David Krut Podcast

Welcome back! David Krut Podcast is pleased to return with a conversation between David Krut and one of our latest collaborating artists, Diego Masera. In this podcast the two discuss Masera's past, present practice and latest exhibition HOPE/Against the Grammar of Violence , opening on the 25th of July at David Krut Arts located at 151 Jan Smuts Avenue. Diego Masera is a former diplomat and cultu...

Hello listeners, and welcome back! In this lastest episode of the David Krut Podcast, one of our printers', Roxy Kaczmarek sits down with post-disciplinary artist and curator Nkhensani Mkhari to discuss his new show with David Krut Projects and his time colloborating with the David Krut Workshop.

This weeks episode brings a conversation between art writiers Ashraf Jamal and David Mann with our operations manager Robyn Woolley. This conversation comes ahead of the launch of Ashraf Jamal's new book  African Art: The ARAK Collection happening at the Blue House at 151 Jan Smuts Avenue on the 24th of February. Join us for a wonderful evening featuring a discussion between Ashraf Jamal and Kagis...

In this episode of the David Krut Podcast, we take a break from Practitioners in Conversation to explore one of our latest exhibitions. Our bookstore manager Alison Kane sits down with artist Bevan de Wet to discuss his sculptural paper work that are featured in  Surface Tension .  Surface Tension  will is on show at our gallery at the Blue House, 151 Jan Smuts Avenue Parkhurst from the 1st of Feb...

Welcome back listeners. This final episode of Practitioners in Conversation was recorded by Nathalie Viruly in Cape Town a few weeks after she recorded the first two episodes with David Krut. In it, she explains more about the life of artist Ulises Carrión and his love for books and bookstores.

Hello listeners.  In todays episode of the David Krut Podcast Nathalie Viruly continues her conversation with David Krut. She and David Krut discuss her masters research on book shops, exploring what such places are and what they could be. 

Welcome back David Krut Listeners, and happy 2025. This year we will be continueing our latest series of podcasts, Practioners in Conversation . In this weeks episode, we welcome art writer and curator Nathalie Viruly to the Blue House as she discusses her work and her master's studies with David Krut. (NB: In the Podcast David Krut refers to Nathalie's booth at the Cape Town Art Fair last year. H...

In this episode, we welcome Fine Art photographer Thania Louw to the Blue House. She sits and talks with David Krut down in the meditation garden at our gallery at 151 Jan Smuts to discuss her work as well as her life as a mother.

Welcome back listeners! Today we continue with our new series of conversations that will be taking place at the Blue House between David Krut and passionate practitioners. The sit down with David to discuss their work, fields, interest and more. Kicking off the series we are deligthed to have Photographer, Art Historian, Visual Culture Lecturer and PhD Candidate Mpho Moshe Matholane joining us in...

Welcome back listeners! Today we introduce a new series of conversations that will be taking place at the Blue House between David Krut and passionate practitioners. They sit down with David to discuss their work, fields, interest and more. Kicking off the series we are deligthed to have Photographer, Art Historian, Visual Culture Lecturer and PhD Candidate Mpho Moshe Matholane joining us in the B...

Welcome back listeners! In today's episode, join our social media manager, Jana Findlay, in conversation with artist and memeber of Occupy the Gallery,  Lusanda Ndita. Over a series of recorded whatsapp notes, they discuss Ndita's work, his background and his relationship with Occupy the Gallery and Mary Sibande. They also discuss our current exhibtion  Reclaiming Quartres , featuring the work of...

Two memebers of Occupy the Gallery, Lungile Ngcobo (David Krut Workshop Administrator) and Hoek Swaratlhe sit down to discuss Swaratlhe's work created in with collaborative printer Sbongiseni Khulu at DKW. Explore his work at davidkrutprojects.com and keep an eye out for more information about the exhibition Reclaiming Quarters .

David Krut sits down with actor and founder of Stageworks Nigel Greenhalgh to discuss Imagination, creativty and working with children.

Once again, David Krut sits down with Stephen Hobbs to continue their discussion around Hobbs's life and work, as well as the history of Johannesburg and South Africa's contemporary art scene. In this episode, the two discuss Hobbs's time as the gallery manager at the Market Theatre Gallery, Johannesburg's two biennales and more about the 90s.  [Produced by Alison Kane]

We are excited to announce a new podcast episode featuring artist Stephen Hobbs! Hobbs has a longstanding relationship with DKP that spans over 15 years. In this episode, Hobbs sat down with David Krut to discuss his history, his relationship with Johannesburg and share hysterical anecdotes about his life as an artist. (Artist notes: Hobbs was taught print making and critical theory by Colin Richa...

On the 14th of February 2024 we had the pleasure of opening a special Valentine's Day exhibition by South African artist, Motlhoki Nono. The exhibition, titled 'Kissing Studies', serves as a profound reflection on the performance of the kiss, delving into the nuanced questions surrounding the constructions of romance. The artist confronts the ‘ideal object of love’, by rendering gentle forms of bl...

In this episode, Phumulani Ntuli expands on his most recent collaboration with David Krut Projects that resulted in his body of work “Kunela iphuzu emafini’ / echoes of the point cloud" ​The works are largely inspired by a film titled, ‘Jim Goes to Joburg’ directed by Donald Swanson – in this podcast, the artist has generated the voice of Donald Swanson using AI to narrate his answers!  'Kunanela...

I imagine you to be wondering what could link an alternative arts bookstore to the world of bat conservation. The view of David Krut Projects in general is that art is not only a cultural, creative practice but also a knowledge system that disseminates information through one of our fundamental processing senses; sight. We believe in the importance of recognising the necessity of creativity across...

In this episode Christa Swanepoel is joined by artist and printmaker Fiver Löcker who tells us about her reasons for becoming an artist and how her life’s journey of constant travel and new experiences has impacted the way in which she creates and shares her perspective with the world.  Fiver was born in Duisburg, Germany in 1963. Since leaving Germany at the age of 19 she has worked, lived and tr...

In this episode, the first of 3 episodes featuring The Printing Girls, Christa Swanepoel invited Lyrene Kühn-Botma to talk about her involvement in the all-female printing collective The Printing Girls , her conceptual artwork themes and the intricacies behind stone lithograph printing. Lyrene tells us how past experiences of grief and loss has influenced her work and development as artist, what s...

In this episode, we talk to artist Roxy Kaczmarek about her new body of work and recent exhibition " Shifting Positions " at David Krut Projects. Kaczmarek’s paintings and prints examine the sensibilities and relationships between people and nature, considering the aesthetics and psychology that bring plants into urban living and working spaces. The work deals with an inquiry into the displacement...

Listen to artist Stephen Hobbs tell the story of his long journey from South Africa to Ireland and back which led to the creation of his Shallow Sleep exhibition. In this episode, Hobbs takes Melissa Waters through his Shallow Sleep installation at his Maboneng studio. This episode was recorded at the installation site itself!

In this episode, David Krut interviews artist Vusi Beauchamp about his artistic process and experience printmaking at the David Krut Workshop in Maboneng, Johannesburg.  The Cult of One is Vusi Beauchamp's solo exhibition which includes monotypes made in collaboration with Kim-Lee Loggenberg at the David Krut Workshop in 2021 and 2022, as well as mixed medium paintings with an array of mark making...

In this episode of the David Krut Podcast, artist Vusi Beauchamp speaks about his large-scale paintings on show in his solo exhibition The Cult of One - Part 1 in Johannesburg, August 2022. We find out more about Beauchamp's use of symbolism and iconography in his works The Tempest, The Great Feed, Trojan Horse and Saints & Sinners. In these paintings, he makes satirical commentary on politics...

Mandlenkosi 'Mandla' Mavengere collaborated with the David Krut Workshop in 2021 and 2022 where he created a series of oil-based monotypes with DKW printer Sbongiseni Khulu. Mandla's brightly coloured works speak to the diversity and inequalities of labour, the hardships of migration and the monetary value of goods and services rendered. The figures pictured in his works are economically fabricate...