHT ON SOCIAL & POLITICAL INJUSTICES

Lize Krüger is a South African artist who received her BA in Fine Arts Degree in 1988 from The University of Northwest in South Africa.
From the eighties until 2008, she had numerous solo exhibitions and participated in group exhibitions. In the early 2000s, before relocating to the UK in 2014, she gave lectures and art lessons to students at a quadriplegic facility and an underage abuse victim’s center. After a ten-year Sabbatical from the Arts, she resumed her art career in 2018 by accepting a commission from the Directors of The Lost Gardens of Heligan in Cornwall. Since then, she has exhibited internationally, and her work has been published in international art publications.

During the past five years, Krüger’s work was exhibited at the Florence Biennale in October 2021, at the FIABCN 2021 in Barcelona in Dec 2021, at the Venice Art Fair 2021, and Featured in group exhibitions at the Gallery of Biblioteca Angelica in ROME and at the SWISS ART FAIR in Zurich, Switzerland. In addition, Krüger was awarded internationally with the WAA Woman Art Award 2022 by Musa International. Furthermore, her project was officially recognized by Center UNESCO in 2020 as a “Project for excellence for Gender Equality.” In 2021 she received the 2021 Collector’s Vision International Art Award, and in 2019 she was awarded the GOLD LIST Top Contemporary Artist of Today by the International Art Market Magazine.

“My work focuses primarily on social and political injustices. Throughout history, artists continued to be the conscience of governments. I feel responsible for addressing this, whether the message reaches them or not. I find it impossible to stand in apathy when I witness any atrocities. I also try to create awareness about the long-term effect of injustice, war, and abuse on humanity. The given outcome can manifest as mental health and suicide.
I am on a mission to rid it of all established stigma. For sufferers, more pain can be created by the public’s lack of compassion and understanding. We need to talk about these things to achieve healing.”