Mahungu

Brussels-based artist, researcher and music selector Simon Shungu Mahungu explores collective and postcolonial memory through poetry and sound. His work sits at the crossroads of Belgian and Congolese history, treating memory not as something rooted in a single origin, but as a living dialogue between cultures and imaginaries. His pieces are spaces of shared listening — where present-day voices and heterogeneous sonic heritages coexist without being stripped of their context. A frequent presence at Kiosk Radio (Brussels), he also collaborates with Refuge Worldwide (Berlin) and Radio Alhara (Bethlehem), and leads two ongoing projects: Intersectional Sound of Hope and Dialogue en stéréo, a curatorial platform circulating voices and new memories between Africa and Europe. In 2026, as the first resident of the #Interférence project at the Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles in Paris, he has been granted access to the sound archives of the Musée du quai Branly and the Bibliothèque nationale de France — a new installation from this research will be presented on 11 September.