Established in the West Chelsea Building in 2001, David Krut Projects Artspace, New York continues to connect the David Krut Workshop in Johannesburg to an American audience.

David Krut’s collaborations with print workshops commenced 1981 in London and subsequently in post-Apartheid Johannesburg in the 1990s. The New York connection developed because of the collaborations with William Kentridge and the first exhibition of his editioned works in Chicago in 1998. Inviting Master Printers such as Phil Sanders and Randy Hemminghaus facilitated skills and knowledge transfer to the workshop in Johannesburg, which commenced in 2002.

The New York artspace is known for introducing artists such as Kentridge, El Anatsui, Aida Muluneh and photographer Santu Mofokeng to an American audience. Amé Bell, who curated the South African Pavilion at La Biennale in Venice in 2022, has led the support for emerging artists by facilitating collaborations with four skilled printers in Johannesburg.  Kim-Lee Loggenberg-Tim, Sbongiseni Khulu, Roxy Kaczmarek and Jesse Shepstone have nearly forty years of collaborative work experience between them. Furthermore, Jillian Ross spent 17 years working with David Krut and has recently established her own workshop in her hometown of Saskatoon in Canada.

Curated by Krut and Bell, the SOUTH AFRICAN ARTISTS IN NEW YORK program is a further opportunity for an American audience to acquire work by emerging young artists. Artists whose works will be seen for the first time in New York are Maaike Bakker, Boemo Diale, Heidi Fourie, Nina Torr, Phumulani Ntuli and Stephen Langa with new works by William Kentridge, Maja Maljević and Mary Sibande. Kentridge and Maljević have had solo exhibitions at the project space in previous years.

The New York artspace has recently received a printing press provided by Phil Sanders which will allow a visiting audience to see collaborations with Sanders and other visiting printers intermittently in the space.

As part of its activities to promote an awareness of artists from DKW, a traveling exhibition of works from the Universal Archive by William Kentridge is touring North America in collaboration with the Gund Gallery of Kenyon College.  

LIST OF ARTISTS
Maaike Bakker (b.1986, South Africa)  
Boemo Diale (b. 2000, South Africa)

Heidi Fourie (b. South Africa)

Maja Maljević (b.1973, Serbia)
Mary Sibande (b.1982, South Africa) 
Nina Torr (b.1987, South Africa)  
William Kentridge (b. 1955, South Africa) 
Stephen Langa (b. 1995, South Africa)
Phumulani Ntuli (b. 1986, South Africa)  

For more information, please contact:
David Krut Projects Artspace, New York

526 West 26th Street, Suite 816

New York, NY 10001

E. info@davidkrut.com

T. 212-255-3094