Buhlungu explores socio-historical and everyday phenomena in search of their inexhaustible potential answers and, more innately, the nuances of language. For Buhlungu, the use of film, sound, text, installation, and print media, as non-linear forms, serves as alternative ways in which epistemological presences and everyday phenomena manifest and exist.
Her work seems to ask important and long-overdue questions about the nature of knowledge production and dissemination , as well as the contexts and circumstances that surround these epistemological phenomena. A way in which Buhlungu re-interprets the assimilation of knowledge is by exploring language and the relationships between messages – whether conveyed visually, linguistically, or sonically. She is more interested in posing questions than providing answers, which catalyses social discourse and participatory, co-curative knowledge-making.
Buhlungu has previously participated in the prestigious Rijksacademie (2020-22).She has held solo exhibitions at Kunstinstituut Melly (2025), Kunst im Tunnel (KIT) (2024), Ellen de Bruijne (2023), Kunsthalle Bern (2022). Group shows include presentations Association for Visual Arts Gallery (2024), Stevenson Gallery (2023), The 59th Venice Biennale; “ Milk of our Dreams” (2022), South London Gallery (2022), Javett-UP (2022) Van Abbemuseum (2022); SAVVY Contemporary (2022) Iziko South African National Gallery (2021); Stedelijk Museum (2020,2021); Grazer Kunstverein (2019); Grazer Kunstverein (2019) and Bergen Assembly (2019).
