Parallel Programme of Lagos Biennial 2026
Application Deadline: 30 January 2026
Exhibition Dates: 17 October – 18 December 2026
Venue: Àkéte Collection, Lagos, Nigeria
UNSEEN FUTURES:
AN ANAMORPHIC RESPONSE TO “THE MUSEUM OF THINGS UNSEEN“
The Àkéte Art Foundation invites art institutions to submit proposals for the Off programme of the Lagos Biennial, a responsive and dialogical initiative running parallel to the 5th edition, The Museum of Things Unseen. The Biennial unfolds as a multi-phase project across Lagos and its surrounding communities, involving residencies, field research, mentorship, public commissions, an exhibition, workshops, and a colloquium.
OFFish, conceived during the 2nd edition of the Lagos Biennial in 2019 as a parallel off-site space, extends the Biennial’s curatorial framework beyond its primary exhibition. For the 2026 Edition, the OFFish programme will be housed in pavilions overlooking the central Biennial exhibition, constituting the physical perimeter of the main exhibition space. While spatially adjacent to the central exhibition, OFFish conceptually maintains its independence as an anamorphic counterpoint which distorts, contorts, squashes and squeezes the primary curatorial frame to reveal what might otherwise remain peripheral or unseen.
