Constellations: Group exhibition in support of Picha Art Center

AKKA Project in collaboration with Black History Month Milano (BHMM) and Black History Month Firenze (BHMF), presents Constellations, a group exhibition in support of PICHA Art Center and Lubumbashi Biennale. 

Discover the artists and the works that compose Constellations:

Jean Katambayi is a Congolese self-taught artist and trained electrician whose practice brings together art, technology, geometry and socio-economic reflection. Working with humble and recycled materials, he creates drawings, sculptures and installations that explore energy, mining and infrastructure in the Democratic Republic of Congo. His work transforms scientific and industrial systems into poetic and speculative forms.

Désiré Lumuna is a Congolese artist and researcher whose multidisciplinary practice moves between art, science and philosophy. His work explores the relationship between human beings, the environment and energy systems, questioning established social and economic models. Through an experimental and self-directed approach, Lumuna investigates alternative forms of knowledge and new possibilities for autonomous systems.

Ako Atikossie is a Togolese artist who lives and works between Milan and Lomé. His abstract practice explores the intersection of art, science, technology and natural resources. A recurring element in his work is the “minus” sign, repeated across the surface to create texture and movement. Drawing on both quantum physics and Togolese cosmology, Atikossie reflects on matter, scientific knowledge and contemporary geopolitical dynamics.

Angolan artist and photographer Délio Jasse works extensively with archives, found photographs and materials connected to personal and collective memory. Using analogue photographic processes and handmade techniques, he layers images, documents and painted interventions to explore identity, colonial history and memory. His work also reflects on the transformation of Luanda and the complex relationship between its colonial past and contemporary development.

Lamar J. Robillard is an American conceptual artist, photographer and filmmaker based in Brooklyn. His multidisciplinary practice explores Black identity, resistance, spirituality and material culture through photography, painting, sculpture and assemblage. Drawing on found objects and culturally charged materials, Robillard develops the concept of “Flydom”, influenced by Afrofuturism, as a reflection on liberation and the possibility of imagining new forms of freedom.

Justin Randolph Thompson is an American artist, cultural facilitator and educator whose practice has been divided between Italy and the United States for more than two decades. Working across installation, performance, sound and public interventions, he examines memory, history and the representation of African and diasporic identities within European narratives. His work recontextualises monuments and institutions, questioning how histories are preserved, represented and remembered.

Jermay Michael Gabriel is an Italian-Ethiopian-Eritrean artist, curator and musician based in Milan. His transdisciplinary practice combines performance, photography, sound and installation to explore the legacies of Italian colonialism, memory and institutional power. By confronting and reinterpreting historical symbols and Eurocentric narratives, Gabriel creates new ways of engaging with fragmented and often overlooked histories.

Beya Gille Gacha is a French-Cameroonian multidisciplinary artist born in Paris in 1990. Her practice centres on anthropomorphic sculptures covered in glass beads, drawing on the Bamileke beadwork tradition of western Cameroon. By transforming the human body into a richly textured surface, Gacha explores identity, human value, memory and the connections between African heritage and wider global histories. Her work brings together traditional craft, contemporary sculpture and a deeply personal reflection on the human condition.