Congo Stars

Congo Stars shows Congolese popular paintings from the 1960s to the present day as well as Congolese contemporary art, also from artists now living in Paris and Brussles

The conceptual starting point for the exhibition is Fiston Mwanza Mujila’s novel Tram 83, in which the author describes an imaginary place that starts from the social reality of Congolese metropolises but can not be concretely assigned to any city. The exhibition also builds an imaginary place, which feeds on different realities and pushes together politics, exploitation, corruption, violence, religion, mythology, spirituality, star cult, everyday life as well as pleasure, lust and sensual desires.