Opportunities

Open Call: G.A.S. International Research and Creative Residency Open Call 2027–28

Open Call: G.A.S. International Research and Creative Residency Open Call 2027–28

Applications Open

Guest Artists Space (G.A.S.) Foundation invites applications from creative, cultural, research and ecological practitioners internationally for selected, self-funded residencies of between four and eight weeks at G.A.S. Lagos or the G.A.S. Farm House in Ikiṣẹ, Ogun State.

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Open Call: Project Nexus Supported Residencies 2027

Open Call: Project Nexus Supported Residencies 2027

Applications Open

Guest Artists Space (G.A.S.) Foundation and Yinka Shonibare Foundation (Y.S.F.), with the support of Deutsche Bank, invites applications for three residency opportunities in 2027 as part of Project Nexus, G.A.S. and Deutsche Bank’s residency and professional development programme.

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Call for Participants: Collecting Sediments Workshop

Call for Participants: Collecting Sediments Workshop

Applications Closed

Guest Artists Space (G.A.S.) Foundation invites applications to participate in Collecting Sediments, a two-day earth art workshop co-facilitated by current resident Alexandra Mitiku and the Ala-Praxis Collective.

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Open Call: G.A.S. Critical Writing Workshop II

Open Call: G.A.S. Critical Writing Workshop II

Applications Closed

Guest Artists Space (G.A.S.) Foundation in partnership with the Yinka Shonibare Foundation (Y.S.F.) is thrilled to announce the second edition of the G.A.S. Critical Writing Workshop, an initiative designed to support the professional and critical development of emerging local art writers, researchers and cultural practitioners.This edition, titled (Re)Casting the Canon, developed by...

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Open Call: G.A.S. Critical Writing Workshop

Open Call: G.A.S. Critical Writing Workshop

Applications Closed

Guest Artists Space (G.A.S.) Foundation, in partnership with the Yinka Shonibare Foundation (Y.S.F.), is pleased to announce the pilot edition of the G.A.S. Critical Writing Workshop, an initiative designed to support the professional and critical development of emerging local art writers, researchers and cultural practitioners. This edition will explore critical art writing practices while...

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Open Call: G.A.S. Fellowship Award 2026

Open Call: G.A.S. Fellowship Award 2026

Applications Closed

Guest Artists Space Foundation (G.A.S.), in partnership with the Yinka Shonibare Foundation (Y.S.F.), is thrilled to announce the fourth edition of the prestigious fully funded G.A.S. Fellowship Award. This year’s call, the largest to date, offers five residencies for Nigerian artists and writers, as well as African-based and diaspora artists, and three residencies for artists based...

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Call for Papers: Re:assemblages Symposium 2025

Call for Papers: Re:assemblages Symposium 2025

Applications Closed

The 20th century can be read as a formative ecotonal space—an unsettled, generative borderland where networks fractured and reformed, collaborations ignited, and tensions gave way to new modes of relation. Within this compressed terrain, distinct ecologies of African and Afro-diasporic thought and practice took shape, producing postcolonial libraries and archives that carried with them...

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Announcing a New Residency Partnership Between Guest Artists Space and the Finnish Cultural Foundation

Announcing a New Residency Partnership Between Guest Artists Space and the Finnish Cultural Foundation

G.A.S. is pleased to partner with the Finnish Cultural Foundation to provide two fully funded, eight-week residencies, which will be awarded to Finnish or Finland-based artists, curators, or writers. The selected residents will primarily be housed in Lagos, with the possibility of spending a shorter time at the G.A.S. Farm House in Ijebu. The opportunity is open to practitioners across various...

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Open Call: Ìmòra Arts Intensive

Open Call: Ìmòra Arts Intensive

Applications Closed

Guest Artists Space Foundation (G.A.S.) in partnership with the Yinka Shonibare Foundation (Y.S.F.) is thrilled to announce the pilot edition of the Ìmòra Arts Intensive, an initiative designed to support the professional development of emerging local artists. The programme takes its name from the Yoruba words Ìmòra (support, guidance, mentorship) and ìmò ẹkọ (acquisition...

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