We are excited to welcome Nigerian multidisciplinary 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. Through his work, he explores the intersections of personal and collective experience, with recurring themes of psycho-social dynamics, mortality, food insecurity, preservation, and ecological challenges.

Earlier this 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 ancestral foodways. Known professionally as DJ Cavem, his multidisciplinary practice spans painting, performance, sound, music, film, photography, textiles, and ecology. He harnesses hip-hop as a catalyst for climate justice, youth empowerment, and wellness, creating projects that range from multimedia albums and food justice curricula to international workshops fusing beat-making with soil science, herbalism, and culinary arts.

Guest Artists Space (G.A.S.) Foundation and Yinka Shonibare Foundation (Y.S.F.) have announced the 2025–26 edition of ‘Re:assemblages’, a far-reaching programme that centres African and Afro-diasporic archives as spaces of artistic inquiry, experimental scholarship and decolonial imagination. Curated by Naima Hassan, with contributions from Maryam Kazeem, Ann Marie Peña, and Jonn Gale, ‘Re:assemblages’ positions the archive not as a static storehouse of history, but as a living, evolving medium for storytelling, activism and collective transformation.

Unfolding across multiple geographies, the multi-year initiative will feature international convenings, symposia, fellowships and micro-publications, culminating in new modes of collaboration between African arts libraries, researchers, artists and publishers. At its heart lies a drive to reframe access, visibility and authorship within postcolonial knowledge production – rethinking what it means to preserve, interpret and activate African art histories today.

In 2022, after construction and delay caused in part by the Covid-19 pandemic, the local launch was held and the G.A.S. Fellowship Award, an annual initiative in collaboration with the Yinka Shonibare Foundation to support mid-career artists and curators across Africa was announced.  

Winning the award was “very affirming [and] validating… It felt like the work I was doing was recognized,” said 2024 honoree Amanda Iheme, citing the somewhat familiar experiences of artists not getting grants, awards, or residences that they apply for—especially in a climate when one’s fame and one’s artistic concerns can influence who ultimately wins out. She added that she liked that it was a local residency—she’d been wanting to participate in a program located in the place where her work is focused.

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 that follows Simi, a young widow in Lagos who begins driving her late husband’s danfo bus to support her family. Navigating grief, financial strain, and social judgement, God Knows Best offers a reflection on resilience, womanhood, and reclaiming one’s identity in the face of loss.