Future Nostalgia Fashion Workshop
African Artists’ Foundation is delighted to announce “Fashion Nostalgia”, a fashion workshop and talk designed for creatives passionate about fashion. Through this event, we invite creatives to step into the world of Africa’s rich fashion history in a talk led by renowned fashion photographers Adedolapo Salako and Morgan Otagburuagu, and fashion consultant Laisa McGrath. […]
LagosPhoto 2023 Press
THE INTERNATIONAL PHOTO FESTIVAL – LAGOSPHOTO ANNOUNCES ITS FIRST GEOGRAPHICAL EXPANSION ACROSS BENIN AND LAGOS, IGNITING HOPEFUL VISIONS OF CHANGE Cotonou | Ouidah | Port-Novo | Lagos THEME: ‘GROUND STATE – FELLOWSHIP WITHIN THE UNCANNY’ October 27th – December 31st 2023 Curated by AAF’s founder and director Azu Nwagbogu, and East Wing Artistic Director (Dubai, […]
LagosPhoto Festival 2021
The annual LagosPhoto Festival presents it’s twelfth edition themed “Memory Palace” which explores human relationships with memory and the generative potential of photography and images to spark visual intellect and restitute decaying and lost memories. This year, we have evolved the conversation from Home Museum to Memory Palace. Memory Palace brings that familial loci of […]
LagosPhoto Festival 2022
LagosPhoto 2022 presents, Liberated Bodies, Charged Objects as an interrogation of lens based media’s influence in shaping, archiving and ordering memory within the corporal and how these construct community and individual identities. Traditionally ethnographers have indulged in the fantastical and a tribe of contemporary artists working in relation to Africa and its various Diasporas obsess […]
DWYS opens doors in Palais de Lome
“Dig Where You Stand: From Coast to Coast” Traveling exhibition was opened, the 15th of September at the Palais de Lomé, Togo. It consisted of programming i.e. talks, performances and panel discussions around the project and the topics of restitution, displacement, circular economy, migration and labour, the talks will take place on the 16th of […]
The Children Art Gallery & AAF | Good Art Workshop with Samson Bakare
Experience the magic of creativity at The Children Art Gallery & AAF, where renowned artist Samson Bakare leads engaging workshops. Witness the astonishing speed at which children absorb and apply information, especially when nurtured in their artistic endeavour’s. GoodArt is dedicated to fostering this exchange of knowledge, where teaching young artists not only enriches their […]
A Pilgrim’s Journey; Through The Shades Of Yellow | 2023
With A Pilgrim’s Journey; Through the Shades of Yellow, Johnson Ocheja is no longer trying to be an artist, he is actualising his journey. The pilgrim is typically associated with religious iconography but the pilgrim is really anyone who seeks a deeper sense of purpose and significance in life. This questing is ultimately the journey […]
NIAN & AAF | Open Call for Writers
Open Call for Writers!! As an extension of the project with NIAN, African Artists’ Foundation presents a writers residency program. Shortlisted writers will participate in a two-week physical residency in April 2023 at the African Artists’ Foundation headquarters in Lagos. The residency will culminate in a public event in Lagos to showcase and discuss the […]
Northern Irish Art Network X Africa Artists’ Foundation Writer’s Residency
Writer’s Workshop “Written by us, Not about us: Reclaiming Art Histories & Developing Critical Discourse in Northern Ireland and Nigeria” A writer’s exchange program in collaboration with the Northern Irish Art Network (NIAN). This project aims to address the lack of critical discourse surrounding the arts, particularly the visual arts, in Northern Ireland and Nigeria […]
Unpacking the Suitcase/ Finding Prince Emmanuel Adewale
LP2022 featured project: Unpacking the Suitcase/ Finding Prince Emmanuel Adewale Oyenuga During LagosPhoto21, African Artists’ Foundation engaged the general public in a discussion about restitution through the legacy of the artist, Prince Emmanuel Adewale Oyenuga with his discovered archive / suitcase. After schooling as an art student in 1960s Spain, Prince Emmanuel Adewale Oyenuga left […]