TheMuseumsLab

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.

Rado Ištok

Germany | Sept 2025

Rado Ištok is a curator and art historian, currently the Curator of the Collection of Art Since 1945 at the National Gallery Prague (NGP), Czech Republic, and a PhD candidate at the Institute of Art History at Charles University in Prague. Recent exhibitions include the NGP collection display The Miner’s Ballad, Fryštát Chateau (2024–2029), No Feeling Is Final. The Skopje Solidarity Collection, NGP (2024), Eva Koťátková: My Body Is Not an Island, NGP (2022–2023), and All That Is Solid Melts into Water, Uppsala Art Museum, Sweden (2022). He was one of the curators of the 2nd edition of the biennale Matter of Art (2022) in Prague and led the European Cooperation Project 4Cs (2018–2020) at Nida Art Colony of Vilnius Academy of Arts, Lithuania. He has edited numerous publications, and his writing has appeared in art magazines, academic journals, and exhibition catalogues.

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Ng’onga Silupya

Germany | September 2025

Ng’onga Silupya is a curator, cultural practitioner, arts administrator and art writer based in Lusaka, Zambia. Her curatorial perspective is informed by theories of mediation, cultural studies, visual studies and art history. Her research interests lie in reimagining societies and communities by embracing indigenous and culturally sustainable practices through contemporary art to address socio-political and environmental issues. She associates her work with narratives and local practices connected with various ethnic groups in Zambia and across the globe. Recent roles include Curator at the Simon Mwansa Kapwepwe Historical Museum (2024), Curator-in-Residence at Hordaland Kunstsenter in Bergen, Norway (2024), and participant in the 2024 Latitudes Online Curatorial Lab. She currently serves on the Executive Board as Vice-National Secretary of the Zambia National Visual Arts Council and heads the exhibitions committee at the Henry Tayali Art Gallery.

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