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Unextractable: Sammy Baloji invites

Installationview Kunsthalle Mainz: Unextractable: Sammy Baloji invites, Sammy Baloji, Kasala, Photo: Norbert Miguletz
Installationview Kunsthalle Mainz: Unextractable: Sammy Baloji invites, Sammy Baloji, Kasala, Photo: Norbert Miguletz

Sammy Baloji, Kasala: The Slaughterhouse of Dreams or The First Human, Bende’s Error in Boycotting the Creation, 2019, mixed media installation, variable dimensions. Courtesy of the artist. Collection of Museum Rietberg Zurich, Switzerland.

Sammy Baloji, Kasala: The Slaughterhouse of Dreams or The First Human, Bende’s Error in Boycotting the Creation, 2020, HD Video (31:40 min). Courtesy of the artist.

Commissioned by Museum Rietberg Zurich, Switzerland.

 

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Installationview: Kunsthalle Mainz: Unextractable: Sammy Baloji invites: Sammy Baloji, embossed copper plates, 2025 Nilla Banguna: Wankito (umwanakaji). La femme forte, 2023, printed fabrics, Photo: Norbert Miguletz
Installationview: Kunsthalle Mainz: Unextractable: Sammy Baloji invites: Sammy Baloji, embossed copper plates, 2025 Nilla Banguna: Wankito (umwanakaji). La femme forte, 2023, printed fabrics, Photo: Norbert Miguletz

Sammy Baloji: Untitled, 2015, embossed copper plates, 60 × 42,5 cm. Produced in collaboration with workshop Eric van Hove / Fenduq, Marrakech.

Nilla Banguna: Wankito (umwanakaji). La femme forte, 2023, printed fabrics designed and produced by Nilla Banguna, in collaboration with Patrizia Banguna Kazadi, Josephine Kyungu Muloba, and Fernande Musha Sebelwa in Lubumbashi, DRC.

 

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Installationview: Kunsthalle Mainz: Unextractable: Sammy Baloji invites: Sybil Coovi Handemagnon Dessus, dessous et à travers (Over, under and through), 2023, Photo: Norbert Miguletz
Installationview: Kunsthalle Mainz: Unextractable: Sammy Baloji invites: Sybil Coovi Handemagnon Dessus, dessous et à travers (Over, under and through), 2023, Photo: Norbert Miguletz

Dessus, dessous et à travers (Over, under and through), 2023, Multimedia installation: photomontage on wallpaper fleece, pigment prints on white 42 g paper, pigment prints on 310 g, plaster sculptures, archive boxes with photographs and documents, metal shelves, cola-nuts, nitrile gloves, tissue paper. Courtesy of the artist

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Installationview Kunsthalle Mainz: Unextractable: Sammy Baloji invites: Fundi Mwamba Gustave & Antje Van Wichelen, 2023, Photo: Norbert Miguletz
Installationview Kunsthalle Mainz: Unextractable: Sammy Baloji invites: Fundi Mwamba Gustave & Antje Van Wichelen, 2023, Photo: Norbert Miguletz
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Installationview Kunsthalle Mainz: Unextractable: Sammy Baloji invites: Isaac Sahani Dato Topos, 2022, Photo: Norbert Miguletz
Installationview Kunsthalle Mainz: Unextractable: Sammy Baloji invites: Isaac Sahani Dato Topos, 2022, Photo: Norbert Miguletz

Isaac Sahani Dato, Topos, 2022, installation of burned maps lasered in wood, aerial shots and a fanzine. Courtesy of the artist

 

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Installationview Kunsthalle Mainz: Unextractable: Sammy Baloji invites: Julia Tröscher: There was a Never, there was a Yes, 2023, Yes/Emotion, 2023, Photo: Norbert Miguletz
Installationview Kunsthalle Mainz: Unextractable: Sammy Baloji invites: Julia Tröscher: There was a Never, there was a Yes, 2023, Yes/Emotion, 2023, Photo: Norbert Miguletz

Julia Tröscher: There was a Never, there was a Yes, 2023, 16:9 HD video (13 min). Courtesy of the artist, with many thanks to: Jutta Machu, Johanna & Anna Tröscher, Niek Van Oosterwyck, Helia Jafarzade, Lies Jacobs, Leonie Lehmberg, Fareed Aziz, Mustaf Ahmeti, Pieter Vandenhoudt, Sammy Baloji

Yes/Emotion, 2023, wood, concrete, steel, clay, epoxy, acrylic paint, 97 × 191 × 45 cm. Courtesy of the artist, with many thanks to Tom Volkaert and Hans Wuyts, Sammy Baloji, Britt and Robbe

 

 

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