Yinka Shonibare Foundation (Y.S.F.) and Guest Artists Space (G.A.S.) Foundation are delighted to announce that they have been awarded a transformative $220,000 grant from the Terra Foundation for American Art. This significant two-year funding will support two major cross-cultural initiatives at G.A.S. residency locations in Ijebu and Lagos, fostering cultural exchange, ecological engagement, and archival preservation.

Yinka Shonibare Foundation (Y.S.F.) and Guest Artists Space (G.A.S.) Foundation are delighted to announce that they have been awarded a transformative $220,000 grant from the Terra Foundation for American Art. This significant two-year funding will support two major cross-cultural initiatives at G.A.S. residency locations in Ijebu and Lagos, fostering cultural exchange, ecological engagement, and archival preservation.

On Friday, 7th February 2025, G.A.S. Lagos hosted Ecosystems by GROUP50:50, a film screening and discussion exploring the complexities of environmental conservation in the Congo Basin, led by resident Eva-Maria Bertschy. The short film, produced by Congolese filmmakers Joseph K. Kasau and Franck Moka, offers a visual entry point into ECOSYSTEM, a larger multimedia music theater project by GROUP50:50 - a collective of artists from Congo, Switzerland and Germany, with a production structure in Basel, Berlin and Lubumbashi that realizes and produces transnational artistic cooperation projects.

On Friday, 10th January 2025, G.A.S. Lagos hosted Uncommon Grounds, marking its first event of the year. Presented in collaboration with Monangambee, a nomadic Pan-African microcinema based in Lagos, and the London-based Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), with support from the British Council, this event is prompted by John Akomfrah’s work at the 2024 Venice Biennale, Listening All Night to the Rain. As one of three events held across different locations, Uncommon Grounds brought together landscape-oriented films that reflect on labor, ecology, and the afterlives of colonialism in Portugal, Nigeria, and the United Kingdom. Blurring the boundaries between film and installation, each work introduced an architectural approach to cinema, laying bare the physicality of filmmaking, the camera apparatus, and the unstable grounds on which it stands.

To Break A Bitter Fever launches today at Bag Factory, Johannesburg, as the fourth instalment of the Art Exchange: Moving Image programme. Curated by Kefiloe Siwisa in collaboration with artists Gabrielle Goliath, Gogo Mahlodi, Gugu Duma, Lebogang Mabusela, Maneo Mohale, Natalie Paneng, Nombuso Mathibela, Rachel Lowe, Simnikiwe Buhlungu, and Thuli Gamedze, the project responds to the ongoing crisis of gendered and sexualised violence in South Africa. Through workshops, meditations, and collaborative dialogues, it aims to create spaces for respite and collective reflection, and offer moments to gather, rest, and heal.