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24/06/2026

Today Jean Katambayi Mukendi turns 50: Happy Birthday!

Let’s celebrate tmrw M HKA - Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp for the opening of RATIO, Mukendi’s first solo museum presentation.

The exhibition is curated by Emma Enderby and Linda Franken (KW) and Anne-Claire Schmitz (Muhka), and co-produced with KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin. The works were constructed during a production residency held in Berlin in autumn 2025, using locally sourced recycled materials.

Secondly, next Tuesday June 30, the anniversary of the independence of the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1960, the city of Leuven inaugurates k:scope, a new permanent public artwork by Jean Katambayi Mukendi and Filip Van Dingenen. The opening programme starts at 6pm at the main entrance of the Kruidtuin / Botanical Gardens.

22/06/2026

RP M HKA - Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp • ‘RATIO’, Jean Katambayi Mukendi’s first solo museum presentation, is currently on view as part of our IN SITU programme.⁠
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The exhibition addresses global structural inequities in resource extraction and the distribution of power. It questions the dualities that shape our world: between the natural and the artificial, growth and destruction.⁠
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Mukendi’s sculptural works respond to contemporary technological developments, from agriculture to robotics and military systems. Built as composite structures, they merge and reconfigure machine functions, testing what these technologies might become when approached through recycling and repurposing, and when imagined for their ecological potential.⁠
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The exhibition is curated by Emma Enderby and Linda Franken (KW) and Anne-Claire Schmitz (M HKA), and co-produced with KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin. The works were constructed during a production residency held in Berlin in autumn 2025, using locally sourced recycled materials.⁠
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Discover ‘RATIO’ for free during the festive opening night of Summer Exhibitions on Thursday 25 June, 20:00 – 01:00.⁠
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More info via link in bio.⁠
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1. Jean Katambayi Mukendi, Monoculture, 2025. Photo M HKA⁠ 2. Jean Katambayi Mukendi, mukendi kabongo Air hybird Wings RDC26FG, 2025. Photo M HKA ⁠
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13/06/2026

[last weekend] RP Mutter • Titled Within a Play unfolds as a double-location exhibition framework shaped by the unfinished experimental theatre piece Play Without a Title by Federico García Lorca. In this historical work, the theatre itself becomes the subject: a meta-narrative in which boundaries between stage and life begin to dissolve. Using this reference as a methodological point of departure the show proposes an infrastructural drama that unsettles fixed narratives and foregrounds the conditions that shape the present.

Angélique Aubrit & Ludovic Beillard Ludovic Beillard Joan Djo
Bahar Noorizadeh
Becket MWN
Danae Io Danae Io
Eoghan Ryan
Kateryna Lymar Kateryna Lymar
Luīze Nežberte
Michiel van Bakel
Noam Youngrak Son Noam Youngrak Son
Omar Chowdhury Omar A. Chowdhury
Pam Virada 🎼
Raphaël Massart ¨
Tzu Ni Tzu Ni

Performers: Juliette Lizotte & Alba Noa Juliette Lizotte Alba

Curated by Antonin Giroud-Delorme and Joppe Venema joppevenema

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Opening: Friday 29 May 2026, 18:00–21:00
Exhibition: 30 May to 26 June 2026, open by appointment only
Address: Schellingweg 15,  1507 DR Zaandam

Mutter
Opening: Friday 5 June 2026, 18:00-21:00
Exhibition: 6 to 14 June 2026, Friday to Sunday, 18:00–21:00 or by appointment
Address: Ruyschstraat 295,  1091 DX Amsterdam

Text by Nick Reilly
Graphic design by Nuno Beijinho

With the generous support of Zaanstad Gemeente Zaanstad

Special thanks to: Àngels Miralda & Bernke Klein Zandvoort Àngels Díaz Miralda Tena Bernke Klein Zandvoort

11/06/2026

[save the date] On the anniversary of the independence of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the City of Leuven inaugurates k:scope, a new permanent public artwork by Filip Van Dingenen and Jean Katambayi Mukendi.

30/06/2026, 18-21h

Commissioned by the City of Leuven as part of its decolonisation trajectory, the work is installed in the Kruidtuin Leuven, where it will become a lasting invitation to reflect on history, perception, and the ways in which identities are constructed and represented.

k:scope brings together mirrors, prisms and moving parts that continuously alter the viewer’s perspective. The work generates shifting viewpoints and unexpected visual connections. As visitors move around and through the installation, new images emerge, suggesting that history, memory and collective identity are never singular or stable, but always depend on where one stands and how one looks.

The inauguration takes place on 30 June, the anniversary of the independence of the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1960. This date situates the artwork within ongoing conversations about colonial legacies, public memory and the presence of these histories in contemporary urban space. Through a language of reflection and refraction, k:scope proposes public space as a site for dialogue, critical engagement and shared imagination.

The opening programme starts at 18:00 at the main entrance of the Kruidtuin (Capucijnenvoer 30, Leuven), with a welcome, speeches and an introduction to the work by the artists, followed by a free reception.

From 19:00 until 21:00, the evening continues with a public programme curated by Tunde Adefioye, featuring live music, slam poetry and dance performances. Food and drinks will be available throughout the event.

Practical
30 June 2026, 18:00–21:00
Main entrance, Kruidtuin Leuven
Capucijnenvoer 30, Leuven

Free entrance

Source: Jubilee platform

01/06/2026

Jean Katambayi Mukendi : RATIO

at M HKA – Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp, Belgium

Saturday June 6, 2.30 - 5pm

Discover RATIO during an afternoon with a guided tour, a lecture by Sandrine Colard and the launch of Circuits, Jean Katambayi Mukendi’s first monograph, co–edited by Leuven University Press, KW and M HKA.

In RATIO, Jean Katambayi Mukendi explores the dualities that shape our world: the natural and the artificial, growth and destruction, desired and discarded materials, and the relationship between resources and power. Conceived for IN SITU, the exhibition brings together newly produced drawings, paintings, and large-scale sculptures.

RATIO is co-produced with KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany, and marks the artist’s first solo museum presentation. At M HKA – Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp RATIO will be presented for its second iteration in summer 2026 (official opening Thursday June 25).

The exhibition is accompanied by Circuits, the artist’s first comprehensive monograph, published by Leuven University Press in partnership with the Contemporary Art Committee KU Leuven, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, and M HKA.

Curators: Anne-Claire Schmitz, Emma Enderby & Linda Franken

19/05/2026

‘While Braga and Weber approach material as a critical form of memory, Ryo Kinosh*ta rethinks the very conditions of its appearance. In the works presented, the canvas is worked from within — perforat- ed, sewn, stratified — revealing an active textile structure.
Fragmented motifs oscillate between figuration and ornament: silhouettes, objects, and organic forms drift across systems of repetition and variation. Beneath an apparently decorative dimension unfolds a more ambiguous register, where a latent violence intermittently surfaces, in tension with the softness and almost melodic rhythm of the whole.
This instability is heightened by the treatment of the canvas as a permeable membrane, exposing its in- terstices and layered construction. Long regarded as a neutral, even untouchable support, the canvas is here opened up and reworked its very substance, becoming a space of circulation in which the visible emerges as much from what is revealed as from what recedes. (…)’

19/05/2026

‘In the work of Elen Braga and Noemi Weber, this engagement with material is rooted in a sustained reflection on formal and symbolic legacies shaped by patriarchal and Western structures of domina- tion. The hand-tufted tapestry fragments by Braga, produced as part of Elen ou Hubris (2020), depict a self-portrait of the artist lifting a weight. Installed in 2020 on the Cinquantenaire Arch in Brussels, the monumental 120 m2 work entered into a critical dialogue with an architectural structure marked by colonial history1. In the works presented here, the artist’s figure fragments, repeats, and condenses: a stylized body, on the verge of abstraction, emerges from the textile surface. The softness of the wool contrasts with the symbolic density of the work, where questions of power, representation, and monu- mentality are both invoked and displaced. (…)’

19/05/2026

´Noemi Weber’s paintings extend this inquiry within a space held in suspension between abstraction and figuration. With ´Calm, The Stage is Never Empty’ [Renaissance State of Mind\ing – Inhabitation] (2025), Weber shifts the question of what constitutes a monumental mode of representation onto the color itself. She understands paintings as storages informed by the legacy of the central perspective, transporting political implications and shaping perception as well as visual knowledge until today. The large quad- riptych, composed of four vertical panels in earthy brown tones, draws the gaze into the matte density of its surface.
Made from acrylic paint, cellulose, and marble powder, the canvas absorbs light rather than reflecting it, and in doing so, invokes the charged symbolism of brown: a color long denied positive connotations within Western art history, where Black people have been rarely represented outside narratives of ra- cial domination. The title carries a quiet irony: the stage is never empty, for the color itself bears an en- tire history. By reworking conventions such as the monochrome and monumental scale, Weber expos- es the power structures embedded within painting, while opening it toward processes of recomposition and the circulation of meaning. (…)’

excerpt of exhibition text by Oriane Durand

07/05/2026

RP • Mit seine lichtlosen „Afrolampes“ wirft der Künstler Jean Katambayi Mukendi einen Blick auf die Kolonialgeschichte der Demokratischen Republik Kongo (DRK), deren Folgen immer noch spürbar sind: Die Bodenschätze der DRK sind essenziell für globale Technologieinfrastrukturen, der lokale Alltag ist jedoch von Energiemangel geprägt. Als Symbol der Elektrifizierung führt die Glühbirne zu den Anfängen des Kolonialismus und der Rohstoffextraktion im Land: Kautschuk, Uran, Coltan – die Ausbeutung des Kongo lieferte stets Ressourcen für Krieg und Industrialisierung weltweit.

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Video: Jean Katambayi Mukendi, Ausstellungsansicht in „… damit das Geräusch des Krieges nachlässt, sein Gedröhn“, Courtesy of the artist, © , Foto:
Foto 1: Jean Katambayi Mukendi, Escalation (Afrolampe), 2024, private collection, Brussels
Foto 2: Jean Katambayi Mukendi, Afrolampe Ndjekele (afroled), 2024, Courtesy of the artist and Wouters Gallery
Foto 3: Jean Katambayi Mukendi, Intersection (Afrolampe), 2025, Courtesy of the artist, © , Foto:

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