Afrolamp Misunderstood

Jean Katambayi Mukendi (b. 1974, DRC) is a Lubumbashi-based artist working across sculpture, painting, and drawing. Recent solo exhibitions include Micki Meng Gallery, Paris (2024); Ramiken Gallery, New York (2023); Waldburger Wouters, Brussels (2022); Kunsthalle Kohta, Helsinki (2022); and SALTS, Basel (2022). His work was included in the Congolese pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2024 and in the Manifesta 15 Barcelona Metropolitana (2024), and has been featured in group exhibitions such as To Leave a Space in Which the Din of War Might Die Down, NS- Dokumentationszentrum, Munich; The Geopolitics of Infrastructure. Contemporary Perspectives, M HKA – Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp; and The Gatherers, MoMA PS1, New York (all 2025); and Energies, Swiss Institute, New York (2024). Katambayi is a member of Picha, an artist-run association, which organizes the Lubumbashi Biennial. Courtesy of Wouters Gallery  https://www.kw-berlin.de/en/exhibitions/jean-katambayi-mukendi-ratio.