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.

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’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.