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Banele Khoza, Contemplation in Silence II

Banele KhozaContemplation in Silence II, 2025

Oil on canvas

132.4 x 115.5 x 3 cm

About the artist

(b. 1994, Hlatikulu) is a visual artist whose emotionally charged, diaristic practice explores love, longing, queer identity, and vulnerability through drawing, painting, and text. His work has been exhibited widely in South Africa and internationally, with recent solo exhibitions including I was always within and without at Goodman Gallery, London (2026); How Are You Doing? at BKhz, Johannesburg (2023); From South Africa (Dear Diary) at Kunsthaus Göttingen (2022); and Be-Pression at Nil Gallery, Paris (2022). His seminal 2018 solo exhibition LGBTQI+: Banele Khoza at Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town, marked a significant moment in queer visibility within South African institutional spaces. In 2025, Khoza was selected by Dame Tracey Emin DBE RA for the Victoria House Residency at TKE Studios, Margate. He is also the founder of BKhz Gallery, an independent contemporary art space established in 2018 and now based at Johannesburg’s Keyes Art Mile, supporting emerging and mid-career artists and foregrounding queer and marginalised voices.

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