Kojack Kossakamvwe collaborates on a variety of projects with a wide range of artists, whether for album recordings or concerts - such as with Amine AUB (2013) - or as musical director with Papa Wemba for "La passion du maître" (2015). Kojack has played in several bands, including Kwata Vibra (1998), Wenge Musica Maison Mère (2000-2003) and has been on stage for many large-scale musical projects such as the "Losangania Project" (2009), the show "Basali ya buzoba" (2010), "Washibas chantent Michael Jackson" (2011) and has toured with Elie Kamano and Maryse Ngalula for "Visas pour la création" (2013) and "Franco na biso" (2014). Since 2018, he has been touring the world with "Requiem Pour L." together with musicians* from all five continents under the direction of Fabrizio Cassol and Alain Platel. In 2019 and 2020, he was part of the ensemble of "Hercules of Lubumbashi - An Oratorio of Mines".

Eva-Maria Bertschy, founding member of Group50:50, works as a freelance dramaturg, curator and writer at the intersection of theatre and political activism in Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, Italy and D.R. Congo. She is the artistic director of Studio Rizoma, a production structure for transnational political and artistic projects in Palermo. With the Swiss director Milo Rau / International Institute of Political Murder, she has conceived and realised numerous productions, international theatre and documentary film projects, political interventions, congresses and other discursive formats. She also works regularly with the Berlin director Ersan Mondtag. She founded GROUP50:50 in 2021 with musician Elia Rediger, Congolese choreographer Dorine Mokha and curator Patrick Mudekereza. Her projects have won numerous awards, been invited to the most important international theatre festivals such as the Berlin Theatertreffen, the Festival d'Avignon and the Kunstenfestivaldesarts and have been shown in more than 20 countries.

Patrick Mudekereza is a writer and curator. He is the founder and artistic director of the Centre d'art Waza, a unique independent art centre in Lubumbashi. He co-founded and directed the first three editions of Rencontres Picha, Biennale de Lubumbashi (2008-2015). He participated in the foundation and sat on the board of the International Biennial Association. He curated exhibitions such as "Prise de Terre" (part of GEOgraphics, Bozar, 2010), "Close Openings/Vernissage Fugaces" (Various venues in Lubumbashi, 2011), "Mining Lubum" (VANSA, Johannesburg, 2015), "Silimuka" (part of the ChinAfrika under construction project, Museum für Gegenwartskunst GfZK Leipzig, 2017), "Aire d'oiseaux imaginaires" (Congo Biennale in Kinshasa, 2019, and Bogardenkapel Brugge, 2019). The project and accompanying publication "Revolution Room" (2013-2016) won the African Architecture Award in the Critical Dialogue category (Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town, 2017). In 2016 he received the Congolese National Prize for Art and Culture and in 2017 the Medaille Art Lettre et Sciences. He teaches at the Universities of Lubumbashi and Witwatersrand.

Elia Rediger, founding member of Group50:50, born 1985 in Kinshasa/Democratic Republic of Congo, is a Swiss artist, artistic director, composer, writer and singer. In addition to orchestral compositions ("Oh Albert", 2016, Basel), he was an in-house writer at the Konzerttheater Bern (2016/2017), frontman of the pop group The bianca Story and the big band orchestra Brigade Futur 3. At Deutsche Oper Berlin he directs the music theater format “Macht der Künste / Aus dem Hinterhalt. "Hercules of Lubumbashi - an oratorio of mines" was his second collaboration with the Congolese choreographer Dorine Mokha after the play "Oh Boyoma - 387 verses about a forgotten city" (KonzertTheaterBern 2017). In 2020, Mokha/Rediger founded GROUP50:50 together with the Congolese curator Patrick Mudekereza and the Swiss dramaturge Eva-Maria Bertschy. After Dorine Mokha's sudden death, they decided to continue GROUP50:50's mission and joined forces with Christiana Tabaro and Michael Disanka for a new production.

Christiana Tabaro is an actress and director who lives and works in Kinshasa. She studied at the Institut National des Arts in Kinshasa and is the founder of the Collectif d'Artd'Art with Michael Disanka. She has performed her solo "Parole de femme" (2013-2019) in more than twenty universities in three regions of the Democratic Republic of Congo. With Michael Disanka, she has been working since 2016 on a trilogy combining intimacy and history. The first part "Sept Movements Congo" was presented at KVS in Brussels at the end of 2018 with the support of NTGent and Connexion KZW. The second part "Géométrie(s) de vie(s)" - co-produced by studios kabako and supported by Kaserne Basel - will be presented in Marseille at the festival Les rencontres à l'échelle in December 2021. In 2021 she will become a member of the Group50:50.