Lonwabo Kilani

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. https://humanities.uct.ac.za/michaelis/articles/2025-12-09-lonwabo-kilani-1980-2025 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 
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 . https://humanities.uct.ac.za/michaelis/articles/2025-12-09-lonwabo-kilani-1980-2025 

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 

 Dipontho tsa moo a leng mong 

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

 Dipontsho tsa lihlopha tse khethiloeng 

 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.
 Gugulective Projects—Various public interventions and collective exhibitions in Cape Town (mid-2000s–present).
 Group exhibitions affiliated with Greatmore Studios, Cape Town. [citation needed]

 Mosebetsi wa mohlokomeli 

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

 Mesebetsi e kgethiloeng 

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

 Difantisi 

 The Soccer Match—sold at Strauss & Co, Cape Town, 2023.https://humanities.uct.ac.za/michaelis/articles/2025-12-09-lonwabo-kilani-1980-2025
 Collaborative Artwork (Week II) (2004)—sold at Strauss & Co.; Kilani listed as one of the contributing artists.https://www.straussart.co.za/auctions/lot/24-jan-2022-lot-491/

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

 Dihlooho le setaele 
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. https://humanities.uct.ac.za/michaelis/articles/2025-12-09-lonwabo-kilani-1980-2025

 Bophelo ba toropo le boitsebiso ba ditoropo

 Matshwenyeho le phodiso ya kamora kgethollo

 Mokgwa oa tshebedisano-mmoho le o kopanetsweng ke setjhaba 

 Mehlodi 

 Dihokelo tsa kantle