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.
Kganye 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.
The artist 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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Set Foot on Stone of Country, 2023
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Let me Cross First, 2023
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Time Needed to Hand Over Power, 2023
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Under the Impulse of a Dream, 2023
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A Secret Return, 2023
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After Eating Leave the Table, 2023
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Mashing rocks, 2022
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Reselling golf balls, 2022
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Tuna boat crashed in the Island, 2022
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Drowning Professors and Doctors, 2022
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We all go fishing, 2022
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Ghost in the guesthouse, 2022
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Ox wagons to deliver supplies, 2022
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TV at the taxi rank, 2022
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Birds Feasting, 2022
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Shortening Lighthouse, 2022
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Woman in the Middle of the Night, 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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Lighthouse Burials, 2022
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Shadows of Re-Memory, 2021
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Nteli Ngwenya, 2023
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Nomasonto Mthembu, 2022
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Maria Magadeni Khanyi I, 2023
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Letta Namgomezulu, 2022
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Job Mkhalipi, 2022
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Getrude Mkhalipi, 2022
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Esther Matiko Mkhalipi, 2022
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Dolly Ngubeni, 2023
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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 - 21 May 2023Winner 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