The building

Stéphane Beel’s closed depot building was converted into a public space that strengthens the relationship between art, architecture and nature.

The depot collections

Middelheim Museum has collected many works that are not suited to or are less suitable for presentation in the park and therefore remain largely hidden.

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.

15 artists

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

Congoville virtual visit

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The summer exhibition 'Congoville' has ended. Enjoy this with the virtual tour built from high resolution 360° photography.

Audio walk

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Listen to Bitshilualua Kabeya’s interview with Sandrine Colard, the curator of Congoville, while you walk through the exhibition. Kabeya, a student at an Antwerp university college, starts from her own perspective to discuss the exhibition’s concept, the invited artists and the relevance of ‘Congoville’ during this interview.

Maurice Mbikayi

Maurice Mbikayi was born in 1974 in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, and currently lives and works in Cape Town, South Africa.

Pascale Marthine Tayou

Pascale Marthine Tayou was born in Cameroon in 1966 and lives and works in Ghent, Belgium, and Yaounde, Cameroon.

KinAct Collective

Founded in 2015 in Kinshasa by Eddy Ekete and Aude Bertrand, KinAct is an international festival and artist collective that collaborates with varying performers.

Congoville Talks

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In the run-up to the exhibition, we talked to some interesting guests. They all tell about the colonial traces, which are often hidden in plain sight and still affect our society today.