Lagos To Host Over 80 Artists At 4th Lagos Biennial

Lagos state will be hosting over 80 artists across 30 countries at the 2024 Lagos Biennial.

Lagos Biennial, an art event, was founded in 2017 as a not-for-profit contemporary art platform under the Àkéte Art Foundation.

The event, in its fourth edition with the theme: ‘REFUGE’, will be opened to the public from 3rd to 10th February 2024 on the grounds of Tafawa Balewa Square, TBS.

Lagos Biennial co-Artistic director, Kathryn Weir, who disclosed this at a press briefing in Lagos, said the event will feature over 80 participants from more than 30 countries across a series of curated sections, which include Gregarious Architectures, CAPTCHA and Worldmade Communities, as well as a series of autonomous collaborative platforms, the REFUGE teams.

“The Biennial takes place at the historical space of the TBS in order to reflect on possible meanings, in relation to political allegiance, territory, sovereignty, regionality, notions of belonging, encounter, and alliance,” she said.

Lagos Biennial director, Folakunie Oshun, asserted that the event will help to scratch the layers of Nigerian history, adding that, “It is a way to fix the puzzle of the country’s history and reflect on where we are coming from and where we are today. We are going to look at the economic and political condition of Nigeria.”

This fourth edition of the Biennial moves the cursor towards experiments in non-conventional modes of exhibition making, shifting from the idea of the work as an end in itself towards generative models and prototypes that continue to activate possibilities in the world, the director posited.