In Conversation with, Nyakallo Maleke

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Nyakallo Maleke is a Johannesburg-based interdisciplinary artist and writer, and the 2025 Standard Bank Young Artist Award winner for visual arts. Her work explores space, movement, and identity through drawing, installation, performance, and sculpture-often combining traditional media with unconventional materials like wax paper and stitching.

She holds a Master of Arts in Public Sphere from edhea in Switzerland,where her research focused on migration and public space, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Wits University.

30 Apr English South Africa Entertainment News · Music Interviews

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