PRESS & REVIEWS
PRESS 2024
Lebohang Kganye: Interweaving Photography, Sculpture, and Performance, African Digital Art, September 2024
Mit der Kraft der Erinnerung, Schirn Magazin, June 2024
The South African artist has been recognised for her sociopolitical mixed-media show in Amsterdam, 1854 British Jouornal of Photography, May 2024
Turin’s new photo festival takes a wide-angled view of the world, APOLLO, May 2024
2024 Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize Goes to Lebohang Kganye, South African Artist Known for Unique Approach to Visual Storytelling, Culture Type, May 2024
Deutsche Börse / Revelar lo invisible, Cambio 16, May 2024
Prestigious photography prize awarded to Witsie, University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg, May 2024
Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2024 winner revealed, BBC, May 2024
South African artist wins prestigious photo prize for 'risk-taking' Apartheid work, The Art Newspaper, May 2024
‘Realities of apartheid’: South African artist wins Deutsche Börse photography prize, The Guardian, May 2024
Lebohang Kganye wins 2024 Deutsche Boerse Photography Prize, Artforum, May 2024
DBPFP 2024: Lebohang Kganye, The Photographers’ Gallery, May 2024
Lebohang Kganye wins the Deutsche Boerse Photography Foundation Prize, Artsy, May 2024
Lebohang Kganye wins the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2024, Deutsche Börse Group, May 2024
Deutsche Börse prize review – from crotchless knickers to the sound of a grave, The Guardian, February 2024
Mind-bending photography: the Deutsche Börse prize – in pictures, The Guardian, February 2024
The Photographers' Gallery reveals details of 2024 edition of Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize, ArtDaily, 2024
PRESS 2023
Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2024 Shortlist revealed, FAD Magazine, November 2023
Two South African Artists Reflect on the Memories of Apartheid, Aperture, May 2023
Sue Williamson and Lebohang Kganye: Tell Me What You Remember | Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, Photograph Mag, May 2023
Die südafrikanische Künstlerin Lebohang Kganye auf dem Kölner Photoszene-Festival, WDR, May 2023
Haufi nyana? I’ve come to take you home, FOAM, March 2023
The Barnes Foundation presents 'Sue Williamson & Lebohang Kganye; Tell Me What You Remember', Art Daily, March 2023
Personal and Collective Micro Histories of Lebohang Kganye's Family Unfold at Foam, Widewalls, February 2023
PRESS 2022
Images Vevey 2022 champions photography talents through special awards, Photo Vogue, September 2022
The Secret Art of the Family Photo, New Yorker, July 2022
200 Young South Africans 2022, Mail & Guardian, July 2022
59th Venice Biennale : Lebohang Kganye : Once Upon a Time, The Eye of Photography, June 2022
'Healing is the main goal of my work,' ZAM Magazine, March 2022
Lebohang Kganye’s Ever-Evolving Journey Across Memory and Medium, Okay Africa, March 2022
In old family photographs, a South African artist reenacts her late mother's life, CNN Style, March 2022
Memory, family and performance: Lebohang Kganye speaks about her first show in the United States, Photo Vogue, March 2022
Lebohang Kganye wins Foam Paul Huf Award 2022, FOAM, March 2022
Lebohang Kganye examines the relationship between storytelling and truth, 1854.photography, British Journal of Photography, February 2022
ROSEGALLERY : Lebohang Kganye : What Are You Leaving Behind? L’œil De La Photographie, February 2022
Pour faire son deuil, Lebohang Kganye se projette dans les photos de sa mère disparue, Konbibi Arts, January 2022
Who's Coming to Venice Biennale 2022? Confirmed Artists So Far, widewalls.ch, January 2022
PRESS 2021
Lebohang Kganye. Dipina tsa Kganya. Interview with Sarah Allen, 1000wordmag, 2021
Lebohang Kganye. Interview, Archivo Platform, July 2021
Interview. Daria Tuminas on “Pass it On. …”, archivoplatform, May 2021
Pass It On. Private Stories, Public Histories, Lensculture. April 2021
Digital Wondering 04, f-stop, January 2021
Lebohang Kganye, Reconstruction of a Family, Urbanautica, January 2021
PRESS 2020
The Paulo Cunha e Silva Art Prize, e-flux, November 2020
Healing through family snapshots – Lebohang Kganye’s Ke Lefa Laka: Her-story, Daily Meverick, May 2020
Is African Photography a state of Mind?, Aperture reviews, April 2020
En samtale med Lebohang Kganye, Africa.no, February 2020
PRESS 2019
Camera Austria 2019, e-flux, November 2019
“Ke Lefa Laka: Her Story”, Morning Show SA, October 2019
Photography From Africa that Refuses Easy Narratives, Hyperallergic, October 2019
Lebohang Kganye Creates Immersive Installations from a Mix of Memory and Fiction, Whitewall, May 2019
This artist superimposed herself onto old photos of her mother as a poignant celebration of their bond, Sleek Magazine, May 2019
A celebration of black womanhood in South Africa, Huck Magazine, May 2019
A Daughter’s Ghostly Re-Creations of Her Late Mother’s Old Photographs, New Yorker, March 2019
Representation and protest: The school of photographers shaping a new South African identity, HERO Magazine, January 2019
PRESS 2018
Remembrance, Wall Street International Magazine, December 2018
Rise Art Prize Winner, Lebohang Kganye, Takes Contemporary African Art by Storm, Rise Art, September 2018
South Africa Week: Lebohang Kganye, Lenscratch, August 2018
PRESS 2017
Between art and memory, Mail & Guardian, September 2017
Performing HIstory/ies with Obsolete Media: The Example of a South African Photo-Film, Marietta Kesting, ResearchGate, February 2017
PRESS 2016
Recent Histories at Walther Collection, Collector Daily, November 2016
Fantasy and Memory, Reimagining the Family Archive, Art Africa, March 2016
PRESS 2015
Focus Bamako: Reanimating a Family’s History, Contemporary And, November 2015
South African photographer steps into the frame to reimagine her family history, TheSouthAfrican.com, June 2015
PRESS 2013
Stories about my Granddad, Contemporary And, November 2013