Join us on September 30th, 2026, for Residency Open Studio, a presentation of ongoing research and works by current residents Afsian Aguilar and Alexandra Mitiku. Together, they will open their studios to share the practices and questions shaping their time at G.A.S. The presentation will delve into their distinct focuses. Afsian considers home, identity, and the body through painting, collage, fabric, and installation while Alexandra’s works meditate on migration, imperialism, and the imbalance caused by extractive forms of development. In Lagos she has been observing the juxtaposition of how new land is created through the mangrove tree ecosystem and the Lagos-Calabar Coastal road; both shifting the borders between land and water but resulting in different environmental futures.

Guest Artists Space (G.A.S.) Foundation, in partnership with the Yinka Shonibare Foundation (Y.S.F.), is pleased to announce the second cohort of the G.A.S. Critical Writing Workshop. Following a successful pilot programme, held in March 2026, the workshop continues to support the professional and critical development of emerging art writers, researchers, and cultural practitioners in Nigeria.

Earlier this month, we welcomed New York-based writer, curator and critic Folasade Ologundudu to G.A.S. Lagos as a recipient of the 2026 G.A.S. Fellowship Award. Her practice spans research and curatorial work, investigating contemporary art through Black and African diasporic experiences, the universal human condition, power structures and cultural forces. 

On 28th August, 2026 G.A.S. Lagos hosted Reading New Culture, the second activation of The Reading Room, a curatorial archival project exploring archives through collective reading, conversation, and public programming. Led by curator Omenogor Udome and G.A.S. alumna Amanda Iheme, the reading focused on New Culture: A Review of Contemporary African Arts, Volume 1, the opening volume of a pioneering Nigerian art publication founded and published by artist, architect, and designer Demas Nwoko through New Culture Studios in Ibadan, Nigeria.

We are excited to welcome Alexandra Mitiku, a Korean-Ethiopian artist and poet, to G.A.S. Lagos as our first resident this September. Based in Finland, Alexandra’s practice spans painting and installation, exploring fantasy and desire as ways of transforming oppressive systems, beginning with those that are internalised. At the heart of her practice lies 한 / Han, a Korean cultural sentiment of deep unresolved grief and rage.