Born: Johanessburg, South Africa. 1994.
Currently based in Groningen, the Netherlands.
Education: BFA from Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa.
MA Painting from Frank Mohr Institute, Hanze University, Groningen, Netherlands.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Solo
2022 BREEK JOU NEK, Nuweland Gallery, Oosterzee, Buren.
2021 Untitled Presentation, H47, Leeuwarden.
2020 Tales of the Unseen, Graduation Exhibition, NP3 Gallerie, Groningen.
2018 History Shistory, Molten Toffee Café, Cape Town.
2017 MUMBO JUMBO, Cubicle Series, Circa Gallery Everard Reed, Cape Town.
2016 Tjank, Rhodes Graduate Exhibition, Grahamstown, South Africa.
Group
2021 Between () Strangers, Nuweland Gallery, Oosterzee Buren.
2019 The Way We Work, KINK, Drents Museum, Assen, Netherlands.
2018 Face to Face, Absolute Art Gallery, Stellenbosch.
2018 Graduate Show, Turbine Art Fair, Johannesburg.
2018 Untitled 6.99, Loop 99, Cape Town.
2018 Day Zero, Chandler House, Cape Town.
2018 Delphian Open Call, Delphian Galley, London.
2017 Overwinter, Untitled Studio, Cape Town.
2017 In with the New, Riebeek Kasteel Gallery, Riebeek Kasteel.
2017 Nano 1.1, Barnard Gallery, Cape Town.
2017 Hour Exhibition, Chandler House, Cape Town.
2017 Touch: Emerging Young Painters, Turbine Art Festival, Johannesburg.
FUNDING
2022 Artist Start Grant, Mondriaan Fonds.
2021 Covid-Relief Funding. Mondriaan Fonds.
2021 Projek Lucht, Kunstpunt, Groningen.
ARTICLES
Kunstpunt Interview, Een kijkje in het atelier van kunstenaar Michal Kruger, 2021, video available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1U_6Fs64IPI
Michiel Teeuw, Awkward Memories: Frank Mohr Graduates Bart Nijstad and Michal Kruger, 2020, Jegens en Tevens, available online at: https://jegensentevens.nl/2020/08/awkward-memories-frank-mohr-graduates-bartnijstad-and-michal-kruger/
Agnes Winter, MICHAL KRUGER : Painting. Mertropolis M, 2020, Eindexamens 2020: Tijdskryft over hedendaagse kunst. Page 46.
Metropolis M, 2020, Graduation Shows 2020 - Minerva Academy and Frank Mohr Institute Groningen. Available at: http://www.metropolism.com/nl/reviews/41833_graduation_shows_2020_academie_minerva_en_frank_mohr_instituut_groningen
Yng Space Interview, 2018, available at: https://yngspc.com/artists/2018/05/michal-kruger/
Between 10 and 5, 2017, Fresh Meat: Michal Kruger, available at: https://10and5.com/2017/02/08/fresh-meat-michal-kruger/
