2026-02-20 | Jean Katambayi Mukendi solo exhibition at KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin

Our fellow Jean Katambayi Mukendi is having a solo exhibition RATIO, at KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin.

In RATIO, Congolese artist Jean Katambayi Mukendi (b. 1974, DRC) questions the dualities that shape our world—the natural and the artificial, growth and destruction, wanted and discarded materials, and the relationship between resources and power.

Katambayi’s practice is deeply informed by his training as an electrician and his sustained interest in engineering and mathematics. His work examines contemporary technological developments, while simultaneously addressing the social, economic, and ecological imbalances he witnesses as consequences of global structural inequities in resource extraction and power distribution. For Katambayi, there is a direct correlation between who possesses literal power (energy)—copper is extracted from the Democratic Republic of the Congo to power other nations, yet he lives with permanent power outages—and the broader geopolitical axes along which power is distributed between countries.

The exhibition opens on 20th February, 19:00–22:00, and you can see it until 5 May.

More information here