Bio

Georges Senga was born in 1983 in Lubumbashi. He obtained a degree in language and business sciences at the University of Lubumbashi 2009. Already a year earlier, he began his work as a photographer. During the Biennial of Lubumbashi "Rencontres Picha" he took part in a workshop of the Brussels photographer Marie-Françoise Plissart. As a result of this experiment, Georges spent six months working on a project on Katanga's urban landscape entitled "My new ceilings". In 2009, he won the special prize for the second edition of the Africa Photo Contest of Tarifa (Spain). That same year, he exhibited at the French Cultural Center of Lubumbashi. In 2010, he worked on a series around forms of what the photographer sees through abandoned objects. The curator Simon Djami for the Biennale of Lubumbashi selected this series entitled “Imprints” in 2010. The following year this series was presented in Lubumbashi, Tarifa, Nairobi and Bamako. From 2011 to 2013 Georges participated in a "Master Class" program organized by the Goethe Institute of Johannesburg in different cities of Africa (Bamako, Lagos and Lubumbashi). During this period of the new series "A life after death" and "Kadogos" were realized.

"A life after death" on Patrice Lumumba was exhibited at the Contemporary Art Gallery Dialogues of the National Museum of Lubumbashi in 2013, the Kampala Biennale, at the ADDIS PHOTOFEST in 2014, at the BRASS Cultural Center in Brussels, and at the Biennial of Bamako where he obtains the Leon African Award in 2015. This series deals with the passage of time and the timelessness of what Lumumba means.

From September 2015 to February 2017 in residence at the Solitude Academy in Stuttgart Germany, Senga realizes another new series "This house is not for sale and for sale" between Lubumbashi in DR Congo and Sao Paolo in Brazil. This series exploits the commune KATUBA in Lubumbashi a city in the south of the DR Congo. Katuba divided by neighborhoods (Katuba 1st, two and three) was one of the municipalities created on a loan from a company FUND ADVANCED in the colonial era in the 1945s. Most homes build today object of a conflict of inheritance and thus are sealed with a large writing face "THIS HOUSE IS NOT FOR SALE" to warn anyone who wants to invest his money for the purchase.

Georges Senga is part of the artistic dynamic of the city of Lubumbashi at the PICHA art center in DR Congo and Market photo workshop and Phototools of Johannesburg, South Africa.

TRAINING

From 2004 to 2009
Degree in Languages and Business University of Lubumbashi

Residences et workshop

-2020: February Enough Room for Space, Drogenbos, Belgium

-2019: October- January 2020 B.A.D Foundation Rotterdam Netherland

-2019: August- September Thamie Mnyele Foundation Amsterdam The Netherlands

-2019: May- July: B.A.D Foundation Rotterdam Netherland

-2018 April- April 2019: Jan van Eyck Academie Maastricht Netherland

-2015-2017: Akademie Schloss Solitude Stuttgart Germany

-2015: Contemporary Art center Wiels Belgium (January- March)

-2014: Njelele Art Station Zimbabwe (October)

-2013: Master class portfolio review in off Lagos Photo Festival (with Goethe Institute)

-2012: Master class portfolio review in Lubumbashi (with Goethe Institute)

-2011: Master class portfolio review off Bamako Biennale (with Goethe Institute)

Artistic talks:

-2020 : February: Studium Generale, Koninklijke Academie van de Kunsten (KABK), Den Haag, The Netherlands

-2019 December: “ ON-TRADE-OFF” Cargos in Context, Amsterdam Netherland

-2019 June: “SOMETHING WE AFRICANS GOT”, BOZAR CENTRE FOR FINE ARTS Brussels, Belgium

- 2019 June: “exhibition Multiple transmissions: Art in the Afropolitan” WIELS, Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels, Belgium

-2019 March: “Artistic statement” Academy of fine arts and design, Maastricht, Netherlands

- 2018 August: A Blueprint for Toads and Snakes, Framer Framed, Amsterdam, Netherlands

-2017 April: “Artistic Statement” Rhode University, Eastern cape, South Africa

- 2016 September: “contemporary African photography”UNICAMP:Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, État de São Paulo, Brésil

- 2016 September: “ Une vie après la mort” conversation at Aparelha Luzia, in São Paulo

PHOTOS AND PRESENTATIONS

-2020 April: “Le vide”, CBK ZUID Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands( upcoming)

-2020 February: “Rebel Lives” Photographs from inside the Lord's Resistance Army,

UNITED NATIONS, New York , U.S.A

- 2020 January: “Le vide” On-Trade-Off, La contrepartie, Cultural Center Jean Cocteau, Paris, France

- 2019 November: “Le vide” On-Trade-Off, The Weight of Wonders, Cargo in context, Amsterdam

- 2019 October: “Le vide” On-Trade-Off, The Weight of Wonders, Contour Biennale, Belgium

- 2019 October: “FORMAT” Lubumbashi Biennale, D.R. Congo

- 2019 October: “Cette maison n’est pas à vendre et à vendre” SESC Video Brazil

Biennale, Sao Paolo ,Brazil

-2019 June: “Rebel Lives” Photographs from inside the Lord's Resistance Army,

FOTO MUSEUM, Antwerp , Belgium

- 2019 June: Cette maison n'est pas à vendre et à vendre, Kigali Photo Festival, Rwanda

- 2019 May: “FORMAT” Multiple Transmissions: Art in the Afropolitan Age', WIELS Brussels, Belgium

-2019 April: “C ette maison n'est pas à vendre et à vendre” Fondation A Stichting Brussels Belgium

- 2019 March: “FORMAT” Jan Van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, Netherlands

- 2019 March: “KOMBO YA SIKA” On-Trade-Off, The Weight of Wonders,Imane

Fares Gallery, Paris, FRANCE

- 2018 December: “Cette maison n'est pas à vendre et à vendre” Addis Foto Festival, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

- 2018 December: “Cette maison n'est pas à vendre et à vendre” Kunstverein Milano,Milan, Italie

- 2018 February: “KOMBO YA SIKA” Cap Town Art Fair, Cap town, Sauth Africa - 2017 December: “C ette maison n'est pas à vendre et à vendre” Bamako

Biennale, Bamako, Mali

- 2017 June: “C ette maison n'est pas à vendre et à vendre” Contemporary African Photography, Basel, Switzerland

- 2017 April: ” Une vie après la mort” The Second Session of Changjiang International Photography & Video Biennale, China

- 2017 April: “C ette maison n'est pas à vendre et à vendre” Marketphoto workshop, Johannesburg, South Africa

- 2017 January: “C ette maison n'est pas à vendre et à vendre” Solitude Academy, Stuttgart, Germany

-2016 August: “Purification” THE INCANTATION OF THE DISQUIETING MUSE, The Savvy Contemporary, Berlin, Germany

- 2016 February: ” U ne vie après la mort” THE ICONOGRAPHY OF LUMUMBA IN THE ARTS AND WORK OF RAOUL PECK” University of Antwerp, Belgium

- 2015 December: ” Une vie après la mort” Bamako Biennale, Bamako, Mali

- 2015 October: ” Kadogos” Lubumabashi Biennale , Lubumbashi, D.R Congo - 2015 June: ” U ne vie après la mort” Voie Off, Arle, France

- 2015 April: ” U ne vie après la mort” Odyssée Africaine , Brass art center, Brussels, Belgium

- 2014 December: ” Une vie après la mort” Addis Foto Festival, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

-2014 August: ” Une vie après la mort” Kampala Biennale, Kampala, Uganda

- 2014 July: ” Kadogos” Hunting and Collecting Mu.ZEE, Oostende, Belgium

- 2013 October: ” U ne vie après la mort” Lubumbashi Biennale , Lubumbashi, D.R. Congo

- 2013 March: ” Une vie après la mort” l’Asbl Dialogues Gallery, Lubumbashi, D.R. Congo

-2012 June: “ Empreintes” PhotoAfrica 4, Asuncion, Paraguay

-2012 March: “ Empreintes” AFRICA NUMBER TWO, Recyclart, Brussels

,Belgium

- 2011 October: Empreintes” PhotoAfrica 4, Kenya International Film Festival; Nairobi, Kenya

-2010 October: “Empreintes” Lubumbashi Biennale, Lubumbashi, D.R. Congo - 2009 September: “Mes nouveux Plafonds” PhotoAfrica 2, Tarifa, Spain

AWARD

-2019: Thamie Mnyele Award 2019 Netherlands

-2018: DemoCrasee, Biennale of Bamako, Mali

-2017: CAP PRIZE Basel Switzerland

-2016: SADC Research Residency

Prohelveltia South Africa

-2015: Leon the African RAM, Biennale of Bamako Mali

-2014: SADC Research Residency Prohelveltia South Africa

-2009: Special Mention,PHOTOAFRICATarifa,Spain.

Georges SENGA

Bio

TRAINING

Residences et workshop

Artistic talks:

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PHOTOS AND PRESENTATIONS

AWARD