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Event: Picturing Return - Afro-Brazilian Archives in Nigeria

Event: Picturing Return - Afro-Brazilian Archives in Nigeria

A Discussion Between Pelumi Odubanjo and Oludamola Adebowale

Join us at G.A.S. Lagos on September 3rd, 2025, for Picturing Return: Afro-Brazilian Archives in Nigeria, an evening that traces the histories, images, and narratives of the Aguda community and their enduring presence in Nigeria. Current resident Pelumi Odubanjo will be in dialogue with scholar,...

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Pelumi Odubanjo to Research Afro-Brazilian Heritage During Residency

Pelumi Odubanjo to Research Afro-Brazilian Heritage During Residency

We are excited to welcome Pelumi Odubanjo, a British-Nigerian curator, writer, and researcher, to G.A.S. Lagos as our last resident in August. Based between London and Glasgow, Pelumi’s practice spans photography, multidisciplinary research, curatorial work, and ecology. Currently a PhD...

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Event Recap: My Story of Food - On The Farm!

Event Recap: My Story of Food - On The Farm!

An Education Programme for Teachers and Students from St. John’s Primary School, Ikiṣẹ

From June 30th to July 11th, 2025, the G.A.S. Farm House in Ikiṣẹ hosted My Story of Food: On The Farm!, a two-week creative learning programme in partnership with the Five Cowries Arts Education Initiative (FCI). Bringing together teachers and students from St. John’s Primary School...

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Event: Open House

Event: Open House

A Film Screening of Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat and Presentation on G.A.S. Foundation

Join us at G.A.S. Lagos on 29th August 2025 for Open House, a film screening and presentation that offers a closer look at G.A.S. Foundation and the residencies and programmes we host throughout the year. Led by the G.A.S. team, guests will have the opportunity to learn more about the...

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Dr Ietef Vita to Explore Hip-Hop, Ecology, and Ancestral Knowledge During Residency

Dr Ietef Vita to Explore Hip-Hop, Ecology, and Ancestral Knowledge During Residency

Last week, we had the pleasure of welcoming Dr Ietef Vita to G.A.S. Foundation for an immersive eight-week residency. Based in the United States, Ietef is an eco-hip-hop artist, educator, and vegan chef whose work rooted in Pan-African traditions bridges music, environmental activism, and...

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Olufela Omokeko Embarks on a Residency Exploring Indigenous Farming Traditions at G.A.S. Foundation

Olufela Omokeko Embarks on a Residency Exploring Indigenous Farming Traditions at G.A.S. Foundation

We are excited to welcome Nigerian interdisciplinary artist Olufela Omokeko for an eight-week residency at G.A.S. Foundation. His practice spans performance, installation, photography, video, and research, often engaging deeply with communities to address urgent sociocultural issues....

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Event: God Knows Best

Event: God Knows Best

A Film Screening and Discussion on Resilience, Womanhood, and Informal Labour in Lagos

On Saturday, 19th July 2025, G.A.S. Lagos hosted the screening of God Knows Best, a directorial debut of Nigerian screenwriter and filmmaker Nicole Asinugo. Presented in collaboration with the Osahon Okunbo Foundation, the event introduced audiences to a quietly powerful short film...

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Meet the 2025–26 Re:assemblages Advisory Committee

Meet the 2025–26 Re:assemblages Advisory Committee

In June 2025, Guest Artists Space (G.A.S.) Foundation, in partnership with the Yinka Shonibare Foundation (Y.S.F.) announced the 2025–26 edition of Re:assemblages, a dynamic, multi-year programme designed to foster collaboration and experimentation across postcolonial art archives and...

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Announcing The Short Century Intensive Cohort

Announcing The Short Century Intensive Cohort

In June 2025, Guest Artists Space (G.A.S.) Foundation, in partnership with the Yinka Shonibare Foundation (Y.S.F.), launched The Short Century Intensive, a fellowship designed to support artistic and scholarly inquiry into the cultural and political histories of the mid-to-late 20th...

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Event: Internship Presentation

Event: Internship Presentation

A Reflective Presentation Hosted by Nina Gilbert and Savannah Woodson

On July 24th, 2025, G.A.S. Lagos hosted Internship Presentation, an evening of reflection led by Nina Gilbert and Savannah Woodson, two interns who joined G.A.S. Foundation through a partnership with Spelman College and the Atlanta University Center Art History + Curatorial Studies...

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Re:assemblages Convening: Liz Johnson Artur, Black Balloon Archive

Re:assemblages Convening: Liz Johnson Artur, Black Balloon Archive

Hosted by Gallery TPW

We are pleased to partner with Gallery TPW and the National Gallery of Canada on a public talk with artist Liz Johnson Artur, taking place on August 5th, 2025. The event marks the first activation of Contemporary Art and Archive Practices (CAAP), an international series of public convenings led...

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Call for Papers: Re:assemblages Symposium 2025

Call for Papers: Re:assemblages Symposium 2025

Applications Closed

The 20th century can be read as a formative ecotonal space—an unsettled, generative borderland where networks fractured and reformed, collaborations ignited, and tensions gave way to new modes of relation. Within this compressed terrain, distinct ecologies of African and Afro-diasporic...

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