Francis Mampuya D.R. Congo, b. 1967 – Works from €2,500 – €3,900

Francis Mampuya is a Congolese contemporary artist, born in 1967 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, whose paintings move between figuration and abstraction to explore silence, disorder, freedom and the social realities of Kinshasa.

For a fuller introduction to his artistic practice, read Francis Mampuya’s artist biography.

 

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Solo Shows

2025
- Libriste, Galerie Angalia, Paris, France

2018
- Libres pensées, Angalia and Texaf-Bilembo, Espace Texaf-Bilembo, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo

2014
- Opening Exhibition, Espace Texaf-Bilembo, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo

2008
- Halle de la Gombe, Centre culturel français, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo

2001
- Emergence, Halle de la Gombe, Centre culturel français, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo

1997
- Missio Prize Exhibition, Aachen, Germany

 

Group Shows

2024
- Horizons: Un voyage artistique contemporain africain, Fresa y Chocolate Gallery, Vevey, Switzerland
- Fragments, Institut français de Kinshasa, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo

2022
- Barcelona Summer Group Show, Out of Africa Gallery, Barcelona, Spain

2019
- Megalopolis – Stimmen aus Kinshasa, Grassi Museum für Völkerkunde zu Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
- Échos urbains, Le Monde des Flamboyants, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo

2017
- Dandies of Congo, Out of Africa Gallery, Barcelona, Spain

2015
- Ambassadeurs de la paix, Espace Texaf-Bilembo, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo

2014
- Yango, Biennale de Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo

2013
- Maendeleo, La Châtaigneraie, in collaboration with ASBL Dialogues, Liège, Belgium

2012
- Fleuve Congo, Théâtre de verdure, Musée national de Kinshasa, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Les arts du Congo, Out of Africa Gallery, Sitges, Spain

2010
- 50 ans d’indépendance à travers l’art congolais, Le Monde des Flamboyants, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Arts for a Better World, Miami, USA
- RDCongo, terre d’artistes, Mairie de Paris, Paris, France

2007
- YAMBI!, 150 artists from the Democratic Republic of the Congo exhibited in Wallonia, Brussels, Flanders and Paris
- Maison Folie, Mons, Belgium
- Congo en marche, Le Botanique, Brussels, Belgium
- Monos Galerie, Liège, Belgium
- La Galerie Africaine, Paris, France

2005
- Congo Sur Seine, Hôtel de Ville de Paris, Paris, France

2004
- Galerie W., Paris, France
- Kin bla bla, Halle de la Gombe, Centre culturel français, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo

2002
- Biennale de Dakar OFF, sponsored by Doual’art and the Centre culturel français de Kinshasa, Dakar, Senegal

 

Art Fairs

2018
- AKAA, Galerie Angalia, Carreau du Temple, Paris, France

2016
- AKAA, Galerie Angalia, Carreau du Temple, Paris, France

 

Awards and Distinctions

2011
- First Prize, exhibition celebrating the 50th anniversary of the independence of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kinshasa

1997
- Missio Prize, Germany

 

Bibliography

2019
- Megalopolis – Stimmen aus Kinshasa / Voix de Kinshasa / Voices of Kinshasa, exhibition catalogue, Grassi Museum für Völkerkunde zu Leipzig

2018
- Libres pensées, exhibition catalogue, Angalia–Texaf-Bilembo

2009
- RDCongo, terre d’artistes, exhibition catalogue

2007
- Les arts du Congo d’hier à nos jours, Roger-Pierre Turine, La Renaissance du Livre

2003
- Francis Mampuya, Collection Les Carnets de la création, Éditions de l’Œil

1996
- “Kinshasa, Zaïre”, Revue Noire, no. 21