Samson Kambalu

**Samson Kambalu** (amụrụ n'afọ 1975) bụ onye na-ese ihe, ọkà mmụta na onye edemede a mụrụ na Malawi nke zụrụ dị ka ezigbo onye na-eme ihe nkiri na ethnomusicologist na Mahadum nke Malawi's Chancellor College . Ọ bụ Fellow nke Magdalen College, Oxford.

## Ndụ na ọrụ
A mụrụ Kambalu na Malawi, ebe ọ gara Kamuzu Academy, "Eton nke Africa". Ọ gụsịrị akwụkwọ na Mahadum nke Malawi's Chancellor College, Zomba na afọ 1999.  Kambalu gụsịrị MA ya na Fine Art na Mahadum Nottingham Trent na afọ 2003 wee dee PhD ya na Chelsea College of Art and Design, na-ele anya n'otú nsogbu nke onyinye na akụ na ụba n'ozuzu si emegharị akụkụ dị iche iche nke ọrụ nka ya.

Ọrụ Kambalu, nke na-ezo aka na Situationism na omenala Chewa Nyau nke obodo ya Malawi, na apụta na mgbasa ozi dị iche iche, site na eserese, eserese, ntinye, vidiyo na akwụkwọ na arụmọrụ.

Otu n'ime ihe osise ya a ma ama bụ Holy Ball, bọọlụ a na-etinye na peeji nke Bible. Kambalu mere ihe ngosi nke 24 "Holy Balls" na Chancellor College n'afọ 2000 ebe ọ kpọrọ ndị nleta ka ha mee ihe na ịchụpụ ndị mmụọ ọjọọ. Kemgbe ahụ, ọ gosipụtara ọrụ ya na mba ụwa. N'afọ 2015, a gụnyere ya na Okwui Enwezor's All the World's Futures na 56th Venice Biennale. N'ọnwa Nọvemba afọ 2015, otu onye ọka ikpe nọ na Venice jụrụ mkpesa nke onye Itali na-ahụ maka ọnọdụ Gianfranco Sanguinetti tinyere megide Venice Biennale na Kambalu n'ihe gbasara enweghị ikike na oke nke Sanguineti niile maka otu n'ime nrụnye Kambalu, Sanguinett Breakout Area.

Kambalu's Nyau Cinema bụ usoro *ihe nkiri* dị mkpirikpi nke ihe ngosi psychogeographical, nke a na-ekerịta dị ka ntinye aka na saịtị netwọk mmekọrịta na dị ka ntinye na gallery. A kọwawo ihe ndị a dị ka "iberibe ihe nkiri nke na-agwakọta slapstick na ememe ime mmụọ".

Akwụkwọ mbụ ya, akụkọ ndụ onwe *onye* nke akpọrọ The Jive Talker or How to Get a British Passport, bụ nke Jonathan Cape (Random House) bipụtara na Julaị, na afọ 2008, na Ọgọstụ, na afọ 2008 site na Free Press (Simon & Schuster). Akwụkwọ akụkọ ya nke abụọ, Uccello's Vineyard, nke e bipụtara na afọ 2012, dị na The Book Lovers, nchịkọta akwụkwọ akụkọ *ndị* na-ese ihe na Museum of Contemporary Art na Antwerp.

Kambalu na-anọchite anya Kate MacGarry na London na Galerie Nordenhake na Stockholm.

Na 5 Julaị 2021, a mara ọkwa na ahọpụtara ihe osise Kambalu dị ka onye na-esote ịnọ n'ọkwa nke anọ na Trafalgar Square na etiti London site na Septemba 2022 ruo 2024. Ihe osise ahụ, nke akpọrọ *Antelope*, weghachiri foto na afọ 1914 nke onye nkwusa Baptist na onye pan-Africanist John Chilembwe na onye ozi ala ọzọ Europe John Chorley. Chilembwe na-eyi okpu n'omume nnupụisi, n'ihi na nke a bụ iwu na-akwadoghị n'oge ahụ.

## Ihe ngosi

### Selected solo exhibitions

* 2017 Red Barn Farm, Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm, Sweden 
* 2015 Ihe omuma ihe omuma Nyau, Gallery U Mloka, Olomouc, Czech Republic
* 2015 Ihe ngosi abụọ: Nyau Cinema, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany
* 2014 *Mmiri ozuzo*, Stevenson Johannesburg, South Africa
* 2012 Obodo Tattoo: Isiakwụkwọ Atọ Mbụ (ya na ndị ọbịa), Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, UK
* 2000 Omume na Ịchụpụ Mmụọ Ọjọọ, Chancellor College, Zomba, Malawi

### Ihe ngosi ndị a họọrọ

* 2016 Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, UK
* 2016 Ihe ngosi abụọ nke Dakar, Dakar, Senegal
* 2016 A tụfuru ya na achọta ya, Paradiso, Amsterdam, Netherlands
* 2015 A na-etinye ya *n'ime* ụlọ, Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen, Denmark
* 2015 50/50, New Church Museum, Cape Town, South Africa
* 2015 Transformation Marathon, Serpentine Galleries, London
* 2015 *Ihe osise*, Stevenson Cape Town, South Africa
* 2015 Ihe Ndị ga-eme n'ọdịnihu, Venice Biennale, Italy
* 2014 Akụkọ banyere *Chroma*, Stevenson Cape Town, South Africa
* 2014 Ihe ngosi abụọ nke Dakar, Dakar, Senegal
* 2004 *Bloomberg New Contemporaries*, Liverpool, UK

## Akwụkwọ

### Akwụkwọ

* 2012 Uccello's Vineyard. ASIN: B009Z48N2Y
* 2008 The Jive Talker ma ọ bụ, Otu esi enweta paspọtụ Britain.

### Isiokwu

* 2015, Ịbanye n'Ámá Egwuregwu: Ọdịnihu Ụwa niile, Nkà na Ọdịbendị, South Korea, na Contemporary And
* 2014, Great African Minds: Dr Charles Chanthunya, Peter Hammer Verlag
* 2013, The Museum and the Individual, edemede na Meschac Gaba's Museum of Contemporary African Art, Tate Modern
* 2011, Der skurrile Diktator, Kulturaustausch, IFA, Germany
* 2010, Dr Albert Schweitzer's Troublesome Young Brother, Kulturaustausch, IFA, Germany
* [Ihe e dere n'ala ala peeji]
* 2009, *Omume* na-ekwu na ndị Malawi nọ na ntụrụndụ, Kulturaustausch, IFA, Germany

## Ebe obibi, mkpakọrịta na onyinye

* 2015, Mmekọrịta nyocha, Smithsonian Institution National Museum of African Art, Washington DC, USA
* 2014, Mmekọrịta nyocha, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, USA
* 2013, AHRC PhD Research Award, UK
* 200510, Ebe obibi ọkụ, ACME, London, UK
* 2004, Decibel Visual Arts Award, Arts Council
* 2000, Thami Mnyele Artist Residency, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

## Ihe edeturu na ntụaka

## Njikọ mpụga

* Official website
* Kate MacGarry: Samson Kambalu
* Ụlọ Na-enweghị Isi
* Simon & Schuster
* Na nke Oge a: Samson Kambalu
* Giles Foden, "Good news from Africa", nyocha nke The Jive Talker, *The Guardian*, 23 August 2008.
* Susan Williams, "The Jive Talker, nke Samson Kambalu Portrait of the artist as a young African" (review), The Independent, 4 July 2008.
* Aminatta Forna, "Ntụle: The Jive Talker nke Samson Kambalu", *The Telegraph*, 10 August 2008.
* Massa Lemu, "N'ihi na onye na-azụ anụ, ụwa dum bụ ogige egwuregwu. Na mkparịta ụka ya na Samson Kambalu", Contemporary And, 13 February 2014.
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