LEBOHANG KGANYE South Africa, b. 1990
Lebohang Kganye works with expanded photography, video and mixed media to create deeply researched works that layer historiography, theatricality, autobiography and poetics in often sculptural installations. The artist’s name is etymologically linked to the Sotho word for light “kganya” and bringing light and life to layered postcolonial histories is an animating thread in her practice.
She is the recipient of the Deutsche Börse Foundation Prize, 2024 for her exhibition Haufi Nyana? I’ve Come to Take you Home, which took place at Foam, Amsterdam (2023). Other notable recent awards include the Foam Paul Huf Award, 2022, Grand Prix Images Vevey, 2021/22; and Camera Austria Award, 2019.
She has recently exhibited at TATE, The Barnes Foundation, the Art Institute of Chicago, Yale University Art Gallery, and others. In 2022, Kganye was one of three artists exhibited in Into the Light, the South African Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale.
Kganye’s work is held in public collections including the Smithsonian Institution, the Art Institute of Chicago, Getty Museum, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, Victoria and Albert Museum, Verbund Collection, Walther Collection, and Carnegie Art Museum, among others.
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A Secret Return, 2023
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After Eating Leave the Table, 2023
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Dolly Ngubeni, 2023
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Job Mkhalipi, 2023
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Maria Magadeni Khanyi II, 2023
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Nteli Ngwenya, 2023
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Under the Impulse of a Dream, 2023
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Birds Feasting, 2022
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Drowning Professors and Doctors, 2022
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Esther Matiko Mkhalipi, 2022
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Getrude Mkhalipi, 2022
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Gladys, 2022
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Letta Namgomezulu, 2022
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Lighthouse Burials, 2022
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Nomasonto Mthembu, 2022
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Prisoner Doing the General Work, 2022
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Running from the neighbours dogs, 2022
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Shortening Lighthouse, 2022
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We all go fishing, 2022
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Woman in the Middle of the Night, 2022
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Shadows of Re-Memory, 2021
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Coalesced with the night’s dew, 2020
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He could hear the voices of his ancestors, 2020
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It stood lifeless and triumphant, 2020
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The stranger stood before a monstrosity, 2020
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This is not what I wanted for any of you, 2020
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Well into the night, 2020
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LEBOHANG KGANYE | DEUTSCHE BÖRSE PRIZE
WINNER 16 May 2024Lebohang Kganye won the prestigious Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize for her exhibition Haufi nyana? I’ve come to take you home at Foam, Amsterdam in...Read more -
LEBOHANG KGANYE | ALBERTINA MUSEUM
GROUP EXHIBITION 29 February - 5 May 2024Lebohang Kganye participated in the group exhibition at the Albertina Museum in Vienna celebrating 20 years of the Verbund Collection. The term feminist avant-garde was...Read more -
LEBOHANG KGANYE | TATE
GROUP EXHIBITION 6 July 2023 - 14 January 2024Lebohang Kganye participated in the group exhibition A World in Common at Tate Modern, curated by Osei Bonsu. Bringing together a group of artists from...Read more -
LEBOHANG KGANYE | FOAM
SOLO EXHIBITION 17 February 2023 - 21 May 2024Winner of the Paul Huf Award, Lebohang Kganye was granted a solo exhibition at Foam Amsterdam titled Haufi nyana? I’ve come to take you home....Read more