Sarah Ndele (born 1991, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo; lives in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo) studied painting at Kinshasa Academy of Fine Arts. Ndele has been involved in various cultural projects, working across installation, performance, sculpture, and writing. Inspired by the late seventeenth-century heroine Kimpa Vita for her virtuosity, Ndele directs her work toward questioning different subjects, including the memory of ancestors, the roots of peoples’ foundations, and the present state of education or initiation among the Bakongo people in the face of a constantly changing contemporary world. Ndele has participated in exhibitions and programs including the International Performance Art Festival (KINACT), Kinshasa; Sandberg Institute and Framer Framed, Amsterdam (2024); Rencontre au Pluriel project, Cima Sitta, Switzerland (2024); Salt, Art Basel (2024); a duo performance on ecology in front of the Gare du Nord, Paris (2024); French Institute, Kinshasa (2023); South to South project, Pivô Salvador, Brazil (2023); emmome art, Togo (2022); Expo, Benin (2022); Nyeguenyegue Festival, Uganda (2022); Yango Biennale II, Kinshasa (2022); 7th Lubumbashi Biennale, Democratic Republic of the Congo (2022); Curata project, Waza Art Center, Lubumbashi (2022); and Batier Atelier Nkate and Bandjoon Station, Cameroon (2018). She is currently the coordinator of the Farata collective.
