Patrick Mudekereza

FOUNDING. MEMBER

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 was part of the board of the International Biennial Association. He curated exhibitions such as Prise de Terre (GEOgraphics, Bozar, Brussels 2010), Close Openings/Vernissage Fugaces (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 Biennal, 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 Mudekereza 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.