Chéri SAMBA (1956) [view available works from this artist]

 

Selected Exhibitions

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2004 - "J’aime Chéri Samba" - Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris, France

2003 - "Chéri Samba moto na Tervuren" - Musée Royal de l’Afrique, Tervuren, Belgium

2000 - "Chéri Samba une fois encore à Kinshasa" - Centre Culturel du Zoo, Kinshasa, DR Congo

1999 - Ludwig Forum fur internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany

1998 "Cheri Samba" - MAMCO, Geneva, Switzerland

1997 - Berseemuseum, Bremen, Germany

1996 - National Museum of Oceanian and Africain Arts, Paris, France

1991 - ICA -Institut of Contemporary Art, London, UK

- "Cheri Samba, le peintre populaire du Zaïre" - Provinciaal Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Ostende, Belgium

1990 -1989 - "La grande exposition publique Cheri Samba" - Kinshasa, DR Congo, formely Zaïre

1980 - French Cultural Center, Kinshasa, DR Congo, formely Zaïre

1975 -1978 - "La Grande exposition publique Cheri Samba" - Kinshasa, DR Congo, formely Zaïre

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2007 / 2008 - "Popular Painting from Kinshasa" - Tate Modern, London - U.K.

- "Why Africa?" - Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli, Turin, Italy

2006 / 2007 - "100% Africa" - Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain

2005 - "15 ans de transition" - Memling Hotel, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo

- "Peinture populaire congolaise" - Museum of Haitien Art, Port au Prince, Haïti

2004/2006 - "Africa Remix Art contemporain d’un continent" (travelling exhibition)

24 July 2004 - 7 Nov 2004
Museum Kunst Palast
Düsseldorff - Germany

10 Feb 2005 - 17 April 2005
Hayward Gallery
London - England

15 May 2005 - 20 Aug 2005
Centre Georges Pompidou
Paris - France

Feb - May 2006
Mori Art Museum
Tokyo - Japan

2004 - "Le Salon du Mai - Atheliers Berthier" - Opera National de Paris, Paris, France

- "Peinture populaire congolaise" - ADEIAO – Centre d’Etudes Africaines, Maison des Sciences de l’Homme,
Paris, France

- "Je m’installe aux abattoirs - La collection d’art contemporain d’agnès b." - Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, France

- "Les Afriques" - Tri Postal, Lille, France

2003 - "Der Rest der Welt" - Neuffer am Park, Pirmasens, Germany

- "Kin Moto na Bruxelles" - Hôtel de Ville, Brussels,Belgium

- "Afrikanische Reklamekunst (L’art et la pub en Afrique)" - Iwalewa-Haus, Universität Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany

2002 - Espace Croise "Kin Service" - Contemporary Art Center, Roubaix, France

- "Swiss National Exhibition - EXPO 02: "Money & Value"" - Lake of Biel, Switzerland

- Sao Paulo Biennal, Sao-Paulo, Brazil

1999-2000 - "Kustwelten im Dialog" - Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany

1998 - "Africa Africa Vibrant New Art from a Dynamic Continent" - Tobu Museum, Tokyo, Japan

1996-1995 - "An Inside Story : African Art of our Time Beyong Art" - Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo;
The Tokushima Modern Art Museum; Himeji City Museum of Art; Koriyama City Museum of Art; Marugame Inokuma-Genichiro Museum of Contemporary Art; The Museum of fine Art, Gifu., Japan

1994-1991 - "Africa Explores : 20th Century African Art" - New Museum of Contemporary Art,
New York, U.S.A.; Center for African Art, New York, U.S.A.; Berkeley University Art Museum; Bekerley, U.S.A; Prestel, Munich, Germany; Dallas Museum of Art, U.S.A; Saint Louis Art Museum, U.S.A; Mint Museum of Art, U.S.A; Fundacio Antoni Tapies, Barcelona, Spain; Ludwig Forum fur Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany; The Center for Fine Arts, Miami, U.S.A.; The Carnegie Museum of Arts, Pittsburgh, U.S.A; The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., U.S.A; Tate Gallery, Liverpool, UK

1992-1991 - "Africa hoy" - Atlantic Center of Modern Art, Las Palmas Gran Canary, Spain; Contemporary Cultural Art Center, Mexico D.F., Mexico; Groningen Museum, Groningen, Holland

1991 - "60 ans de la peinture zairoise" - German Cultural Center, Kinshasa, RD Congo, formely Zaïre

1990 - Provincialo Museum voor Modern Kunst, Gallery Annenie Dubron, Ostende, Belgium

1989 - "Magiciens de la Terre" - Centre Georges Pompidou, Grande Halle de la Villette, Paris, France

1985 - "Peintres Populaires du Zaïre, l'Art Vivant d'Afrique Centrale" - Laval University Department of History, Quebec; Montreal University - Department of Anthropology, Canada

1982 - "Visages et Racines du Zaïre" - Decoratives Arts Museum, Paris, France

1978 - "Art Partout" - Fine Art Academy, CIAF, Kinshasa - DR Congo, formely Zaïre

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