Like artworks made by very young children and those experiencing psychoses, Congo’s work makes us believe in the much maligned concept of originality in art. Functioning beyond cultural ...

Eventually, Morris let Congo paint. While he never made any representational art, he did appear to have some chops when it came to abstract work, favoring a radiating fan pattern. “It was truly ...

“Art is a matter of life in Congo,” Gómez told Artnet News. “The artists give everything to their art because it is through their imagination that they have found a way to reverse [the ...

Image Hilary Balu, “What we consume makes us what we are” (from the 2019 Congo Biennale).Credit...Hilary Balu and Galerie Magnin-A, Paris Yet art is everywhere: Colorful paintings are sold in ...

It’s also an art form that conveys hope for a better future. Congo is known for its dancing and party music, but I turned to slam as it’s an art form that conveys messages. I am convinced that ...

As the renewed fighting in eastern Congo between government and M23 forces enters a fourth month, local artists in rebel-occupied Bukavu are using their work to fight misinformation and violence ...

In the Kinshasa Botanical Garden, a troupe of cardboard animals – monkeys, a gorilla, leopards, a giraffe – stand to attention in a clearing. Their handlers, puppeteers dressed in black, begin ...

Yet Congo has long had a bad rep, and until recently, was never seen as a hub for art. Often viewed as one of the world’s last and most challenging frontier economies, when one thinks of Congo ...

From an art museum on a former plantation, sculptors in Democratic Republic of Congo are challenging injustices and boosting the local economy. At a February workshop in Lusanga, in western ...

Mbula, also from DR Congo’s work is deeply a personal journey, exploring the complexities of the human experience through abstract expressionism and figurative art. “I delve into the emotions ...

In DR Congo's war-infested Great Lakes region ... he was struck by the fact that the city "had absolutely no works of art". He said "I felt vulnerable" when he suddenly realised that the new ...