Mukenge/Schellhammer consists of Christ Mukenge (born 1988 in the Democratic Republic of Congo) and Lydia Schellhammer (born 1992 in Germany). In 2019, the duo founded the project "Laboratoire Kontempo" as a transdisciplinary and experimental platform for contemporary art in Kinshasa. The artists deal with transcontinental conflict situations within rapidly changing social systems between Europe and the Democratic Republic of Congo and respond to their experiences and investigations in an ongoing artistic process that includes analog and digital paintings and drawings, experimental videos, urban interventions and performances. Their work will be shown internationally, including at the pan-African video festival "BodaBoda Lounge" (2020), the Guggenheim Museum New York/USA (2020/2021), the National Museum of the DRC (2021), the ifa Galerie Stuttgart (2022) and the Yango Biennale Kinshasa (2022).

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