Kamogelo Machaba

Kamogelo Machaba (b. 1998) is a Johannesburg-based multidisciplinary artist from Polokwane, Limpopo. Working primarily with photography, Machaba also engages with set design, fashion, styling, printmaking and painting. Machaba completed an Advanced Diploma in Digital Photography at the NEMISA (2024), a Diploma in Creative Photography through Domestika (2022), and an Advanced Diploma in Tourism and Photography (2020).

Alongside photography, Machaba has embraced printmaking as a means to foreground conversations around living with albinism, addressing both the complexities of the condition and a persistent zest for life. Her work is informed by curiosity, playfulness and a childlike eagerness to learn, which she brings into artistic dialogues across diverse exhibition spaces.

Machaba opened a duo exhibitions, Strand by Strand at Berman Contemporary, Johannesburg (2025). She has participated in various group shows; Our Arts, Our Ability & Freedom at Gallery 21 (2025); 76/24 Reflecting on 30 Years of Democracy at The Arts Company Soweto (TACS), Constitution Hill (2024); NDIJONGILE at Berman Contemporary (2024); Woordfees Highlights at Lizamore & Associates Gallery (2024); POP! Season’s Greetings at Lizamore & Associates Gallery (2024); and Biggies Block at Breeze Block (2024).

She has presented work at art fairs including FNB Art Joburg with JAG x The Arts Company Soweto (2024) and Investec Cape Town Art Fair (2026).

Kamogelo Machaba is represented by Berman Contemporary.

My work is rooted in storytelling through bright, vivid colour, forming a visual world where beauty, play and human connection are central. Using photography and expanded image-making, I explore how colour, styling and composition can communicate layered narratives of self-love, self-awareness and resistance. My practice celebrates freedom and individuality while questioning the structures that limit them, particularly within adult life and contemporary culture.

Through photography, set design and printmaking, I examine themes such as fast fashion, identity and the diminishing space for play and imagination as we grow older. Colour becomes both a language and a tool — a cornucopia through which powerful emotional and social messages are expressed. My work invites viewers into carefully constructed scenes that feel theatrical yet intimate, encouraging reflection on how we see ourselves and relate to others.