Collabs JP MIKA T-shirt Xuly-Bët

JP Mika – Bisengo, wearable art from a committed collaboration

25 November, 2022

Studio Matongé soutient la Fondation JP Mika - Studio Matongé

The artist

Our artists Ana Bloom (visual artist and photographer) and JP MIKA (painter)
JP Mika and Ana Bloom

JP Mika is an internationally renowned contemporary Congolese painter, originally from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. His colourful, joyful pictorial universe celebrates Congolese life and visual culture — a spirit at the heart of his BISENGO series.

The BISENGO x Xuly-Bët capsule

For its first collaboration, Studio Matongé brings together JP Mika’s pictorial universe and the fashion energy of Xuly-Bët, the house founded by Lamine Kouyaté. Inspired by the BISENGO series, the Bisengo oversized T-shirt is made in Xuly-Bët’s Parisian workshops, in limited edition: each piece is numbered and delivered with a certificate of authenticity signed by JP Mika.

Making of the BISENGO capsule: JP Mika and Ana Bloom during fittings in Xuly-Bët's Parisian workshops
Making of: fittings in Xuly-Bët’s Parisian workshops

JP Mika signs the certificates of authenticity of the BISENGO T-shirts
JP Mika signs each certificate of authenticity

More than a garment, a work of art to wear: expressive, rare and singular — to collect, to give or to pass on.

At the opening of the JP Mika exhibition (Magnin-A gallery, Paris): Ana Bloom, JP Mika and Lamine Kouyaté wear the limited-edition BISENGO T-shirts

The JP Mika Foundation

Studio Matongé is extremely proud to support the JP Mika Foundation: 10% of the profits from the sale of the Bisengo capsule T-shirts are donated to it.

Founded in 2021 by the artist, the Foundation aims to help orphans and widows in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It funds various social initiatives designed to foster autonomy: education through the funding of school and training fees for the youngest, support for the creation of micro-businesses, and micro-credit schemes enabling widows and single women to provide for their families in a lasting way.

Learn more about the actions of the JP Mika Foundation:

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Find the limited edition Bisengo T-shirt and all the works and collaborations of The Studio Gallery.

Back to Inspirations

Flash-back : essayage d'un T-shirt collector de l'exposition Beauté Congo à la Fondation Cartier. Réalisé par Lamine Kouyaté avec les personnages des toiles de JP MIKA.

Flashback: as early as the Beauté Congo exhibition at the Fondation Cartier, Lamine Kouyaté was creating collector T-shirts inhabited by the characters of JP Mika’s paintings. An artistic bond that lives on today in the BISENGO capsule.