Stephen Hobbs
Collaboration History
Stephen Hobbs has been collaborating with David Krut Projects and David Krut Workshop since 2009. Hobbs’ relationship with David Krut Projects has broadened his artistic repertoire through print making, book making and publishing. In addition, David Krut Projects New York has produced a variety of Hobbs’ talks, presentations and workshops in numerous universities and institutions throughout the USA.
Fools Gold (2010), DKP Johannesburg
Be Careful in the Working Radius (2013), DKP Johannesburg
This exhibition was accompanied by an extensive exhibition catalogue. The artist’s first pop-up book, made in collaboration with DKW, also debuted on this exhibition.
Permanent Culture (2015), DKP Cape Town
This exhibition was the result of a three-year long research project centred on the city’s urban design and planning. The show was accompanied by an installation-based pop-up exhibition at Spin Street Studios in Cape Town, titled SAS Somerset and Other War Stories. Later that year, the exhibition travelled to DKP Johannesburg in a special iteration of the show, Permanent Culture at 1800 Metres.
No Fusion (2017), DKP Johannesburg
This exhibition was heavily informed by Hobbs’ lecturing visits to the USA, which included print residencies at Salt & Cedar, Eastern Market, Detroit, in 2015; and in 2016 at the Centre for Contemporary Printmaking in New Haven, Connecticut. His fascination with optical interplay and visual disruptions was explored through layering techniques that aimed to challenge a singular reading.
Body Parts (2019), DKP Johannesburg
This exhibition marked a breakthrough for Hobbs, being the first in which he incorporated overt references to his personal history. He had dealt with complex medical issues in the years before and integrated those experiences into work that uses the human body – his own, specifically – to examine the intersection of body, building, theatre and war.
Hobbs has also been part of various group exhibitions and his work has been displayed at numerous art fairs. The collaborative relationship has also extended beyond publications and exhibitions to include other happenings, such as mural projects, curatorial collaborations and site-specific performances.
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- Stephen Hobbs, Fool’s Gold (2010)
- Imprint: Selected Editions and Works on Paper (2012)
- Landscape Re-Orientation, 28 April – 30 June 2012, Landscape Re-Orientation (2012)
- DKW Review 2012 (2012)
- THE PRINT SHOW at EBONY Cape Town (2013)
- Be Careful in the Working Radius by Stephen Hobbs (2013)
- The Benediction of Shade (2013)
- 2013 Year End Review (2013)
- Cape Town Art Fair 2014 (2014)
- MATRIX (2014)
- Group Show Presenting William Kentridge’s Lekkerbreek (2014)
- Ring the Changes – A Group Exhibition (2014)
- Equinox – A Group Exhibition of New Editions and Unique Works (2014)
- Place of Gold – Group Exhibition (2014)
- UBUNTU FESTIVAL (2014)
- JOHANNESBURG IN PRINT (2014)
- The Benediction of Shade II (2014)
- The Cape Town Art Fair 2015 (2015)
- Carved: Relief Print Group Exhibitions (2015)
- SAS Somerset & Other War Stories by Stephen Hobbs (2015)
- Permanent Culture by Stephen Hobbs (2015)
- Permanent Culture at 1800 Metres by Stephen Hobbs (2015)
- MANTEGNA | DKW PRINTS (2016)
- UNNATURAL LANDSCAPES (2016)
- 365 Days of Projects and Collaborations (2016)
- NO FUSION | A SOLO EXHIBITION BY STEPHEN HOBBS (2017)
- RADICAL HERITAGE BABY! (2017)
- The Colourist Manifesto (2018)
- Almost Sold Out & Rarities (2019)
- URBAN CHEMISTRY (2019)
- Treasure Trove (2019)
- Body Parts by Stephen Hobbs (2019)
- Kind of Blue (2019)
- Ensemble Staves: City Bound (2020)
- A Short Life with Bungalow Bliss (2022)
- 2022 – A Year in Review (2022)
- What’s the Word? Reading Text in Print-based Art (2023)
- Summer Salon (2023)
- The Visitors (2024)
- Stephen Hobbs at Keyes Art and Design Emporium
- Stephen Hobbs – Optics, Curiosity and Playfulness | Listening Time 35 min
- Print of the Month – (October 2018) Stephen Hobbs ‘Very Dangerous Grid’
- The Art That We Make: The Colourist Manifesto
- The Print Club launched in collaboration with Mesh Club at the Keyes art Mile
- Art My Jozi Project | Urban Chemistry: Creative Place-making in Johannesburg
- The Art We Make: Treaure Trove
- Stephen Hobbs | Body Parts - In Conversation with Jacqueline Flint
- #ArtKeepsGoing – Artsy Campaign response to COVID-19 | Stephen Hobbs
- Turbine Art Fair 2021: Stephen Hobbs in residence at the fair
- Stephen Hobbs Woodview Residency
- A Look Back at Editions, Projects & Collaborations from 2021
- Stephen Hobbs: Bunkers and Bliss in Maboneng
- US Printmaker in Residence | Lauren Krukowski
- David Krut Podcast: Stephen Hobbs – Shallow Sleep | Listening Time: 20 minutes
- Fusing Art, Sustainability, and Skateboarding Culture | Collaborative Creative Wood Workshop
- David Krut Workshop | Where we are!
- Conversations Between Stephen Hobbs and David Krut - EP.1: Reconstructed Trees and Other Mindsets
- Conversations Between Stephen Hobbs and David Krut - Ep.2: Retroactive Orientation
- Beyond the Page: Woordfees 2024
- Defence and deception in the modern South African battlefield: Stephen Hobbs on his etching suite, "Buildings, bombs, bunkers and clouds
- Printmaking in the “armpit of America”: Stephen Hobbs on his whirl-wind lecture tour of the United States
- Destruction/Construction: “Main and Kruger” etching series by Stephen Hobbs
- An enlightening studio visit with Mr. Hobbs
- The Mail and Guardian review Permanent Culture at David Krut Cape Town - "a tight and thoughtful show"
- Hobbs at David Krut makes the top ten cultural highlights in "a well-conceived show that played with the notion of scale and practical constraints, particularly in the realm of architecture" - Mary Corrigall
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Beyond the Page: Woordfees 2024
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Conversations Between Stephen Hobbs and David Krut – Ep.2: Retroactive Orientation
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David Krut Workshop | Where we are!
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Conversations Between Stephen Hobbs and David Krut – Ep.1: Reconstructed Trees and Other Mindsets
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Fusing Art, Sustainability, and Skateboarding Culture | Collaborative Creative Wood Workshop
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David Krut Podcast: Stephen Hobbs – Shallow Sleep | Listening Time: 20 minutes
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US Printmaker in Residence | Lauren Krukowski
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Stephen Hobbs: Bunkers and Bliss in Maboneng
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A Look Back at Editions, Projects & Collaborations from 2021
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Turbine Art Fair 2021: Stephen Hobbs in residence at the fair
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#ArtKeepsGoing – Artsy Campaign response to COVID-19 | Stephen Hobbs
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The Print Club launched in collaboration with Mesh Club at the Keyes art Mile
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Print of the Month – (October 2018) Stephen Hobbs ‘Very Dangerous Grid’
Very Dangerous Grid finds its inspiration in the rotation of banal advertising adorning Joburg’s motorways, where the grid like infrastructure...
Stephen Hobbs – Optics, Curiosity and Playfulness | Listening Time 35 min
Elize de Beer is in conversation with artist Stephen Hobbs in his Studio in Johannesburg. In this podcast episode, Hobbs...
Stephen Hobbs at Keyes Art and Design Emporium
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Print/s of the Month (March) – Stephen Hobbs
[caption id="attachment_46568" align="aligncenter" width="378"] Pop Up Forest, 2015[/caption] In the work Pop up Forest Hobbs drew inspiration from: a) The...
Abstraction at David Krut Projects
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Stephen Hobbs | No Fusion Student Walkabout
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Stephen Hobbs’ Embodiment and Transmission of the City’s Experience
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Stephen Hobbs | New works in Letterpress
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Who are DKP featuring at the FNB Joburg Art Fair? 2016-09
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DKNY Gallery Director, Meghan Johnson, comes to JHB 2016-08
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Master printer feature: Jillian Ross 2016-10
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What’s new at DKW? A display of prints and paintings curated by our staff 2016-08
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A Cape Town Colleague’s Visit to the Golden City
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July in Review – what have the DKP team and our associated artists been up to?
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DKP proudly present cutting edge talk series: Architecture-meets-Art (AMA)
05/07/16 On Saturday 16 July the successful talk series Architecture-meets-Art (AMA) moves location, from the David Krut Bookstore in Parkwood...
Destruction/Construction: “Main and Kruger” etching series by Stephen Hobbs
Main and Kruger I-V Hardground etching series 2014-2015 Stephen Hobbs “These prints are my fantasizing about the aesthetics of grids...
AOM: Control is the word
Activities (and weather conditions) are heating up at AOM before we shut our doors for 2015. The team multi-task in...
Defence and deception in the modern South African battlefield: Stephen Hobbs on his etching suite, Buildings, bombs, bunkers and clouds 2015-11
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A Luis Alonzo-Barkigia special at AOM
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Printmaking in the “armpit of America”: Stephen Hobbs on his whirl-wind lecture tour of the United States 2015-11
Blogger: Jessie Cohen 2015-11 On returning to Johannesburg after an intensive three-week lecture and printmaking tour of the US, Stephen...
Stephen Hobbs In Studio
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Stephen Hobbs David Krut Workshop Pt.1
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This week at David Krut Workshop
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Stephen Hobbs’ SAS Somerset & Other War Stories: Installation Shots
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David Krut Workshop Open for the Year
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Visit to Stephen Hobbs’ Studio
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On View at Carnegie Hall | Johannesburg in Print, Curated by David Krut Projects
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Johannesburg in Print | Exhibition at Carnegie Hall for UBUNTU South African Festival – NYC
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Drawings in the Sky: DK Artists Featured on ABSA Lumen Display
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David Krut to Participate in the Year’s E|AB Fair, NYC
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JAG SNAG: End of Exhibition – Stephen Hobbs
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Stephen Hobbs at DKW
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Images from Multiplied 2013
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Stephen Hobbs Dazzle Building
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The Shrunken Forest
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THE PRINT SHOW at Ebony Cape Town, Installation Images
Here are a few installation images of THE PRINT SHOW, a collaboration between David Krut Projects and Ebony Cape Town....
Deciphering “Be Careful in the Working Radius”
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Stephen Hobbs: The Attraction of Sites Under Construction
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Stephen Hobbs – “Very Special Places” Exhibition at Krings-Ernst Gallery, Cologne
Below are a selection of images from Stephen Hobbs' recent exhibition at Krings-Ernst Gallery, Cologne. The exhibition is a shared...
Screenprinting at DKW, Arts on Main
Stephen Hobbs' pop-up book project is steaming ahead. Below are images of Ingrid Schindall and Neo Hlasela pulling new screens...
Production of Stephen Hobbs Pop-Up Book
In preparation for his upcoming solo exhibition at David Krut Projects at the end of May Stephen Hobbs has been...
Stephen Hobbs at University of Stellenbosch Gallery
A series of installation shots from Stephen Hobbs's show, Activities on the grid, which opened 2 March 2013. Photographs courtesy...
Stephen Hobbs – Dazzle Plans – Exhibition presented by Parts and Labour
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Stephen Hobbs – Urban Labotomy/Laboratory – 21 July 2012
On 21 July at Villa Arcadia, 22 Oxford Road, Parktown, Stephen Hobbs will be speaking and taking part in a...
ORANGE SKYSCRAPER – A Wall Installation by Stephen Hobbs at David Krut Projects, Arts on Main
David Krut Projects hopes that this wall installation allows one to view the work of Stephen Hobbs from a different...
Trinity Session and Hobbs/Neustetter celebrate 10 years of collaboration
On 15 March 2012, The Trinity Session previewed its REVIEW Exhibition inside the factorybuilding at 281 Commissioner Street, Johannesburg. The...
Trinity Session and Hobbs/Neustetter celebrate 10 years of collaboration
On 15 March 2012, The Trinity Session previewed its REVIEW Exhibition inside the factory building at 281 Commissioner Street, Johannesburg....
Stephen Hobbs talk on Contemporary South African art at Stephen Welz and Co.
Stephen Hobbs will be talking on Contemporary South African art at this present point in time at Stephen Welz on...
David Krut Projects at Joburg Art Fair 2011
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IMPRINT: Selected Editions and Works on Paper, Installation Images
David Krut Projects is pleased to present IMPRINT, a selection of editions and works on paper by local and international...
Stephen Hobbs: JAG SNAG
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FILM: Stephen Hobb’s ‘Fool’s Gold’ Exhibition
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuRQn-DcfDI ‘Fool’s Gold’ encourages the viewer to see the points in between the points. Hobbs exposes the multi-faceted potential the...