✨ Brussels | Private Exhibition Tour, Wine & Discussion | Jean Katambayi Mukendi: KODE, Art, Technology & New Ways of Seeing
Join us on 10 October, from 2 to 4 PM, for a private tour of Jean Katambayi Mukendi’s KODE at Wouters Gallery in Brussels.
Born in 1974 in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Mukendi lives and works in Lubumbashi. Working across drawing, sculpture and installation, his practice brings together science, mathematics and electrical systems with questions around the social, political and economic structures that shape everyday life.
What’s included:
🖼 Private viewing of KODE
💬 Conversation around art, technology and infrastructure
🎨 Insight into Mukendi’s artistic and technical practice
🧭 A closer look at electricity, mathematics and social systems
About the Exhibition 🖼️
Trained as an industrial electrician, Jean Katambayi Mukendi brings technical knowledge directly into his artistic practice.
His works often begin with scientific research, mathematical principles and electrical systems, which he transforms into drawings, sculptures and installations. Technical diagrams, circuits and geometric forms become a visual language through which he explores much larger questions.
Rather than simply representing technology, Mukendi uses it as a way to think about the infrastructures that organise our lives. His practice invites us to consider how energy, resources, technology and access are connected to wider social and economic realities.
Between Science, Art and Speculation ✨
What makes Mukendi’s work particularly interesting is the way he combines precise technical thinking with speculative imagination.
Scientific and mathematical systems become starting points for imagining different possibilities and questioning the structures we often take for granted. His background as an electrician is not simply part of his biography, but an important foundation for the way he understands and constructs his work.
The result is a practice that moves between engineering and art, reality and speculation, systems and human experience.
My take on the exhibition, by Art Gallivant :
There’s something fascinating about seeing technical knowledge transformed into an artistic language. Mukendi takes systems that can feel distant or purely functional and makes them tangible, visual and open to interpretation.
His works invite us to look beyond the surface of technology and think about the infrastructures behind it: how they are built, how they shape society, and who has access to them.
What stays with me is the balance between precision and imagination. The works emerge from mathematics and electrical systems, yet they ultimately open onto much broader questions about how we organise, connect and imagine our world.
📍 Event Details
10 October, 2–4 PM
Wouters Gallery, Brussels
Jean Katambayi Mukendi, KODE
Private exhibition tour
✨ Limited spots. Intimate group. Shared reflection.
Join us for an afternoon of art, conversation and a closer look at the fascinating intersection of science, technology and contemporary art.