Olivia Pintér

Olivia Pintér (b. 2000) is a Johannesburg based painter working primarily in abstraction. She first came to work with abstraction after spending time painting landscapes, particularly gold mining tailings dams in and around Johannesburg, and through the constant repetition of these paintings, she found them becoming more abstract. This began to interest her in terms of trying to contribute “something that was that was representational but in a way that wasn’t giving the viewer a direct entry point into what I was making”. Her practice also makes use of writing, and through it she explores the relationship between text and image, focusing on how these two modalities may marry, extend, and limit each other.

Olivia Pintér (b. 2000) is a Johannesburg based artist. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Fine Arts from The University of the Witwatersrand in 2023. Pintér’s practice centres process based methodologies that interrogate the affective agencies of abstract painting. She is concerned with painting-in-action. Pintér’s practice explores how a painting may communicate materially, beyond representation. Relationships between image and text are also central to her writing and painting practice, with focus on how interventions between these two modalities may marry, extend, and limit each other. Pintér first connected with David Krut Projects in 2024 when she came into to the bookstore to redeem a voucher that she had received for her 4th year research paper, making her one of two students to receive the award for Best Fine Arts Written Paper. While browsing the books, she and David began to discuss abstraction and painting, a conversation which culminated in Pintér showing David her work. Later on, David and our director Ame went to visit her studio and later invited her to come into our workshop for a short residency. She accepted the invitation in 2025, where she experimented with creating oil-based monotypes, collaborating with David Krut Workshop printer Roxy Kaczmarek.