2025 Virtuoso Travel Week Featured Artist

We are honored to introduce Boemo Diale, a visionary multidisciplinary artist from South Africa, whose exclusive work for Virtuoso was unveiled at Virtuoso Travel Week. In late 2024, Virtuoso invited artists from around the world to create original work inspired by human connection, luxury, and exploration, values at the heart of Virtuoso. Among the many talented applicants, Boemo Diale stood out. Her bold creativity, multicultural perspective, and deep connection to her community and culture captivated us. 

Boemo’s work for Virtuoso is a celebration of movement, unity, and individuality within a collective. Through her art, we are reminded that luxury is not just about exclusivity and scarcity, it is about experience, connection, and the stories we share. 

About the artist: 

Boemo Diale is a multi-disciplinary artist who grew up navigating different racial and socio-political structures in Rustenburg and the suburbs of Johannesburg. As an exploration of identity, generational trauma, dreams, and manifestations, the artist’s practice is both highly personal and speaks to the broader cultural inheritance of South African women. 

Diale’s work on film and on canvas is strongly impacted by her desire to connect with her maternal lineage and tell the intergenerational story of African womxn. 

Diale holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Film and Television from the University of the Witwatersrand. Her artistic practice encompasses painting, printmaking, ceramics, and performance, often incorporating elements of African symbolism, traditional clay pot-making, and scarification. In 2024, Diale received the prestigious Tomorrows/Today Prize at the Investec Cape Town Art Fair, recognizing her as one of South Africa’s most promising emerging artists. Her exhibitions include solo shows such as Permaculture (2021), Pink Room (2021), No Matter How Far I Run (2023), and The Orange Tree of Lemenong (2024), as well as group exhibitions like Re-form (2021) and What’s the Word? (2023).