Gosette Lubondo was born in 1993 in Kinshasa, where she lives and works.

She graduated from ABA in 2014, and took part in several workshops and collectives, followed by an international photography masterclass. She produced her first landmark series in 2016.

Appealed by abandoned buildings imprinted with the marks of time, she took over a disused train in Kinshasa railway station, in which she depicted imaginary passengers, whose expressions and clothing evoked the past life of the station. The series, called Imaginary Trip, was a resounding success and launched her career.

Two years later, Gosette continued this “imaginary trip” in a former school, founded in 1936 by a congregation of Christian brothers, and now abandoned. This would be Imaginary Trip II, a series produced as part of her photography residency at the musée du quai Branly-Jacques Chirac (Paris). The museum purchased the series and exhibited it in 2020 as part of the group exhibition “A toi appartient le regard et (…) la liaison infinie entre les choses”.

In 2020, she received the Cap Prize for her series “Tala Ngai”, which captures contemporary Kinshasa and in 2021, she was awarded the Prix Maison Ruinart, which is presented annually to an emerging artist exhibiting at Paris Photo.

Her series “terre de lait, Terre de miel,” created in 2022, was conceived amid the ruins of President Mobutu’s palaces in Gbadolite, in northern Congo. In 2024, she published the series “Imaginary Trip III,” created at former industrial sites that were active in the 1950s–70s.

Gosette Lubondo was featured in 2026 in the DRC pavilion at the Venice Biennale. The gallery will present a solo exhibition of Gosette’s work in Paris in October–November 2026.