OMA-Designed Museum and Art Center Opens in Congo

The Lusanga International Research Centre for Art and Economic Inequality, designed pro-bono by OMA/Rem Koolhaas, will open on April 21–22, 2017, in the Kwilu Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Located on a former Unilever palm oil plantation, the center aims to address economic inequality through art. The inaugural exhibition, "The Repatriation of the White Cube," features works by Carsten Höller, Luc Tuymans, Marlene Dumas, and former plantation workers from the Congolese Plantation Workers Art League (CATPC). The center is jointly managed by CATPC and the Institute for Human Activities in Amsterdam. The project symbolically returns creative and economic resources to Africa, funding land repurchase and development projects.