Biography

Gabriel Kalumba Tshung Manu, Congo (1940-2019)

Kalumba was passionate about copper and influenced by its African popular culture. He was a drummer and brass maker, won the Grand Prix at the World Festival of Negro Arts in 1966 in Dakar, Senegal, in the Plastic Arts category. Gabriel Kalumba, born in 1940 is the grandson of a traditional sculptor, his father was an ivory worker. After his humanities, he studied Fine Arts in Lubumbashi then brassware in Maredsous (Belgium), before introducing the technique to Zaire (current Democratic Republic of Congo).