Dorothee Kreutzfeldt’s artistic practice involves painting and collaborations, often working across different media and disciplines. The city ofJohannesburg and its social/politically constructed histories and spaces have been central throughout her work. Her interests lie in how the city continues to craft, undermine and explode the experience of time, space and subjectivity.
Recent solo exhibitions include City Without a Sun (2018); EXTENSIONS TO THE LOT LINE (2017); Here We (2016); at present, (2015); and The Immanent Inauguration of the 5th Corner (2010). In 2013, she co-authored the artist book Not No Place, Johannesburg Fragments of Spaces and Times with Bettina Malcomess (published by Fanele, Jacana Media). Between 2000 and 2009 Kreutzfeldt was a founding member of the non-profit cultural platform, The Joubert Park Project, which ran public art projects, artists residency programs and the development of the historic Drill Hall in Central Johannesburg. Her work is represented in a number of private and public collections, including the Iziko South African National Gallery and Johannesburg Art Gallery.
Since 2012, Dorothee Kreutzfeldt has lectured in the Division of Fine Arts at the Wits School of Arts (painting, undergraduate and postgraduate supervision, MA program), where she also completed her MAFA, in 2004. She has also lectured and taught at various tertiary institutions including the Michaelis School of Arts (UCT), University of Stellenbosch and the Market Photo Workshop.
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curriculum vitae
1970 Born in Windhoek, Namibia
education
1996 Bachelor of Fine Art, Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa (Distinction)
2004 Master of Arts in Fine Art, University of the Witwatersrand, WITS School of Arts (WSOA) (Distinction)
solo and two-person exhibitions
2018 City Without a Sun, blank projects, Cape Town, South Africa (with Blake Daniels)
2017 EXTENSIONS TO THE LOT LINE, blank projects, Cape Town, South Africa
2016 HERE WE, Room Gallery & Projects, Johannesburg, South Africa
2015 at present, blank projects, Cape Town, South Africa
2014 At the End of August, August House, Doornfontein, Johannesburg, South Africa
2010 The Immanent Inauguration of the 5th Corner, blank projects, Cape Town, South Africa
2007 Adversary, Parking Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
2007 The Virgins are Trimming Their Wicks, Joao Ferreira Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
2007 FYI, Marks Blond Projects, Bern, Switzerland
2007 When the Man Comes Around, Joao Ferreira Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa (with Simon Gush)
2005 No Condition is Permanent, Premises, Johannesburg, South Africa
2005 Like Nine Pin, Joao Ferreira Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
selected group exhibitions + projects
2020 WITNESS: Afro Perspectives from the Jorge M. Pérez Collection, El Espacio 23, Miami, USA
2018 open agenda, blank projects, Cape Town, South Africa
2017 17, blank projects, Cape Town, South Africa
2017 A Painting Today, Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa
2014 Invisible, Mural project, Stevenson Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
2013 My Joburg, La Maison Rouge, Paris & Kunsthalle im Lipsiusbau, Dresden, Germany
2012 Not No Place, Exhibition with Bettina Malcolmess (Dead Heat), Goethe on Main, Johannesburg, South Africa
2011 Ulterior Motors, with Dead Heat, Alternating Currents’, Goethe on Main, Johannesburg, South Africa
2010 Rencontres PICHA – Biennale de Lumumbashi, Lumumbashi, DRC
2010 Reflejo-Reflexion, Johannesburg Art Gallery; Richmond, MAP, Western Cape; Casa Africa, Las Palmas; Sala Parpalló, Valencia (2009) & Nirox, Johannesburg (2008)
2010 Passage, with Bettina Malcomess, Afropolis, City Media Art, Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum, Cologne, Germany
2010 Us, (curated by Simon Njami and Bettina Malcomess), Johannesburg Art Gallery & Iziko National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
2009 We, the people declare, in the pursuit of our desire, here, today, with Dead Heat, Montagsbar, Temporäre Kunsthalle, Berlin, Germany
2009 Instructions for the Construction of a Monument, Installation, with Dead Heat, Architecture Department of the Tshwane University, for the ‘African Perspectives’ Conference, Tshwane, South Africa
2009 ‘Nothing Ever Changes’, Group exhibition, KKNK Festival, Oudtshoorn, South Africa
2009 Trifecta. Everything happens for a reason. Everything happens by chance. Exhibition, with Dead Heat, blank projects, Cape Town, South Africa
2008 Upstairs-Downstairs, (curated by Bettina Malcolmess), AVA, Cape Town, South Africa
2008 You Deserve the Truth, Joburg Art Fair, Drill Hall, Johannesburg, South Africa
2007 Same Place, (curated by Maja Marx), Aardklop Festival, Potchefstroom, South Africa
2007 Markers VI/Divine, Group exhibition with Simon Gush, Tent, Venice, Italy
2006 We Stand by Our Leaders – Public project, with the JPP, Drill Hall, Johannesburg, South Africa
2006 3 Point Turn, with Simon Gush & Sam Matenji, Drill Hall, Johannesburg, South Africa
2006 New Painting, (curated by Storm Janse van Rensburg), KSNSA, Durban, South Africa
2006 Surface, Franchise, Johannesburg, South Africa
2005 One Night Stand, with Ingrid Masondo and Keorapetse Mosimane, Joao Ferreira Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
2005 Sweet Nothings, (curated by Sanell Aggenbach), Brendon Bell Roberts, Cape Town, South Africa
residencies + awards
2016 Landing Above, wall painting and residency at A4 Art Foundation, Cape Town, South Africa
2008 Scenographies Urbaines – Participated in 6 week residency project with African and European artists which culminated in a 5 day festival, in Kinshasa, DRC
2005 A Jamais – Residency and exhibition, CRIC Residency, Sierre, Switzerland
collaborative & curatorial projects
2013 Same Time – Conceptualized and coordinated 5 ‘city tours’ for delegates of Wide Angle – Photography as Public Practice (conference and workshop conducted by the Goethe Institut, the Market Photo Workshop and WSOA)
2010 Numbers and Pie Charts – Intervention in collaboration with VANSA at the Joburg Artfair 2010 and in collaboration with students from WITS School of Arts
2010 Reasons to Live in a Small Town Project – Curatorial team for the residency and public art project facilitated by the Visual Arts Network of South Africa (VANSA)
2010 Think about Something happening in 5x5metres – Facilitated performance project by Marta Fernandez Calvo and Javier Aquilue, presented at No Soul For Sale, Turbine Hall, London (May) and The Back Loft, Dublin La Cathedral Studios
2009 Urban Scenographies – Management and curation team for the Joubert Park Project (JPP) production, made in collaboration with the French Collective SCu2, a month long series of
interventions, performances and presentations, with 20 international artists
2009 The Work You Requested – Collaboration with Joseph Gaylard, Nastio Mosquito and Bettina Malcomess, for the Joburg Art Fair 2009
2008 Trailer – Short film produced in collaboration with Bettina Malcomess for the TV documentary series Right Through the Arts (SABC2)
2008 Last One Standing – Collaboration between the JPP and the Snowball Fight Association Switzerland. A multi-media snowball-fight tournament, at the Drill, Johannesburg, involving four teams, with the participation of various ‘players’ in the city (soap-opera stars, trolley-pushers, hairdressers, city managers, artists, and boxers); a choir and group of referees
2008 Walking Newspaper – Collaborated and co-facilitated the 6th edition of the newspaper, a project developed by German artist Hans Winkler, within the frame of the JPP residency programme, in partnership with the Goehte Institute and National Arts Council
2008 100 Year We[a]r – Co-curated fashion competition and photographic exhibition in public spaces in the inner city, by Jean Christophe Lanquetin and Athi Patra Ruga, developed within the frame of the JPP residency programme
2008 Kin-Be-Jozi – Directed the 3rd part of the project in Johannesburg at the Drill Hall, hosting Visthois Mwilambwe (DRC), Kura Shomali (DRC), Raphael Urweider (CH), Steffi Weissman (CH), Athi Patra Ruga (SA) and Anthea Moys (SA). The project unfolded in a series of site –specific public performances and an exhibition
2006 Notes to Home – Co-directed and co-managed exchange exhibition with Joseph Gaylard (JPP)and the collective Muvarts (Mozambique), which involved a residency with Mozambican artists and travelling exhibition between the Drill Hall and Maputo
2005 Very Real Time2 – Collaboration with Gregg Smith on a series of discussions at the Drill Hall with the academics, artists, and social workers, aimed to engage the often fraud relations of intimacy, sexual relations and identity within the urban context of South Africa
2005 Preview – curated event/exhibition at the Drill Hall, in collaboration with Keren Ben Zeev. With Usha Seejarim, Stompie, Doung Anwar Jahangeer, Greg Streak, Jabu Tshuma and Mpho Molikeng, Johan Thom, Gerhard Marx, Athena Mazarakis, Craig Morris, Jayne Batzofin and Lunga Radebe as well as school groups from the area
2005 Drill Hall – Designed and produced signs for permanent exhibition at the Drill Hall on the heritage of the site; worked with trainee sign-writers and historian. For the launch ran photography outreach project and exhibition with youth from the inner city, in partnership with trainee managers and photographers from the Market Photo Workshop
2000 Co-founder of the Joubert Park Project
