GÉRALDINE TOBE: In Minor Keys | Venice Biennale
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Overview
This year marked the inauguration of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s pavilion at the 61st Venice Biennale « In Minor Keys » curated by Koyo Kouoh, for which Geraldine Tobe was selected.
The exhibition « Simba Moto! Seize the Fire! Saisis le feu! », curated by Nadia Yala Kisukidi and presented in the Ancient Refectory of the Dominican convent of Ss. Giovanni e Paolo, brings together nine artists from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and its diaspora.
Together, they call for new narratives that, when confronted with contemporary crises, resist discourses of absence, suffering, and death. Drawing strength from ancestral worldviews, radical Congolese imaginaries of the 20th and 21st centuries, and Black liberation archives forged in the modern era and continuously engaged in dialogue with Africa, the exhibition proposes powerful new ways of imagining the present and the future.
The exhibition « Simba Moto! Seize the Fire! Saisis le feu! », curated by Nadia Yala Kisukidi and presented in the Ancient Refectory of the Dominican convent of Ss. Giovanni e Paolo, brings together nine artists from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and its diaspora.
Together, they call for new narratives that, when confronted with contemporary crises, resist discourses of absence, suffering, and death. Drawing strength from ancestral worldviews, radical Congolese imaginaries of the 20th and 21st centuries, and Black liberation archives forged in the modern era and continuously engaged in dialogue with Africa, the exhibition proposes powerful new ways of imagining the present and the future.
Biennale Arte 2026
9 May — 22 November, 2026
Antico Refettorio - Scuola Grande di San Marco
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