Meet the Team
Ame Bell – Director
Amé Bell is the Director of David Krut Projects (DKP) which consists of multiple galleries, a bookstore, framing and other production-related activities. Aside from her management skills, Bell is an accomplished art curator and designer of art books.
Bell has been working with David Krut Arts for over a decade, managing workshop activities as well as gallery activities between New York and Johannesburg. In this role, she oversees the organisation’s gallery and art fair exhibition programmes, local and international sales, print workshop initiatives, and the management of gallery, bookstore, and operations across multiple departments, including communications, framing, and venue projects.
She works closely with the team of printers at David Krut Workshop (DKW), located at Arts on Main in Johannesburg’s Maboneng Precinct, facilitating collaborative editioning opportunities for emerging artists and fostering engagement between young practitioners and the print studio environment.
Bell has also worked closely with the New York associate space, David Krut Fine Art, Inc., located in the Chelsea Art District alongside the High Line. Through this relationship, she contributes ongoing support to the exhibition programme and the international promotion of artists from Africa.
Academically, Bell specialises in contemporary art practices in South Africa and holds a PhD in Art History from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. She served as a juror for the Center for Contemporary Printmaking’s 2026 Footprint International Competition and curated the South African Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale in 2022.
Nomazitah Ngwenya
Gallery Admin and Archive Team
Nomazitah Ngwenya began working at the David Krut Projects in 2010 as an assistant (or clean hands) to the printers in the Print Workshop. Her role at DKP developed into archivist, administrator and all-rounder – logistics, sales, dealing with clients, shipping, packing.
Currently Noma Ngwenya works at the 151 Blue House in the Gallery and Archive. She has extensive knowledge of how works were created and should be archived from her time in the print workshop. She is an excellent person to liaise with clients and hangs works/shows.
Noma values meeting and working with different artists and people from different parts of the worlds. She says:
You get to see the baby being born (art being made) and the nurturing of that baby. All those stages are so fascinating and sometimes they really work when trying to sell the art piece to clients because you can relate and tell the story of how it was made. I love this about having the DKW because you talk about the things that you see everyday and you get to engage with the artists, and they let you into their world.
A special memory that stands out for me, is the time that Siphiwe (Ncube) and myself, where given the task to plan and execute Senzo (Shabangu’s) show in 2011. We were still new, but we pulled it off and it was a success. I am still proud of myself.
Noma Ngwenya was born in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe in 1983. She studied Electrical Engineering specialising in light power. She left Zimbabwe in 2006.
Innocentia Mthunzi
Books and Accounts Administrator
Innocentia Mthunzi is the Books administrator and school liaison at David Krut Bookstores. Originally from Vereeniging, Innocentia has been a member of the David Krut team for the last ten years.
What she loves about her job is being a jack of all trades, learning about art and interacting with interesting artists from South Africa and abroad. When asked about the best part of her job, she answered
I love being surrounded by books. I also love the school visitations that I do because this gives me a chance to showcase the knowledge that I have to the teachers and this boosts my confidence.
Innocentia’s favourite memory is the time the team went to see Steven Spielberg’s War Horse at Monte Casino.
