Pascale Marthine Tayou, Colored Stones (detail) 2018. Courtesy the artist and GALLERIA CONTINUA, exhibition view Hedges, Edges, Dirt - ICA / VCU, Richmond, USA, 2018. copyright ADAGP, Paris. Photo by David Hunter Hale for ICA / VCU.

15 artists

Meet the 15 international artists from the Congoville exhibition. As black flâneurs and flâneuses, they guide you through the site and the exhibition.

Maurice Mbikayi, The Aesthetic Observer (2021) © The Artist/De kunstenaar, Photo: Léonard Pongo

Maurice Mbikayi

Pascale Marthine Tayou, La Paix des Braves (2019 / 2021) © Copyright The Artist/De kunstenaar , Photo: Léonard Pongo, Courtesy Galleria Continua

Pascale Marthine Tayou

Toza kaka / On est (encore) là (2021)

KinAct Collective

Ângela Ferreira, Independence cha cha (2014 / 2021). © The Artist. Photo: Léonard Pongo

Ângela Ferreira

Bodys Isek Kingelez, Sète en 3009 (2000). _© The Artist & MIAM. Photo: Léonard Pongo

Bodys Isek Kingelez

Hank Willis Thomas, Justice, peace, Work (Stolen Sword Punctum) (2019). © The Artist & Maruani Mercier. Photo: Léonard Pongo

Hank Willis Thomas

Ibrahim Mahama, UNTITLED (2019). © The Artist & White Cube, London. Photo: Léonard Pongo

Ibrahim Mahama

Jean Katambayi, MM / Afrolampe (2021). @ The Artist. Photo: Léonard Pongo

Jean Katambayi

Simone Leigh, No Face (cobalt) (2016). @ The Artist. Photo: Léonard Pongo

Simone Leigh

Sven Augustijnen, AWB 082-3317 7922 (2012). _© The Artist & SMAK. Photo: Léonard Pongo

Sven Augustijnen

Sammy Baloji, Untitled (2015 / 2021). © The Artist & Imane Farès. Photo: Léonard Pongo

Sammy Baloji

Elisabetta Benassi, M’FUMU (2015). © The Artist & Magazzinno Arte Moderna. Photo: Léonard Pongo

Elisabetta Benassi

Pélagie Gbaguidi, The Missing Link . Dicolonisation Education by Mrs Smiling Stone (2017-2021). © The Artist. Photo: Léonard Pongo

Pélagie Gbaguidi

Zahia Rahmani, Seismography of Struggle, Towards a Global History of Critical and Cultural Journals (2017-2021). © The Artist & INHA, Paris. Photo: Léonard Pongo

Zahia Rahmani

Kapwani Kiwanga, Flowers for Africa: Rwanda (2019). © The Artist. Photo: Léonard Pongo

Kapwani Kiwanga

The exhibition

Exhibition
Pascale Marthine Tayou, Colored Stones (detail) 2018. Courtesy the artist and GALLERIA CONTINUA, exhibition view Hedges, Edges, Dirt - ICA / VCU, Richmond, USA, 2018. copyright ADAGP, Paris. Photo by David Hunter Hale for ICA / VCU.

Congoville. Contemporary artists tracing colonial tracks

29 May until 3 October 2021

An exhibition about the traces of the (post)colonial history of the Middelheim site. Several African and international artists will take the visitor on a walk.

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