Our Exhibitions

Our Exhibitions

2023 Exhibitions

A Tale of Two Continents: The Oceans and the Interpreters

A Tale of Two Continents: The Oceans and the Interpreters

The highly anticipated exhibition 'The Oceans and the Interpreters' recently closed its doors at the public venue for viewing at the Yabe Art Museum, Yaba College of Technology Lagos, after several days of viewing. The exhibition, which was inspired by Nobel Laureate...

2022 Exhibitions

Wolfgang Tillmans: Fragile

Wolfgang Tillmans: Fragile

“What I find most appealing in people is how they are aware of their own fragility and yet are still strong and independent beings. I want to communicate this complexity in its entirety, that lack of a singular reading, and to channel the multi-layered character and...

The Path of Those Whom You Bestowed Favour’ at CCA Lagos

The Path of Those Whom You Bestowed Favour’ at CCA Lagos

‘The Path of Those Whom You Bestowed Favour’, a new solo exhibition by Nigerian artist Aderemi Adegbite opens at the Centre for Contemporary Art – (CCA, Lagos) on March 5, 2022. Curated by Lekan Balogun (PhD), the exhibition expands Adegbite’s interest in...

2021 Exhibitions

The Other Room

The Other Room

The doors at the Centre for Contemporary Arts Lagos will be open till January 31st as the on-going exhibition titled ‘The ()ther Room’ continues to intrigue art lovers in the city. The show done in collaboration with Goethe-Institut Nigeria features works by Dandelion...

Table of Paradox

Table of Paradox

The Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos is pleased to present Table of Paradox, a debut solo exhibition by Peter Okotor. Comprising three distinct parts, this new body of work takes an introspective look at the history of Nigeria since the attainment of self- rule, and...

The Colour of Our Hearts is the Colour of Our City

The Colour of Our Hearts is the Colour of Our City

Exhibited by AMARACHI OKAFOR The Colour of Our Hearts is the Colour of Our City Echo with me Pray: This place that is ours today has become a sacred space, shall we hone and hold gratitude and compassion in our hearts for all the people thankful that we are here and...

Akomona

Akomona

AKOMÒNÀ is a journey investigating direction, destination and place as a bearer of evidence or the lack there of. Through sound, installation, mural and paintings Tobi invites the audience to a state of retrospection that exhalts the necessity for preservation in the...

2019 Exhibition

2018 Exhibitions

Connecting Deep

Connecting Deep

Exhibition by: by Ngozi Omeje ‘Connecting Deep’ is the first solo exhibition by Ngozi Omeje– her largest to date, explores the elephant – a symbol of strength as well as gentleness – as a metaphor to articulate personal experiences specifically that of a departed yet...

Local Space, Transnational Connections

Local Space, Transnational Connections

Exhibiition by: late J.D. Okhai Ojeikere, Maria Pfeifer (Germany), Ayo Akinwande (Nigeria) and Tatewaki Nio (Brazil/ Japan) Local Space, Transnational Connections examines the architectural development of Lagos State through the Brazilian Quarters and its contribution...

2017 Exhibition

2016 Exhibitions

Ori Meta odun meta ibi kan

Ori Meta odun meta ibi kan

Exhibition by: Kelani Abass, Taiye Idahor and Abraham Oghobase ‘Ori Meta odun meta ibi kan’ features the process of works in progress by three Nigerian artists- Kelani Abass, Taiye Idahor and Abraham Oghobase- who work across three different media and undertook...

If I Could Save Time

If I Could Save Time

Exhibition by: Kelani Abass If I Could Save Time…  grapples with the ontological signification of time taking the invention of the printing press five hundred years ago as a point of departure and bringing it into the 21st century by highlighting the technological...

2014 Exhibitions

El Anatsui:Playing with Chance

El Anatsui:Playing with Chance

Exhibition by:El Anatsui El Anatsui: Playing with Chance was an exhibition to mark the 70th birthday anniversary of one of Africa’s most...

1 Work

1 Work

Exhibition by: Odun Orimolade 1 Work, a new project at Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos which invites an artist to present a single...

2013 Exhibitions

No One Belongs Here More Than You

No One Belongs Here More Than You

No One Belongs Here More Than You is a collaboration between Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos and Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Art, New York, and a culmination of an extended stay by three artists of Nigerian descent resident in the United States. The...

Asiko

Asiko

Exhibition by: Kelani Abass Asiko: Evoking Personal Narratives and Collective History is the third solo exhibition by Kelani Abass. In this new body of works he explores the possibilities inherent in painting, photography and printing, strategies already suggested in...

2012 Exhibitions

The Progress of Love 

The Progress of Love 

Exhibition by:  Transatlantic collaborative project between art institutions in three cities and two continents: CCA, Lagos, The Menil Collection, Houston and The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, St. Louis. The Progress of Love at CCA, Lagos opens up a dialogue...

Occupy Nigeria

Occupy Nigeria

Exhibition by:  Jelili Atiku Occupy Nigeria is a one day event in response to the nationwide strike to protest the remove of subsidy that kept petrol prices at an affordable rate. The 116% increase was unpalatable especially to the financially disadvantaged citizens...

Live Constructions. Time. Form. Daily.

Live Constructions. Time. Form. Daily.

Exhibition by: Mthabisi Phili, Zimbabwe, Jacquiline Karuti, Kenya, Kelani Abass, Nigeria, Chidinma Nnorom, Nigeria, Ato Annan, Ghana, Richard Ovbiebo, Nigeria, Thabiso Sekgala, South Africa, Tina Adebowale, Nigeria, Portia Zvavahera, Zimbabwe Live...

2011 Exhibitions

Entrances| Exits: In Search of Not Forgetting

Entrances| Exits: In Search of Not Forgetting

Victor Ehikhamenor’s solo exhibition Entrances|Exits:In Search of Not Forgetting presents a new body of paintings, photographs, drawings and installation which reference his ancestral heritage and his home by bringing to the fore experiences which with the passing of...

Owambe, Aso-Ebi and the Politics of Dress

Owambe, Aso-Ebi and the Politics of Dress

Exhibition by: Jide Alakija “Owambe, Aso-Ebi and the Politics of Dress”, featuring the images of London based Nigerian photographer Jide Alakija continues our programme of bringing the work of Nigerian artists based here and abroad to a Nigerian audience. “Owambe,...

The Ruptured Landscape: On the Constructions of Difference

The Ruptured Landscape: On the Constructions of Difference

Exhibition by: Mudi Yahaya Mudi Yahaya’s solo exhibition The Ruptured Landscape: On The Constructions Of Difference presents several new bodies of work that explore interpretations of African hybrid identities and their varied visual dialects, currencies and...

Moment of Beauty Curatorial Statement

Moment of Beauty Curatorial Statement

Exhibition by: Late J.D. ‘Okhai Ojeikere J.D. ‘Okhai Ojeikere: Moment of Beauty Curatorial Statement The Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos presents Moments of Beauty, a groundbreaking exhibition of work by the Nigerian artist J.D. ‘Okhai Ojeikere. Occasionally...

The Collector Series

The Collector Series

The Collectors' Series was birthed when about 35 collectors, curators, and senior artists met. They spoke about their experiences collecting art, exhibiting their collections locally and internationally, and the needs within Nigeria's artistic space. An overwhelming...

All We Ever Wanted

All We Ever Wanted

Exhibition by: Otobong Nkanga, Amuche Nnabueze, Temi” Tugbiyele All We Ever Wanted attempts to provoke dialogue among different yet intertwined practitioners. It attempts to go beyond fixed notions of place and identity or even artistic practice in order to present...

2010 Exhibitions

Towards a Double Consciousness: NSK Passport Project

Towards a Double Consciousness: NSK Passport Project

Bisi Silva was part of the curatorial adviser for the exhibition and hosting of internationally renowned artists collective IRWIN, members of NSK (new Slovenian Art) at the Centre for Contemporary Arts, Lagos. Over a one week period of screenings, lectures and panel...

Prêt-à-partager

Prêt-à-partager

Collaboration by: ifa – Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, Verlag für moderne Kunst Nurnberg and CCA Lagos The pret-a-partager exhibition is a transnational artistic dialogue on fashion, sport, Africa and its Diaspora. These collected works take the varied meanings and...

Maria Series

Maria Series

Exhibition by: Pinar Yolaçan’s As part of the year long focus on Photography and Art, Fashion and Identity, CCA,Lagos is pleased to present Turkish artist Pinar Yolaçan’s critically acclaimed series “Maria”, (2007) a stunning collection of 12 stunning life size...

Sartorial Moments and the Nearness of Yesterday

Sartorial Moments and the Nearness of Yesterday

Exhibition by: J.D. ‘Okhai Ojeikere The exhibition is a selection of body of work by internationally renowned Nigerian photographer J.D. ‘Okhai Ojeikere with many of the images being published for the exhibition for the first time. Other exhibitions currently...

A Retrospect around the Theme of Independence

A Retrospect around the Theme of Independence

Exhibition by: Emeka Ogboh, Ndidi, Dike, Jude Anogwih, Jelili Atiku, Taiye Idahor, Uchay Joel Chima, Victoria, Udondian, Richardson Ovbiebo and Karo Akpokiere. In celebration of the Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos’ 3 year anniversary, artists who have engaged with...

2009 Exhibitions

Trash- ing New Works

Trash- ing New Works

12th September- 10th October, 2009. Trash- ing is an exhibition of new mixed media and painterly installations by acclaimed Lagos based artist Kainebi Osahenye. With over twenty years of artistic practice, this current incarnation Trash-ing builds on the continuous...

Summer Breeze

Summer Breeze

‘Summer Breeze’ brings together a selection of works from our past programmes. In addition we add a new element through the introduction of the work of a recent graduate and an emerging artist Richardson Ovbiebo. Ovbiebo graduated in 2007 from Yaba College of...

Identity: An Imagined State Exhibition 2009 Curatorial Statement

Identity: An Imagined State Exhibition 2009 Curatorial Statement

 31st October- 28th November, 2009 Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos is pleased to present the first international exhibition of Video Art in Nigeria Identity:An Imagined State, which constitutes the final part of a year long focus on the medium. In fulfilment of our...

Like a Virgin

Like a Virgin

29th January–14th March 2009 The Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos is pleased to present the works of Nigerian artist Lucy Azubuike and South African photographer, Zanele Muholi in the exhibition “Like A Virgin…”. The works highlights women’s experiences, identities,...

2008 Exhibitions

Waka Into Bondage

Waka Into Bondage

Waka-into-Bondage:The last ¾ mile by Nigerian Artist Ndidi Dike presents the second part of Democrazy, the inaugural curatorial project of the Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos. Dike’s recent project takes the form of a sculptural installation signalling a turning...

The African Comics Culture is Thriving and Diverse

The African Comics Culture is Thriving and Diverse

The African comic is doing well with artists active throughout the continent, comic festivals being organized and many comic magazines published. Examples of this and their impact can be seen in countries such as Senegal which broadcasts a popular television series...

Paradise Lost: Revisiting the Delta

Paradise Lost: Revisiting the Delta

29th March- 3rd May 2008. Curatorial Statement. The third and final exhibition of the 4 part curatorial project Democrazy features emerging Nigerian photographer George Osodi who brings a complex, multifaceted perspective of the Niger Delta to a Lagos and...

2007 Exhibitions

Fela, Ghariokwu Lemi and the Art of the Album Cover

Fela, Ghariokwu Lemi and the Art of the Album Cover

Fela, Ghariokwu Lemi and The Art of the Album Cover, begins the four part inaugural exhibition of the ‘Democrazy’ 3 solo exhibitions and a publication project of the Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos in an apt tribute to an uncompromising artist, a creative...

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