Biography / Cv
Moswala has worked with Kin ArtStudio for 4 years, where he kept growing as an artist. After two participations to the Master Art workshop organized in 2013 and 2014 in Kinshasa by the same art platform, Nkembo's work was presented at the Yango Biennale in 2014 in Kinshasa.
He was in residency at AADK Spain in Centro Negra in February 2019, and 3 months later, he attended the Art OMI summer residency in New-York, Ghent. In 2020, his installation Mayebo was included in the Art Off-Screen international exhibition.
After several collective exhibitions, Nkembo presented his first solo show 'World for Sale - Prix Mangondo' in 2020 at Jojo Hair Lounge in Milton Keynes. Last year, he presented his installation Mayebo in the public space of Lévis (Canada/Québec) in partnership with Regart.
From next summer onwards, he will be leading a new collective project entitled 'Dans la Peau d’Izidore Bakanja' with the support of the Quebec government, which will culminate in an exhibition in November 2022.
Educations
2006 – 2011 Académie de Beaux-Arts, Kinshasa, D.R.Congo
2000 – 2006 Institut de Beaux-Arts, Kinshasa, D.R.Congo
Residencies
2019 June – July Art OMI, Ghent, New York, USA
2019 February AADK Spain, Centro Negra, Blanca, Murcia, Spain
2014 Master Art 2, Kin Artstudio, Kinshasa, D.R.Congo Groups Shows
2014 OFF Biennale YANGO, Centre Wallonie Bruxelles, Kinshasa, D.R.Congo
2014 Master Art 2, Kin Artstudio, Kinshasa D.R.Congo
Solo Show
2022 December In the skin of Isidore Bakanja, Centre Regart, Levis, Canada
2021 July - September Mayebo, Parc de la paix, Centre Regart, Levis, Canada
2020 February "World For Sale "Prix-Mangondo", Milton Keynes, UK
Group Show
2020 Septembre Art Off Screen, Neumeraki, New York, USA
2019 June – July Art OMI, Ghent, New York, USA
2019 February AADK Spain, Centro Negra, Blanca, Murcia, Spain
2014 YANGO Biennial, Centre Wallonie Bruxelle, Kinshasa, D.R.Congo
2014 Master Art 2, Kin Artstudio, Kinshasa, D.R.Congo Groups Shows
Workshops
2016 Comment déveloper un projet artistique convainquant, Goethe Institut, by N’Goné Fall and Virginie Dupray, Kinshasa, D.R.Congo
2014 MasterArt2, KinArtstudio, Kinshasa, D.R.Congo
2013 MasterArt1, KinArtstudio, Kinshasa, D.R.Congo
2012 ARC Play Urban
2008 Studio Malembe Maa CWB, Kinshasa, D.R.Congo
Grants
2022 Culture et inclusion, Québec gouvernement
2019 Mobility fund, Prince Claus Fund, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Press/Media
Journal Le Soleil - Québec
Nkembo Moswala: faire pousser l’espoir | Arts | Le Soleil - Québec
Radio Canada
Œuvres d'art public à Québec et à Lévis | Vidéos | ICI Radio-Canada.ca
Journal de levis
https://www.journaldelevis.com/1068/Art.html?id=81288
La Opinion de Murcia
https://www.laopiniondemurcia.es/cultura-sociedad/2019/02/27/caja-negra-abreblanca/1000219.html
AADK Spain
NKEMBO in residency at Blanca Murcia Spain - YouTube
Art Africa Magazine
Spotlight on the Art of Darkness - Art Africa Magazine
CNN, Kinshasa's trash-to-treasure art
https://edition.cnn.com/videos/international/2014/07/25/spc-inside-africa-kinshasa-art-b.cnn 6:04
2014 DRC art and adaptation, AFP
2009 September Canalsat Magazine, Pge20
Designs
2018 Trophy “Lorenzo Natali Media Prize” European Union, Collaboration with Diakota Mabilama Serge
2015 Brand image “Supreme Hand”, Milton Keynes, England
2014 Brand Image "Young and Bold African", London, England
2014 Trophy “Gospel Day”, Kinshasa, D.R.Congo
2011 Trophy “Okapi Award”, Kinshasa, D.R.Congo
2009 Trophy “Podium Exprimez - Vous” Tigo, Kinshasa, D.R.Congo
2009 Trophy “Festival International de Gospel de Kinshasa”, Kinshasa, D.R.Congo
2008 Trophy “Festival International de Gospel de Kinshasa”, Kinshasa, D.R.Congo
Nkembo Moswala is a multidisciplinary artist. With a Bachelor Degree in Visual Arts obtained in 2011 from the Academy of Fine Arts of his hometown Kinshasa, he went on to explore innovative and contemporary art forms and practices using a variety of materials and mediums. His work articulates around a technique of incision called ’Nzoloko’, and comments upon the harmful effects of a global and capitalist economy - especially in his home country, the DRC. Ultimately, Nkembo’s works are visual interpretations of the transformative potential of the (im-)materiality of such effects and consequences.