Ngimbi Bakambana Luve was born in Kinshasa, DRC, in 1977 and trained at the Academy of Fine Arts, Kinshasa.
He also received musical training at the Conservatoire de Nanterre, France. Bakambana is one of the first of his generation to have exhibited with the «masters» of Congolese art, such as Mavinga, the conductor of the Kinshasa City Orchestra.

In his expressionist approach to art,Bakambana uses color to express what words express in verbal communication. He draws on the social context of his native Congo to express his thoughts and understanding of the world through color. Bakambana’s paintings are a form of pictorial sociology of the SAPE culture centered on the two Congos, and reminiscent of the past. In the difficult context of war and hardship, Sapology offers a window of hope and joy, of rehabilitating oneself through fabrics and fashion that are worn to be seen.

It is a sort of social exorcism characterised by eccentricity. Bakambana pays close attention to the line and anamorphosis of forms and defends Kongo art; which he considers to be a spiritual art, whose particularity is to link gesture and intention in the work. He does not conceive any boundaries between the various disciplines of art, instead the body is at the centre of the expression and the medium depends on the temperament. According to Bakambana, art is “a way of giving body to an idea despite the medium, in Kongo art, it is the ethics in the aesthetics. The gesture is part of the artist’s daily life, it is a ritual, and the Nsoneki (artist) dialogues with the body”

Themba Khumalo is an Orange Farm raised, and now Johannesburg based visual artist, born in 1987.
In his 10-year professional career, he’s had over 20 group show appearances, featured in just over 10 art fairs, and has had 5 solo shows – both locally and internationally.
His current art subject Emhlabeni reflects the social, political, and spiritual landscape in current South Africa and the understanding of land as identity.
Themba Khumalo looks at the subject of land measured through the lens of his drawings. These renditions portray pieces of land as a witness to the dispossession of the people, the use of illegal occupation as protest, and the loss of hope.

Contrasted with his use of Baba Wethu Osezulwini (prayer) which depicts land as a refuge, and space for faith and healing.
Graduated as a printmaker at Artist Proof Studios, his preferred form of expression is with charcoal, coffee stains, pastel on paper, and at times produces etched prints. His work is also a reflection of his life experiences and close observations, in search of a narrative that seeks to find even the least form of justice, and retribution be it spiritually, socially, or politically.

MALICK WELLI is a Senegalese visual artist who lives and works in Dakar, Senegal. His work tackles themes of duality, spirituality, history and restitution of memory, pedagogy and displaced identity. Welli is interested in the convergence of religion with material influences; economics and power dynamics and how these shape visual culture. There is a questing for ecology and interdependence and how apparently independent events coincide and influence each other.

Welli brings these material community concerns into sharp contrast with individual spiritual needs.

Welli’s works have been collected and exhibited internationally including: « Sur le fil... « an exhibition organized by the 19m Chanel at the Theodore Monod Museum, IFAN (Institut Fondamental d’Afrique Noire) in Dakar (2023), Art x Lagos (2022), «Lightness of Being» a monographic exhibition at Galerie Atiss Dakar (2022); «Les Invincibles» at Dakar Biennale (2022); Blackstar Film Festival, Philadelphia, USA (2022); 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair, New York (2021); EXPO CHGO, Chicago, USA (2019); Cairo Biennale, Egypt (2019); AKAA : Also Known As Africa fair, Paris, France (2018). His work has recently been acquired by the Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.

Ousmane Ba was born and raised in France, Strasbourg, at the border with Germany. He earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts from L’Institut Supérieur des Arts Appliqués.
Ousmane was inspired to become an artist while managing startups in Europe, developing analysis capabilities and also understanding human psychology and design.
He found inspiration in the Japanese arts and decided to move to Japan to develop his style in 2017. He has shown his work in a variety of Japanese galleries such as FUKAGAWA GARAGE or Trunk Hotel. Today, Ousmane takes a new course in his work. He considers himself a vagabond between painting and digital drawing, always searching for Eldorado, promised by a picture of inner peace.

Born in 1993 in Gishoma, Rwanda, Cedric is a Visual Artist & Storyteller with a strong
relation to nature, culture and people. His inspiration comes from emotional and sensual experiences with the world that surrounds him and is touched by what he defines as “the beauty of the small moments of day-to-day”.
His work has been exhibited in Rwanda, England, United States, Ivory Coast, Kenya and other African and European countries. In 2019 he represented Rwanda for the first time in the International Fashion Showcase (IFS) with the installation “Dreaming My Memory” at the Summerset House and was awarded a Special Mention to Curation for his work.
“A New Life in The Village” (2019) was exhibited at The Temple, 180 Strand, London, his most recent installation “Protection” was displayed at Aby Concept, Abidjan, Ivory Coast with the Galerie Cecile Fakhoury, also displayed at the Frick Museum in Pittsburgh and at the Creshaw Dairy Mart Gallery in Los Angeles, California, US.