The Mystery of ‘Creative Intuition’ with Theresa Hardman | Listening Time 41 min In this podcast episode, David Krut Podcast host Britt Lawton was in conversation with architect, artist, designer and creativity expert Theresa Hardman. Theresa shared her knowledge from research for her PhD thesis – Understanding Intuition in the Creative Process – completed at the […]
Connections flourish when two or more worlds collide to create. For this latest collaboration Pebofatso Mokoena actively inserted himself into the bustling David Krut Workshop environment this way of working contrasts the privacy of his studio. He settled comfortably into the temporary studio space in the adjoining gallery to work intensively for his solo exhibition […]
The David Krut Workshop Print of the month for March 2020 at Arts on Main is William Kentridge’s | Woodcuts 2019 | God’s Opinion is Unknown & Leaning on Air […]
In this podcast episode, artist Pebofatso Mokoena and David Krut Podcast host Britt Lawton are in conversation about Mokoena’s first solo exhibition at the David Krut Gallery in Johannesburg titled ‘Internal Probes’ (27 February – 4 April 2020). Listening Time | 18 min […]
David Krut has been a funder and supporter of Creative Skills Factory since 2002. Creative Skills Factory is a small NPO in the Overberg region of South Africa working in Stanford and Masakhane (Gansbaai). The Creative Works project was founded in 2012 by Regina Broenner, a German qualified Occupational Therapist registered in South Africa, who offers after school workshops in the local community with the support of David Krut Projects and local community mothers. […]
Since 2002, the David Krut Workshop (DKW) has functioned as the epicentre for artistic collaborations under David Krut Project’s (DKP). DKW is located at Arts on Main in the invigorated Maboneng Precinct, Johannesburg and was one of the first spaces to opt into the Arts on Main initiative at its conception in 2010. This space […]
DAVID KRUT PODCAST | WAYFINDING NINA TORR IN CONVERSATION WITH BRITT LAWTON | Listening time 25 min […]
William Kentridge | Linocuts 2019 Pioneer Corps and Muizenberg 1933 are two linocut plates created by William Kentridge which have been in storage at the David Krut Workshop workshop for some years. They were created by Kentridge while he was a student at WITS University in 1975. After the printing of small trial editions, Kentridge […]
Text by Annabel Williams, 4 February 2020 Maja Maljević is no stranger to the David Krut collective, initiating the partnership with David Krut Workshop in 2007 and subsequently participating in multiple projects and solo exhibitions in both Johannesburg and New York. Maja’s work is inspired and wholly abstract, incorporating graphic blocks, drippings and swirls of […]
Humorism (After Eliot and da Messina) marks Mikhael Subotzky’s first foray into printmaking. This series of eight prints, which combine a number of techniques, including photogravure, silkscreen, digital chine collé and monotype, continues Subotzky’s investigation into white masculine vulnerability. The series was created in concert with a new body of work, Massive Nerve Corpus, a […]
It is well known that Zebras have stripes to confuse their predators. Zhi Zulu’s pink Zebra in her work Zebra Crossing, 2019 however, seems to have been confused by it’s own tactics having taken the city’s notion of a Zebra crossing a bit too literally and winding up perplexed by it’s inner city surroundings, munching […]
by Hagen Gersie There is no logo for capitalism. While communism is easily recognised by the infamous hammer and sickle, there is no one symbol standing in for capitalism. It easily could be a single-use plastic fork, though, if you think about it. Plastic cutlery is one of the top polluters of our oceans and […]
In this podcast episode, we focus on the presence of birds in the work of William Kentridge. Here we present to you a collection of thoughts and writings about birds and the making of them, taken from publications on the artist’s work. Listening Time | 16 Minutes Extracts taken from: 1. Interview with Bronwyn Law-Viljoen, […]
In this episode, we focus on the presence of rhinos in the work of William Kentridge. Here we present to you two related extracts about rhinos and the making of them, taken from publications on the artist’s work. Both of these extracts focus on work made around the time of William Kentridge’s production of Mozart’s […]
Maja Maljević’s latest exhibition, The Silence of the Change, has just opened at David Krut Projects, New York, featuring a selection of work from the Winter Files series that was created in collaboration with the David Krut Workshop in Johannesburg earlier this year. Winter Files marks a breakthrough in Maljević’s relationship with printmaking, prompted by […]
Listening time | 20 minutesProduced and edited by Hagen Gersie, research and curation of text by Jacqueline Flint & hosted by Britt Lawton In this episode of the David Krut Podcast we are going to step outside and wander into the forest. A forest that is, populated with trees drawn and printed by William Kentridge. […]
Text by Hagen Gersie In the German language there is a saying that, roughly translated, says: to dance on someone’s nose. It means that a person is doing whatever they want, disobeying any tasks and orders. In that spirit, the Print of the Month in October is Nose 15 by William Kentridge, a figure dressed […]
Play Africa and the David Krut Workshop recently collaborated for a day of introducing children to printmaking. The morning was spent with a group of children aged 6-8 years old who came from Sigiya Sonke Dance Group in Alexandra. For the afternoon session, public from the inner city and beyond were invited to participate. They […]