Lebohang Kganye Wins 2024 Deutsche Börse Photography Prize in 20th Anniversary Exhibition

Lebohang Kganye has been awarded the 2024 Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize, marking the award's 20th anniversary. The South African visual artist creates life-size cutout figures from archival photographs to explore family narratives within apartheid and colonial contexts. Her winning installations recreate scenes featuring her grandparents and ancestral home. The exhibition at The Photographers' Gallery in London presents all four shortlisted artists across two floors. Syrian-born Hrair Sarkissian's work includes Last Seen (2018-2021), documenting spaces left by disappeared individuals, and Deathscape (2021), an audio installation capturing exhumations from Spanish Civil War mass graves. Austrian feminist performance artist VALIE EXPORT displays seminal works like TOUCH CINEMA (1968), where she invited public touch through a box worn over her chest to challenge media representations of women. The Indian duo Gauri Gill and Rajesh Vangad present Fields of Sight, combining photography with Warli painting to preserve Adivasi knowledge from Maharashtra's coastal villages. The exhibition runs until 2 June 2024, offering a deliberately uncluttered viewing experience that allows audiences time with each artist's exploration of conflict, displacement, decolonization, and gender politics through interdisciplinary approaches.