Artist Bio
Wim Kruger

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Wim Kruger:

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Who Learned to Break His Own Lines

Wim spent a lifetime loving art from a distance.

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From Construction by trade, to Art collector by heart, he filled his 40s with sketches and concepts, testing ideas the way he once tested structures.

 

Now in his fifties he is soaring the wave.

 

Yet, look closer and you’ll see the yearning for bending the lines… his borders don’t always hold.

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 As Wim puts it, he loves “working outside the set borders, he constantly contends to break away from.”

 

The result is inventive, graphic, and quietly playful.

His works for Aqua Mania, fuse structure with nostalgia, like a blueprint drawn in a pool of water.

 

You see it in Kissing cutie:

 crisp realism meets a tiled, pixel-like background that shouldn’t work, but it absolutely does.

 And in SOLE SURVIVOR, bold, neon-infused lines and a 80s poster-like energy, contained by a deliberate, clean form.

 

Wim Kruger builds his compositions like he once built structures, with clean realism and an artistic feel.

Then he lets 80s retro spill through,

Distinctive fresh lines.

Collectable precision with a pulse.

 

What to expect at Decorex 2026:

 

• Wim: Expect clean realism, meeting 80s retro, and a quiet tension between control and play.

 

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Visit Wim + Magriet at DECOREX

Aqua Mania Exhibition
Gulah Art Gallery, Stand V15
CTICC, Cape Town | 25–28 June 2026
Contact: 082 556 9278

Come for the art. Stay for the story. This is what happens when you find your person, and your practice, right on time.

 

Invest in the moment they flow together.