Originally aired live during the 2025 Re:assemblages Symposium, this segment, now available on YouTube, offers on-the-ground coverage, audience engagement, and key moments that shaped the event’s atmosphere and discussions.

Earlier this week, a new and slightly different Art Week affair took place: the Re: assemblages symposium, hosted by the Alliance Française de Lagos, organised by the Guest Artists Space and Yinka Shonibare Foundations and curated by Naima Hassan. The event brought together cultural...

Timed to coincide with the Art X Lagos fair, the gathering was initiated by British-Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare and his Guest Artists Space Foundation. The Re:assemblages programme, curated by Berlin-based researcher Naima Hassan, saw contributions from more than 70 African and...

Notably, the renowned British artist Yinka Shonibare CBE opened Guest Artists Space (G.A.S.) Foundation in 2019, a nonprofit in Lagos offering artist residencies and public programming by and for artists in the country and across the globe. “Our focus has always been on building...

THE Guest Artists Space (G.A.S.) Foundation and the Yinka Shonibare Foundation (Y.S.F.) convened the inaugural Re:assemblages Symposium on November 4 and 5 at the Alliance Française, Ikoyi, Lagos. The event marked the official launch of the African Arts Libraries Lab (AAL Lab), a new continental...

African and Afro-diasporic archives will be celebrated and reinterpreted as part of a major project launching later this year in Lagos, driven by the British-Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare. The Re:assemblages symposium (4-5 November), taking place at Alliance Française de Lagos, will...

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...

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....

The earth-brick barn house nestled among cassava and yam fields in southern Nigeria is one of two artists’ residences established by the British-Nigerian artist.

Whether starting one’s art career or entering a more established stage, artist residencies can offer valuable resources and professional connections in a mostly opaque art world, not to mention time to focus on making work. Insiders shared the best 35 residencies globally and told us why...

Shonibare, who was raised between London and Lagos, is employing his socially engaged practice to tackle the complex relationship between colonialism and ecological devastation.

Elephant's Desmon Vincent reports on the artist-led communities re-energising the Lagos art scene.