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SchellhammerUndigested Images30.06. - 29.07.2023

„Undigested Images“ is an ongoing series of works on contemporary and future mythologies and the continuation of the exhibition „Barking Dogs in the Head“, which took place in Kinshasa in December 2022.

The series is being shown for the first time in Germany and is currently also on view at the Villa of the Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg. For the exhibition at Galerie Barbara Thumm, Mukenge/ Schellhammer are developing a hybrid space that combines digital and analog paintings.

Mukenge/Schellhammer process experiences and investigations in the very different social and economic systems of Germany and the Democratic Republic of Congo in an ongoing artistic process that includes digital and analog paintings and drawings, experimental videos, and performances. The duo‘s works are influenced by painting traditions such as Congolese Academicism of the first two decades of our millennium and its counter-movements such as „Peinture Populaire“ and „Partagisme“, but they also draw on styles from international art history as well as contemporary popular culture.