Freddy Tsimba
Freddy Tsimba is a sculptor and visual artist from the Democratic Republic of Congo. He has made sculptures from bullet casings collected on Congolese war battlefields. One of his artwork entitled Au-delà de l'espoir was commissioned by the municipality of Ixelles in Brussels and installed on the corner of Chaussée de Wavre and Longue-Vie street in Matonge district.
Biography
Tsimba was born in Kinshasa in 1967. He studied at the Académie [des Beaux-Arts (Kinshasa)|Fine Art School in Kinshasa] where he got a degree on sculpture in 1989. He received the silver medal at the Ottawa Jeux de la Francophonie in 2001.Exhibitions
Solo exhibitions
- 2007: Au-delà de l'espoir, installed on the corner of Chaussée de Wavre and Longue-Vie street in Matonge district, Brussels. Commissioned by the municipality of Ixelles.
- 2016: Au-delà de l'extrême, Halle de la Gombe, Kinshasa, D.R. Congo
- 2018: Out of chaos, Beaux Arts Gallery, London
- 2018: Porteuse de vies, Théâtre national de Chaillot, Paris, in celebration of the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- 2020: Mabele eleki lola ! The earth, brighter than paradise, Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium, curated by In Koli Jean Bofane, with the scientific contribution of Henry Bundjoko
Group exhibitions
- 2008: They come from far away, part Miroirs, 8th Dakar Biennale, Musée Théodore Monod, Dakar, Sénégal
- 2014: Yango the first Kinshasa contemporary art biennial, Kinshasa, D.R. Congo
- 2015–20: Lumières d'Afriques, Paris; Abidjan; Geneva; Dakar; Rabat; Johannesburg
- 2019: Encore un effort, part of 1st Congo Biennale, Kin Art Studio, Kinshasa, D.R. Congo