Mpaka Magloire

  • country
  • DRC
  • disciplines
  • visual art, photography, art video, scenography, direction of photography (cinema)
  • languages
  • French, Lingala
  • born on 28.10.1990
  • in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo
  • lives in Paris

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biography

Born in 1990 in Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Magloire Mpaka is a visual artist, photographer and video maker. He has a degree in visual communication from the Academy of Fine Arts in Kinshasa. In his works, he denounces the management of his country, whose economy is in dire straits. He participated in the exhibition Kinshasa (N)tonga at KANAL – Centre Pompidou in Brussels in 2022. In 2022, he participated in an artistic residency at the Cité internationale des arts in Paris with the artist Mega Menguedi. Since January 2023, he is a member of l’Atelier des artistes en exil.