About CCA, Lagos
About CCA, Lagos
The Centre for Contemporary Art,
-CCA, Lagos
-CCA, Lagos
is an independent non-profit making visual art organization founded
in December 2007 by Bisi Silva (1962 – 2019).
The centre provides a platform for the development, presentation, and discussion of contemporary visual art and culture. It seeks to create new audiences and to prioritise media such as photography, film and video, performance and installation art which have been under-represented in Nigeria.
Exhibitions
Exhibitions
Artistes
Artistes
CCA, Lagos Supports & Presents
Critical Works
The intellectual and critical
work of art
Culture Practitioners
Culture practitioners through different platforms
Platforms
Platforms like exhibitions, public programmes, lectures talks, seminars and screenings and more…
In addition, it encourages and promotes the professionalisation of art production and curatorship in Nigeria and West Africa collaborating with artists, curators, writers, theorists and national and international organisations.
CCA,Lagos consists of an art space and a visual art library and a curatorial and artists’ archive
CCA, Lagos Supports & Presents
Critical Works
The intellectual and critical
work of art
Culture Practitioners
Culture practitioners through different platforms
Platforms
Platforms like exhibitions, public programmes, lectures talks, seminars and screenings and more…
In addition, it encourages and promotes the professionalisation of art production and curatorship in Nigeria and West Africa collaborating with artists, curators, writers, theorists and national and international organisations.
CCA,Lagos consists of an art space and a visual art library and a curatorial and artists’ archive
Our Team
Oyindamola Fakeye – Artistic Director
Iheanyi Onwuegbucha – Adjunct Curator
Kemi Aderinto – Office Manager
Peter Okotor – Curatorial Assistant
Dupe Giwa – Facilities
Founder
Bisi Silva
Board of Trustees:
El Anatsui
Kehinde Oyeleke
Joke Jacobs
Folashade Doherty
CCA, Lagos Aims
CCA, Lagos Aims
- Develop a programme that will reflect the diversity of practice, ideas and approaches in the contemporary visual art and culture.
- Provide a public forum for the critical examination of ideas and cultural practices in the arts.
- Place inclusion at the heart of our programming
- Develop a programme that will reflect the diversity of practice, ideas and approaches in the contemporary visual art and culture.
- Provide a public forum for the critical examination of ideas and cultural practices in the arts.
- Place inclusion at the heart of our programming
Our Objectives
- Develop new audiences for the visual arts by presenting a varied and stimulating programme of lectures, seminars, workshops and exhibitions.
- Organise events that encourage the intellectual and critical development and an awareness of artistic and cultural issues around the world.
- Contribute to the development and professionalisation of artistic production and curatorial practice in Nigeria and the West African region.
- Collaborate with artists, curators, writers, theoreticians, organisations and institutions nationally and internationally
- Develop new audiences for the visual arts by presenting a varied and stimulating programme of lectures, seminars, workshops and exhibitions.
- Organise events that encourage the intellectual and critical development and an awareness of artistic and cultural issues around the world.
- Contribute to the development and professionalisation of artistic production and curatorial practice in Nigeria and the West African region.
- Collaborate with artists, curators, writers, theoreticians, organisations and institutions nationally and internationally
