Christ Mukenge

Born in Kinshasa/Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1988.

Christ Mukenge studied at the Académie des Beaux-Arts de Kinshasa/DRC from 2010 to 2013.

He has been collaborating with Lydia Schellhammer as half of the duo Mukenge/Schellhammer since 2016.
The artists expose themselves to transcontinental conflict situations within rapidly changing social systems and respond to their experiences and investigations in an ongoing artistic process that includes analogue and digital paintings and drawings, experimental videos, urban interventions and performances. Their specific collaboration makes it difficult to categorize and classify them according to binary notions of cultural context, artistic traditions and geographical origin.

The duo has recently showcased works at the Plateforme Contemporaine and the Institut Français Kinshasa (2019) and Galerie Noah Augsburg (2020). Their work also featured in the pan-African video festival »BodaBoda Lounge» (2020) in 20 countries on the African continent and appeared at City Salts Basel/Switzerland, the Guggenheim Museum New York//USA (2020/2021) and the National Museum of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (2021), among others. In 2019, the duo created the project »Laboratoire Kontempo«, a transdisciplinary and experimental platform for contemporary art in Kinshasa.

Mukenge/Schellhammer have collaborated with Gintersdorfer/Klaßen and Gintersdorfer/Yao on projects at HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin/Germany, in the context of the exhibition Skulptur Projekte Münster/Germany, at MC93, Paris/France, and at Theater Kampnagel, Hamburg/Germany.