Born in Kinshasa, Patrick Lomaliza has always had a passion for art. However, he submitted to his parents' wishes and followed a completely different educational path to the one he would have liked. With a degree in law, it was not at the Institut des Beaux-arts that the artist took his first artistic steps, but by making advertising paintings. Despite his compulsory schooling, Patrick Lomaliza has never turned his back on his true passion. So it came as no surprise when he embarked on a career as a painter in the image of artists such as Basquiat, who greatly inspired him. Patrick Lomaliza's works are fairly complex and can be considered 'non-academic', somewhere between Neo-Expressionism, with its intense vision of the world (exaggerated facial features, bright, contrasting colours, etc.), Beat art, with its refusal to bow to conformism, and Bad Painting, with its borrowing from street art (graffiti, mathematical formulae, etc.). The artist's aim is to move the viewer by offering contrasting works with themes that raise questions about inequality.

Born in Kinshasa, where he lives and works, Rumilly Masiala is a multidisciplinary Congolese artist who evolves to the rhythm of his deepest aspirations.

After graduating from the Kinshasa Institute of Fine Arts, he went on to perfect his skills with some of the great masters of contemporary art in Kinshasa. This proximity has, among other things, enabled him to develop a polysemic approach based on the social realities of the environment in which he evolves.

His main working tool, which gives him a distinctive and easily recognisable style, is the intestinal enema bulb.

Symbolically, he uses it as a tribute to his mother, who courageously used it when he was seriously ill. This enema bulb was the tool of his recovery.

Berveline Bavedila is a Congolese painter who was born and lives in Kinshasa. Passionate about drawing from an early age, she decided to make it her profession when her father gave her her first sketchbook.  After her secondary education, which bored her deeply, and a few tumultuous years, she finally enrolled at the Fine Arts Institute in Kinshasa.

In her work, she draws inspiration from her journey, which was strewn with pitfalls, to portray only strong, accomplished women. She developed her style by painting only women, because they symbolise life: "And where there is life, there is also hope". As a symbolist artist, she pays tribute to the inner strength that has enabled her to surpass herself and achieve her goals. The landscapes she incorporates into the silhouettes of these beautiful women represent the hope of life.

After spending 12 months in his mother's womb, Mbanga Iloko was born in 1997 in Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

From a very early age, he developed a passion for drawing, which over time became more and more central to his thoughts. After his secondary education, he enrolled at the Kinshasa Academy of Fine Arts and took art classes, where he learned the basic techniques of painting.

Mbanga Iloko developed his creative spirit against a backdrop of "social realism", drawing inspiration from the world around him and, more particularly, condemning human wickedness.  Committed to denouncing injustice, he developed a style based around characters, often women and children, who represent those who suffer most from these atrocities.

A self-taught Congolese painter, Fiston Maketa grew up in Kinshasa. As a child, he took an interest in drawing and pencilled on the ground; as an adolescent, he painted on advertising hoardings to earn a living. Due to a lack of funds, he never enrolled at the Institute of Fine Arts he had so much dreamed of. However, it was in 1999 that his artistic career took another turn when he benefited from the guidance of his new mentor: Lukojo Nsumbu. His first works were imbued with an academic realism based on the style of his models: Pierre Auguste Renoir and Maître Mavinga. He later developed his own style, a mixture of the real and the imaginary. In harmony with the times, he reproduced scenes from daily life in the Congo, which he retranscribed in a simple, warm form. In fact, he often reproduces himself smiling in his works, because "a smile is a weapon of resistance in the face of uncertainty and misery".

Born in Kinshasa, Enyeka Flory Bakaka, alias Enyejo Bakaka, is an artist who developed his passion for painting by producing school drawings. Coming from a modest background, it was impossible for his family to enrol him in the Kinshasa Institute of Fine Arts. However, young Flory, who lives close to the site, takes every opportunity to go there and contemplate the works, the artists and their way of working. Fascinated by everything he sees, and despite his mother's fierce opposition, he works hard at his passion. After a few years of self-teaching, he continued his training with great masters such as Claudy Khan and Chéri Chérin, and collaborated with other artists such as J-P Mika. All these encounters have made him an accomplished artist, who offers hyper-realistic works whose details are surgically precise. In reality, each of his canvases teaches and informs; but in truth, they synthesise a gloomy reality but embellished by effects in the background of the canvas that the artist refers to as "his sweat".

Christian SHULA MBO was born in Kinshasa on 25 March 1990.

He began his artistic career in the studio of Maitre SHULA, who was also his father. Despite his father's influence, he created his own style, developing abstract art depicting silhouetted figures against a coloured background reminiscent of African loincloths. 

These works also illustrate everyday life in Kinshasa and the changing world.

Born in 1989 in Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where he now lives, Moke Nana comes from the family of the late Moke, one of the great figures of popular painting in Kinshasa.

His penchant for painting took off just after his studies, when he began to paint murals and advertising posters.  

One thing led to another and he joined the studio of artist Claude Bosana, where he began painting portraits. He then joined the studio of my older brother, Moke Fils, before finally stopping at that of Maitre Shula. This apprenticeship, under the guidance of all these different mentors, enabled him to acquire various techniques and perfect his work.

In his works, which depict scenes from everyday life in Kinshasa, he often incorporates fish to symbolise the abundance to which the population aspires.

Born on 07 September 1990 in Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the son of painter Matondo Vata, Fabrice Matondo was introduced to art by his late father.

From an early age, trying to imitate his father, the artist began by drawing on the ground and then on pieces of paper.

His father spotted his son's talent and later decided to enrol him at the Institut des Beaux-arts in Kinshasa/Gombe.

Bathed in the special atmosphere offered by the Institute, he soaked up all the good things that this particular world could offer him to create his own style.

In 2012, after obtaining his diploma, Fabrice Matondo joined the 'Buatu' workshop, where, between 2012 and 2014, he was supervised by Maître Dady Musesa.

Later, feeling the need to follow his own path, he set up his own workshop.