By Joy Eke
Alliance Française Lagos has opened its doors to artists, creators and prospective collaborators with a call for proposals for its 2027 cultural season. The application window runs from October 1 to October 31, 2026.
Lagos Biennial 2026 Invites Visitors Into "The Museum of Things Unseen"
By Udemma Chukwuma
Every
museum is defined as much by what it hides as by what it shows. This November,
Lagos turns that idea into an exhibition. The fifth Lagos Biennial, titled The
Museum of Things Unseen, runs from 14 November to 6 December 2026 at Eko
Atlantic, according to the event's official Facebook page.
'The Weight of Traces' On View at SOTO Gallery
By Chisom Michael
SOTO Gallery opens The Weight of Traces, a group exhibition which brings together four interdisciplinary female artists: Ronke Komos, Lola Mariam Alli, Odama Paulcy, and Oluchi Anaghoba. The show runs from September 13 to October 10, 2026, at 10 Omo Osagie Street, Ikoyi, Lagos, Nigeria.
DozieArts Brings Victoria Oniosun to 1-54 London
Nigerian painter Victoria Oniosun will be
presented by DozieArts at the 2026 edition of the 1-54 Contemporary African Art
Fair in London this October.
The fair runs at Somerset House from
October 15 to 18, with a Press and VIP Preview on October 15 and public opening
from October 16.
Born in Oyo in 1998, Oniosun studied Fine
and Applied Arts at Obafemi Awolowo University, graduating in 2022. Her
practice uses simplified, abstracted figures to explore companionship,
identity, femininity and mental health. Rather than relying on detailed facial
representation, she uses gesture, posture and thickly worked surfaces to convey
emotion.
Works such as Girls Like Us, Dream Girls and pieces from her Sisi Eko and Don’t Touch My Hair series reflect her continuing interest in the experiences and representation of women.
Six Painters Show 'Fragments'
By Udemma Chukwuma
Fragment, a miniature art
fair at ArtLab Gallery, brings together six painters working across
realism, landscape, abstraction, figurative painting and watercolour, with
their works presented in smaller formats. Opening on October 17, 2026, at 8
Isaac John Street, Ikeja GRA, Lagos, Nigeria.
Toheeb Dele Balogun to Premiere "Algodrithm, the Sacred Book" in...
By Joy Eke 
Toheeb Dele Balogun
Lagos-based creative strategist Toheeb Dele Balogun is turning his newest book into something closer to theatre than a reading. On October 17. At the J. Randle Centre in Onikan, Lagos, Nigeria, he will unveil Algodrithm, the Sacred Book, a satirical work of micro-fiction that imagines social media as a self-made deity that creates, judges, rewards, and punishes its followers much like a religion would.
Olusegun Adejumo Brings a 2005 Migration Story Into View With "Migration of the Unlucky"
By Udemma Chukwuma 
Two decades after completing it, Nigerian artist Olusegun Adejumo is showing Migration of the Unlucky to the public for the first time. The mixed-media piece was finished around 2005 and has remained out of view ever since, part of a small, recently rediscovered body of work from that period in his practice.
FRAGMENTS Brings Six Artists Together for Miniature Art Fair at ArtLab Gallery
By Udemma Chukwuma
Nigerian Art's Big Shows to End the Year, From Lagos to New York and Beyond
By Joy Eke
Ofong Ufok and Okrika Reclaimed by Victoria-Idongesit Udondian
Between now and December, artists and galleries with roots in Nigeria will appear at some of the world's major art events, from Lagos, Venice and New York to London, Paris and Abu Dhabi. The work ranges from the experimental Oshogbo workshops of the 1960s to recent practices shaped by migration, textiles, waste and memory, with Lagos gallery kó featuring prominently in several of the international presentations.
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