Born in Africa’s third largest urban area, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eddy Kamuanga Ilunga is an enterprising and exciting young artist working in Africa today. He received his training in classical painting at the Académie des Beaux-Art. Although this provided the artist with sophisticated painting method, the programme at the Académie conceptually limited his creative output, which led him to abandon the programme.

In 2011, alongside other young and ambitious artists from Kinshasa, Eddy formed the collective M’Pongo, progressively critiquing via their medium, contemporary life in the DRC. Skeptical of the immense growth and modernization across the DRC, Eddy’s works draw influence fro...