Photography Workshop with Kadara Enyeasi
Arthouse Foundation presented an interactive workshop with artist resident Kadara Enyeasi, titled "Ideas and Fine Art Photography" on Saturday, July 15, 2017. This workshop focused on developing ideas and realizing them through fine art studio photography. The workshop included a practice session where participants will work with provisional studio equipment. Kadara Enyeasi is a self-trained fine art photographer and mixed media artist based in Lagos, Nigeria. With a backgrou
Open Studios with Kadara Enyeasi and Thierry Oussou
The Arthouse Foundation hosted Open Studios with Kadara Enyeasi and Thierry Oussou on Saturday, July 8th, 2017. Our current artists in residence presented their past works and spoke about their artistic practice, followed by an informal visit in their studios. Guests were able to get a sneak peak at their ongoing bodies of work that they are currently developing during their residencies. #Workshops
Collage Workshop with Thierry Oussou
Arthouse Foundation presented an interactive workshop with artist resident Thierry Oussou, titled “The Collage” on Friday, July 7th, 2017. This workshop included a presentation by the artist about his past work in collage, along with a hands-on session with participants to create a collaborative artwork. #Workshops
Oil Painting Workshop with Nengi Omuku
Arthouse Foundation hosted a Oil Painting Workshop with resident artist Nengi Omuku on April 10, 2017, where participants worked collaboratively to create a collective artwork. Learning from Omuku's techniques, the group realized an oil painting on canvas, which will be installed permanently at the Arthouse Foundation. #Workshops
GIF Workshop with Francois Beaurain
Arthouse Foundation hosted a GIF workshop with Francois Beaurain on March 22, 2017, where the artist spoke about his long term project creating short GIF video works. Participants explored Beaurain's past GIF series, which is included in the traveling exhibition Making Africa: A Continent of Contemporary Design, followed by a practical exercise making their own GIF videos. #Workshops
Artist Talk and Open Studios with Francois Beaurain and Nengi Omuku
Arthouse Foundation hosted an Artist Talk and Open Studios with current resident artists Nengi Omuku and Francois Beaurain on March 11, 2017, 1 PM at 28 Norman Williams Street, Ikoyi. The artists gave a formal presentation of their past works followed by an informal public visit in their studios. Francois Beaurain revealed his ongoing project during the residency, creating collages from Nollywood film posters. Nengi Omuku displayed her new painting series that plays with abst
Texts & Contours: Workshop with Tyna Adebowale
Tyna Adebowale hosted a drawing workshop at the Arthouse Foundation on December 11, 2016. Titled "Texts & Contours," the workshop included non-professional art enthusiasts, many of whom had no experience in art. Using colored pencils and paper, the participants created posters that voiced themes that were important to them, exploring how art can be approach as a therapy. #Workshops
Artist Talk and Open Studios: Tyna Adebowale and Jelili Atiku
Arthouse Foundation hosted an Artist Talk and Open Studios with residents Tyna Adebowale and Jelili Atiku on November 19, 2016. Adebowale spoke about her ongoing project depicting women from marginalized social communities in Nigeria, while Atiku spoke about his project "The People's Welfare Party," which constructs a fictional Nigerian political party. The Open Studios unveiled Tyna's interactive installation that explores the notion of borders and boundaries, while Jelili p
I Be Mediated Body, I Dey Embodied Space: Workshop with Jelili Atiku
Jelili Atiku hosted a performance workshop at the Goethe Institute on November 16-18, 2016. The workshop was conceived as an artistic laboratory that will permit exchange and collaboration of creative ideas between performer, the space and objects. The aim was to explore human contemporary conditions and create dialogue with reference to them using body, space and objects as ontological concepts. It investigated the different contextual genealogies, realities of human conditi
Senate, Are You a Rotten Head? (Maanifesito IV): Performance by Jelili Atiku
The Arthouse Foundation hosted a performance by artist-in-resident Jelili Atiku on Thursday, November 3, 2016 at the Arthouse Foundation’s headquarters on Norman Williams Street, Ikoyi. Titled Senate, Are You a Rotten Head? (Maanifesito IV), Atiku enacted a professional performance in reaction to the prevailing political circumstances in Nigeria, in particular the issue of “budget padding” that symbolizes the prevalence of fraud and corruption practices in Nigeria. Performed