The two monumental sculptures by Sammy Baloji will be on display on the stage of the Blue Hall until June 2022.

“EUROPA, Oxalá” revolves around memorial and postcolonial studies, two interdisciplinary fields in themselves, and offers the opportunity to discover a set of European artists and intellectuals, whose parents are mainly from the ancient colonies of empires overseas.
Curators: António Pinto Ribeiro, Katia Kameli and Aimé Mpane Enkobo.
The exhibition will travel to Fondation Calouste Gulbenkian (Lisboa) from April to July 2022 and to the Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale/AfricaMuseum (Tervuren), from Sept. to December 2022.

Sammy Baloji’s first solo exhibition in Italy, conceived specifically for the Andito degli Angiolini of Palazzo Pitti, is a new and extended chapter of his ongoing reflection on and dialogue with a series of artefacts and archives dating back to the Kingdom of Kongo.

The ambition of the Geneva Biennale–Sculpture Garden is to establish itself as a major summer artistic event for the region, offering Geneva, its inhabitants and its many national and international visitors an outdoor exhibition of high-caliber during the whole summer period. Initiated and organized by artgenève in collaboration with the MAMCO (Geneva’s contemporary art museum) and the City of Geneva, the Biennale’s third edition is curated by Devrim Baya

Sammy Baloji and Emeka Ogboh art taking part in the collective exhibition Tell me about yesterday tomorrow, cur. Nicolaus Schafhausen

Munich Documentation Centre for the History of National Socialism, Munich, Germany

Other Tales, first personal exhibition of Sammy Baloji in Scandinavia, cur. Matteo Lucchetti
Lunds Konsthall, Lund, Sweden

Sammy Baloji and Younès Rahmoun are taking part in the collective exhibition “Our World is Burning“, cur. Abdellah Khartoum and Fabien Danesi
The exhibition Our World is Burning offers a fully political view of international contemporary creation seen from the Gulf, where wars and diplomatic tensions have constantly determined the history of the early 21st century. The title explicitly refers to the human disasters generated by the successive conflicts in this region, while bringing in as broadly as possible the ecological catastrophes…
Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France

Sammy Baloji is taking part in the 22^nd Biennale of Sydney, cur. Brook Andrew.
For his research project at NIRIN, he draws on these earlier works by confronting two operational cultural modes (the kasalaand lukasa) to critically approach the imposition of identity frontiers during the colonial period. Thus, his artistic research aims to capture these pre-colonial political and aesthetic codes and to create narrative devices, including the postcolonial socio-political framework.
Cockatoo Island, Sydney, Australia

Sammy Baloji is taking part in the collective exhibition “À toi appartient le regard entre et (…) la liaison infinie entre les choses” (“Who Is Gazing?”) at musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac, cur. Christine Barthe.
Photography, video, installation: for the first time, the musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac is dedicating a major exhibition within its walls to contemporary images in all their forms. In the wake of its residency programme and surveys conducted over the last ten or so years, the exhibition presents twenty-six non-European artists from a variety of backgrounds, both young and emerging talents.
Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac, Paris, France

Sammy Baloji is taking part in the annual exhibition of the residents of l’Académie de France in Rome, cur. Lorenzo Romito

Sammy Baloji, Mohssin Harraki and Younès Rahmoun are taking part in the exhibition Global(e) Resistance, pour une histoire engagée de la collection contemporaine, de Jonathas de Andrade à Billie Zangewa, cur. by Christine Macel, Alicia Knock and Yung Ma.
The exhibition Global(e) Resistance unveils for the first time the works of more than sixty artists gathered over the last decade, the majority of whom come from the Global South (Africa, Middle East, Asia, Latin America) and aims to examine contemporary strategies of resistance.
Global(e) Resistance also poses theoretical questions that range from the articulation of aesthetics and politics to the very relationship between the museum and politics within the art world.
Musée national d’art moderne/Centre Pompidou, Paris, France

The exhibition presents works from the MMK collection ranging in date from the early 1960s to the present, including some of the museum’s newest acquisitions.
TOWER MMK, TaunusTurm, Frankfurt am Main

Other Tales is Sammy Baloji’s first solo exhibition in both Sweden and Denmark, curated by Matteo Lucchetti
Kunsthal Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark

Sammy Baloji and Sinzo Aanza are taking part in the collective exhibition Kinshasa, la ville vue par ses artistes contemporains, cur. : Dominique Malaquais, Sébastien Godret, Fiona Meadows, Claude Allemand, and Éric Androa Mindre Kolo.
Cité de l’architecture & du patrimoine, Paris, France — co-produced with MIAM, Sète

The Rmn – Grand Palais is taking part in the Africa 2020 Season by inviting the artist Sammy Baloji to create two exceptional sculptures for the pedestals of the facade of the Grand Palais, on the Champs-Elysées-Clemenceau side., cur. Chris Deacon.

Villa Médicis — Villa Kujoyama — Casa de Velázquez

Suna and İnan Kıraç Foundation Pera Museum in Istanbul bids farewell to 2020 with an exhibition highlighting the global crisis under the influence of the pandemic. “Crystal Clear”, curated by Elena Sorokina, brings together the works of twenty artists from different countries and generations who engage with the questions of transparency and opacity, earth and de-growth, and the extractive logic that we have to challenge.

Born out of the collaboration between the Museum of African Contemporary Art Al Maaden (MACAAL) in Marrakech and the National Museum of the History of Im­migration in Paris, the exhibition What is forgotten and what remains explores the concept of transmission through the works of eighteen artists from the African continent and its diasporas. It brings together heritage and mo­vement, addressing questions of frontiers and migration, of links between genera­tions, of history and memory on both sides of the Mediterranean and within the African continent. Paintings, weavings, sculptures, videos, installations, performances, some commissioned from artists representative of the vitality of African art, focus equally on exchanges and ruptures, on that which is forgotten, omitted, rendered invisible.
Curated by Meriem Berrada  & Isabelle Renard

Truth and fiction, and the dissonance between imagined futures and contemporary existence are powerfully interpreted through the photographs of Sammy Baloji and Ade Adekola. Through their work, the exhibition Reframing the Exotic examines the impacts of economic imperialism and globalisation, and the devastating and consequential effects on natural resources, the environment and black communities

THIS IS NOT AFRICA – UNLEARN WHAT YOU HAVE LEARNED disrupts a conventional and stereotypical western narrative of Africanness. It includes works that in various ways parody, break through, deconstruct or establish new cognitive parameters and forms of expression. By way of exception, ARoS is going to create an art satellite in close collaboration with the ambitious and artistic powerhouse SCCA and Red Clay in Ghana.

The installation, which incorporates an audio witness from the past: Albert Kudjabo, a Congolese soldier who volunteered to fight in 1914 in Belgium, crystallizes various (hi)stories: the continued impact of Belgian colonialism and extractives of natural ressources from the Congo, and the shadow histories of Congolese soldiers enrolled within the Belgian army during Wold War I.
In cooperation with In Flanders Fields Museum in Ypres.

Both the Middelheim Museum and the University of Antwerp are situated where the Colonial College was founded in 1920. More than one hundred years later, the Middelheim Museum confronts and examines the traces of the (post)colonial history of the site. It does so by bringing together new historical research with contemporary artistic views. Congoville invites artists to reimagine the Middelheim terrain as a renewed historical and public space.
“Today, as a free and an open air art museum, the Middelheim has the democratic potential to invite diverse visitors to look at colonial and postcolonial history through the eyes of black flâneurs of the world, and to transform Congoville from being a creation of colonial exploitation to a map for a future postcolonial utopia.” (Sandrine Colard)

Resident at the Villa Medici in Rome in 2019, he presents the results of his research on the political, religious and commercial exchanges that took place between the Kongo kingdom, Portugal and the Vatican as early as the 16th century. The exhibition brings together two groups of works: a set of drawings and objects made from motifs borrowed from Kongo fabrics, and a selection of tapestries that are part of famous Indian hangings.

This exhibition brings together two artists from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Sammy Baloji and Bodys Isek Kingelez, whose work shares an exploration of warped colonial legacies alongside visions of future living. Whilst Kingelez makes precise, delicate and detailed models offering imagined propositions for a vibrant cityscape, Baloji draws our eye to people living in the city today and moments of utopia that exist in the day-to-day urban fabric.
This exhibition is part of the Director’s Programme for Glasgow International, Scotland’s largest festival for contemporary art.

The installation at In Flanders Fields Museum consists of image, sculpture and sound, and juxtaposes divergent visions – aerial and horizontal, Western and indigenous – in an attempt to explore what connects them. While images reveal man’s impact on nature, from trenches over shell and mine craters to wounded trees, the artist invites his audience to reflect on the current era with its roots in imperialism and colonialism.

Presented to commemorate the centenary of the death of Louis Ducos du Hauron (1837-1920), who invented color photography, the exhibition brings together more than one hundred works by nineteen photographers, authors and artists, around the pioneers William Eggleston, Ernst Haas, Saul Leiter, who, by bringing color photography into the museum in the 1960s and 1970s, allowed it to attain the status of work of art reserved until then for black and white photography.

Sammy Baloji invites Fiston Mwanza Mujila at De Singel, Anvers

Dir. by. : Sammy Baloji and David N. Bernatchez
Rumba Rules dives into the chaotic life of Kinshasa, filming the Brigade Sarbati orchestra, which whips up Congolese rumba to create mutant music, between tradition and modernity. An energizing flash, filled with life(s) and stories.

Exhibition and seven acts inspired by the work of American anarchist artist Christopher D’Arcangelo interpreted by personalities of the contemporary international art scene.
Curated by Pierre Bal-Blanc

The Antwerp public art collection (Kunst in de Stad) proudly presents a new permanent commission by artist Sammy Baloji. Invited to create a work for Antwerp’s public space, the artist was immediately drawn to the river Scheldt, acknowledging it as the gateway between ‘here’ and ‘there’, the city and the world, but also, more poignantly, between Belgium and Baloji’s native Congo.