Freddy Tsimba

Freddy Tsimba studied at Académie des Beaux-Arts. The recorded working language is French and Lingala. The field of work recorded is visual arts. Places of work recorded in the authority are Matongé. Work by Freddy Tsimba is recorded in the collections of Royal Museum for Central Africa.

• Name — Freddy Tsimba • Born — 1967 • Birthplace — Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo • Occupation — Sculptor

Tsimba was born in Kinshasa in 1967. He studied at the Fine Art School in Kinshasa where he got a degree on sculpture in 1989. He received the silver medal at the Ottawa Jeux de la Francophonie in 2001.

• Illustration — Au-delà de l'espoir (Beyond the hope), Brussels • 2007: Au-delà de l'espoir (Beyond the hope), installed on the corner of Chaussée de Wavre and Longue-Vie street in Matonge district, Brussels. Commissioned by the municipality of Ixelles • 2016: Au-delà de l'extrême, Halle de la Gombe, Kinshasa, D.R. Congoz • 2018: Out of chaos, Beaux Arts Gallery, London • 2018: Porteuse de vies (Carrier of Lives), Théâtre national de Chaillot, Paris, in celebration of the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights • 2020: Mabele eleki lola! The earth, brighter than paradise, Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium, curated by In Koli Jean Bofane, with the scientific contribution of Henry Bundjoko

• 2008: They come from far away, part Miroirs, 8th Dakar Biennale, Musée Théodore Monod, Dakar, Sénégal • 2014: Yango the first Kinshasa contemporary art biennial, Kinshasa, D.R. Congo • 2015–20: Lumières d'Afriques, Paris; Abidjan; Geneva; Dakar; Rabat; Johannesburg • 2019: Encore un effort, part of 1st Congo Biennale, Kin Art Studio, Kinshasa, D.R. Congo

• Mavambu (2011) – documentary on Tsimba by Rosine Mbakam and Mirko Popovitch (26', DVcam)