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Juwon Aderemi to Explore Domestic Spaces and Experiment with Painting During Residency

Juwon Aderemi to Explore Domestic Spaces and Experiment with Painting During Residency

We are thrilled to welcome Nigerian artist Juwon Aderemi for a three-week residency at the G.A.S. Farm House in Ikiṣẹ. Based in Kwara State, he works across painting and drawing, his practice investigates memory, lived experience, and the ways human presence persists through domestic spaces and...

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Dr Christine Checinska to Explore Indigo Dyeing and Adire Resist Printing During Residency

Dr Christine Checinska to Explore Indigo Dyeing and Adire Resist Printing During Residency

Last week, we welcomed Dr Christine Checinska, a British artist, designer, curator and storyteller of Caribbean descent, to G.A.S. Lagos for her residency. Based in London, Christine’s multidisciplinary practice spans drawing, printmaking, installation, textiles, fashion, curating and...

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G.A.S. and Y.S.F. Launch Partnership with Archival Consciousness Through Biblio-Graph

G.A.S. and Y.S.F. Launch Partnership with Archival Consciousness Through Biblio-Graph

Guest Artists Space (G.A.S.) Foundation and Yinka Shonibare Foundation (Y.S.F.) are pleased to announce a partnership with Amsterdam-based collective Archival Consciousness through Biblio-Graph, a web application for digitising, publishing, archiving, and interacting with collections. The...

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Event: Open Studio

Event: Open Studio

A Presentation of Research and Interactive Workshops with Ọmọlará Williams McCallister and Kévin-Adémọ́lá Ṣàngósànyà

Join us on 14 October 2026 for an Open Studio with current residents Ọmọlará Williams McCallister and Kévin-Adémọ́lá Ṣàngósànyà, who will share their practices and research developed during their residencies.

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Open Call: G.A.S. International Research and Creative Residency Open Call 2027–28

Open Call: G.A.S. International Research and Creative Residency Open Call 2027–28

Applications Open

Guest Artists Space (G.A.S.) Foundation invites applications from creative, cultural, research and ecological practitioners internationally for selected, self-funded residencies of between four and eight weeks at G.A.S. Lagos or the G.A.S. Farm House in Ikiṣẹ, Ogun State.

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Open Call: Project Nexus Supported Residencies 2027

Open Call: Project Nexus Supported Residencies 2027

Applications Open

Guest Artists Space (G.A.S.) Foundation and Yinka Shonibare Foundation (Y.S.F.), with the support of Deutsche Bank, invites applications for three residency opportunities in 2027 as part of Project Nexus, G.A.S. and Deutsche Bank’s residency and professional development programme.

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Call for Participants: Collecting Sediments Workshop

Call for Participants: Collecting Sediments Workshop

Applications Closed

Guest Artists Space (G.A.S.) Foundation invites applications to participate in Collecting Sediments, a two-day earth art workshop co-facilitated by current resident Alexandra Mitiku and the Ala-Praxis Collective.

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Event: Residency Open Studio

Event: Residency Open Studio

A Presentation of Ongoing Research and Works by Afsian Aguilar and Alexandra Mitiku

Join us on September 30th, 2026, for Residency Open Studio, a presentation of ongoing research and works by current residents Afsian Aguilar and Alexandra Mitiku. Together, they will open their studios to share the practices and questions shaping their time at G.A.S. The presentation will delve...

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Announcing the Second Cohort of the G.A.S. Critical Writing Workshop

Announcing the Second Cohort of the G.A.S. Critical Writing Workshop

Guest Artists Space (G.A.S.) Foundation, in partnership with the Yinka Shonibare Foundation (Y.S.F.), is pleased to announce the second cohort of the G.A.S. Critical Writing Workshop. Following a successful pilot programme, held in March 2026, the workshop continues to support the...

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Folasade Ologundudu to Research Nigerian Art History and Lead a Critical Writing Workshop During Residency

Folasade Ologundudu to Research Nigerian Art History and Lead a Critical Writing Workshop During Residency

Earlier this month, we welcomed New York-based writer, curator and critic Folasade Ologundudu to G.A.S. Lagos as a recipient of the 2026 G.A.S. Fellowship Award. Her practice spans research and curatorial work, investigating contemporary art through Black and African diasporic experiences, the...

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Event: Reading New Culture

Event: Reading New Culture

A Reading and Discussion of New Culture Magazine Centred on Architecture and Environmental Design, led by Omenogor Udome and Amanda Iheme

On 28th August, 2026 G.A.S. Lagos hosted Reading New Culture, the second activation of The Reading Room, a curatorial archival project exploring archives through collective reading, conversation, and public programming. Led by curator Omenogor Udome and G.A.S. alumna Amanda Iheme, the reading...

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Alexandra Mitiku to Develop Painting Series Around Studies of Hydro-Feminist Theory During Residency

Alexandra Mitiku to Develop Painting Series Around Studies of Hydro-Feminist Theory During Residency

We are excited to welcome Alexandra Mitiku, a Korean-Ethiopian artist and poet, to G.A.S. Lagos as our first resident this September. Based in Finland, Alexandra’s practice spans painting and installation, exploring fantasy and desire as ways of transforming oppressive systems, beginning...

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