G.A.S. Foundation is pleased to announce that our newly activated Reading Room at the G.A.S. Library and Picton Archive is now open to the public for guided sessions every Tuesday and Thursday. First unveiled during the Re:assemblages Symposium on 4 November 2025, the space is designed for encounters with publications that trace connections across African and Afro-diasporic art and cultural ecologies.

The Re:assemblages Symposium is jointly presented by Guest Artists Space (G.A.S.) Foundation and Yinka Shonibare Foundation (Y.S.F.) within the framework of the second edition of the Re:assemblages programme, which unfolds across 2025-26 through a convening series, a research intensive, collaborative publishing experiments, symposia, and the activation of the African Arts Libraries (AAL) Lab and Affiliates Network. The symposium is framed by four conceptual currents of the edition: Ecotones, which engages with transitional zones as sites of relation and renewal; The Living Archives, which explores archives and libraries as active, future-shaping forms of practice, Annotations, which attends to gaps, silences, and margins in the archive; and The Short Century, which revisits Africa’s twentieth-century histories of independence and cultural production.

As we enter three years of programming and residencies at G.A.S. Foundation, we are thrilled to present our second Impact Report. It chronicles our journey from digital programming to welcoming our 85th G.A.S. resident in June 2025. Throughout this transformative period, we have remained committed to facilitating global cultural exchange and building a resilient cultural infrastructure. The outcomes speak to the tangible value of our work: supporting artists, researchers, and creative practitioners across disciplines, fostering collaboration and mentorship, and expanding access to resources, networks, and opportunities that enable creative risk-taking, innovation, and growth.

From October 24th to 25th, 2025, G.A.S. Lagos, in collaboration with Njiko, hosted the second iteration of Njiko: Manifesting Futures – The Ontology of the Possible, presented by designer and researcher Myles Igwebuike as a special project for Design Week Lagos 2025. Building upon the conceptual foundations of Njiko, a framework dedicated to reimagining the cultural heritage of Southeastern Nigeria, this iteration staged an intergenerational dialogue between Igwebuike and architect, designer, and publisher Demas Nwoko, weaving together design, publishing, pedagogy, and histories of cultural self-determination.

G.A.S. Foundation is delighted to welcome Sola Olulode for an immersive six-week residency at G.A.S. Lagos. Working across painting, drawing, printmaking, textiles, and installation, Sola is known for her richly tactile mixed-media surfaces and intimate figurative compositions grounded in themes of care, tenderness, and queer joy. Central to her practice is the language of Nigerian textile craft, particularly indigo dyeing, batik, and other resist techniques, which she integrates into her paintings to create expressive backgrounds and layered material narratives.