Ande Magoso
Ande Magoso, born in 1997 in Kokstad is a South African is a visual artist whose practice explores duality, cultural heritage, identity, and the tensions between opposing systems. Figures, landscapes, and rituals, drawn from his mixed Xhosa and Zulu upbringing, return in a succession of bodies of work that continue to probe issues of belonging, memory, language, and ambiguity. Ande Magoso completed his visual arts training through the African Art Centre Development Programme (2018) and The BAT Centre’s Visual Art Artist-in-Residence Programme (2020), both in Durban.
He was an artist-in-residence at the Phansi Museum (2023–2025) and was selected for a five month residency program at Stiftung Künstlerdorf Schöppingen (2026) in Germany. Magoso’s work has been exhibited at the KwaZulu-Natal Society of Arts (2022, 2023 & 2024), Africa Nova Gallery (2024), Menzi Mchunu Gallery (2022), The Chairman (2025), amongst others. In development is a series of interdisciplinary collaborations that incorporate the medium of visual art with oral storytelling, sound and performance. His work is held in public and in private collections such as The National Museum Bloemfontein (Bloemfontein, South Africa), The Ditau Collection (Cape Town, South Africa), Bürgerstiftung Schöppingen (Schöppingen, Germany), Phansi Museum (Durban, South Africa), and The St. Claire Collection (Atlanta, United States of America), amongst others.
Ande Magoso, born in 1997 in Kokstad is a South African is a visual artist whose practice explores duality, cultural heritage, identity, and the tensions between opposing systems. Figures, landscapes, and rituals, drawn from his mixed Xhosa and Zulu upbringing, return in a succession of bodies of work that continue to probe issues of belonging, memory, language, and ambiguity. Ande Magoso completed his visual arts training through the African Art Centre Development Programme (2018) and The BAT Centre’s Visual Art Artist-in-Residence Programme (2020), both in Durban.
He was an artist-in-residence at the Phansi Museum (2023–2025) and was selected for a five month residency program at Stiftung Künstlerdorf Schöppingen (2026) in Germany. Magoso’s work has been exhibited at the KwaZulu-Natal Society of Arts (2022, 2023 & 2024), Africa Nova Gallery (2024), Menzi Mchunu Gallery (2022), The Chairman (2025), amongst others. In development is a series of interdisciplinary collaborations that incorporate the medium of visual art with oral storytelling, sound and performance. His work is held in public and in private collections such as The National Museum Bloemfontein (Bloemfontein, South Africa), The Ditau Collection (Cape Town, South Africa), Bürgerstiftung Schöppingen (Schöppingen, Germany), Phansi Museum (Durban, South Africa), and The St. Claire Collection (Atlanta, United States of America), amongst others.
