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Lonwabo Kilani

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Lonwabo Kilani (1980 - Tshitwe 2025) e ne e le motaki sa Afrika Borwa se nang le mesebetsi e mengata eo mosebetsi wa sona o neng o akaretsa ho penta, metjha ya phatlalatso e tswakilweng, di-animation tsa dijithale, ho kenya, le bonono bo amehang setjhabeng. [1] O tsebahala ka ho kenya letsoho ha hae sehlopheng sa "Gugulective" se thehilweng Cape Town, mme mosebetsi wa hae o bontshitswe ditheong tse kenyeletsang AVA Gallery le Iziko South African National Gallery . Dipatlisiso tsa Kilani le mokgwa wa boqapi di amana le dipolotiki tsa kahisano tsa kamora kgethollo, mohopolo, boitsebahatso, le tlhahiso ya bonono e thehilweng setjhabeng.

Bophelo ba pele le thuto

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Kilani o hlahetse Cape Town ka 1980 mme a qala sekolo sa mathomo Sekolong sa mathomo sa Lwandle mme a etsa matric sekolong sa Secondary sa Bulumko, ka bobedi Khayelitsha . O qetile dilemo tse pedi tsa koetliso ya Bonono ba Pono ho Community Arts Project (CAP) ka 2001 mme hamorao a etsa dithuto tse ding tsa difilimi le dipopo, bonono ba dijithale, le metjha ya phatlalatso e sebedisanang, a qeta BA ho Motion Picture (Directing Animation) le degree ya Honours ho Curatorship Univesithing ya Cape Town . [2]

Kilani o sebelitse metjheng ya ditaba, ho kenyeletsoa ho penta, ho etsa ditshwantsho tsa boiqapelo, ho kenya, mecha ea litaba e tsoakiloeng, le mokhoa oa ho boloka lintho. Mosebetsi oa hae o khetholloa ka thepa e thehiloeng lefatsheng e nang le sebopeho, litshwaoantšo tse arotsweng ka mekgahlelo, le dihlooho tse amanang le nalane ya lipolotiki ya Afrika Boroa, boitsebahatso, mohopolo le phetoho ea sechaba.

Kilani o nnile a amahanngwa le sehlopha sa sehlopha sa "Gugulective" se thehiloeng Cape Town, sehlopha se tsebahalang ka ho kenella ha sona lipolotiking tsa bonono ba setjhaba le mekhoa ea boqapi e thehiloeng litoropong 'me hape o sebelelitse e le setho sa boto ea Greatmore Arts Trust.

Dipontsho

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Dipontho tsa moo a leng mong

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  • Rope, Dope & Hope —Mokhatlo oa Pono ea Bonono (AVA), Cape Town, 2016. E hlahlobiloe ho Art Africa .

Dipontsho tsa lihlopha tse khethiloeng

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    • In Living Colour—Two-person exhibition with Ndikhumbule Ngqinambi, Barnard Gallery, Cape Town.
    • Umsi (the smoke)—Group exhibition including Lindile Magunya, Ndikhumbule Ngqinambi, Thulani Shuku, Dathini Mzayiya, Lonwabo Kilani, and Vivien Kohler.[3]
    • Gugulective Projects—Various public interventions and collective exhibitions in Cape Town (mid-2000s–present).[4]
    • Group exhibitions affiliated with Greatmore Studios, Cape Town. Template:Citation needed[citation needed]

Mosebetsi wa mohlokomeli

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  • Still Life and Life Drawings: A Moment Captured or Preserved? – Curator. Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town (23 November–7 December 2018).[5]

Mesebetsi e kgethiloeng

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    • Written in White (2015)—oil and soil on canvas, 135 × 212 cm. Listed in the Art Bank of South Africa collection.[6]
    • Message in a Bottle—mixed media work.[6]

Difantisi

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    • The Soccer Match—sold at Strauss & Co, Cape Town, 2023.[7][8]
    • Collaborative Artwork (Week II) (2004)—sold at Strauss & Co.; Kilani listed as one of the contributing artists.[9]

Mosebetsi oa thuto

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Kilani o ngotse sengolwa sa MAFA sa Bonono, Kgahlanong le Botsho le Puo ya Boipelaetso Univesithing ya Cape Town ka 2023.

Dihlooho le setaele

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Mosebetsi wa Kilani o atisa ho kenyelletsa mobu, lehlabathe le libaka tse tala tse nang le sebopeho, o kopanya likarolo tse sa bonahaleng le tsa tšoantšetso. Lihlooho tsa hae li kenyelletsa:

  • Sehopotso sa setjhaba le sa dipolotiki. [10]
  • Bophelo ba toropo le boitsebiso ba ditoropo
  • Matshwenyeho le phodiso ya kamora kgethollo
  • Mokgwa oa tshebedisano-mmoho le o kopanetsweng ke setjhaba

Dihokelo tsa kantle

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  1. https://humanities.uct.ac.za/michaelis/articles/2025-12-09-lonwabo-kilani-1980-2025
  2. https://humanities.uct.ac.za/michaelis/articles/2025-12-09-lonwabo-kilani-1980-2025
  3. "ASAI".
  4. "Performance in Biopolitical Collectivism: A Study of Gugulective and iQhiya". Acts of Transgression: Contemporary Live Art in South Africa. Wits University Press. 2019. pp. 332–351. ISBN 978-1-77614-280-4.
  5. "Still Life and Life Drawings: A Moment Captured or Preserved? – Iziko Museums".
  6. 1 2 "Lonwabo Kilani | South African Contemporary Art". 14 March 2019.
  7. "Lonwabo Kilani | 2 Artworks at Auction | MutualArt".
  8. https://humanities.uct.ac.za/michaelis/articles/2025-12-09-lonwabo-kilani-1980-2025
  9. https://www.straussart.co.za/auctions/lot/24-jan-2022-lot-491/Template:Dead+link
  10. https://humanities.uct.ac.za/michaelis/articles/2025-12-09-lonwabo-kilani-1980-2025