From June to November 2025, The Short Century Intensive jointly presented by Guest Artists Space (G.A.S.) Foundation and Yinka Shonibare Foundation (Y.S.F.) brought together U.S. fellows Pujan Karambeigi, Miatta Kawinzi, sadé powell, Cosmo Whyte, and Najha Zigbi-Johnson to explore the compressed 20th century as a formative, in-between space. Across artistic registers, they engaged with archives, excavated overlooked genealogies, and rehearsed speculative modes of citation and annotation, tracing new networks, collaborations, and Afro-diasporic relations. The intensive reimagined and activated Enwezor’s 2001–2002 exhibition The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa, 1945–1994, raising key questions: What becomes possible when African political and aesthetic thought is taken on its own terms—not as an extension, supplement, or proxy? And how might new forms of relation across geographies arise from a shared commitment to difference, rather than a desire to collapse it?

G.A.S. Foundation is pleased to welcome Loni Abiodun, a Lagos-based photographer and filmmaker, for a five-week residency at the G.A.S. Farm House in Ikiṣẹ. Working across photography, moving image, and sound, Loni’s practice examines everyday life in Nigeria through the lens of identity, community, and the dynamic tension between tradition and modernity. His work blends candid street photography with stylised portraiture to construct intimate visual narratives rooted in lived experience.

Join us at G.A.S. Lagos on February 19th, 2026 for Story Story, an interactive presentation of residency research, reflections, and clay works by Fiyin Koko. Framed as a journey through storytelling, play, and imagination, the session explores how time spent at the G.A.S. Farm House in Ikise, thinking, observing, and creating, shaped the works developed during her residency. Drawing from folklore, childlike wonder, and encounters with children, animals, and the surrounding environment, Fiyin reflects on how these experiences informed her process, material choices, and creative approach.

Join us at G.A.S. Lagos on February 12th, 2026 for Artist Open Studio, a presentation and walkthrough of works developed by current resident Nduka Ikechukwu during his four-week residency at G.A.S. During his stay, Nduka focused on research and exploring new ways of interpreting his practice through fresh experiments, ideas, and approaches. He has produced new works using his signature materials, industrial strip belts and net belts, while also experimenting with the incorporation of calabash, a traditional household utensil made from the dried, hollowed-out shell of a gourd, a material he first began exploring last year. 

In November 2025, Guest Artists Space Foundation (G.A.S.) and Yinka Shonibare Foundation (Y.S.F.), partnered to launch  the Finnish-Nigerian Peer Mentoring Residency Programme at Villa Karo’s centre in Grand-Popo, Benin. The programme provides an immersive cross-cultural experience where Finnish and Nigerian visual artists live, work, and learn together, offering two fully funded, eight-week residencies to G.A.S. alumni based and actively working in Nigeria.

On January 30, 2026, G.A.S. Lagos hosted Face to Face, a networking and exchange session facilitated by current resident artist Nduka Ikechukwu. Designed as an intimate gathering, the session created space for meaningful exchange between Nduka and members of the Lagos art community, including artists and cultural workers. Based in Nsukka, Nduka joined G.A.S. for a four-week residency focused on research, networking, and the development of new work shaped through dialogue and encounter. Upon arriving at G.A.S., he expressed a strong interest in connecting with practitioners beyond his immediate context and expanding his professional network within Lagos.

G.A.S. Foundation is excited to welcome Nduka Ikechukwu, a Nigerian artist, for an immersive four-week residency at G.A.S. Lagos. Based in Nsukka, his practice spans installation, sculpture, and textiles, with a strong focus on questions of identity and traditional culture rooted in the Igbo apprenticeship system and the role of titles as markers of progress within the Igbo society. Central to his practice is the use of industrial strap belts, which he stitches into layered forms to examine labour, endurance, and collective effort. Through this material, Nduka articulates metaphors of strength, resilience, and human relationships exploring the ties that bind people to place, purpose, and one another.

Artis is a contemporary non-profit arts organisation dedicated to supporting artists and contributing to global conversations around art and culture. Based in New York, Artis works with artists from Israel whose practices engage aesthetic, social, and political questions, encouraging reflection and debate through thoughtful and innovative approaches. Artis is partnering with G.A.S. Foundation in alignment with their shared commitment to supporting artists and fostering critical artistic exchange.

In 2025, Guest Artists Space (G.A.S.) Foundation joined TheMuseumsLab Partner Museums Network. TheMuseumsLab residencies are short-term exchanges that support knowledge sharing, skills development, and long-term partnerships between Fellows and host institutions. Since its launch in 2021, the Partner Museums Network has grown to include over 50 museums across Africa and Europe. As part of the programme, Rado Ištok and Ng’onga Silupya were selected as 2025 Fellows and undertook a one-week residency at G.A.S. Lagos.

Adegbola Gallery is a contemporary art gallery and curatorial platform committed to fostering critical engagement with art from Africa and its diaspora. The gallery aims to amplify diverse voices and deepen public appreciation of contemporary visual culture. In 2025, G.A.S. Foundation partnered with Adegbola Gallery to facilitate residencies for Nigeria-based artists, expanding G.A.S.’s growing network of collaborations with institutions across the country. This partnership aims to support artistic development, strengthen local artistic infrastructures, and create opportunities for sustained exchange between artists, curators, and audiences

Earlier this week, we welcomed Ryan Tenney, an interdisciplinary artist and agroecological practitioner based in the U.S., for a ten-week residency at the G.A.S. Farm House. Working across painting, installation, digital media, and ecological research, Ryan’s practice sits at the intersection of art, agriculture, technology, and Traditional Ecological Knowledge. His work investigates how creative and agrarian practices can operate as tools for liberation, collective care, and the imagining of alternative futures.