In a popular district of Kinshasa, the energetic capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), a person encased in brown paper bags surrounded by a large crowd and policemen forcefully breaks ...
There has been a rapid rise in interest in contemporary African art over the past few years, with major survey shows from Brazil to France, new museums springing up in Marrakech and Cape Town and the ...
In Kinshasa, art is everywhere. Hilary Balu finds his focus uncovering the West’s powerful influences on African life. By Dionne Searcey Hilary Balu, a Congolese painter, at his studio in Kinshasa, ...
Painter Eddy Kamuanga Ilunga’s tiny, sweltering Kinshasa studio seems worlds away from his glittering, well-received foreign exhibitions. The 25-year-old painter says he is inspired by his country’s ...
Photographer, poet, and slam artist, Do Nsoseme embodies a generation of Congolese artists who put their talent at the service of peace. Originally from Kinshasa, in the Democratic Republic of Congo ...
Paris — Chéri Samba has a sly sense of humour, both in person and in his work. Standing in front of his 2018 painting "J'aime le jeu de relais" (I Love the Relays) - which criticizes politicians who ...
Even 1 1/2 years ago the musicians who became the subjects of Benda Bilili!, the documentary by Renaud Barret and his friend of 20 years, Florent de la Tullaye, were still sleeping rough on cardboard ...
“FOR ME, KINSHASA is a beautiful woman who walks barefoot,” says Freddy Tsimba, a sculptor, in his studio in Matongé, one of the city’s most chaotic districts. The capital of the Democratic Republic ...
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