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Guest Artists Space Foundation announces ambitious 2025–26 programme exploring African art archives

Guest Artists Space Foundation announces ambitious 2025–26 programme exploring African art archives

ARTAFRICA

Guest Artists Space (G.A.S.) Foundation and Yinka Shonibare Foundation (Y.S.F.) have announced the 2025–26 edition of ‘Re:assemblages’, a far-reaching programme that centres African and Afro-diasporic archives as spaces of artistic inquiry, experimental scholarship and...

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Yinka Shonibare Is Using Money from His Art Sales to Give Back to Africa

Yinka Shonibare Is Using Money from His Art Sales to Give Back to Africa

ARTnews

In 2022, after construction and delay caused in part by the Covid-19 pandemic, the local launch was held and the G.A.S. Fellowship Award, an annual initiative in collaboration with the Yinka Shonibare Foundation to support mid-career artists and curators across Africa was announced....

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‘An underlying stillness’: the Yinka Shonibare retreat where artists have space to grow and thrive

‘An underlying stillness’: the Yinka Shonibare retreat where artists have space to grow and thrive

The Guardian

The earth-brick barn house nestled among cassava and yam fields in southern Nigeria is one of two artists’ residences established by the British-Nigerian artist.

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We Asked 10 Art Industry Savants to Share the Top Artists Residencies Around the World. Here’s What They Told Us

We Asked 10 Art Industry Savants to Share the Top Artists Residencies Around the World. Here’s What They Told Us

Artnet

Whether starting one’s art career or entering a more established stage, artist residencies can offer valuable resources and professional connections in a mostly opaque art world, not to mention time to focus on making work. Insiders shared the best 35 residencies globally and told us why...

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Green is the new black | Yinka Shonibare's Serpentine show reveals what cultural exchange can do for the climate crisis

Green is the new black | Yinka Shonibare's Serpentine show reveals what cultural exchange can do for the climate crisis

The Art Newspaper

Shonibare, who was raised between London and Lagos, is employing his socially engaged practice to tackle the complex relationship between colonialism and ecological devastation.

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How Artist-Led Communities in Lagos Are Boosting The City’s Art Ecosystem

How Artist-Led Communities in Lagos Are Boosting The City’s Art Ecosystem

Elephant

Elephant's Desmon Vincent reports on the artist-led communities re-energising the Lagos art scene.

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Inside Artist Yinka Shonibare’s Lagos Retreat for Creatives

Inside Artist Yinka Shonibare’s Lagos Retreat for Creatives

Architectural Digest

Traditional Yoruba and Brutalist design elements fuse together in the Nigerian sanctuary for rising luminaries.

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Frieze Artist Yinka Shonibare Uncovered

Frieze Artist Yinka Shonibare Uncovered

LUX

The Birtish-Nigerian artist and philanthropist is the official artist of, LUX’s partner, Deutsche Bank Wealth Management, at this year’s Frieze in London. In just a few short years, the Guest Artists Space Foundation spaces in Nigeria, founded by Yinka Shonibare, have seen art...

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Artist-Led Spaces: Learning from the African Continent

Artist-Led Spaces: Learning from the African Continent

Art Basel Conversations

Artist-led spaces on the African continent are not a new phenomenon, but it’s a growing one. Artists are paving the way for future generations by setting up initiatives to support both their own practice and that of their peers. 

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From north to south, Raqs Media Collective traces water as memory

From north to south, Raqs Media Collective traces water as memory

Art Basel

Two weather-station projects – one in Rajasthan, India, the other in Ijebu, Nigeria – are the artist collective’s contribution to the World Weather Network’s climate-conscious initiative.

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MOE+ Art Architecture designs an artist residency space evocative of a barn house

MOE+ Art Architecture designs an artist residency space evocative of a barn house

Stir World

British-Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare's Ecology Green Farm in southwestern Nigeria, showcases vernacular architecture and is made using locally sourced materials.

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The Admirable Ambitions of Yinka Shonibare CBE RA

The Admirable Ambitions of Yinka Shonibare CBE RA

Ocula

To be a great artist requires more than creating compelling images, objects, spaces, or scenarios—one must be a kind of visionary, an enchanter, and grapple with issues of an entirely different order.

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