G.A.S. Foundation’s 2024-25 residency season launched with a dynamic cohort of multidisciplinary practitioners. ⁠Ana Ogunsanya explored her Nigerian-British heritage through Indigenous textile practices, while Phokeng Setai reimagined scaffolding as a site for public art in Lagos. ⁠Meanwhile, Alexandra Martens Serrano engaged with the intersection of quantum technologies and natural ecologies. Misheck Masamvu spent time at the G.A.S. Farm House developing new works that were informed by the Nigerian cultural landscape. ⁠The season continues with ART X Prize winner Shabu Mwangi, who is deepening his exploration of identity and power dynamics ahead of his presentation at the 9th edition of the fair.⁠
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Guest Artists Space Foundation is excited to welcome Kenyan multidisciplinary artist Shabu Mwangi for a residency from September to November 2024. Mwangi’s dynamic practice spans painting, sculpture, and installation, often focusing on the effects of structural and historical violence, as well as marginalization, on both individual and collective psyches. His work offers a powerful commentary on the societal and cultural tensions that shape contemporary life.

Join us at G.A.S. Lagos on September 27, 2024, for After the Future, an immersive evening with artist Alexandra Martens Serrano. The event will kick off with an artist talk, where Serrano will share her innovative approach to art, science, and social change. Following this, guests will participate in a speculative futures session, culminating in a collaborative drawing exercise, Exquisite Corpse, which will encourage dialogue around the evolving relationship between art and technology.

Goethe-Institut is partnering with G.A.S. Foundation to facilitate one Lagos-based residency within the framework of its Studio Quantum programme.  This innovative global constellation of residencies and supporting public interventions will explore emerging quantum technologies through the prism of art in Lagos, Dublin, Johannesburg, Mexico City, Karlsruhe, Rotterdam, Bangalore and London.

Join us for In Pieces, a collage workshop that invites you to explore culture through the powerful lens of your personal experiences. This interactive session will begin with a presentation that will uncover collage as a language of autoethnographic expression, an approach that combines the personal with the cultural to tell stories rooted in individual lived experiences.

Following the presentation, participants will engage in an introspective mind-mapping activity designed to uncover the themes and stories most significant to themselves. This reflective exercise will serve as the foundation for a hands-on collaging workshop, where there will be an opportunity to create your own piece of autoethnographic art.