Mbeng Pouka

I am a Cameroonian painter and sculptor based in London

My portfolio of over 500 works consists of a variety of contemporary art, in almost every style: abstract, surrealism, cubism, portrait, landscape, sculptures, art installations, crafts and jewellery.

I aim to show in my work the value and the privilege to be alive. I believe everything created has its own purpose, like the earth we live in – there is no other place where humans can share the same breath with animals and plants or drink the same water.

The diversification of my art enables me to reach out to people’s minds and engage them in better understanding about the world we live in. Much of my work draws on the environmental transformations that are happening in the world and the effect that these changes have on mankind and nature.

The vibrant aspect and diversity of each painting brings alive the subject to the viewer. Many people, from young to old, have been captured and amazed by both the content and energy of my paintings in past exhibitions.

After my secondary school where I obtained my Baccalaureate G2 in accounting, the desire of expressing my multiple talents took over in the second year of university. Having a father who was a poet, French academic and the founder and the first President of APEC (Association of Poets and Cameroonian Writers), I soon followed my sister's steps in painting and drawing.
With the desire of change and the ability of learning, after two years of training and working in swimming pool construction with a French company; I moved on and became an engineer in building construction and later on in building maintenance and interior design.
I studied the technique of the Old Masters for 2 years in Southwark Art College; graphic design and adobe with Greenwich College for 1 year and Art and Finance at Sotheby’s.
I also studied web design and silversmithing for 6 months at Greenwich College, and have already started my collection of jewellery.

Exhibitions, publications and performances:
•Featured artist in ArtHabens Contemporary Art Review (2019)
•‘Vicious Circle’ exhibition at the Old Biscuit Factory with artnumber23 (2019)
•Parallax Art Fair, Chelsea Town Hall, Kensington, London (2018)
•Art Emergence group exhibition
•ARTS AND SOCIETY at the UNESCO World Humanities Conference, Liege, Belgium (2017)
•International Salon d’Art Contemporain, Carrousel du Louvre, Paris (2016)
•Invited artist at the Africa Union Day High Commissioners’ Celebrations, Kensington Town Hall, London (2016)
•Royal Arts Prize Exhibition, Pall Mall Galleries, London (2016)
•Selected artist for BORDERS Festival, Venice, Italy, (2016)
•Artwecan, Exhibition for the planet, in association with ARTCOP21, Cannes, France (2015)
•The New Artist Fair, Old Truman Brewery, Brick Lane (2015)
•Participant in the design of the 2014 Information Age Permanent Exhibition at the British Science Museum (2012-2014);
•Participant in the Keywords workshop investigations at the International Institute of Visual Art (INIVA) in collaboration with the Tate Liverpool (ongoing);
•Exhibiting at the Saatchi Gallery Screen (ongoing);
•‘Breaking the Chains’, Rosetta Arts Centre (2014);
•‘Art Salon’, Shoreditc...