Join us for a group exhibition celebrating the highlights of 2024. This showcase features the work of artists we have collaborated with throughout the year.
This exhibition brings together a range of works offering a reflection on the creativity that defined our gallery’s 2024 journey. Don’t miss this opportunity to experience the year all in one space.
In Every Moment: 2024 will showcase Adele van Heerden, Amy Ayanda Lester, Elsabe Milandri, Heidi Fourie,Motlhoki Nono, Natalie Paneng, Nathbiseng Boledi Kekana, Nina Torr, Peter Cohen, Stephen Hobbs, Stephen Langa, Wilma Cruise and William Kentridge.
In 2021 van Heerden completed a residency with David Krut Projects, which culminated in her solo exhibition, Field Trip, in 2022. She has also been featured in a number of group shows at our Johannesburg Gallery, including Alone of It’s Kind (2022), Creature Feature (2023) and Women in the Workshop (2023-2024).
With camera in hand, van Heerden sets out to discover, explore and document environments, with a particular focus on man-made and built environments that work in symbiosis or juxtaposition with the natural world. Her subject matter tends to be urban, natural landscapes and interior scenes. She paints and draws the photos she takes onto the back of translucent drafting film. She describes her work as a way of reimagining her own life experiences.
Amy Ayanda Lester, an artist and musician based in Cape Town, South Africa, finds inspiration in the local landscape, particularly in the flora, colours and people.Her art, ranging from paintings to prints, frequently features proteas, fynbos, and the iconic mountain silhouette, drawing from her family’s history on a flower farm in Constantia.
Forced removals under apartheid laws inform her exploration of land and belonging. Amy’s artistic journey, rooted in themes of connection and loss, intertwines painting and music.
In March of 2024, Amy was invited to the David Krut Workshop (DKW) to collaborate with printmaker, Roxy Kaczmarek on a new body of work ahead of her solo presentation at the Latitudes Art Fair (May 2024).
Amy worked on a series of enchanting monotype print works on paper that bloom with colour and stunning brushwork – continuing her exploration into the motifs of flora and fauna.
With camera in hand, van Heerden sets out to discover, explore and document environments, with a particular focus on man-made and built environments that work in symbiosis or juxtaposition with the natural world. Her subject matter tends to be urban, natural landscapes and interior scenes. She paints and draws the photos she takes onto the back of translucent drafting film. She describes her work as a way of reimagining her own life experiences.
At the beginning of April the David Krut Workshop (DKW) had the privilege to welcome Cape Town based artist Elsabe Milandri to the workshop.
Elsabe’s time was limited to 2 days of experimentation and working with printers Roxy Kaczmarek and Kim-Lee Loggenberg-Tim she set to work using her time as productively as possible exploring different monotype ideas.
Elsabe worked in oil and water based monotypes, experimenting with the combination of the two mediums. She used Stabilo Woodies and Caran d’ache crayons as drawing medium and combined them with the painted marks. Roxy and Kim encouraged her to play with using thin papers as masks and chine collé.
Heidi Fourie has been collaborating with the David Krut Workshop (DKW) since 2017, when she first came in to create a series of watercolour monotypes.
She has since created a number of works with DKW, and her work – both prints and paintings – has been presented at art fairs and included in group exhibitions at David Krut Projects in Johannesburg, namely, A Piece of Work (November 2018), The Cat Show (December 2018/January 2019), Kind of Blue (December 2019 / January 2020) and Alone of its Kind (January 2022).
In 2021, David Krut Projects presented a solo show of Fourie’s work Grass You Can Swim In. The exhibition included etchings and monotypes made in collaboration with David Krut Workshop, as well as paintings. In 2022, Fourie participated in a three week residency at the workshop where she explored mark-making in drawing with pastels and began a new series of etchings using soft-ground.
During and after this residency she created a body of work for her solo exhibition that same year titled On Soft Ground. In the beginning of 2023, Fourie once again collaborated with the David Krut Workshop to create a series of monotypes that were shown at the 2023 Latitudes Art fair. Fourie’s work were also shown in the DKP at the 2024 Latitudes art fair, she was also one of the featured artists of the fair. Her latest show with DKP, Unfurling, took place from 25 May to July of 2024.
Motlhoki Nono was first introduced to David Krut Projects in 2021, when she applied for and received a spot in the African Leipzig international Art Programme, which she completed in 2022.She later returned to the David Krut Workshop in 2023, where she completed a series of experimental monotypes using lipstick and kissing to create the marks. She also experimented with softground etching and pronto lithography in the creation of this series.
Her solo show, ‘Kissing Studies’ debut at David Krut Projects, 151 Jan Smuts Ave, Parkwood was on the 14th of February 2024. The exhibition presented the recent collaborative works made by Motlhoki with the David Krut Workshop.
In 2022 David Krut Workshop invited multimedia artist Natalie Paneng to collaborate on a series of prints with Sbongiseni Khulu. This collaboration spanned continents over the following months and yielded a vibrant body of work unlike anything else in our archive. This series of unique works was launched at Turbine Art Fair 2023.
Paneng was introduced to our operations after being selected as an artist in residence with the Leipzig International Art Programme (LIA) in association with The Centre for the Less Good Idea, who put out an open call to South African based artists from across all disciplines with a focus in digital media output, to apply for a collaborative print-making residency in Leipzig, Germany. David Krut Projects assisted LIA and the Centre with the selection process in Johannesburg and offered the artists a chance to wet their feet in the printmaking world before embarking on their 3-month residencies overseas.
Paneng spent a day at DKW exploring the possibilities of working with a professional print workshop, and the working relationship has grown from there. The prints created during the LIA residencies were exhibited in South Africa in collaboration with David Krut Projects at The Centre for the Less Good Idea Lounge at Arts on Main, just upstairs from our workshop.
Late last year David Krut, while in Mayfair, London, visited an exhibition “Dualities” at Undiscovered Canvas. Nthabiseng’s work stood out to him and he immediately made arrangements to see if she would be available to spend time in the workshop making a body of prints. Fast forward to March 2024, Nthabiseng spent a week collaborating with Printer Roxy Kaczmarek at the David Krut Workshop in Maboneng, Johannesburg.
Her first foray in printmaking has produced an accomplished body of unique painterly prints – monotypes and a pair of large etchings.
In 2016, Nina Torr worked in collaboration with David Krut Workshop (DKW) to create a number of watercolour monotypes. The ensuing works were featured in the group exhibition A Piece of Work in 2017.In 2018, she produced new etchings with the team at DKW which were subsequently shown at David Krut Project’s (DKP) booth for the RMB Turbine Art Fair 2019.In 2020, Nina Torr had her solo Masters exhibition at the David Krut Gallery in Parkwood in 2020 titled Wayfinding.She has also been part of various other group exhibitions at DKP.
At the end of 2022 and beginning of 2023, Torr collaborated with DKW to create a brand new series of etchings with handpainting and chine colle. The body of work which was shown at the end of February 2023 at The Blue House in Parkwood in a solo exhibition titled Marginalia.
Peter Cohen is a Johannesburg-based architect and artist with his own architectural practice, with a particular affinity for designing modern dwellings that imagine the fine artworks that would fill these domestic spaces.
In 2020, in the midst of the global pandemic, Cohen felt the need to create art outside of the realm of architecture. He began exploring both abstract and figurative imagery in different mediums, in the hours after continuing his architectural business by day.
With his early works Cohen was industrious with what tools he could find, painting delicate, precise landscapes on spare pieces of floorboards and rolls of heavy brown paper. Cohen’s typically monochromatic work explores imagery related to the built and natural landscape, classical antiquity and other art historical periods, with a mark that is precise, sometimes eliciting a pixel-like surface.
Stephen Hobbs, born in Johannesburg in 1972, draws on the city’s post-apartheid transformation for his art and curatorial work, focusing on defensive urban planning and its effects on society. A studio artist, printmaker, and public arts advocate, Hobbs uses etching, linocut, and monotype to explore the layered visual language of urban defense. “Dazzle camouflage,” an early 20th-century military pattern, is a recurring theme, reflecting his interest in urban dystopias.
Hobbs, who earned a BAFA from Wits University in 1994, served as curator at Market Theatre Galleries and co-directed Gallery Premises. Since 2001, he has co-led The Trinity Session, a public art consultancy, and collaborates with Marcus Neustetter on urban projects as Hobbs/Neustetter. From 2017-2019, he was a resident critic at the University of Johannesburg’s Graduate School of Architecture.
Stephen Langa is a Johannesburg-based South African artist from the Limpopo province, growing up in the small town of Makopane. He specialises in a number of different media, including charcoal drawing, watercolour and oil painting. In 2018 he achieved his Diploma in Art & Design from Tshwane North College in Pretoria. Langa’s intimate imagery explores stories of the people, experiences and environment around him. Harkening back to artists like George Pemba, Claude Monet, Gerard Sekoto, Jo Maseko and more, his work presents visions of new economic narratives and reality.
Langa’s work seeks to galvanize and has intimacy of black cultural experiences, composition’s that have questions for the viewer and highlights of his own experiences of his hometown and the city as visually detailed in his journey, experiencing life in both worlds from moving to one place to another.
Wilma Cruise first started working with David Krut Workshop (DKW) in 2007, resulting in her solo exhibition at David Krut Projects (DKP) SPLIT LON.NY.JHB in 2008. She has worked collaboratively with the DKW printers over the following years, as in 2010 and 2015. This collaboration led to her solo show Advice From A Caterpillar at DKP.
In 2020 we hosted her solo exhibition Cruise x Krut 2020 – an exhibition of unique paper collages and sculptures from the artist’s studio, shown alongside editions published by DKW. She also has written texts such as Reading Ceramics, published by David Krut Publishing in 2006 in Messages and meaning in the MTN Art Collection. Cruise has also been part of various group exhibitions at DKP.
The relationship between William Kentridge and David Krut began in 1992, when the pair met casually at the opening of an exhibition at The Market Theatre Gallery in Johannesburg. Kentridge was due to visit London for his first exhibition of drawings and prints at the Vanessa Devereaux Gallery in the Portobello Road area of London. Krut, who was based in London at the time, had developed a working relationship with master printer Jack Shirreff dating back to 1981 and he invited Kentridge to visit Shirreff at his 107 Workshop in Wiltshire to explore making very large copper plates, which would allow the artist to create editioned work on a scale that was not available to him in South Africa.
