Sammy Baloji

**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.

## 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

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