KGAUGELO LEKALAKALA is a young architect and artist that explores the Black body in space, using paintings, graphics, and architecture to critique spatial constructs. In 2016 she obtained her bachelor’s degree at the University of Cape Town (BAS) and graduated at the Graduate School of Architecture at the University of Johannesburg (2019) with an MTech Arch (Prof) (CW). She was an External moderator for Honors and Masters students at the University of Johannesburg, (Graduate School of Architecture).

Her work was published in City Journal: Tales of the Vulnerability of African Black Women in Transit Spaces (April: 2020), the Funambulist magazine on The Game-Changing Architecture Graduates (September: 2020) and Design Studio Vol. 3: Designs on History-Apartheid’s Architects (2021) by Lesley Lokko. She has been a part of panel discussions of various talks such as the University of Florida, the South African Institute of Architecture-Generational Dialogue and 16th Forum de Arquitectura in 2021 with ULA – Universidade Lusíada de Angola and arc en reve centre d’architecture.

She was invited to exhibit at the 18th International Architectural Exhibition at La Biennale, Venice , The Laboratory of the Future, 2023 and GIfA Laboratory of the Future Panel Discussion. She was invited to give lectures at various institutions such as University of Free State, University of Witwatersrand. She was the head creative curator of Tectura Global, was Part-time lecture at University of Pretoria, Graduate School of Architecture and Tshwane University of Technology and the founder and director of Blac Space. she has exhibited at the Keyes Art Mile Gallery and was invited to exhibit at the 19th 2025 Venice Biennale  in collaboration with Mphethi Morojele, MMA Studio. She is a tutor at the Graduate School of Architecture and Lecturer at the Tshwane University of Technology.