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Marrakech 2019

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Mika, JP

Born 1980 in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo
Lives and works in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo

JP Mika, Africaine à la parisienne, 2018, Acrylic, Indian ink and glitter on fabric, 178 x 140 cm (framed), Signed and dated, © ADAGP, JP Mika, Kleinefenn. Courtesy MAGNIN-A 

JP Mika’s early interest in painting advertising boards for a marginal living wage brought him to study painting at the Académie des Beaux-Arts (ABA) in Kinshasa. Graduating in 2007, reputed Congolese painter Chéri Chérin soon became a mentor to Mika, encouraging him to exhibit his work in Bilbao in 2008 and 2009, alongside well-known painters Chéri Samba and Tonton Kabeya. Mika attributes his style to that of Chérin and Samba, considering them both highly influential models. His paintings pivot on narrative scenes: vivid menageries depicting well-dressed public figures and anthropomorphic animals in an acerbic critique of political systems and disingenuous agendas.

Group exhibitions include Bisengo, MAGNIN-A, Paris (2019); Le Grand Orchestre des Animaux (2016–17) and Beauté Congo 1926–2015 Congo Kitoko (2015), both held at Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris and Folk Art Africain? Créations contemporaines en Afrique subsaharienne, Frac Aquitaine, Bordeaux (2015).

Selected Artists

fatmi, mounir

Kentridge, William

Sanogo, Amadou

Aboudia

Neto, Ernesto

Nkanga, Otobong

Goldblatt, David

Mehadji, Najia

Artists 2019

  • A

    • Aboudia
    • Alatise, Peju
    • Andrianomearisoa, Joël
    • Asidere, Duke
  • B

    • Barreto, Nú
    • Benohoud, Hicham
    • Berhiss, Abdelmalek
    • Binebine, Mahi
    • Boua, Armand
    • Bouslai, Regragui
    • Boutté, Nathalie
    • Busuttil, Carla
  • C

    • Choumali, Joana
    • Cissé, Soly
  • D

    • Dennis, Nolan Oswald
    • Diop, Omar Victor
    • Douts
  • E

    • El Kamel, Slimen
    • El Makhloufi, Nabil
    • El-Salahi, Ibrahim
    • Erruas, Safaa
  • F

    • Fagbohoun, Dimitri
    • fatmi, mounir
    • Ferlov Mancoba, Sonja
  • G

    • Gaba, Meschac
    • Gbadebo, Òmó Oba(HRH) Adetomiwa A.
    • Goldblatt, David
  • H

    • Hriech, Chourouk
    • Hugo, Pieter
  • J

    • Jano, Januário
  • K

    • Kamel, Ahmed
    • Keïta, Seydou
    • Kentridge, William
    • Khelil, Farah
    • Kiwanga, Kapwani
    • Konaté, Abdoulaye
    • Kure, Marcia
  • L

    • Lekleti, Mohamed
  • M

    • Machona, Gerald
    • Maimoun, Ali
    • Maludi, Houston
    • Mancoba, Ernest
    • Mancoba, Wonga
    • Masamvu, Misheck
    • Mbikayi, Maurice
    • Mehadji, Najia
    • Meyer, Kyle
    • Mgoboza, Siwa
    • Mika, JP
  • N

    • Nabil, Youssef
    • Neshat, Shirin
    • Neto, Ernesto
    • Nkanga, Otobong
  • O

    • Ojeikere, J.D. ‘Okhai
    • Okpa-Iroha, Uche
  • P

    • Piniang
  • R

    • Ruga, Athi-Patra
  • S

    • Sahli, Ghizlane
    • Sanogo, Amadou
    • Serrano, Andres
    • Sory, Sanlé
  • T

    • Tatah, Djamel
    • Thomas, Mickalene
  • Y

    • Yéanzi
  • Z

    • Zemmouri, Fatiha
    • Zinkpè, Dominique

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