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. 

On November 28, 2025, G.A.S. Lagos hosted Our Key Images, a printmaking workshop led by artist and educator Daniel Minter. The session introduced participants to Daniel’s approach to relief block carving and the use of personal symbols as foundational elements within his assemblage practice.

In November, we welcomed Dutch-Curaçaoan artist, poet, and activist Quinsy Gario for a month-long residency at G.A.S. Lagos. Working across performance, film, photography, and text, Quinsy’s practice interrogates how histories of enslavement and displacement continue to circulate, emotionally, materially, and politically, tracing suppressed narratives and advocating for justice, recognition, and repair. Quinsy arrived in Lagos at a pivotal moment in his research, focused on human remains discovered in St. Martin, believed to be linked to Nigeria and dated between 1660–1680. His residency offered dedicated time to explore questions of belonging, return, and the ethical responsibilities attached to repatriation. During his stay, he connected with local artists, theatre-makers, poets, and researchers addressing related themes, including colonial memory, slavery, and the politics of preservation.

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 in the United States.These opportunities are open to outstanding emerging to mid-career arts professionals.

This round of alumni updates reflects the continued impact of G.A.S. Foundation’s community across artistic, curatorial, and institutional contexts worldwide. From major international prizes and museum acquisitions to curatorial leadership and critical recognition, these milestones speak to the depth, rigor, and ambition of our alumni’s practices. Together, they underscore G.A.S.’s ongoing commitment to supporting research-driven, socially engaged, and globally resonant work—long after each residency, fellowship, or programme has concluded.