Sammy Baloji

Sammy Baloji
Tuma

Installation by Sammy Baloji (Palais de Tokyo, Paris)

Sammy Baloji (bɛ dɔɣi o la yuuni 1978) ka o nyɛ anfooni yaara ŋun yina Democratic Republic of the Congo. O tumdi Lubumbashi mini Brussels, ka o tumanima shɛŋa be Amsterdam, Paris, Brussels, Bilbao, Cape Town ni Bamako.

Maŋmaŋa Lahabali

Baloji nyɛla bɛ ni daa dɔɣi so yiŋa yuli booni Lubumbashi Anashaara goli December 29, 1978. O daa bɔhim la "literature and human science" shikuru yuli booni University of Lubumbashi.

The Long Hand (bronze sculpture based on a lukasa in Antwerp, Belgium)

Exhibitions

Solo shows

• 2018 A Blueprint for Toads and Snakes – Framer Framed – Amsterdam – The Netherlands
• 2010 Mémoire – Goethe-Institut Nairobi, Nairobi Mémoire by Sammy Baloji – CGP London – Cafe Gallery Projects, London
• 2009 Katanga – Schatten der Vergangenheit – Deutsches Filmmuseum, Frankfurt/Main

Group shows

• 2020 Radical Revisionists: Contemporary African Artists Confronting Past and Present, Moody Center for the Arts, Houston, Texas
• 2014 Present Tense – Centro de Arte Moderna – CAM – Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon
• 2014 Earth Matters: Land as Material and Metaphor in the Arts of Africa – Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
• 2014 Die Göttliche Komödie. Himmel, Hölle, Fegefeuer aus Sicht afrikanischer Gegenwartskünstler, The Divine Comedy. Heaven, Purgatory and Hell Revisited by Contemporary African Artists – Museum für Moderne Kunst (MMK), Frankfurt/Main
• 2013 Conversation Piece – Mu.ZEE, Oostende
• 2013 La Otra Bienal De Arte 2013 – La Otra Bienal, Bogota
• 2013 Witness/Témoin – Espace doual´art, Douala
• 2013 Earth Matters: Land as Material and Metaphor in the Arts of Africa – National Museum of African Art – Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
• 2013 No Limit 2, Une Œuvre / Un Artiste – Galerie Imane Farès, Paris
• 2012 Newtopia – Cultuurcentrum Mechelen, Mechelen
• 2012 Le surréel Congo – Museum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte Dortmund, Dortmund
• 2012 Status 24 – Dokumente Von Heute – Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur
• 2012 All That Fits: The Aesthetics of Journalism – QUAD Gallery, Derby
• 2012 Project 35 – Kunsthaus CentrePasquArt – Centre d'Art, Biel/Bienne
• 2012 Environment and Object – Recent African Art – Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, VT
• 2012 The Beautiful Time – Museum of African Art in the Natural History Museum – New York City
• 2011 Infinite Balance: Artists and the Environment – The Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA
• 2011 Level 2 Gallery: Contested Terrains – Tate Modern, London
• 2011 Project 35 – Gertrude contemporary art spaces, Melbourne, VIC
• 2011 Present Tense – Gulbenkian. Próximo Futuro, Lisbon
• 2011 Artists in Residence. Sammy Baloji & Patrick Mudekereza – Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren
• 2011 Meeting Points 6 – Locus Agonistes: Practices and Logics of the Civic – Beirut Art Center, Beirut
• 2011 ARS 11 – Kiasma – Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki
• 2011 Possible Cities: Africa In Photography and Video – Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery (CFG) – Haverford College, Haverford, PA
• 2010 Prix Pictet / Earth – Gallery of Photography, Dublin
• 2010 Muestra Annual Xxiii Mam ChiloÉ – MAM – Museo de Arte Moderno Chiloé, Castro
• 2009 Périfériks – CAN – Centre d'Art Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel
• 2009 Spot On... Bamako – Vii. Rencontres Africaines de la Photographie – ifa-Galerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart
• 2008 InVideo: Lands And Skies – Spazio Oberdan, Milan
• 2008 Spot on...- ifa-Galerie Berlin, Berlin
• 2008 The Messenger – Cultuurcentrum Brugge, Bruges
• 2007 Congo Contemporain – Monos Gallery, Liège
• 2007 TRANS CAPE – contemporary African art on the move – Trans Cape Africa, Cape Town