Wouters Gallery

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07/09/2026

Jean Katambayi Mukendi, Look, 2012, pen on cardboard, electric wires, 80 x 73 x 42 cm

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JEAN KATAMBAYI MUKENDI - KODE
at Wouters Gallery, Brussels
September 10 - October 10, 2026
opening Thursday September 10, 5-8pm, during RendezVous - Brussels Art Week

with exhibition text by Maarten Vanden Eynde

special opening hours during RendezVous (Sept. 10 - 13)

28/08/2026

RP markdionstudio • Happy 65th Birthday Mark Dion! 🫶🏼

26/08/2026

RP M HKA - Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp • In ‘RATIO’, artist Jean Katambayi Mukendi questions the dualities that shape our world: the natural and the artificial, growth and destruction, wanted and discarded materials, and the relationship between resources and power.⁠

The exhibition features newly produced hybrid sculptures, large-scale paintings and a series of A1-format drawings. Swipe to learn more 👉

At the centre of the exhibition we find ‘mukendi kabongo Air hybird Wings RDC26FG’, a large installation inspired by machines from the fields of aviation, agriculture, and the military.

Katambayi merges and combines components from these machines to imaginatively multiply their functions, exploring the ecological potential of technology through processes of recycling and repurposing.

Among the four large scale paintings, ‘DIVINA’ resembles a printed circuit board, a structure fundamental to nearly all electronic devices. Its title is an anagram of Nvidia, a leading US-based technology company specialising in AI computing hardware.

Combining technical schematics with spiritual symbolism — most notably the hand at its centre, evoking the divine — the painting draws attention to the extraction of raw materials such as copper and cobalt in the DRC, materials essential to global electronics production.

With ‘Vita’, Katambayi reflects on the social fractures shaped by competition over natural resources and living systems within a capitalist order struggling to find equilibrium. The painting evokes tectonic, floral and faunal forms to suggest nature’s own capacity for balance, structured through invisible axes governing the Earth.

Growing from geometric figures and lines, the artist’s drawings form speculative reflections on human experience in relation to ecology, technology and the economy, ranging from the impact of climate on human routines to cryptocurrency.

‘RATIO’ remains on view until 27 September 2026 as part of our IN SITU programme. More info via muhka.be

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

18/08/2026

🌻 summer reads

Multiple works by Jean Katambayi Mukendi illustrate the article ‘La gauche et l’intelligence artificielle’ by Evgeny Morozov in the August edition 2026 of Le Monde Diplomatique (nr. 869 - French)

• review by Ils Huygens of RATIO at M HKA, Antwerp, Jean Katamabyi Mukendi first institutional solo, in collaboration with KW institute for the Arts, Berlin (Metropolis M 4/26, Dutch).

14/08/2026

Matthias Dornfeld, untitled (vase & flowers), oil on canvas, 85 x 70 cm, 2025

‘(…) We see portraits, still-lifes (mainly vases of flowers), landscapes and so on in almost alarming abundance, rapidly outlined in bright and unsubtle colours, and painted with a childlike brushstroke that appears to negate utterly any form of technical virtuosity. Although Dornfeld’s brightly coloured and burlesque-naïve brushwork would seem to violate these traditional painting genres in an almost abstract manner, they nevertheless remain almost immediately recognisable ‘by gut feeling’ to any viewer, from the smallest child to the greatest connoisseur. They seem to have degenerated into a sort of self-endorsing clichéd visualisation which, in a manner of speaking, is to be found in every child’s drawing inspired by this sort of classic painterly motif – and which child’s drawing is not? In his work, Dornfeld skilfully erases the distinction between the characteristic ‘unicity’ of a painted painterly motif (i.e. the painter’s hand) and its clichéd treatment in any children’s drawing. (…)’

excerpt of text by Thibaut Verhoeven, curator at SMAK, Ghent, BE.

30/07/2026

Following European solo debut exhibitions KW Institute for Contemporary Art Berlin and M HKA - Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp Antwerp we now host Jean Katambayi Mukendi’s 2nd solo with the gallery, during RendezVous - Brussels Art Week, upcoming September.

This exhibition takes a different approach to Katambayi’s work, focusing on his fascination with numbers, algorithms and wordplay. The exhibition will be accompanied by a text by Maarten Vanden Eynde.

Katambayi’s exhibition RATIO continues over summer, until September 20, at M HKA in Antwerp and upcoming January Katambayi is one of the invited artists Sharjah Art Foundation biennial.

image: Jean Katambayi Mukendi, Fraktuur, 2026, acrylic on canvas, 200x180cm (detail)

Jean Katambayi Mukendi : KODE
at Wouters Gallery, Brussels
September 10 - Oktober 10, 2026
opening Thursday September 10, 6-9pm

special opening hours during RendezVous, the Brussels Gallery Weekend, September 10-13, 2026.

26/07/2026

today - finissage - artist talk

Elen Braga - Ich bin wie du
at Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen, DE
through July 26, 2026

finissage on Sunday July 26, 2-8pm
with workshop by Elen Braga at 3pm and artist talk with art critic Jennifer Braun at 6pm

Elen Braga
Jennifer Braun | The Gen Z Art Critic
Maurice Funken
NAK

16/07/2026

10th Biennial of Painting
at MUDEL – Museum of Deinze and the Lys Region, BE
through October 18, 2026

‘Surrounded by historical examples from the expressionist oeuvre of sculptor and wood engraver Jozef Cantré, as well as painters Gustave De Smet and Frits Van den Berghe, this mudel biennial highlights contemporary artists working across a range of media. Through these artistic crossovers, they remain faithful to their original visual language and message, while exploring the new possibilities offered by other techniques. The works of fifteen artists engage in a dialogue spanning painting, graphic arts, sculpture, ceramics, textiles, installation, and conceptual art.’

with works by:
Kasper Bosmans, Elen Braga, Jozef Cantré, Enk De Kramer, Vida Dena, Gustave De Smet, Mae Dessauvage, Pélagie Gbaguidi, Sebastian Kulbaka, William Ludwig Lutgens, Nayra Martin Reyes, Roger Raveel, ROA, Abigail Tulis, Frits Van den Berghe en Tinus Vermeersch.

curated by Wim Lammertijn

10/07/2026

Last days: Sui Generis : Pierre Molinier, Angélique Aubrit & Ludovic Beillard
at Kunsthalle Giessen, Giessen, DE
through July 12, 2026

‘In Sui Generis, Angélique Aubrit & Ludovic Beillard present The Sparrow (2026), the sixth chapter of their film une solitude vraiment terrible (a truly terrible solitude). The work centres on the lives of Inès and Roberta, two sisters who have chosen to live together in the same apartment, cut off from the outside world. Together, they decide to take in and raise Clod, the child of Rita, a famous singer and recurring figure throughout the narrative of une solitude vraiment terrible.

Structured as a story within a story, The Sparrow unfolds as an episode from Rita’s past. Surrounded by uncertainty and the collapse of the world, Rita finds herself isolated by the crisis and longs to reclaim the child she entrusted to the two sisters some fifteen years earlier. Inès and Roberta refuse to give Clod back, convinced that the child belongs to them. Increasingly distrustful, they gradually sever their ties with the outside world, constructing an alternative existence within the confines of their apartment. Rita, by contrast, has devoted herself entirely to her singing career and relentlessly pursues her ambition for success.

The child—embodied by the « sparrow » of the title—grows up amid the tensions of this complex web of relationships, never having the opportunity to make their own choices, until one day they suddenly realise that the cage they inhabit has been open all along.

This new chapter of the project resonates both with the life and work of Pierre Molinier and with the exhibition venue itself. The apartment created for Kunsthalle Giessen represents the sisters’ home while simultaneously evoking Pierre Molinier’s apartment in the 1970s, which also served as his studio. It functions at once as the outward projection of an inner psychological state, a film set, and a space for experimentation.’

04/07/2026

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