Now that your residency is over, please take a moment to share your thoughts on your time with us, including how the residency has impacted your practice and any suggestions for future improvement. Your insights will directly shape how we support future residents and foster a dynamic creative environment.

The G.A.S. Library and Picton Archive, founded in 2022, houses over 1,500 volumes generously donated by Emeritus Professor John Picton and Sue Picton. Focused on the visual arts of Sub-Saharan Africa and its diaspora, this vital collection, built over six decades, is an open resource for residents and researchers at G.A.S. Lagos. With the support of our community, the archive continues to grow, preserving the Picton legacy and enriching knowledge of African art and history.

The G.A.S. Library and Picton Archive, founded in 2022, houses over 1,500 volumes generously donated by Emeritus Professor John Picton and Sue Picton. Focused on the visual arts of Sub-Saharan Africa and its diaspora, this vital collection, built over six decades, is an open resource for residents and researchers at G.A.S. Lagos. With the support of our community, the archive continues to grow, preserving the Picton legacy and enriching knowledge of African art and history.

To conclude his six-week residency, Misheck Masamvu invited guests to his studio at the G.A.S. Farm House in Ijebu, where he spent most of his time developing a new body of work for his upcoming solo exhibition amidst the rich agricultural landscape. During this intimate gathering, Misheck presented a walkthrough of the works on canvas he developed throughout his residency, sharing insights into his creative process.

As we eagerly anticipate the start of Lagos Art Week at the end of October, we are thrilled to announce the arrival of Theophilus Imani, who will join us at G.A.S. Lagos until November 8, 2024. Theo’s residency sits within the framework of the Annotations Programme. A visual researcher based in Verona, Italy, Theo’s practice primarily focuses on the representation of the Black body within diasporic visual culture, particularly in the Italian context. 

G.A.S. Foundation is excited to introduce our second resident to join us this art season, Liz Kobusinge, a Ugandan researcher and multidisciplinary artist embarking on an immersive four-week residency in Lagos as part of the Annotations Programme - a six-month project that explores major African cultural festivals and their dual nature as historic events and repositories of postcolonial pan-African encounters.

This autumn, G.A.S. Foundation celebrates four alumni making strides in exhibitions and project debuts that highlight the influence of their residencies in Lagos. Tobi Onabolu's evocative video collage Ojú-Inu premieres in London, blending live action and soundscape to explore media's impact on consciousness. Karl Ohiri and Riikka Kassinen’s Abi Morocco Photos: Spirit of Lagos opens at Autograph London, showcasing the legacy of a renowned Lagos studio. Miriam Bettin’s Grow It, Show It! at Museum Folkwang interrogates hair as a symbol of identity and resistance, while Rafael Kouto's Circular Heroes project on upcycling debuts at Photo Vogue Festival 2025 in Milan. Each project reflects deep engagement with Nigerian culture, history, and aesthetics.

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.