A City Guide | Lagos Art Week 2025
- Art Report Africa
- Oct 30
- 2 min read
This year, Art Report Africa (ARA), in collaboration with Lagos Gallery Weekend (LGW), has created a comprehensive guide to Lagos Art Season — a resource designed to help audiences, collectors, and visitors navigate the city’s most exciting moment for contemporary art.
From gallery openings to major fairs and independent exhibitions, Lagos this year reaffirms its place as one of the most vibrant cultural capitals on the continent.
Why Lagos Art Season Matters
Each year, Lagos transforms into a living gallery — a city-wide exhibition that draws artists, curators, collectors, and audiences from across Nigeria and beyond. The season isn’t just about art shows; it’s a pulse check on the cultural, political, and creative energy shaping our time.
This year’s programming — from the return of LagosPhoto Festival and ART X Lagos, to thought-provoking Exhibitions— underscores a creative ecosystem growing in confidence and ambition. It also highlights how Nigerian institutions and artists are bridging local narratives with global conversations.
Highlights from the 2025 Season
This season marks the much-anticipated opening of DADA Gallery’s new space in Lagos, launching with The Beautyful Ones, a group exhibition exploring perception, presence, and the politics of image-making. The gallery’s arrival brings a fresh institutional energy to the city’s landscape — bridging Lagos’s local creativity with international visibility.
From 6–9 November 2025, ART X Lagos marks its tenth anniversary, gathering leading galleries from Africa and the diaspora. This milestone edition reflects how Lagos has steadily positioned itself at the forefront of the global contemporary art scene — a decade of consistency and vision.
Running from 25 October to 29 November, LagosPhoto explores incarceration, freedom, and photography as resistance. Expanding across Lagos and Ibadan, the biennial uses visual storytelling to question power, identity, and the politics of visibility.
This exhibition, Collecting Now: Perspectives on Contemporary Art Collecting in Nigeria, explores evolving attitudes toward collecting, patronage, and the business of art. It’s a vital reflection on how collectors are shaping the future of Nigerian art.
At ARA, our collaboration with Lagos Gallery Weekend is rooted in accessibility and engagement. Through the Lagos Art Season Guide, we’re helping audiences explore the full calendar of exhibitions, open studios, and cultural events across the city — whether they’re seasoned collectors or first-time visitors.
The goal is simple: to make the art season open, navigable, and meaningful to a wider public.
Visit artweeklagos.info and follow @ArtReportAfrica for updates, reviews, and on-the-ground highlights throughout the season.
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