My name is Balekane Legoabe (b.1995).
I am an artist, curator, illustrator, motion designer, art teacher and reiki practitioner based in Johannesburg, South Africa. My formal educational background is in graphic design and illustration. I hold a Bachelor of Arts degree in visual communication with a specialisation in illustration and a Bachelor of Arts degree in film arts with a specialisation in motion design, both obtained from the Open Window Institute. I also have my advanced certification in Usui Shiki Ryoho (Western Reiki) obtained from Soul Healing Academy, a leading Reki training centre offering accredited training through the Reiki association of South Africa. I’ve taken part in several group exhibitions and art fairs around South Africa, and was the prize winner of the 2019 StateoftheART gallery award for emerging artists. I have work in the following public collections: William Humphreys Gallery, Kimberely, South Africa, Spier Arts Trust, Cape Town, South Africa, and Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany. In 2023 I started a small business teaching extra mural art lessons at a local park. I also have more than four years experience in arts management, arts administration and curation.
S O L O E X H I B I T I O N S :
2024 : Things that are my own, Ebony Curated, Cape Town
2020 : What it feels like to be in water, StateOfTheArt Gallery, Cape Town (online)
S E L E C T E D G R O U P E X H I B I T I O N S :
2024 : Investec Cape Town Art Fair, Ebony Curated
2023 : Artwords - Gallery @ Glen Carlou, Stellenbosch
2023 : Hiatus - Ebony Curated, Cape Town
2023 : Latitudes Art Fair - Eleven Editions, Johannesburg
2023 : The F Word - Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg
2022 : Turbine Art Fair - the gallery, Johannesburg
2022 : Abstr*cted - StateoftheART gallery, Cape Town
2021 : Turbine Art Fair - Gallery 2, Johannesburg
2021 : Blue Tape Series - P72 (Kalashnikovv Gallery project space), Johannesburg
2020 : Occupying a fatuous state of severity - TMRW art gallery, Johanneburg
2019 : FNB Art Joburg - NO END contemporary art space, Johannesburg
2019 : Turbine Art Fair - NO END contemporary art space, Johannesburg
C O L L E C T I O N S :
Spier Arts Trust, Cape Town, South Africa
William Humphrey's Gallery, Kimberly, South Africa
Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany
