Curriculum Vitae

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Education

2004–2009
Degree in Languages and Business, University of Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Selected Residencies & Fellowships

2020–2021
Académie de France à Rome, Villa Medici, Rome, Italy
2020
Enough Room for Space, Drogenbos, Belgium
2019
B.A.D. Foundation, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2019
Thami Mnyele Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2018–2019
Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, Netherlands
2015–2017
Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany
2015
WIELS Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels, Belgium
2014
Njelele Art Station, Harare, Zimbabwe
2013
Master Class, Lagos Photo Festival, Lagos, Nigeria (Goethe-Institut)
2012
Master Class, Lubumbashi, D.R. Congo (Goethe-Institut)
2011
Master Class, Off Bamako Encounters, Mali (Goethe-Institut)

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2022
Comment un petit chasseur paĂŻen devient prĂȘtre catholique, Museo delle CiviltĂ , Rome, Italy
2022
Comment un petit chasseur paĂŻen devient prĂȘtre catholique, Lubumbashi Biennale, D.R. Congo
2021
Comment un petit chasseur paĂŻen devient prĂȘtre catholique, Villa Medici, Rome, Italy
2017
Cette maison n'est pas Ă  vendre et Ă  vendre, Bamako Encounters, Mali

Selected Group Exhibitions

2025
Money make the world, Shapesshifters, Framer Framed, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2025
Decalquer, Torino fotofestival, Torino, Italy
2023
Tshanga-Tshanga, Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kochi, India
2023
Tshanga-Tshanga, Charging Myths, Framer Framed, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2023
Tshanga-Tshanga, Unextractable: Sammy Baloji invites, Kunsthalle Mainz, Germany
2022
Tshanga-Tshanga, Z33, House for Contemporary Art, Hasselt, Belgium
2019
Multiple Transmissions: Art in the Afropolitan Age, WIELS, Brussels, Belgium
2019
On-Trade-Off, Contour Biennale, Mechelen, Belgium
2017
Contemporary African Photography Prize, Basel, Switzerland
2015
Bamako Encounters, Bamako, Mali
2014
Kampala Biennale, Kampala, Uganda
2010
Lubumbashi Biennale, Lubumbashi, D.R. Congo

Awards & Grants

2019
Thami Mnyele Award, Netherlands
2018
DemaCrassee Award, Bamako Encounters, Mali
2017
CAP Prize, Basel, Switzerland
2016
Pro Helvetia Research Residency, South Africa
2015
LĂ©on the African RAM Award, Bamako Encounters, Mali
2014
Pro Helvetia Research Residency, South Africa

Lectures & Conferences

2023
Tshanga-Tshanga, The End of Western Hegemony, Bocconi University, Milan, Italy
2023
Message: How A Little Pagan Hunter Becomes A Catholic Priest, Villa Romana, Florence, Italy
2023
Message: How A Little Pagan Hunter Becomes A Catholic Priest, Museo delle Culture, Milan, Italy
2019
"Something We Africans Got", BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels, Belgium
2019
"Multiple transmissions: Art in the Afropolitan", WIELS, Brussels, Belgium
2018
A Blueprint for Toads and Snakes, Framer Framed, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Publications

2022
How A Little Pagan Hunter Becomes A Catholic Priest, Kunstverein Publishing Milano — Artist book, texts in English and French

Collections

CNAP, Paris, France
Foundation A Collection, Brussels, Belgium
Private Collections: Brussels, Belgium / Kinshasa, DR Congo