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Laboratoire Kontempo, Kinshasa x Dzekashu MacViban, Berlin

OtherNetwork Conversations

January 8, 2025

Conversation, Berlin, Kinshasa

Installation by Prisca Tankwey and Paulvi Ngimbi at National Museum, Kinshasa. Image courtesy of Laboratoire Kontempo.

KINSHASA | BERLIN

OtherNetwork met with the founders of the Kinshasa-based art platform Laboratoire Kontempo, to discuss their extended practice through the Congolese capital over the past decade. Together with Cameroonian curator Dzekashu MacViban as their guest, Lydia Schellhammer and Christ Mukenge from Laboratoire Kontempo discuss their upcoming curatorial project “Kokende Liboso Eza Kokoma Te”, which centres around proverbs in different cultures throughout the African continent. In this spirit of language, communication and oral practices in relation to their upcoming exhibition in Kinshasa, the episode is partially spoken in and translated through French.

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Federico Martelli & Colin Keays
Jack Bardwell
F451
Samantha Modisenyane, Abraham Tettey, Camilo Quiroga, Camila Alegría, Matheus dos Reis
This Conversations series is generously supported by Between Bridges.
Laboratoire Kontempo
The Laboratoire Kontempo, is an art platform based in Kinshasa, that specializes in experimental art and research, founded in 2019 by Christ Mukenge and Lydia Schellhammer