• Mukenge/Schellhammer
  • Comics
  • Live: Kinshasa

Agit-Pop! An Appendix to the Popular Image

Comics and popular images as a grassroots system of collective knowledge production: Olivia Berkowicz analyzes alternative distribution architectures of popular comics using the example of Rocky Prod. As a self-organized media culture, the magazines and books form a local ecosystem that functions independently of state and postcolonial power structures and institutions.

  • Judith Kaluaji
  • Santa Kakese
  • Yann Kumbozi
  • Comics
  • Discourse
  • Live: Kinshasa

Where the fuck is Erlangen? / 2022

After the Comic Salon 2020 was cancelled, the artists of the project “Popular Images” had to wait two years for their trip to Erlangen. This year in June it finally happened, the International Comic Salon 2022 could take place – and so could the long-awaited exhibition! Three of the artists from Kinshasa have captured their impressions and experiences of their stay in Erlangen in drawings.

  • Jean Kamba
  • Comics
  • Discourse
  • Live: Kinshasa

Kinshasa’s Popular Culture: From Papa Mfumu’eto to Youtube

Popular culture in Kinshasa, its narrative strategies, its role in society and its transformation over time: art critic and researcher Jean Kamba shows the connections between popular comics, music and television.

  • Papa Mfumu'eto
  • Comics
  • Live: Kinshasa

His Majesty, Author of Comics

“His Majesty,” Papa Mfumu’eto 1er has declared himself emperor. His comics and paintings bring together spiritual worlds with Kinshasa’s everyday life and politics. A report by Ketshia Ngamala.