In this episode, as we move through September, the traditional arts and culture month in Johannesburg, we bring you an art conversation.
The recipient of the 2025 FNB Art Prize was recently announced. The prestigious annual prize, which comes with R100,000, exhibition space at FNB Art Joburg and a solo show at the Johannesburg Art Gallery, has been awarded to Thato Toeba, a Lesotho national five years into their art career. Toebas interest in the social sciences, identity, power, justice, history and share of voice informs their mixed media photomontage and assemblage.
Selecting Toeba as this years recipient, the jury recognised their work as exuding a quiet force, deployed with clarity and rich materiality which demonstrated as much commitment to process as to meaning.