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A Lucky Day, 2014–2015

Chocolate Sculptures

CATPC, Poisonous Miracle by Thomas Leba, 2015, chocolate, 139 x 57 x 86 cm, ed. of 5 + 2AP
CATPC, Poisonous Miracle by Thomas Leba, 2015, chocolate, 139 x 57 x 86 cm, ed. of 5 + 2AP

chocolate, 139 x 57 x 86 cm
ed. of 5 + 2AP

CATPC, The Art Collector by Jérémie Mabiala & Djonga Bismar, 2015, chocolate, 120 x 65 x 62 cm, ed. of 5 + 2AP
CATPC, The Art Collector by Jérémie Mabiala & Djonga Bismar, 2015, chocolate, 120 x 65 x 62 cm, ed. of 5 + 2AP

chocolate, 120 x 65 x 62 cm
ed. of 5 + 2AP

CATPC, A Lucky Day by Thomas Leba & Daniel Manenga, 2015, chocolate, 162 x 56 x 74 cm, ed. of 5 + 2AP

chocolate, 162 x 56 x 74 cm
ed. of 5 + 2AP

CATPC, We Who Are Here And You Who Have Come by Emery Mohamba & Mbuku Kimpala, 2015, chocolate, 39.5 x 38.5 x 29 cm, ed. of 5 + 2AP
CATPC, We Who Are Here And You Who Have Come by Emery Mohamba & Mbuku Kimpala, 2015, chocolate, 39.5 x 38.5 x 29 cm, ed. of 5 + 2AP

chocolate, 39.5 x 38.5 x 29 cm
ed. of 5 + 2AP

CATPC, How My Grandfather Survived by Cedrick Tamasala, 2015, chocolate, 38 x 21 x 20 cm, ed. of 5 + 2AP
CATPC, How My Grandfather Survived by Cedrick Tamasala, 2015, chocolate, 38 x 21 x 20 cm, ed. of 5 + 2AP

chocolate, 38 x 21 x 20 cm
ed. of 5 + 2AP

CATPC, A man is what the head is by Mathieu Kilapi Kasiama, 2015, chocolate, 30 x 28 x 32 cm, ed. of 5 + 2AP

chocolate, 30 x 28 x 32 cm
ed. of 5 + 2AP

CATPC, The Visionary by Djonga Bismar, 2015, chocolate, 33 x 26 x 30 cm, ed. of 5 + 2AP

chocolate, 33 x 26 x 30 cm
ed. of 5 + 2AP

CATPC, Self Portrait by Emery Mohamba, 2014, white chocolate, 32 x 30 x 29 cm, ed. of 5 + 2AP
CATPC, Self Portrait by Emery Mohamba, 2014, white chocolate, 32 x 30 x 29 cm, ed. of 5 + 2AP
CATPC, Self Portrait by Emery Mohamba, 2014, white chocolate, 32 x 30 x 29 cm, ed. of 5 + 2AP

white chocolate, 32 x 30 x 29 cm
ed. of 5 + 2AP

CATPC, Self Portrait by Emery Mohamba, 2014, chocolate, 32 x 30 x 29 cm. ed. of 5 + 2AP

chocolate, 32 x 30 x 29 cm
ed. of 5 + 2AP

CATPC, Self Portrait by Mananga Kibuila, 2014, chocolate, 34 x 35 x 32 cm, ed. of 5 + 2AP
CATPC, Self Portrait by Mananga Kibuila, 2014, chocolate, 34 x 35 x 32 cm, ed. of 5 + 2AP
CATPC, Self Portrait by Mananga Kibuila, 2014, chocolate, 34 x 35 x 32 cm, ed. of 5 + 2AP

chocolate, 34 x 35 x 32 cm
ed. of 5 + 2AP

CATPC, Self Portrait by Djonga Bismar, 2014, chocolate, 33 x 31 x 34 cm, ed. of 5 + 2AP
CATPC, Self Portrait by Djonga Bismar, 2014, chocolate, 33 x 31 x 34 cm, ed. of 5 + 2AP
CATPC, Self Portrait by Djonga Bismar, 2014, chocolate, 33 x 31 x 34 cm, ed. of 5 + 2AP

chocolate, 33 x 31 x 34 cm
ed. of 5 + 2AP

CATPC, Self Portrait without Clothes by Mbuku Kimpala, 2014, chocolate, 61.9 x 90 x 70 cm, ed. of 5 + 2AP
CATPC, Self Portrait without Clothes by Mbuku Kimpala, 2014, chocolate, 61.9 x 90 x 70 cm, ed. of 5 + 2AP

chocolate, 61.9 x 90 x 70 cm
ed. of 5 + 2AP

CATPC, The Spirit of Palm Oil by Djonga Bismar, 2014, white chocolate, 91 x 42,5 x 41 cm, ed. of 5 + 2AP

white chocolate, 91 x 42,5 x 41 cm
ed. of 5 + 2AP

CATPC, The Spirit of Palm Oil by Djonga Bismar, 2014, chocolate, 91 x 42,5 x 41 cm, ed. of 5 + 2AP

chocolate, 91 x 42,5 x 41 cm
ed. of 5 + 2AP

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CATPC

On CATPC
Resistance Fighters, 2024
Dutch Pavillion at the Venice Biennial 2024: The International Celebration of Blasphemy and the Sacred, 2024
Return of The Balot, 2024
CATPC, 2024
The Judgment of the White Cube, 2024
White Cube Lusanga, 2023
Résistant déporté et incarcéré, 2022
Plantation Monoculture, 2022 by Athanas Kindendie
THE BALOT NFT, 2022
Drawings, 2022 by Matthieu Kilapi Kasiama
Plantations and Museums, 2021
AFRICA VIDE EUROPE PLEIN/ Africa empty Europe full up, 2021
Forced Love, 2020 by Irene Kanga
Drawings, 2018
Drawings, 2016–ongoing by Ced’art Tamasala
A Lucky Day, 2014–2015

CATPC – Cercle d’art des travailleurs de plantation congolaise – is an art cooperative of plantation workers based in Lusanga, D.R.Congo. CATPC was founded in 2014 with renowned environmental activist René Ngongo. Over the past decade, they have reconnected to a history of artistic resistance against the plantation system and developed a practice of getting hundreds of acres of exhausted plantation land with the proceeds of their art. On this land they bring back the forests that were cut down by the plantation companies and develop their ecological and inclusive food garden the “Post-Plantation” with the proceeds of their art.

At the heart of that reclaimed land, they built a museum, the White Cube Lusanga. In 2024, they represented the Netherlands at the Venice Biennale, presenting a dual exhibition in Venice and Lusanga. They also secured the temporary return of the ancestral sculpture Balot to Lusanga for the duration of the Biennale – a powerful act of reconnection between the community and its history of resistance against the plantation system.

Recent solo exhibitions include SculptureCenter (New York, 2017), the Dutch pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale (2024), and the Van Abbemuseum (Einhoven, 2024). Other exhibitions include Sydney Biennale (2017), Dig Where You Stand (Ghana, 2022), Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale (2024).



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