Sammy Baloji
Sammy Baloji, born in 1978, was raised in Lubumbashi (CD), a centre of colonial, post-colonial and contemporary entanglements related to resources. Colliding reality and representation, his photography and multimedia installations expose tensions between past and present. He mines the archive, traces social history in architecture and landscape, and probes the body as a site of memory and witness to operations of power. He is co-founder of the Picha Encounters, the Biennale in Lubumbashi.
Courses
Exhibitions
Solo exhibitions
2020 Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington, D.C. Sammy Baloji, Lunds konsthall, Lund (SE). 2019 Congos, fragments d’une histoire, Le Point du Jour/Centre d’Art Editeur, Cherbourg-en-Cotentin (FR). Extractive Landscapes, Stadtgalerie Museumspavillon, Salzburg (AT). 2018 A blueprint for toads and snakes, Framer Framed, Amsterdam. 2016–18 Sammy Baloji & Filip De Boeck – Urban Now: City Life in Congo, WIELS, Contemporary Art Center, Brussels; Open Society Foundation, New York, NY (US); The Power Plant, Toronto (CA); Galerias Municipais/EGEAC, Lisbon. 2014 Hunting and Collecting: Sammy Baloji, Mu.Zee, Ostend (BE).
Group exhibitions
2020 Belgian Art Prize 2020, BOZAR, Brussels. Biennale of Sydney, Sydney (AU). 2019 FIKTION KONGO – Kunstwelten zwischen Geschichte und Gegenwart, Museum Rietberg, Zurich (CH). …And Other such Stories (with Filip De Boeck), Chicago Architecture Biennial, Chicago, IL (US). Africa State of Mind, Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA (US). Affective Utopia, KADIST, Paris. 2018 Congo Stars, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz (AT). 2017 documenta 14, Athens & Kassel (DE). 2016 11th Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai (CN). 2015/16 La vie moderne, 13th Biennale de Lyon, Lyon (FR). 2015–17 Senses of time: video and film-based works of Africa, Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington D.C.; LACMA, Los Angeles (CA). 2015 All the world’s futures, 56th Biennale di Venezia, Venice (IT).
