Event: God Knows Best

Event: God Knows Best

A Film Screening and Discussion on Resilience, Womanhood, and Informal Labour in Lagos

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.

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Meet the 2025–26 Re:assemblages Advisory Committee

Meet the 2025–26 Re:assemblages Advisory Committee

In June 2025, Guest Artists Space (G.A.S.) Foundation, in partnership with the Yinka Shonibare Foundation (Y.S.F.) announced the 2025–26 edition of Re:assemblages, a dynamic, multi-year programme designed to foster collaboration and experimentation across postcolonial art archives and library collections. This ambitious initiative reimagines the stewardship and activation of African and Afro-diasporic art archives, and will result in a rich constellation of international convenings, symposia, micro-publications, and a research intensive.

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Announcing The Short Century Intensive Cohort

Announcing The Short Century Intensive Cohort

In June 2025, Guest Artists Space (G.A.S.) Foundation, in partnership with the Yinka Shonibare Foundation (Y.S.F.), launched The Short Century Intensive, a fellowship designed to support artistic and scholarly inquiry into the cultural and political histories of the mid-to-late 20th century.  As part of the second chapter of Re:assemblages, a dynamic, multi-year programme designed to foster collaboration and experimentation across postcolonial art archives and library collections, the intensive is anchored by Okwui Enwezor’s seminal 2001-2002 exhibition The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa 1945–1994, which examined the intersections of art and politics during a period of intense struggle and transformation across Africa. Taking this archive as a provocation, the intensive asks: what forms of relation, refusal, and repair remain possible in the afterlives of this compressed century?

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Event: Internship Presentation

Event: Internship Presentation

A Reflective Presentation Hosted by Nina Gilbert and Savannah Woodson

On July 24th, 2025, G.A.S. Lagos hosted Internship Presentation, an evening of reflection led by Nina Gilbert and Savannah Woodson, two interns who joined G.A.S. Foundation through a partnership with Spelman College and the Atlanta University Center Art History + Curatorial Studies Collective (AUC Collective). The event marked the conclusion of their internship, offering a glimpse into their evolving curatorial and artistic interests shaped by their experiences in Lagos.

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Re:assemblages Convening: Liz Johnson Artur, Black Balloon Archive

Re:assemblages Convening: Liz Johnson Artur, Black Balloon Archive

Hosted by Gallery TPW

We are pleased to partner with Gallery TPW and the National Gallery of Canada on a public talk with artist Liz Johnson Artur, taking place on August 5th, 2025. The event marks the first activation of Contemporary Art and Archive Practices (CAAP), an international series of public convenings led by Guest Artists Space (G.A.S.) Foundation and Yinka Shonibare Foundation (Y.S.F.). Focused on the boarders of contemporary art and archival practice, CAAP unfolds as part of the 2025–26 edition of Re:assemblagesa dynamic, multi-year programme designed to foster collaboration and experimentation across postcolonial art archives and library collections.

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Call for Papers: Re:assemblages Symposium 2025

Call for Papers: Re:assemblages Symposium 2025

Applications Open

The 20th century can be read as a formative ecotonal space—an unsettled, generative borderland where networks fractured and reformed, collaborations ignited, and tensions gave way to new modes of relation. Within this compressed terrain, distinct ecologies of African and Afro-diasporic thought and practice took shape, producing postcolonial libraries and archives that carried with them emergent aesthetic and epistemic registers—unfinished, insurgent, and alive with possibility.  

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Call for Papers: Re:assemblages Symposium 2025

Call for Papers: Re:assemblages Symposium 2025

Applications Open

The 20th century can be read as a formative ecotonal space—an unsettled, generative borderland where networks fractured and reformed, collaborations ignited, and tensions gave way to new modes of relation. Within this compressed terrain, distinct ecologies of African and Afro-diasporic thought and practice took shape, producing postcolonial libraries and archives that carried with them emergent aesthetic and epistemic registers—unfinished, insurgent, and alive with possibility.  

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Event Recap: AfterImages

Event Recap: AfterImages

From June 19th to 21st, 2025, G.A.S. Lagos hosted AfterImages, an exhibition of moving image installations and accompanying screenings interrogating the coloniality of archival film. Curated by Monangambee, AfterImages was presented as the culminating exhibition of Art Exchange: Moving Image, a curatorial professional development programme delivered by LUX, Yinka Shonibare Foundation, and Guest Artists Space Foundation, with support from the British Council. Focusing on Cameroonian cinema and broader film traditions from the Global South, the featured works used experimental and archival techniques to reflect on what remains after colonialism and how memory, history, and absence are expressed through film.

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Event Recap: Ìmòra Arts Intensive

Event Recap: Ìmòra Arts Intensive

From June 9th to 13th, 2025, G.A.S. Lagos hosted the inaugural edition of the Ìmòra Arts Intensive, a week-long programme designed to equip early-career visual artists with the tools, knowledge, and mentorship needed to strengthen their professional practice. Through a series of dynamic and insightful sessions, participants explored topics such as artistic research, project development, commercial representation, negotiation, and strategies for presenting their work. Each day brought together the 10 selected cohort and experienced facilitators, ranging from curators and cultural workers to writers, artists, and creative entrepreneurs, for hands-on learning, critical reflection, and peer exchange. 

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Dr Tinashe Mushakavanhu Embarks on a Residency Focused on Research, Reflection and Creative Production

Dr Tinashe Mushakavanhu Embarks on a Residency Focused on Research, Reflection and Creative Production

Dr Tinashe Mushakavanhu, a Zimbabwean writer, scholar, and curator, joins G.A.S. Lagos for a six-week residency as the 2025 curatorial recipient of the G.A.S. Fellowship Award supported by Deutsche Bank. His expansive practice spans printmaking, installation, curating, research, and literature, with a strong focus on the intersections of African literary histories, archives, and visual culture. At the core of his approach is an interest in how fiction can function as a tool for critical inquiry, activating narratives, reworking found materials, and challenging dominant cultural and institutional frameworks.

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Announcing a New Residency Partnership Between Guest Artists Space and the Finnish Cultural Foundation

Announcing a New Residency Partnership Between Guest Artists Space and the Finnish Cultural Foundation

G.A.S. is pleased to partner with the Finnish Cultural Foundation to provide two fully funded, eight-week residencies, which will be awarded to Finnish or Finland-based artists, curators, or writers. The selected residents will primarily be housed in Lagos, with the possibility of spending a shorter time at the G.A.S. Farm House in Ijebu. The opportunity is open to practitioners across various career stages, working in the visual arts, literature, curatorial practice, or intersecting disciplines, who engage with themes of material culture, ecology, and archives within a dynamic transnational context. 

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