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Name
  
Sammy Baloji

Role
  
Photographer


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Education
  
University of Lubumbashi

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Sammy Baloji is a photographer from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He works in Lubumbashi and Brussels, and held exhibitions in Amsterdam, Paris, Brussels, Bilbao, Cape Town and Bamako.

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Background

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Baloji was born in Lubumbashi on December 29, 1978. He graduated in literature and human science at the University of Lubumbashi.

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After his study he first began to work as a cartoonist. Later he specialized in video art and photography. He made much of his work in his own province of Katanga. Recurrent in his work are ethnographic exploitation, architecture and urbanism, like the exploitation of man en environment in the Congolese urban landscape.

Exhibitions

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Solo shows

  • 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

  • 2014
  • Present Tense - Centro de Arte Moderna - CAM - Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon

    Earth Matters: Land as Material and Metaphor in the Arts of Africa - Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA

    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

    La Otra Bienal De Arte 2013 - La Otra Bienal, Bogota

    Witness/Témoin - Espace doual´art, Douala

    Earth Matters: Land as Material and Metaphor in the Arts of Africa - National Museum of African Art - Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC

    No Limit 2, Une Œuvre / Un Artiste - Galerie Imane Farès, Paris

  • 2012
  • Newtopia - Cultuurcentrum Mechelen, Mechelen

    Le surréel Congo - Museum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte Dortmund , Dortmund

    Status 24 - Dokumente Von Heute - Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur

    All That Fits: The Aesthetics of Journalism - QUAD Gallery, Derby

    Project 35 - Kunsthaus CentrePasquArt - Centre d'Art, Biel/Bienne

    Environment and Object - Recent African Art - Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, VT

  • 2011
  • Infinite Balance: Artists and the Environment - The Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA

    Level 2 Gallery: Contested Terrains - Tate Modern, London

    Project 35 - Gertrude contemporary art spaces, Melbourne, VIC

    Present Tense - Gulbenkian. Próximo Futuro, Lisbon

    Artists in Residence. Sammy Baloji & Patrick Mudekereza - Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren

    Meeting Points 6 - Locus Agonistes: Practices and Logics of the Civic - Beirut Art Center, Beirut

    ARS 11 - Kiasma - Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki

    Possible Cities: Africa In Photography and Video - Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery (CFG) - Haverford College, Haverford, PA

  • 2010
  • Prix Pictet / Earth - Gallery of Photography, Dublin

    Muestra Anual Xxiii Mam ChiloÉ - MAM - Museo de Arte Moderno Chiloé, Castro

  • 2009
  • Périfériks - CAN - Centre d'Art Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel

    Spot On… Bamako - Vii. Rencontres Africaines De La Photographie - ifa-Galerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart

  • 2008
  • InVideo: Lands And Skies - Spazio Oberdan, Milan

    Spot on...- ifa-Galerie Berlin, Berlin

    The Messenger - Cultuurcentrum Brugge, Bruges

  • 2007
  • Congo Contemporain - Monos Gallery, Liège

    TRANS CAPE - contemporary African art on the move - Trans Cape Africa, Cape Town

    Awards

    In 2007 Baloji was twice awarded at the African Photography Encounters in Bamako, Mali, with the Prize Africa in Creation (Prix Afrique en Creation) and the Prize for the Image (Prix pour l’image). In 2009 het was honored with a Prince Claus Award from the Netherlands, for "his highly original inscription of the painful history of human and environmental exploitation into the present-day landscape, for bringing Congo's current realities to an international platform, for his important contribution to the memory of the Congo providing a new reading of the present, and for his challenging demonstration that development can only be realized after duly taking into account the traumas of the past."

    References

    Sammy Baloji Wikipedia