Baloji

Baloji was a Belgian rapper and film director (born 1978). He was born at Lubumbashi.

Also recorded as Serge Tshiani; Serge Tshiani Baloji; Balo; Serge Mc; MC Balo; Baloji Tshiani.

Overview

Also worked under the name Baloji.

Born at Lubumbashi in 1978.

Identity and origins

He also worked under the name Baloji. The authorities additionally record the headings Serge Tshiani, Serge Tshiani Baloji, Balo, Serge Mc and MC Balo.

Recognition and collections

Baloji received Sitges Film Festival Best Director award, Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres and honorary citizen of Liège.

Catalogued works

1 work under this name is catalogued by The Art Institute of Chicago.

Aequare. The Future That Never Was, dated 2023, video, sound, color (21 min., 4 sec.), held by The Art Institute of Chicago, inventory 2024.6.

In public collections

Work associated with this heading is recorded in 1 named public collection.

The Art Institute of Chicago: 132681 recorded objects, read from the institution's own published catalogue.

Literature

5 scholarly publications naming this subject were located in the registry of record.

Baloji, Sammy, Oxford Art Online, 2014. Sammy Baloji, Survey Practices and Landscape Photography Across the Globe, 2022. The Charles Lemaire Expedition Revisited: Sammy Baloji as a Portraitist of Present Humans in Congo Far West, African Arts, 2014. Entretien avec Sammy Baloji. Resubjectiver les photographies des restes humains, Gradhiva, 2025. Augure (2023) a film by Baloji and Augurism curated by Baloji and Elisa De Wyngaert, African Arts, 2024.

In detail

Subjects and genres recorded for the work are hip-hop.

Membership is recorded of Starflam.

Distinctions recorded are Sitges Film Festival Best Director award, Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres and honorary citizen of Liège.

Chronology

1978Baloji born at Lubumbashi.
2023Aequare. The Future That Never Was (The Art Institute of Chicago).

Sources

Each source is named with the standing the house places on it, so the evidence can be weighed rather than taken on trust.

reference work · Reputable secondary · Wikidata
Wikidata, structured authority record Q2881478: Baloji
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