Paper Making Workshop with Nengi Nelson
2026-04-10 12:00 - 16:00, 2026-04-11 12:00 - 16:00 (Africa/Lagos) | The Curlt, Jedmoon Garden Plaza, Phase 3 Lekki Conservation Centre Rd, Eti-Osa, Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
Paper Making with Nengi Nelson
10 — 11 April, The Curlt
For this session, we welcome photographer and filmmaker Nengi Nelson to lead a paper making workshop at The Curlt.
Working across image and film, Nengi’s practice has always been attentive to material and process. In this class, she shifts focus to paper itself ,the surface that holds so much of our visual and written culture.
Participants will learn the process of making paper by hand, shaping pulp into sheets that carry texture, weight, and character.
Join us for this two day event taking you through 2 methods of making your own paper using waste materials .
Limited slots // RSVP [here].
www.thecurlt.com
Details by @thecurlt_.
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Club Àlùjó III, A Live Fuji Music Performace
2026-04-11 20:00 | Not Disclosed
Club Àlùjó returns for its first show of 2026!
We’re back in Lagos on April 11 — and we’re bringing new faces, and a few things we can’t wait to show you!
Tickets are out now.💛
Details by @clubalujo.
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The Earth Holds Our Names [Solo Exhibition]
2026-04-19 10:00 - 2026-05-31 18:00 | SOTO Gallery Lagos, 10 Omo Osagie St, Ikoyi, Lagos, Lagos, 106104, Nigeria
Introducing Olumide Onadipe
OLUMIDE ONADIPE (b. 1982) is a Lagos-based multidisciplinary artist whose practice explores the intersection of materiality and socio-political commentary. Working with diverse media, Onadipe constructs idiosyncratic sculptures that offer subtle critiques of Nigerian society. Rather than explicit political statements, his work often communicates through evocative forms and textured surfaces, with meaning frequently revealed through suggestive titles that invite multiple interpretations.
Deeply fascinated by environmental themes and the aesthetic possibilities of texture, Onadipe transforms relatable materials into playful yet profound iterations that blur the line between object and commentary.
Onadipe holds a master’s degree in Visual Arts from the University of Lagos (2012). His work has been featured prominently on the international stage, including at the 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair (London, 2017), the Museum of African Contemporary Art Al Maaden (MACAAL) in Marrakech (2019), and ART X Lagos (2017). He has exhibited in group shows across Nigeria, Ghana, Germany, France, the UK, and the USA.
Notable residencies and collaborations include the Arthouse Contemporary residency and Open Studios (2016), the Colours of Hope project with the Children Living with Cancer Foundation (2014), and the American Nigerian Cultural Collaborative Project with the US Consulate and Nike Art Gallery (2013). Onadipe has held four solo exhibitions including Connecting the Dots (2018), and his work has been presented at START Art Fair, London (2018) and Art Context Miami (2019).
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The Earth Holds Our Names
April 19 – May 31, 2026
Opening Reception: 2 PM – 6 PM
Artist Talk: 4 PM
10 Omo Osagie Street, Ikoyi, Lagos
Details by @sotogallery.
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Opening Reception: Woven & Built in Tandem [Exhibition]
2026-05-09 14:00 - 18:00 | Rele Gallery, Lagos, 32 Thompson Ave, Ikoyi, Lagos, 106104, Nigeria
Rele, Lagos is pleased to present ‘Woven and Built: In Tandem‘, a two-person exhibition featuring works by Marcellina Oseghale Akpojotor and Patrick Akpojotor, marking ten years of shared life and practice.
Working across sculpture and textile, their distinct approaches unfold side by side, tracing a decade of making and building together.
Marcellina Akpojotor works with layered fabric, drawing on family photographs, archival imagery, and everyday materials. Her surfaces carry memory and lived experience, where private and collective histories remain visible.
Patrick Akpojotor approaches painting through the logic of building. Figures emerge through beams, frames, and planes that suggest structure and tension. In this exhibition, he moves between single figures and double portraits, considering how people occupy spaces.
Join us on Saturday, May 9, from 2-6 pm for the Opening reception.
Details by @relegallery.
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Woven & Built in Tandem [Exhibition]
2026-05-10 11:00 - 2026-06-20 18:00 | Rele Gallery, Lagos, 32 Thompson Ave, Ikoyi, Lagos, 106104, Nigeria

Alternative Heritage in Time: Who Sabi? [Roundtable Discussion]
2026-05-13 10:00 - 16:00 | National Museum Lagos, Onikan, Onikan Rd, Ikoyi, Lagos, Lagos, 102273, Nigeria
Over the past two years, a project focused on Alternative Heritage in Nigeria has engaged in critical inquiry, digital documentation, and workshops to highlight marginalized cultural expressions.
As the project concludes, a roundtable discussion titled “Alternative Heritage in Time: Who Sabi?” aims to reflect on the processes and motivations behind the work.
It will address key issues such as agency in preservation, ownership of narratives, and the validity of different types of knowledge. The discussion seeks to critically re-examine the role of various stakeholders, interrogate motivations for prioritizing certain narratives, scrutinize the implications of the term “Alternative Heritage,” evaluate the ethics of digital preservation, and ultimately chart a path forward for more ethical and community-centered heritage practices.
Details by @nationalmuseum_lagos.
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Dance Lab [Live Performance]
2026-05-23 16:00 - 19:00 | The QDance Center, 33 Hawley St, Lagos Island, Lagos, Lagos, 102273, Nigeria
Dance Lab: May Edition is bringing experimental high-energy performances LIVE to the stage.
This month is packed with amazing performances just for you .
📅 May 23rd | ⏰ 4PM
📍 Lagos Island
🎟 Free Entry
Details by @qdancecompany.
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The Omniverse Summit 2026
2026-06-02 08:00 - 2026-06-05 17:00 | Wole Soyinka Centre for Culture and Creative Arts, National Theatre, Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
Hosted by The Omniverse Africa, the summit takes place June 2nd – 5th, 2026, at Wole Soyinka Centre for Culture and Creative Arts (National Theatre), Iganmu, Lagos, from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM daily with several invite only evening events. The Omniverse Africa Summit brings together an influential mix of leaders from private sector, development partners, government, academia, startups, investors, and the creative industries.
This is where boundaries are broken, ideas are sharpened, and partnerships are forged to accelerate Africa’s growth and confront its most pressing economic and societal challenges.
From technology and finance to media, arts, and enterprise, the summit offers powerful conversations, actionable insights, and real opportunities for collaboration.
Come ready to connect with decision-makers, co-create solutions, and be part of a movement shaping Africa’s digital and creative future.
The Omniverse Summit 2026 is not just an event. It is where Africa’s next chapter is being written!
Details by @omniverseafrica.
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RECLAIMED BEAUTY: A Dialogue Between Continents [Exhibition]
2026-06-12 11:00 - 2026-09-13 16:00 | The Village by Tikera, Plot 888 Atiku Abubakar Wy, Idu industrial Area, Paipe, Abuja, Federal Capital Territory, 900108, Nigeria
Dear friends, this is my official invitation to my 8th solo exhibition titled RECLAIMED BEAUTY: A Dialogue Between Continents.
This exhibition features 25 original Sculptures and installations within 40 clustered biomorphic modular compositions. The exhibition presents a non-conformist approach to contemporary showcase, aimed at generating dialogue on new artistic ideologies, policies, cultural perspectives, and strategies surrounding art practices, international exhibitions, art exportation, and the 8Rs of Sustainability.
The show will be curated by @bayoomoboriowo , founder Tikera Africa, and hosted by the Honorable Minister for Art, Culture, Tourism and the Creative Economy, Mrs. Hannatu Musa Musawa @honhannatumusawa
I look forward to seeing you @villagebytikera
Please save the date
#JUNE 12th-SEPTEMBER 13th, 2026
ABUJA ARE YOU READY!!!!!
#solo #virals #art
Details by @dotundavid_popoola.
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The Precision of Light in The Dark [Exhibition]
2026-06-17 11:00 - 2026-06-20 18:00 | Plot 11, Block 29, Mayaki Usman Street Lekki Phase 1, Lagos, Plot 11, Block 29, Mayaki Usman Street Lekki Phase 1, Lagos, Nigeria
Spain and Lagos meet through light and material.
This June, Yago Sanchez presents a new body of crystal mosaic works in Lagos.
Each surface is composed of individually placed crystal fragments, catching and holding light differently as you move and as the light shifts through the day.
Rooted in Spanish craft tradition, the works arrive in Lagos, one of West Africa’s leading cities for contemporary art.
Save the date.
June 17 to 20, 2026
Plot 11, Block 29, Mayaki Usman Street
Lekki Phase 1, Lagos
Curated by @lolabashuaart
#yagosanchez #crystalmosaic #savethedate #spaintolagos #lagosartscene
Details by @yagosanchezlagos.
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Design Week Lagos 2026
2026-10-18 10:00 - 2026-10-25 17:00 | Not Disclosed
It’s Official: Design Week Lagos 2026 is here.
The built environment has always been where Africa’s design ambition is most visible. This year, we are asking what happens when that ambition is backed by systems, by supply chains, by the infrastructure to scale. Making A New Africa: From Material to Market is a theme that takes that question seriously.
Design Week Lagos returns 18 to 26 October 2026 with exhibitions, talks, installations, workshops, and citywide experiences that bring together the best of African and global design thinking.
Save the Date: 18 to 25 October 2026.
This year’s theme: Making A New Africa: From Material to Market. Designing for scale.
Tag a designer, architect, brand, manufacturer, or maker who needs to be part of this conversation.
Details by @designweeklagosofficial.
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The 10th Abuja Photo Festival
2026-10-27 10:00 - 2026-10-30 17:00 | Not Disclosed
The world is at a disruptive place yet again on how visual contents are created, consumed and distributed. Whether technology is seen as an ally or an enemy is a matter of perspectives and personal interpretation.
This year, our conversations and exchanges are to explore the connection and not the conflicts of the critical factors that are shaping visual storytelling.
The 10th Abuja Photo Festival. 27th – 30th October 2026.
Visit: www.abujaphotofestival.com/register
Image/ @mayfliesbook
Details by @abujaphotofest.
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Lagos Biennial 5th Edition - "The Museum of Things Unseen"
2026-10-30 10:00 - 2026-11-30 17:00 | Not Disclosed
Curators: Furen Dai, Chinyere Obieze, Sam Hopkins
30.10 – 30 .11.2026

What lies hidden in the shadows of our museum spaces? Whose stories are silenced, and whose voices are amplified? If we were to build a museum from scratch, unbounded by structural inequities, what form would it take?
Titled The Museum of Things Unseen, the Lagos Biennial 2026 offers a speculative response to these questions. This conceptual museum brings together a collection of works to address the contextual, philosophical, and political forces that shape practices of cultural circulations and museology.
The Museum of Things Unseen aims to bring together and exhibit rarely or never before seen artworks, examining the factors (imbalanced global art canon shaped by cultural bias, financial power, political influence, curatorial priorities, and conservation concerns, etc.) contributing to their unseenness. The intention is to open up the current bounding structures of these artworks, and inquire into the invisible labour, evolving identities, and concealed market forces shaping our cultural landscape. Contemporary artists will be invited to reinterpret and reimagine the works on display, questioning the invisibility of these works, rewriting the narratives within the context of a speculative museum, and offering new perspectives that illuminate the unseen dimensions of these pieces.
Details by @lagos_biennial.
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Blueprint for A Renaissance [Exhibition]
2026-11-02 10:00 - 18:00 | New Culture Studios, Ibadan, 34 Adeola Crescent, off Sobande Avenue, Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria
The mid-20th-century surge of African independence was more than a geopolitical rupture; it was a demand for the total reclamation of the African psyche. Seventy years later, the nature of the struggle has evolved from the political to the ontological.
While the formal shackles have been dismantled, the mandate for Africa to design, reclaim, and manifest its own singular future remains the defining imperative of our time. Blueprint for a Renaissance is a performative intervention into this unfinished project of liberation.
“We face neither East nor West; we face forward.“
— Kwame Nkrumah.
We are not curating an exhibition; we are constructing a sanctuary to be inhabited.
November 2026 | Ibadan, Nigeria
#BlueprintForARenaissance #DemasNwoko #PierreChristopheGam #NewCultureStudios
#TogunaWorld
