Lebohang Kganye,
visual artist and photographer, from Johannesburg, South Africa, where she currently lives and works.
Lebohang Kganye works with expanded photography, video and mixed media to create works that layer historiography, research, theatricality, autobiography and poetics in often sculptural installations. The artist’s family name is etymologically linked to the Sotho word for light “kganya”; bringing light to layered postcolonial histories is an animating thread in her practice.
Kganye is featured in MoMA New Photography 2025 opening in September. Her upcoming solo exhibition with newly commissioned work will be opening at Fotografiska, Berlin in 2025. She is the recipient of the 2024 Deutsche Börse Foundation Prize for her solo exhibition Haufi Nyana? I’ve Come to Take you Home, which took place at Foam. The artist has recently exhibited at TATE, Barnes Foundation, and others. In 2022, Kganye exhibited in the South African Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. Kganye’s work is held in collections including the Smithsonian Institution, Getty Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum, Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris and others.