Latest Collaborations
David Krut Projects has had the privilege of working with many wonderful artists over the years. Some have been short collaborations, with artist coming in for short intensive sessions with our skilled printers, producing one or two bodies of works. Others have the potential to become longer collaborations still, their relationship with DKW growing year by year. Below are some of the talents that we have worked with in recent years.
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Boemo Diale started an internship at David Krut Workshop in July 2022, after having met with David Krut at the Turbine Art Fair in 2021. She was an Honours student at Wits University studying Film and Television, and undertook the internship to see how print could influence her practice. Diale’s first show with the David Krut Gallery, entitled Can I Play?, was held at the 151 Gallery in February 2023. The exhibition presented a series of prints created during her internship at DKW alongside her paintings.
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In Late 2023 David Krut, while in London, visited an exhibition titled “Dualities” by Undiscovered Canvas at the Bernard Jacobson Gallery in Mayfair. Nthabiseng’s work stood out to him and he immediately planned 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 (DKW) in Maboneng, Johannesburg. Her first foray in printmaking has produced an accomplished body of unique painterly prints – monotypes and a pair of large etchings.
Kekana’s work explores femininity and spirituality, and it is rooted in a profound connection to her heritage. Her exploration is guided by her emotions and spirituality, leading her to examine otherworldly ideas. She works in a range of mediums, including oil, charcoal, pastels and natural fibres, to express the fluidity of creation.
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While walking around Keyes Art Mile in early 2024, David Krut spied the work of Stephen Langa on display at BKhz Gallery. After reaching out to the artist, he invited Langa to come work at our Printing Workshop at Arts on Main, Johannesburg. In March of that same year he began working with printer Sbongiseni Khulu, exploring monotypes . In 2025 Langa was featured at the David Krut Projects booth at the Brooklyn Art Fair, New York. And has returned to the workshop to make a new body of unique painterly prints and etching. Langa’s intimate imagery explores stories of the people, experiences and environment around him.. His work is inspired by the 20th Century Impressionism art period , he researches and explores ways to capture his emotions and fuel his artworks. “Inspired by profound artist such as George Pemba, Claude Monet, Gerald Sekoto and Vincent Van Gogh, my charcoal linework and oil paintings have become pictorial visions that has a mesmerizing effect that is inspired directly by my emotive feelings that one can immediately identify and engage with the characters portrayed in such a way one would like to know them better in person.”
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At the Rodean Art Fair in 2025, David Krut came across the work of Nditsheni Managa. Taken by Managa’s depictions of nature, David invited the artist to come into the David Krut Workshop for a collaboration. In October 2025, Managa began his collaboration with DKW Printmaker Sbongiseni Khulu, resulting in a body of beautiful watercolour monotypes.
Managa’s art frequently features themes of nature, landscapes, and trees, using textured layers and vibrant detail. He also creates cityscapes, showing the influence of the city of Johannesburg on his work. He uses mixed media, chalk pastels and acrylic paint to explore themese of nature, landscapes, and trees, using textured layers and vibrant detail. He also creates cityscapes, showing the influence of the city of Johannesburg on his work.
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Diego Masera and David Krut met by chance one day, and in this meeting, they found themselves discussing the former diplomat-turned-full-time-artist’s burgeoning art practice, particularly looking at his work Home – ikhaya, installed at NIROX sculpture park. Form this conversation came an invitation from Krut to Masera to explore what printmaking can do for his practice at the David Krut Workshop in Arts on Main. Masera began his collaboration with Roxy Kaczmarek in March 2026, working on a body of monotypes and other works of paper.
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Qhamanande Maswana came to work with David Krut Workshop in 2025 after a chance meeting with our director, Ame Bell, at our bookstore in Parkwood, Johannesburg. Maswana invited Ame to visit his studio to view his work. Following this, he was invited to work with printer Roxy Kaczmarek at the David Krut Workshop making monotypes. His work was featured at the Brooklyn Fine Art Print Fair in March 2025.
Maswana has developed a unique style of portraiture that speaks to both the beauty and challenges of everyday life in South Africa. Effortlessly blending reality with imagination in each portrait, he often depicts the people he encounters in his day-to-day life in surreal purple hues as a way of portraying ‘the strength of [his] people and their descendancy from royalty.’
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In 2024, David came across Nkhensani Mkhari’s work being shown at the Johannesburg Art Fair with Church Gallery. Mkhari’s intimate works reminded David of the work of Agnes Martin. After an introduction to Mkhari, David invited him to visit our workshop at Arts on Main. In December 2024, he took up that offer and came in to work on monotypes, working alongside David Krut Workshop printers Roxy Kaczmarek and Kim-Lee Loggenberg-Tim. He continued his collaboration in 2025, resulting in a body of work that was shown at the David Krut Gallery, Johannesburg, in March of the same year, his first exhibition with David Krut Projects.
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Renowned South Africa artist Mary Sibande recommended a collaboration with two of her mentees, emerging Johannesburg artists, Lusanda Ndita and Hoek Swaratlhe. David Krut Workshop (DKW) Printer Sbongiseni Khulu proceeded to welcome the two into DKW to work on a series of print based unique works. In November 2023, Ndita came in for 5 days, for a concentrated mentoring session to learn about working on paper and the various mediums of printmaking. Sbongiseni took him through new mediums in the combination of monotype and pronto lithography, which they had gained insights from other workshops where they had been working.
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Blessing Ngobeni (b. 1985) is a South African multidisciplinary artist known for his distinctive style, created with layers of acrylic washes, exaggerated figures and collage, accompanied by unapologetic titles through which he not only to overtly critique the current status quo, but to ask uncomfortable questions about the African’s experience of the world. In 2025, Blessing Ngobeni began collaborating with DKW Printer Sbongiseni Khulu. Together the two explored soft ground and hard ground etching and pronto lithography, exploring the performative aspects of jazz music and the similarities in dance between African countries. In 2026, he returned to the workshop, this time to collaborate with Roxy Kaczmarek on a series of monotype works, while simultaneously continuing his exploration of intaglio printmaking, collaborating with Jesse Shepstone.
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Phumulani Ntuli (b.1986) was one of three artists featured at the South African Pavilion at the 2022 Venice Biennale which was curated by our very own David Krut Projects (DKP) director, Ame Bell. He is a multi–disciplinary artist who gathers various archive materials collaging them together to explore historical gaps and how these inform our narratives. Ntuli constructs his imagery out of painted collage, transfers and layering of different mediums.
In 2023, collaboratively with David Krut Workshop (DKW) printer Kim-Lee Loggenberg, he began experimenting with the printmaking processes of monotypes and pronto lithography. The result of this collaboration is a body of work titled, Kunanela iphuzu emafini / Echoes of the Point Cloud, which includes large-scale paintings alongside the unique print works created at DKW. The works from Kunanela iphuzu emafini/ Echoes of the Point Cloud debut at FNB Art Joburg 2023, presented by David Krut Projects.
Since then Phumulani has returned multiple times to work collaboratively with Kim-Lee Loggenberg at DKW on bodies of unique prints. These have been shown at the Brooklyn Fine Art Print Fair in 2025 and 154 New York.
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In 2025 the David Krut Workshop welcomed abstract painter Olivia Pintér to Arts on Main. She had been invited to the workshop to create some work after meeting David Krut at the bookstore, she had come into redeem a voucher that she had recieved 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 discussing 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.
Pinter worked with printer Roxy Kaczmarek on a series of monotypes, experimenting with water-based and oil-based monotypes, though she opted to create a body of work in the latter medium, prefering its more rapid and loser approach mark making.
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After seeing on of Alexis Schofield’s paintings on display at the Vela Arts Projects booth at the Investec Cape Town Art Fair in 2026, David Krut invited the artist to the David Krut Workshop, and invitation that he took up in August 2026, after a series of email exchanges between the team at the DKW, Jonathan Gorschen, the Director of Vela Art Projects, and Schofield himself. These emails laid out the groundwork for an ultimately exciting project. Schofeild arrived at the workshop on the 11th og August, where he and DKW printer Roxy Kaczmarek began work on a series of monotypes based on reference images that Schifield had generated by training an AI with specific imagery relating to news footage and old footage from the Apollo moon landings, and then asking the AI to reinterpret still life images from artistry specifically Manets flower paintings, after which he simply recombined the images until he found something he liked. The goal of this collaboration for him was to try and replicate the texture and feel of the artificial, digital, type of plastic surface so often reflective of images generated with AI. Monotypes don’t rely as much on linework, the way paintings do, and thus he felt he may be more likely to achieve this effect with smooth textures and highlights.
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Nathaniel Sheppard III (b. 1989) began his relationship with David Krut Projects as a collaborative printmaker in the Workshop, where he learned more advanced techniques in printmaking and shadowing printmakers such as Jillian Ross on projects for a few prominent artists where he assisted in the carving and Printing of the “Mantegna” Woodblock print edition of the Triumphs and Laments series by William Kentridge. Observing and applying the collective practice ethos of printmaking in South Africa, particularly in how printmaking afforded South Africans the autonomy to control the means of their production; for example the printing of struggle posters/t-shirts/ banners and other media on the struggle, Sheppard is a master printmaker that often prints the work of the most well-known Southern African artists. Sheppard co-founded Danger Gevaar Ingozi Studio in 2016 with Anaz Mia, Sbongiseni Khulu, and Chad Cordeiro whose foundation was built on the independent publishing of prints and an emphasis on the value of the labour of a printmaker concerning the value of the work they produce in line with South African history, and the traditions of printmaking and craft-based practices.
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In late 2023, the David Krut Workshop (DKW) was approached by Mary Sibande (b. 1982) to collaborate as part of The Occupy the Gallery mentorship programme. The aim of the programme was to introduce several artists from different backgrounds to the world of printmaking. As a collective, the artists occupy a space, create work in that space and then showcase the work, moving through different techniques of print and workshops as they go.
In April of 2024, Sibande actively began her collaboration with DKW, working with Khulu on a woodblock print approx. 105 x 76 cm in size.. In its production and repetitive reproduction, Mary drew and collaged various versions of her famed character “Sophie”. Once she had resolved the sketched image it was then transferred onto the woodblock and carved by hand which took a total of 7 weeks. Khulu made it a point to translate each carved mark exactly as she had described in her sketch such that her hand was not lost in the collaboration.
The print was first shown in a group show with Mary’s mentees Hoek Swarathle and Lusanda Ndita. Later, she a Sbongiseni collaborated again in creating another woodblock print, which was debuted at the Brooklyn Fine Art Print Fair in 2025
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Oupa Sibeko first appeared on David Krut Project’s raider in 2022 when he, among ten other artists, was selected to participate in the Leipzig International Art Programme in collaboration with the Centre For the Less Good Idea. The residency included a workshop with the Vlado & Maria Ondrej Studio for Contemporary Etching at The Spinnerei, providing him the opportunity to create a limited editioned print during his three months there. These works were shown in the David Krut Gallery in February of 2025 in a solo exhibition entitled, To See Them Home. In August of that same year, he came into the workshop to continue the collaboration between David Krut Projects and himself, working with DKW printer Jesse Shepstone.
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Lady Skollie’s first collaboration with David Krut Workshop in Maboneng came in 2023, where she worked withttps://davidkrutprojects.com/artists/77792/lady-skollieh DKW Printers Roxy Kaczmarek and Sarah Judge on a series of unique works on paper. She returned to DKW two years later though, in 2025, to continue the collaboration, this time working with Roxy to explore monotypes and linocuts.
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At the request of Mary Sibande who was working on a collaborative initiative for a group of young Joburg artists that she had taken on a mentoring role, we accepted Lusanda Ndita and Hoek Swaratlhe to come into the David Krut Workshop (DKW) at Arts On Main. Our printer Sbongiseni Khulu took over the mentoring process with these artists in gaining an understanding of the collaborative activities which are practiced at DKW.
In February and March 2024, Swaratlhe came in to start working with Sbongiseni. He came in for concentrated mentoring sessions to learn about working on paper and the various mediums of printmaking. Sbongiseni took him through new mediums in the combination of monotype and pronto lithography, which they had gained insights from other workshops where they had been working.
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In November 2025, Turpin approached the David Krut Workshop (DKW) about working with them to create a small series of cyanotypes. These cyanotypes made use, as well, of vinyl collage. The images for these collages came from the artist’s personal archive of images collected from South African and international art, design, music and culture magazines over the past two decades. Through these cyanotype collages, Turpin seeks to “think through memory, through excess.” In 2026, Turpin returned to the workshop to create more works based on his personal archive, though this time he would utilise pronto lithography, spray paint and gold and silver leaf in these recreations.
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