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Kemang Wa Lehulere (b. 1984, Cape Town) is a painter, performer, video- and installation artist, based in Cape Town. He is the co-founder of Gugulective, an artist-led collective and he was the Deutsche Bank's "Artist of the Year" 2017. He has taken part in numerous international group exhibitions, including the 8th Berlin Biennale (2014), 2nd Triennial of the New Museum in New York (2012), 11th Biennale de Lyon (2011), The Circle Walked Casually at at the Deutsche Bank KunstHalle (2013-14), EVA International in Limerick City (2016), 12th Dak'Art Biennale in Dakar (2016).
In 2019 he will participate at the 58. Venice Biennale.

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