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.  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 .  

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. &#x5B;*[[:en:Wikipedia:Citation_needed|<span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (December 2025)">citation needed</span>]]*&#x5D;

### 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.
** *Collaborative Artwork (Week II)* (2004)—sold at Strauss & Co.; Kilani listed as one of the contributing artists.

## 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. 

* 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