Freddy Tsimba

Congo, Democratic Republic of, 1967

BiographyA sculptor and installation artist, Freddy Tsimba has a diploma in artistic humanities from the Institute of Fine Arts and a Graduate diploma in Visual arts, specializing in monumental sculpture, from the Academy of Fine Arts in Kinshasa.
Born in 1967 in Kinshasa, Freddy Tsimba now lives and works in the Congo.
Tsimba has taken part in exhibitions, encounters, residences and artistic projects in various venues, most notably Dak'art 2002 and 2006 and the 1st ACP festival, Saint-Dominque 2006. He won an award at the Moncton games of francophony in Canada in 2001 and is one of few African artists to have a work exhibited in a public space in Belgium. Whether he is "the apostle of disarmament" or "the sculptor of tears," as his critics have labelled him, Freddy Tsimba is an undeniably committed artist. With his use of original materials and his choice of themes, Freddy Tsimba's artwork is grounded in the suffering of his people and mirrors certain tragic events in both his own country and in the larger African context.

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