Artis is a contemporary non-profit arts organisation dedicated to supporting artists and contributing to global conversations around art and culture. Based in New York, Artis works with artists from Israel whose practices engage aesthetic, social, and political questions, encouraging reflection and debate through thoughtful and innovative approaches. Artis is partnering with G.A.S. Foundation in alignment with their shared commitment to supporting artists and fostering critical artistic exchange.

In 2025, Guest Artists Space (G.A.S.) Foundation joined TheMuseumsLab Partner Museums Network. TheMuseumsLab residencies are short-term exchanges that support knowledge sharing, skills development, and long-term partnerships between Fellows and host institutions. Since its launch in 2021, the Partner Museums Network has grown to include over 50 museums across Africa and Europe. As part of the programme, Rado Ištok and Ng’onga Silupya were selected as 2025 Fellows and undertook a one-week residency at G.A.S. Lagos.

Adegbola Gallery is a contemporary art gallery and curatorial platform committed to fostering critical engagement with art from Africa and its diaspora. The gallery aims to amplify diverse voices and deepen public appreciation of contemporary visual culture. In 2025, G.A.S. Foundation partnered with Adegbola Gallery to facilitate residencies for Nigeria-based artists, expanding G.A.S.’s growing network of collaborations with institutions across the country. This partnership aims to support artistic development, strengthen local artistic infrastructures, and create opportunities for sustained exchange between artists, curators, and audiences

Earlier this week, we welcomed Ryan Tenney, an interdisciplinary artist and agroecological practitioner based in the U.S., for a ten-week residency at the G.A.S. Farm House. Working across painting, installation, digital media, and ecological research, Ryan’s practice sits at the intersection of art, agriculture, technology, and Traditional Ecological Knowledge. His work investigates how creative and agrarian practices can operate as tools for liberation, collective care, and the imagining of alternative futures.

Helsinki-based visual artist Sasha Huber, whose research-driven, multidisciplinary practice explores the politics of memory, care, and belonging in relation to colonial histories, concluded a four-week residency at G.A.S. Lagos in 2025. During her time at G.A.S., Sasha focused on developing a commemorative portrait of pioneering curator Bisi Silva, whom she first met in the early 2000s during a residency in Helsinki and remained in contact with until Silva’s passing. Central to this project was an intention to honour Bisi Silva’s influence on artistic and curatorial practice across the African continent. The portrait forms part of Saha’s ongoing The Firsts series, which comprises commemorative portraits paying homage to pioneering ancestral figures, with a particular focus on women from the African diaspora in Europe.