Lili Dujourie

Mimesis

Mimesis is a new monumental sculpture by artist Lili Dujourie (°1941, Roeselare, Belgium), commissioned by the city of Antwerp on the occasion of the reopening of the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp (KMSKA) in the autumn of 2022.

A KIND OF A 'HUH?'*

Artist publications, a guide

After decades on the margins, the medium of artist publication is gaining popularity. Increasingly, artists are choosing this art form to express artistic ideas, and art collectors and museums are showing increasing interest in it. That is why the Middelheim Museum has initiated a subsidised, two-year project around the artists' publications in the museum library.

Audio walk

#congoville

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

#congoville

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.

Ângela Ferreira

Ângela Ferreira was born in Maputo (Mozambique) in 1958, settled in Cape Town (South Africa) in 1975, moved to Lisbon (Portugal) in the early 1990s and now commutes between Cape Town and Lisbon.

Bodys Isek Kingelez

Born in 1948 in Kimbembele Ihunga in the Belgian Congo, moved to Kinshasa (Democratic Republic of Congo) in 1970, where he passed away in 2015.

Hank Willis Thomas

Hank Willis Thomas was born in 1976 in New Jersey (United States), he lives and works in New York (United States).