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"Phumulani Ntuli | Recent Works" presents a selection of paintings from the artist’s studio alongside works on paper created in collaboration with David Krut Workshop, Johannesburg.
The exhibition traces the development of Ntuli’s ongoing investigation into identity, material culture, and systems of value, and accompanies his latest body of work, "Wish List," currently on view in Johannesburg.
As a researcher, archivist, and documenter, Ntuli critically engages with archives, reconstructing narratives to examine what is recorded, excluded, or overlooked within historical narratives. His recent works draw on online wish lists as representations of desire, mapping tensions between utility and ornament, need and fantasy. For Ntuli, the processes of staging, duplicating, selecting, and juxtaposing images form part of a broader inquiry into visual archives and representation.
Phumulani Ntuli (b. Soweto, 1986) is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans mixed-media collage, sculpture, video installation, and artistic research.
In 2022, Ntuli’s work was presented at the 59th Venice Biennale as part of the South African National Pavilion. In New York, his work was presented by David Krut Projects in a 2024 exhibition titled "South African Artists in New York," and at the Brooklyn Fine Art Print Fair in 2025. In 2024, he presented a major retrospective exhibition at the University of Johannesburg titled "Umfanekiso Uyopha Inkungu (An Image Oozes Mist)," surveying key bodies of work and research developed over the past decade and accompanied by a scholarly catalogue titled "Fictional Geographies."
Ntuli holds a Bachelor of Technology in Fine Arts from the University of Johannesburg and an MFA in Art and Public Sphere from the École Cantonale d’Art du Valais (ECAV), Switzerland (2017), where he received a Prix d’Excellence for his research project Permutations of an Event.
Selected exhibitions include a solo booth presented by David Krut Projects at the Johannesburg Art Fair (2023); Galería Nueva, Madrid (2022); the Kampala Biennale (2016); and the Bone Performance Festival, Bern. He has participated in residencies at Atelier Solar (Spain), Fondazione Pistoletto (Italy), and the Alps Art Academy (Switzerland).
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