Join us at G.A.S. Lagos for Story Story, an interactive presentation of works and residency reflections by Fiyin Koko. Framed as a journey through storytelling, play, and imagination, the session explores how time spent at the G.A.S. Farm House in Ikise, thinking, observing, and creating, shaped the clay works developed during her residency. Drawing from folklore, childlike wonder, and encounters with local children, animals, and the surrounding environment, Fiyin reflects on how these experiences informed her process and material choices.

Join us at G.A.S. Lagos on February 12th, 2026 for Artist Open Studio, a presentation and walkthrough of works developed by current resident Nduka Ikechukwu during his four-week residency at G.A.S. During his stay, Nduka focused on research and exploring new ways of interpreting his practice through fresh experiments, ideas, and approaches. He has produced new works using his signature materials, industrial strip belts and net belts, while also experimenting with the incorporation of calabash, a traditional household utensil made from the dried, hollowed-out shell of a gourd, a material he first began exploring last year. He has additionally been investigating concepts of ancient and modern forms of pear, translating these ideas into works that engage with space and spatial relationships.

On January 30, 2026, G.A.S. Lagos hosted Face to Face, a networking and exchange session facilitated by current resident artist Nduka Ikechukwu. Designed as an intimate gathering, the session created space for meaningful exchange between Nduka and members of the Lagos art community, including artists and cultural workers. Based in Nsukka, Nduka joined G.A.S. for a four-week residency focused on research, networking, and the development of new work shaped through dialogue and encounter. Upon arriving at G.A.S., he expressed a strong interest in connecting with practitioners beyond his immediate context and expanding his professional network within Lagos.

In November 2025, Guest Artists Space Foundation (G.A.S.) and Yinka Shonibare Foundation (Y.S.F.), partnered to launch  the Finnish-Nigerian Peer Mentoring Residency Programme at Villa Karo’s centre in Grand-Popo, Benin. The programme provides an immersive cross-cultural experience where Finnish and Nigerian visual artists live, work, and learn together, offering two fully funded, eight-week residencies to G.A.S. alumni based and actively working in Nigeria.

G.A.S. Foundation is excited to welcome Nduka Ikechukwu, a Nigerian artist, for an immersive four-week residency at G.A.S. Lagos. Based in Nsukka, his practice spans installation, sculpture, and textiles, with a strong focus on questions of identity and traditional culture rooted in the Igbo apprenticeship system and the role of titles as markers of progress within the Igbo society. Central to his practice is the use of industrial strap belts, which he stitches into layered forms to examine labour, endurance, and collective effort. Through this material, Nduka articulates metaphors of strength, resilience, and human relationships exploring the ties that bind people to place, purpose, and one another.

Artis is a contemporary non-profit arts organisation dedicated to supporting artists and contributing to global conversations around art and culture. Based in New York, Artis works with artists from Israel whose practices engage aesthetic, social, and political questions, encouraging reflection and debate through thoughtful and innovative approaches. Artis is partnering with G.A.S. Foundation in alignment with their shared commitment to supporting artists and fostering critical artistic exchange.

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.

Adegbola Gallery is a contemporary art gallery and curatorial platform committed to fostering critical engagement with art from Africa and its diaspora. The gallery aims to amplify diverse voices and deepen public appreciation of contemporary visual culture. In 2025, G.A.S. Foundation partnered with Adegbola Gallery to facilitate residencies for Nigeria-based artists, expanding G.A.S.’s growing network of collaborations with institutions across the country. This partnership aims to support artistic development, strengthen local artistic infrastructures, and create opportunities for sustained exchange between artists, curators, and audiences

Earlier this week, we welcomed Ryan Tenney, an interdisciplinary artist and agroecological practitioner based in the U.S., for a ten-week residency at the G.A.S. Farm House. Working across painting, installation, digital media, and ecological research, Ryan’s practice sits at the intersection of art, agriculture, technology, and Traditional Ecological Knowledge. His work investigates how creative and agrarian practices can operate as tools for liberation, collective care, and the imagining of alternative futures.

Helsinki-based visual artist Sasha Huber, whose research-driven, multidisciplinary practice explores the politics of memory, care, and belonging in relation to colonial histories, concluded a four-week residency at G.A.S. Lagos in 2025. During her time at G.A.S., Sasha focused on developing a commemorative portrait of pioneering curator Bisi Silva, whom she first met in the early 2000s during a residency in Helsinki and remained in contact with until Silva’s passing. Central to this project was an intention to honour Bisi Silva’s influence on artistic and curatorial practice across the African continent. The portrait forms part of Saha’s ongoing The Firsts series, which comprises commemorative portraits paying homage to pioneering ancestral figures, with a particular focus on women from the African diaspora in Europe.

A two-day convening in Lagos to explore “African and Afro-diasporic art archives as living, contested, and future-shaping spaces,” the Re:assemblages Symposium became a gathering point of ideas and geographies. Jointly presented by Guest Artists Space (G.A.S.) Foundation and Yinka Shonibare Foundation (Y.S.F.) in early November, the symposium moved its participants towards other ways of seeing, remembering, and keeping that dismantle hierarchies between human and non-human, while laboring against historical amnesia. The occasion also launched the C& Cyclopedia station partnership in the new Reading Room at the G.A.S. Library and Picton Archive.

G.A.S. Foundation is pleased to welcome Fiyin Koko, our first resident of 2026. A multidisciplinary artist working across painting, sculpture, photography, printmaking, installation, and moving image, Fiyin’s practice is grounded in womanism, memory, play, and embodied experience. Through her work, she explores how personal and collective stories, particularly those centered on women, are formed, remembered, and transformed over time. Known for her signature use of blue and elements of artivism, Fiyin creates visual narratives that engage both personal and communal experiences.