Thato Toeba

Toeba was born in 1990 in Maseru, and lives in Amsterdam.

They completed a two-year residency at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam in 2025, and received an LLM from Humboldt University, Berlin in 2015.

Toeba's first solo exhibition with the gallery, Phate lia Lekana, took place in Johannesburg in 2023, followed by sehlahla se tukang empa se sa che in Cape Town in 2025. The artist is included in I Still Dream of Lost Vocabularies at Autograph, London (October 2025) and Manifestation #52: To Be Determined, Buro Stedelijk, Amsterdam (August 2025). Past group exhibitions include Tools for Conviviality, Kunstinstituut Melly, Rotterdam (2024); Today I wish to talk to your dreams, Mount Nelson, Cape Town (2023); Where do I begin, Stevenson, Cape Town (2022); and Propelling Otherness, Morija Museum, Maseru (2021).

Toeba was awarded the 2025 FNB Art Prize, which is accompanied by a solo exhibition at the Johannesburg Art Gallery in 2026.

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