https://www.treehouselagos.com/contact daily 0.75 2025-11-12 https://www.treehouselagos.com/home daily 1.0 2025-11-19 https://www.treehouselagos.com/events daily 0.75 2025-11-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6050d584d8942322526d4909/c1c55c15-971e-4002-8b16-b2ad3568642e/tiles+treehouse.JPG https://www.treehouselagos.com/hours daily 0.75 2025-11-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6050d584d8942322526d4909/f16295c9-394d-4b61-afc1-0f9661bda901/Tracian+Meikle+-+Photo+.JPG hours - Tracian Meikle 2022-23 Tracian Meikle is a Jamaican curator, educator and artist most recently based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, who focuses on blackness, place-making and community building. She is the co-founder of Amsterdam Black Women – a collective committed to creating a nurturing and safe space for black women seeking community. As a moderator, Meikle has led conversations with numerous thinkers and artists, including Lola Shoneyin and Angela Davis. Most recently, she was a part of the W139 exhibition, “That Those Beings be not Being”, as a part of the creative duo, the WILD – which serves as a laboratory on black fugitivity rooted in art and literature. She is a part of the 8th Asiko Art School cohort, the critical residency space for professional artists and curators from across the African continent and diaspora. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6050d584d8942322526d4909/1629127477068-12GJ06XTFJJ7GW42HT5Y/e+pic+Fidelis+Joseph.jpg hours - Fidelis Joseph 2021 Fidelis Joseph creates paintings which reflect life experiences, events, and the mythical in confluence. Inspired by daily situations and encounters, his large-scale oil paintings draw from basic and necessary elements of the human experience including oppression, depression, sexuality, loneliness, anxiety and also, love. His work leans towards abstraction as he wants the unconscious--as a place without boundaries or a fixed destination--to guide his creative process. Born in 1989 in Adamawa State, Joseph studied at Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, where he majored in painting (BFA, 2017). He has exhibited in several groups shows including: Kaduna Art Fair organized by the National Gallery of Art Abuja (2017); The Maker Lab (2018) and Collective Rendition (2019) organized by African Artists' Foundation; and Rele Gallery's Young Contemporaries (2019). His second solo exhibition, In Search of Home, opens this month in Ikoyi, presented by PHÍLOS and curated by Kadara Enyeasi. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6050d584d8942322526d4909/1617795634033-76IPJPOAI9QENS5YF3SS/Taiwo+copy.jpg hours - Taiwo Aiyedogbon 2021 During the residency, Taiwo Aiyedogbon will explore installation as a site of mental and emotional healing. Through her creative research she will look at how environment facilitates interaction between diverse audiences with a specific focus on ritual as enacted in public space. Aiyedogbon explores a variety of methods in her work including painting, experimental drawing, sculpture, installation and performance art. Her works often touch upon current issues related to politics and the environment in the city of Lagos. In 2017, she graduated from the Department of Fine Art at the Yaba College of Technology, Lagos. She has participated in exhibitions and performances including: Flip, Kumasi, Ghana, 2019; Mirror Mirror at ArtX Lagos Performance Pavilion, 2019; Ipele at The National Museum, Lagos, 2017; Threshold as part of the inaugural Lagos Biennial, 2017; and African Time, Malmo, Sweden, 2015. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6050d584d8942322526d4909/1617795283847-HNDQR9O5EUUUCDCO61BH/Lagos+Space+Program+Adeju+Thompson.jpeg hours - Adeju Thompson Artist in Residence 2021 Fashion designer Adeju Thompson, founder of Lagos Space Programme, will explore the dyeing technique of Adire, investigating its profound history and practice through which the traditional artist engaged with the medium as a process of storytelling for themselves and the community. During the residency Thompson will build upon their exploration of contemporary and archival symbols within the Lagos Space Programme 'Post-Adire' canon. Thompson was educated in fashion design in England, and moved back to Nigeria in 2013. They worked at Lagos-based womenswear brand Maki Oh, while creating their own capsule collections that were presented at concept store Stranger Lagos. Founded in 2018, Lagos Space Programme produces trans-seasonal genderless collections with designs that challenge obsolete norms around blackness, African design, masculinity and beauty. In 2020, Thompson was selected as one of the top eight designers at Arise Fashion Week. In January 2021 the label showcased its collection at Milan Fashion Week and they have most recently been shortlisted for the LVMH Prize. https://www.treehouselagos.com/archive daily 0.75 2025-11-19 https://www.treehouselagos.com/archive/kadara-enyeasi monthly 0.5 2021-11-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6050d584d8942322526d4909/8c7f7a8b-51c7-40bc-a376-245084c973c9/5+Treehouse+Kadara+Enyeasi+2021.JPG archive - Kadara Enyeasi https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6050d584d8942322526d4909/c129c64c-f49e-4373-8417-7cbe14e31cd3/6+Treehouse+Kadara+Enyeasi+2021.JPG archive - Kadara Enyeasi https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6050d584d8942322526d4909/d1708c1a-ee4c-43ae-a812-2aefc8e68459/7+Treehouse+Kadara+Enyeasi+2021.JPG archive - Kadara Enyeasi https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6050d584d8942322526d4909/d4b03c24-0be5-4641-9df8-3ab4c2f4331c/4+Treehouse+Kadara+Enyeasi+2021.JPG archive - Kadara Enyeasi https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6050d584d8942322526d4909/ad0976e6-c7ff-4991-ae36-045a979257bb/3+Treehouse+Kadara+Enyeasi+2021.JPG archive - Kadara Enyeasi https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6050d584d8942322526d4909/6b498fec-67db-4376-b8d6-a0e4e935c4d4/8+Treehouse+Kadara+Enyeasi+2021.JPG archive - Kadara Enyeasi https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6050d584d8942322526d4909/8bf7163e-c139-4e01-8f59-43d6e899f7ad/9+Treehouse+Kadara+Enyeasi+2021.JPG archive - Kadara Enyeasi https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6050d584d8942322526d4909/6cb5b941-00f3-4c71-be6c-4118dd89db3c/2+Treehouse+Kadara+Enyeasi+2021.JPG archive - Kadara Enyeasi https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6050d584d8942322526d4909/3d94ebd9-1589-4f4c-8d75-d50d2356097e/1+Treehouse+Kadara+Enyeasi+2021.JPG archive - Kadara Enyeasi https://www.treehouselagos.com/archive/poebeboswell monthly 0.5 2023-02-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6050d584d8942322526d4909/1615996409088-ZRQ0U4B0H8AKQV72PJK8/eTreehouse_Phoebe+Boswell+2018+copy.JPG archive - Phoebe Boswell Phoebe Boswell (b. 1982, Kenya) lives and works in London. Born in Nairobi to a Kikuyu mother and fourth generation British Kenyan father, and brought up as an expatriate in the Middle East, she combines traditional draftswomanship and digital technology to create drawings, animations and installations. Boswell studied Painting at the Slade School of Art and 2D Animation at Central St Martins, London. She was nominated/shortlisted for the Art Foundation's Animation Fellowship 2012, and was the first recipient of the Sky Academy Arts Scholarship, which she used to produce her immersive installation The Matter of Memory; it first showed alongside work by John Akomfrah and Rashaad Newsome at Carroll / Fletcher Gallery, London in 2014. She participated in the Gothenburg International Biennial of Contemporary Art 2015 and the Biennial of Moving Images 2016 at the Centre d'Art Contemporain in Geneva, and has exhibited at Art15, 1:54 London and New York, and galleries including Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, The Fine Art Society, New Art Exchange, and Tiwani Contemporary, where she recently had her first solo exhibition in London. Her interactive installation Mutumia which showed at the 57th Venice Biennale was awarded the Future Generation Art Prize 2017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6050d584d8942322526d4909/1616000944982-L4TJADBTLF43FRG3B5LK/1The+Treehouse+Phoebe+Boswell.JPG archive - Phoebe Boswell https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6050d584d8942322526d4909/1616000847532-4SBSM3RE0JDCIWM9SC9G/image-asset.jpeg archive - Phoebe Boswell Phoebe Boswell, The Carriers (2010) https://www.treehouselagos.com/archive/kadaraenyeasi monthly 0.5 2021-03-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6050d584d8942322526d4909/1616012173634-WZSKTLKDOFP2EQK8EHN0/2+Kadara+Enyeasi_2018.JPG archive - Kadara Enyeasi With Glad to be Unhappy Kadara creates line drawings along the hallways of The Treehouse along with works on paper which are installed on the large balcony windows. Working from an album of family photographs he depicts black and white scenes of couples which speak about his parents' relationship. Kadara Enyeasi's work is influenced by a deep understanding of form, space and perspective, in part arising from his background and training as an architect. His early influences stretch from the high concept layered order of the ‘five points’ postulated by Le Corbusier to the classic avant-garde portraitures of the early West African photographers. Driven by a narrative, his eye, through the camera always see something that wills the audience in; the images seem to riff with the shadows of a serene everyday sexual provocation. In 2016, he was a finalist in the National Art Competition, and was recently featured on Nataal's 'Ones to Watch 2017' list. Kadara is a Junior Curator at the African Artists’ Foundation in Lagos where he works with the team to facilitate exchange and build partnerships between local and international visual artists. His work has appeared in several publications at home and abroad including 2016 BozarBooks/Snoeck: Dey Your Lane! Lagos Variations, 2016; Indiana University Press: Transition ‘On Fear’ 05/123, 2017; and MoonMan Studios: Edition E, 2018. Kadara is the director of the multidisciplinary fine art studio, STUDIO ENYEASI and is represented by A Whitespace Creative Agency, Lagos. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6050d584d8942322526d4909/258b9105-334c-4cbd-a81f-3ad959f2f629/ig+Treehouse+Kadara+Enyeasi+2018+.jpeg archive - Kadara Enyeasi https://www.treehouselagos.com/archive/cauleensmith monthly 0.5 2021-03-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6050d584d8942322526d4909/1616002014004-PY6V14NEJWKWJG14N248/gabron.jpeg archive - Cauleen Smith (left) Chronicles of a Lying Spirit by Kelly Gabron (1992) An experimental rumination on identity. (above) I Want to See My Skirt (2006) Images and poems responding to the photographs of Malik Sidibé. A collaboration with poet, A. Van Jordan. Cauleen Smith is an interdisciplinary artist whose work reflects upon the everyday possibilities of the imagination. Operating in multiple materials and arenas, Smith roots her work firmly within the discourse of mid-twentieth-century experimental film. Drawing from structuralism, third world cinema, and science fiction, she makes things that deploy the tactics of these disciplines while offering a phenomenological experience for spectators and participants. Her films, objects, and installations have been featured in group exhibitions: Studio Museum of Harlem, Houston Contemporary Art Museum; Yerba Buena Center for Art, and the New Museum, New York, D21 Leipzig and Decad, Berlin. She has had solo shows for her films and installations at The Kitchen, MCA Chicago, Threewalls, Chicago. She shows her drawings and 2D work with Corbett vs. Dempsey. Smith is the recipient of several grants and awards including the Rockefeller Media Arts Award, Creative Capital Film /Video, Chicago 3Arts Grant, and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Chicago Expo Artadia Award, and Rauschenberg Residency. Smith was born in Riverside, California and grew up in Sacramento. She earned a BA in Creative Arts from San Francisco Sate University and an MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles School of Theater Film and Television. Smith is based in the great city of Chicago and serves as faculty for the Vermont College of Fine Arts low-residency MFA program. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6050d584d8942322526d4909/1616002239673-UIBE9AG104DPDUZCUMVF/Chronicles+of+a+Lying+Spirit+by+KG.jpeg archive - Cauleen Smith Chronicles of a Lying Spirit by Kelly Gabron (1992) https://www.treehouselagos.com/archive/kafayat-quadri monthly 0.5 2021-03-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6050d584d8942322526d4909/1616011707325-K4IE6GHJM6SX5ZL0B9GB/kafayat.JPG archive - Kafayat Quadri Kafayat Quadri is a poet (poetographer), singer-songwriter, music producer and a certified attorney. She was the first African to speak and perform at the TEDxKLwomen, Malaysia in 2013. Her music and poetry have been performed on the stages of George Town Literary Festival, KAKISENI International Arts Festival, Generation-Y Music Festival, Lake Garden Music Festival, Coffee & Fringe Art Festival among others. https://www.treehouselagos.com/archive/djibril-diop-mambty monthly 0.5 2021-03-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6050d584d8942322526d4909/1616002680148-EFCBNWMO1ACEGPUUJGVI/eTHIS+Treehouse+Pizza+Party.jpeg archive - Djibril Diop Mambéty La Petite Vendeuse de Soleil (The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun), 1999, is Senegalese filmmaker Djibril Diop Mambéty's final film which premiered after his death in 1998. It tells the story of a young girl, Sili who courageously makes her way into the newspaper-selling business in Dakar, a job typically held by boys. https://www.treehouselagos.com/archive/taiwo-aiyedogbon monthly 0.5 2021-03-17 https://www.treehouselagos.com/archive/rahima-gambo monthly 0.5 2021-03-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6050d584d8942322526d4909/1616011396868-1ER3BNDQTK88Z0A5IH21/4The+Treehouse_Rahima+Gambo.JPG archive - Rahima Gambo - Tatsuniya (Hausa for fable or short story) builds upon Rahima Gambo's award-winning multimedia project Education is Forbidden which innovatively chronicles student experiences living at the forefront of the Boko Haram conflict. The video, in its non-linear and disjointed sequence, goes beyond the narrative of combat and trauma and touches on the essence of youthfulness and play at the core of the students' collective memory. Exploring the relationship between text, audio, moving and still images Gambo creates an room-sized installation comprised of over 45 live palm trees. Viewers navigate through glowing branches and across a dirt filled floor to view scenes from Shehu Sanda Kyarimi School in Maiduguri. As students remember their experiences living at the forefront of the Boko Haram conflict, with a direct attack in 2013, their stories sound like dark folktales situated somewhere between the real and the imagined and yet they also continue to embody a deep sense of youthfulness, innocence and play. Rahima Gambo is an independent documentary photographer and visual storyteller who explores themes of postcolonial Nigerian identity, gender, history, memory and socio-political issues through long-term visual projects. Rahima is a 2014 Magnum Foundation Fellow and is an International Women's Media Foundation Fellow. She was a winner in the LensCulture Emerging Talent Award 2016. https://www.treehouselagos.com/archive/sarosaye monthly 0.5 2021-03-17 https://www.treehouselagos.com/archive/tito-aderemi-ibitola monthly 0.5 2021-03-17 https://www.treehouselagos.com/archive/sophia-wallace monthly 0.5 2021-03-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6050d584d8942322526d4909/1616767806419-4VPGGZZOOA79OS3OAV6D/5+The+Treehouse+Sophia+Wallace+Cliteracy+2018.JPG archive - Sophia Wallace https://www.treehouselagos.com/archive/byolit monthly 0.5 2021-03-17 https://www.treehouselagos.com/archive/olatunde-alara monthly 0.5 2021-03-17 https://www.treehouselagos.com/archive/even-if-your-mouth-is-closed-you-are-a-mouthpiece monthly 0.5 2021-03-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6050d584d8942322526d4909/1616766024842-J5S0VFY3HLQCZI8VAU4W/The+Treehouse_Youmna+Chlala+Text.jpg archive - Even if your mouth is closed (you are a mouthpiece) This exhibition, which takes its title from Youmna Chlala's forthcoming book The Paper Camera offers an exploration of the visuality of text. A projection of Chlala's words blows in the wind, an imperfect monument to this story. Allyn Gaestel's dream//life is a series exploring trauma as lived through magical realism, dissociation, and the physicality of emotion, shot in Goma, Montauk, Lagos, Guangzhou, Dakar, New York, Lomé, Long Beach, Berlin and Bauchi. Maryam Kazeem presents according to hims, a work from the series how to be the ideal african woman. With this wall drawing Kazeem signifies sound: mschew mschew mschew mschew mschew--and its layers. An excerpt from the larger prose piece follows. put on his eyes now open them on command when you look at yourself in the mirror. never close them. even if-- have to hold you down keep them open. never close them. Yadichinma Ukoha-Kalu drawings suggest a language that is both intimate and epic, as words become beckoning landscapes. The larger of these works, titled Script 1 and Script 2 form part of her Thought Lines series. Even if your mouth is closed (you are a mouthpiece) invites you to consider the possibilities of the written, sonic and visual word in shaping narratives, translating experience, invoking sightscapes and retrieving elemental language and forms. https://www.treehouselagos.com/archive/adeola-olagunju monthly 0.5 2021-04-09 https://www.treehouselagos.com/archive/gabrielle-civil monthly 0.5 2021-03-17 https://www.treehouselagos.com/archive/the-secret-life-of-plants monthly 0.5 2021-03-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6050d584d8942322526d4909/1617965352885-XR35NU4I9PH2ZADVGG9X/eAdee+Roberson_Photo+by+Tia+Thompson_The+Treehouse+Lagos.jpg archive - The Secret Life of Plants Film still from Adee Roberson's VIVID SEAMS (Photo: Tia Thompson) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6050d584d8942322526d4909/1616769593716-Z4FPYHWL9KK4UD2745ZJ/eRahima+Gambo+2018+The+Treehouse+Lagos_The+Secret+Life+of+Plants.jpg archive - The Secret Life of Plants Rahima Gambo is a Nigerian photographer and artist who explores identity, history, memory, freedom, escape and healing and the spaces in between these things, through long term visual projects. She ponders visual language and the processes of storytelling, often experimenting with text, illustration, video, sculpture and installation. She is based in Abuja, Nigeria. She is best known for her multimedia series "Education is Forbidden" where she explores the lives of students affected by the Boko Haram conflict in Northeastern Nigeria. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6050d584d8942322526d4909/1616769696052-3XCZ5J78WDTTBAGBGGEC/IMG_0913.JPG archive - The Secret Life of Plants The work of Los Angeles-based artist Adee Roberson weaves sonic and familial archives, with landscape, technicolor, rhythm, form, and spirit. Her music which she calls Tropic Green opens a futurist fantasy that draws from the minimal aspects of punk, reggae, house music, and spirituals. She weaves rich celestial landscapes with her drum machines, synthesizers and various percussion instruments. Roberson works with black identities and abstractions in her visual work . She uses visual storytelling to weave a new narrative that combines threads from cultural history and also from the cloth of infinity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6050d584d8942322526d4909/819a3a33-ed52-406a-a132-57cc4d197424/IMG_0525.JPG archive - The Secret Life of Plants https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6050d584d8942322526d4909/ab966e82-7384-43c8-83bd-dd1f9dfbc4b8/IMG_0743.JPG archive - The Secret Life of Plants https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6050d584d8942322526d4909/10b2e3e2-e101-4236-a078-56b6fe7db366/IMG_0615.JPG archive - The Secret Life of Plants https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6050d584d8942322526d4909/6d5d20b7-59ac-43fb-9335-7df1ed06a3eb/IMG_0544.JPG archive - The Secret Life of Plants https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6050d584d8942322526d4909/fa0bfbed-6ef7-4aa1-9694-ba02fc4dbee8/IMG_0611.JPG archive - The Secret Life of Plants https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6050d584d8942322526d4909/cafcba4a-eaba-49f8-be80-102e6629b3cf/IMG_0664.JPG archive - The Secret Life of Plants https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6050d584d8942322526d4909/b9c26fa6-d391-4043-b9ff-b11aadb49be8/IMG_0602.JPG archive - The Secret Life of Plants https://www.treehouselagos.com/archive/fresh-flowers monthly 0.5 2021-03-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6050d584d8942322526d4909/1616012722672-DD2WDKYTXEDQ40XU4O06/FreshFlowers+The+Treehouse.JPG archive - Fresh Flowers This botanical exchange brought out gardeners, plant lovers, botanists and humans who care for vegetables, herbs, flowers, vines, houseplants, sprouts and more to share their love of plants and desire to greenify life in the city. https://www.treehouselagos.com/archive/boda-boda-film-screening monthly 0.5 2021-03-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6050d584d8942322526d4909/1617964065359-GI41362T9CJ1B3V7IWB9/Kgaugelo+Rakgwale_Faded+video+still_Treehouse+Lagos+invitation_Boda+Boda+Lounge.png archive - Boda Boda Film Screening Kgaugelo Rakgwale, Faded (still) https://www.treehouselagos.com/archive/yadichinma-ukohakalu monthly 0.5 2022-08-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6050d584d8942322526d4909/1629977049021-D5Z8UXS7W2GE0ZFZN50T/aae7a853-11a6-4183-8a3c-54aa0639a55d.JPG archive - Yadichinma Ukoha-Kalu https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6050d584d8942322526d4909/1629977014426-PTH4G0WFDZ7HJ22UZUYY/556044c3-a862-4e1e-8f0e-151d8bda5f08.JPG archive - Yadichinma Ukoha-Kalu https://www.treehouselagos.com/archive/illuminate-theatre monthly 0.5 2021-03-17 https://www.treehouselagos.com/archive/thrift-projects monthly 0.5 2021-03-17 https://www.treehouselagos.com/archive/justine-gaga monthly 0.5 2021-03-17 https://www.treehouselagos.com/archive/sheila-chukwulozie monthly 0.5 2021-03-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6050d584d8942322526d4909/1617963773277-FHA678WGP1GMVOVKQUAF/Sheila+Chukwulozie.JPG archive - Sheila Chukwulozie https://www.treehouselagos.com/archive/adee-roberson-keyon-gaskin monthly 0.5 2021-03-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6050d584d8942322526d4909/1616019938062-71NPWWFZ8LE5VIQR8GL7/gaskin_american-realness_2018-333x500.jpg archive - Adee Roberson & keyon gaskin hFactor and The Treehouse are pleased to present Artists-in-Residence Adee Roberson & keyon gaskin at a new space on Lagos Island. Come by for a beautiful evening of music, video and visual art. https://www.treehouselagos.com/archive/ozoz-sokoh monthly 0.5 2021-03-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6050d584d8942322526d4909/1616020834809-JAD90LAMTOVB6CV4JUU5/The+Treehouse+Love+Letter+to+Lagos_Ozoz+Sokoh+Kitchen+Butterfly+2020.jpg archive - Ozoz Sokoh With Love Letter to Lagos Ozoz Sokoh, also known as Kitchen Butterfly, brings the lovely Agbalumo to the Treehouse. Agbalumo, the African star apple is her portal into a world of possibility, setting new directions for Nigerian cuisine beyond the known and accepted. Ozoz Sokoh is a food explorer and exploration geologist passionate about food in its entirety – cooking, eating, dreaming, writing and photographing it, especially on her blog, Kitchen Butterfly. A ‘Traveller by plate’, she uses foodways--the social, cultural and economic practices relating to the production and consumption of food--to explore the world because ‘Food is more than eating’. In 2013, she coined the phrase The #NewNigerianKitchen - her philosophy and practice celebrating and documenting all aspects of Nigerian cuisine from classic recipes to reinventing and representing Nigerian food, unearthing history, sharing techniques, using old ingredients in new ways, focusing on in-season produce, monitoring trends and more. She has created a number of novel documents - Nigeria's first-ever seasonal produce calendar, one of a handful on the continent; guide to Nigerian tastes and flavours, and others. Sokoh featured on Anthony Bourdain's Parts Unknown Lagos episode, and her work has been profiled on CNN African Voices and Food 52. She makes her home in Lagos, Nigeria but dreams of rain-drenched or sun-streaked mornings on the couch, good book in hand and a pot of tea in New York, Nairobi, Tokyo, Paris and Edinburgh. She believes Nigerian food was, is and always will be worth celebrating. Viva la vida Naija food. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6050d584d8942322526d4909/9a62e76b-0c19-47c3-8cf3-574798255fed/DSCF0022.jpg archive - Ozoz Sokoh https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6050d584d8942322526d4909/eb2423d3-0486-4174-801a-60b7eb0aef3c/DSCF0063.jpg archive - Ozoz Sokoh https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6050d584d8942322526d4909/3a3c22a6-33ce-4e88-b9cc-98453f4cb63d/DSCF0200.jpg archive - Ozoz Sokoh https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6050d584d8942322526d4909/cc6ad2fe-8266-43b7-a3bb-c52ffd7bb954/DSCF0219.jpg archive - Ozoz Sokoh https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6050d584d8942322526d4909/d12e6fb3-13f2-46b7-b69a-3acc95aff754/DSCF0183.jpg archive - Ozoz Sokoh https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6050d584d8942322526d4909/a7c0de11-27c8-4d4d-931f-2b19d421965b/DSCF0028.jpg archive - Ozoz Sokoh https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6050d584d8942322526d4909/360b4d84-6462-435c-bfc9-7de7a5690eaa/IMG_1534.jpg archive - 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James Notin Positioning humans as water, a migratory yet fixed being, the performance 'Òmùgọ̀ ta’mi n’kókó' is an abstracted conversation on the rigidity and disservice to self that characterizes the rituals and routines of our individualist age. The audience will be challenged to shift from the role of observer-witness to collaborating performer, sharing knowledge and labour in a call to communal care and healing practices, with the desire to create flow within and without. James Notin (it/they/them) is a Yoruba-Nigerian experimental artist and performance curator whose work investigates individuals in universal space and structure. Their works are based on the curation of public opinion and selective observation as a tool for distorting contemporary society to create a liberal space for analyzing the structure and their politics. Assuming human societies are bordered by future anxiety and future perspectives, Notin engages systems through the lens of an outsider to open up an alternative and interactive space that enables individuals to engage in sociopolitical issues. Working as a co-curator at Tantdile Xperimenta Lab, their works also expand to performance art, photography, and interactive literature. James Notin has been a resident at Maxim Gorki's Young Curator Academy, and Forecast School of Thinker at the Theatre Forum, Dublin. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6050d584d8942322526d4909/0937acb1-1927-4138-8870-22f026bae71f/PHOTO-2023-01-30-15-10-32.jpg archive - James Notin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6050d584d8942322526d4909/60cdcba6-df02-4026-907c-4b645c4d8912/PHOTO-2023-01-30-15-10-38_1.jpg archive - James Notin . https://www.treehouselagos.com/archive/chinonyeotunye monthly 0.5 2023-05-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6050d584d8942322526d4909/ec0d3255-b679-4a48-bed6-90990e533285/1+Treehouse+Chinonye+Otuonye.jpg archive - Chinonye Otunye A Swimming Lesson conducted by Chinonye Otuonye, who will facilitate a vocal annotation of sections of Tiffany King’s Black Shoals. In her disruptive text, Tiffany King examines the physical formation of shoals, as “spaces of contact, friction, and interaction among land and water” and uses it to question the lack of rootedness that is often attributed to the black diaspora. Instead, she offers up the Black Shoal “as a moment of convergence, gathering, reassembling, and coming together (or apart)”. Through a series of interactive activities, we’ll engage in a non-linear reading of the text in relation of other thinkers and collectively imagine new topographies of blackness that speak to our pasts, presents, and futures. This event forms part of 'Water Laboratory: Experiments in Swimming and Drowning' – a space of artistic experimentation and creative ideation that explores the watery disruptions and connections of people of African descent. Curated by Tracian Meikle during her curatorial residency at the Treehouse, it takes the form of a series of performances, presentations, installations and conversations; with the aim of learning water together. Chinonye Otuonye is a PhD Candidate in Anthropology at CUNY, Graduate Center in New York. While in Nigeria she has been working on a project that explores the notions of futurity and alterity that undergird local black geographies. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6050d584d8942322526d4909/82e7edf0-7bbe-4fcf-af4e-2ea79bf0e6be/2+Treehouse+Chinonye+Otuonye.jpg archive - Chinonye Otunye https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6050d584d8942322526d4909/f32c95d9-df66-4a24-a9a0-7eb8ac2bc181/3+Treehouse+Chinonye+Otuonye.jpg archive - Chinonye Otunye https://www.treehouselagos.com/archive/olukemilijadu monthly 0.5 2023-06-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6050d584d8942322526d4909/e4a3ff6d-a7ef-47de-981c-ba628e43ff6d/1+Treehouse+Kemi+Lijadu.jpg archive - Olukemi Lijadu A Guardian Angel is finally coming home. After touring the world, she is making her grand return to the land of her birth--Lagos, Nigeria. Come celebrate! Olukemi Lijadu's visionary film is concerned with journeys, of the spiritual kind, yes, as its title would suggest, but also of the transition from life into death, through its moving homage to the filmmaker's late grandmother, and lastly the various crossings made by members of the ‘black diaspora.’ But no journey is complete without a return. In that way, the film's Lagos screening acts out the ideas which form the artwork's central motivations. Olukemi’s Lijadu’s work takes a careful look at African and, in particular, Nigerian epistemologies. She is interested in the ways of knowing employed by Africans that have been dismissed and looked down on. But she refuses to deal in abstraction; her film is anchored by its close examination of personhood, the body and the responsibilities that attend to being in community and connected with those around you (both living and dead). In Guardian Angel, Black womanhood is envisioned as a kind of philosophical practice, one invested in grasping the nature of God, religion, particularly Catholicism and how colonial histories have shaped African understandings of the spiritual. Lijadu makes space for contradiction and unanswered questions. Guardian Angel feels like watching a prayer unfold on screen. It is a quiet meditation featuring footage of the artist’s grandmother interwoven with material recorded in Lagos, Dakar and London, as well as found videos and personal archival imagery. Collage-like in appearance, the work includes dreamy images from the studio cuts to still shots of Nigerian landscapes, written text, angelic statues, and excerpts from music videos, TV interviews with African philosophers and colonial missionaries. The film is also multi-sensory. Lijadu makes use of draped fabrics reminiscent of altar pieces in Catholic churches intended to evoke the feeling that you are in a place of worship. For the Lagos screening she will employ Yoruba sanyan fabric for the installation, fusing indigenous textile traditions with the visual language of European Christianity. Olukemi Lijadu is an artist and DJ focusing on moving image and sound. She uses the power of cinema to take listeners on sonic journeys weaving between cultures and time. Her academic training as a philosopher deeply informs her experimental approach to music and the moving image. She holds bachelor's and master's degrees in philosophy from Stanford University, where she focused on African philosophical systems. For Kem Kem, music and music history are a living archive of communal memory and lost connections - critical given the fractured history of the Black diaspora worldwide. With heritage from Nigeria, the Caribbean and Brazil, the impetus of her artistic practice is both personal and political. She sees her function as a filmmaker and DJ as one of re-connection. As a DJ she has opened for artists such as Tems and has played across three continents. * This event forms part of Water Laboratory: Experiments in Swimming and Drowning – a space of artistic experimentation and creative ideation that explores the watery disruptions and connections of people of African descent. Curated by Tracian Meikle during the second half of her curatorial residency at the Treehouse, it takes the form of a series of performances, presentations, installations and conversations; with the aim of learning what water does together. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6050d584d8942322526d4909/3c3f9a9e-af58-4dce-a9e2-f64487844027/3+Treehouse+Guardian+Angel+2023.jpg archive - Olukemi Lijadu https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6050d584d8942322526d4909/12dea978-3946-4f9c-b571-40ef160df5b9/1+Treehouse+Guardian+Angel+2023.jpg archive - Olukemi Lijadu https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6050d584d8942322526d4909/fed103a1-92c6-41d5-8194-19db38aa338a/2+Treehouse+Guardian+Angel+2023.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6050d584d8942322526d4909/67ed5a37-07ce-42e4-bc10-77a86bffb134/4+Treehouse+Guardian+Angel+2023.jpg https://www.treehouselagos.com/archive/adebayo-quadry-adekanbi monthly 0.5 2023-06-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6050d584d8942322526d4909/309e7faf-55a1-49b6-bced-4ce565080db9/PHOTO-2023-06-09-21-29-06.jpg archive - Adebayo Quadry-Adekanbi Diving Into Gender explores the connection between gender and African art from a queering perspective. By acknowledging the historical influences on gender in Africa and taking inspiration from the fluidity of water, we will engage in a session that challenges rigidity and disrupts power structures related to gender norms. Through explorations of selected artworks, such as Tabita Rezaire's 'Ultra Wet – Recapitulation,' and Adeju Thompson’s 'Odu Oseetura', we ask "What can we gain if we park conventional ideas of gender in how we create, read, and analyse contemporary art, and what do we lose? How might gender be as dynamic as water, taking the shape of what it is in?" To capture this fluidity, we will end the workshop with the making of clay vessels to hold the shape of your understanding of gender. Adebayo Quadry-Adekanbi (he/him) is a Sociology PhD researcher. His research explores the intersectional politics of queer activism and feminism in Nigeria, along with principles of postcolonial and Black queer feminist theory. He analyses the cultural and socio-political dimensions of various subjects, from mainstream pop culture, politics, and art to academic debates. * This event forms part of Water Laboratory: Experiments in Swimming and Drowning – a space of artistic experimentation and creative ideation that explores the watery disruptions and connections of people of African descent. Curated by Tracian Meikle during the second half of her curatorial residency at the Treehouse, it takes the form of a series of performances, presentations, installations and conversations; with the aim of learning what water does together. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6050d584d8942322526d4909/9d1aa826-2e21-4a3b-a152-1d223ebaceb8/PHOTO-2023-06-09-21-29-24.jpg archive - Adebayo Quadry-Adekanbi https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6050d584d8942322526d4909/1215156a-8c01-4655-b48d-4442510160e2/PHOTO-2023-06-09-21-29-03.jpg archive - Adebayo Quadry-Adekanbi https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6050d584d8942322526d4909/53086a11-8260-4751-8071-f6c8c0d00ca2/PHOTO-2023-06-09-21-29-35.jpg https://www.treehouselagos.com/archive/tolulopewilliams monthly 0.5 2023-10-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6050d584d8942322526d4909/03bbca28-2d08-4391-9789-125032417d07/Tolu+Ami-Williams+-+Treehouse+Lagos+2023.JPG archive - Tolulope Ami-Williams Bodies and Borders forms the second series to the body of work, ‘Knit My Broken Bones Together I’ and explores the interpersonal relationships between people of diverse cultures, beliefs and practices, fostered as a result of movement across borders into new spaces. It asks ‘How can we exchange and interact without imposing? What does the friction of encounter offer in shaping identity and community?’ Through a group performance and sound installation, the impact of encounter is explored against a backdrop of charcoal. Charcoal forms an integral part of Ami-Williams’ practice where it is used as a metaphor for blackness, and also serves as a rejoinder against charcoal production due to its contribution to climate change. Tolulope Ami-Williams is a Lagos-based multidisciplinary artist. With a vision to create globally relatable and impactful work, her practice centres on narratives that drive social change. Ami-Williams leverages art as a catalyst for transformation, using her body to stage symbolic statements on identity, empowerment, and self-affirmation. Her thought-provoking art challenges social stereotypes, initiating discussions that dismantle society's invisible frontiers. She has shown work at Alliance Française, Rele Art Foundation's Young Contemporaries Residency, G.A.S Foundation and Untitled. She was a finalist for the Access Art X Prize 2022. https://www.treehouselagos.com/archive/tracianmeiklecuriosities monthly 0.5 2024-01-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6050d584d8942322526d4909/404da30a-fc5c-4c9c-909e-3a2123da2133/Treehouse+Aug+20+2023.JPG archive - Tracian Meikle Tracian Meikle completes her residency at the Treehouse with Lagoon of Curiosities - a reflection on the questions that have been explored by artists and thinkers during her residency at the Treehouse. Over the past six months, Tracian Meikle convened the Water Laboratory: Experiments in Swimming and Drowning – a space of artistic experimentation and creative ideation that explored the watery disruptions and connections of people of African descent. It took the form of a series of performances, presentations, installations and conversations; with the aim of learning water together. Invited artists and thinkers explored the ways in which flow can be created communally, what it means to be rooted at the shore, the contradictions of spiritual belonging amidst erasure, fluidity of gender and the shaping of identity through friction. Tracian will reflect on these offerings to the Lagoon and the answers that have risen to the surface. Tracian Meikle is a Jamaican curator based between Lagos and Amsterdam. Her work focuses on diasporic blackness, belonging and community-building. She has worked in the field of art and culture as a researcher, moderator and educator in a number of institutions including the Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. In addition to her curator-in-residence role at The Treehouse, she leads the work of 1952 Africa, an arts institution dedicated to the support and development of African artists. https://www.treehouselagos.com/archive/kadaraenyeasi2 monthly 0.5 2024-04-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6050d584d8942322526d4909/ede5cdd4-a526-49fa-96b1-abb773304623/eKadara+Enyeasi+Treehouse+Lagos+2023+.jpeg archive - Kadara Enyeasi Because it must be is a collection of new works by Kadara Enyeasi. An offshoot from the larger body of work Wisdom often arrives as a warning, the series takes inspiration from a passage in Lewis Caroll’s book Alice in Wonderland, where Alice cries out as she is submerged in a pool of her own tears. In this series, Kadara creates within the dualities of the ritualistic and the ceremonial. Working with the mediums of sculpture, painting, and photography, he reflects on the cathartic process of art making while reinterpreting historic objects, surrendering to chance, and constructing new narratives across a number of themes. https://www.treehouselagos.com/archive/queerascollage2 monthly 0.5 2024-04-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6050d584d8942322526d4909/2c292225-a342-4603-9173-c875a8ceff18/Queer+as+Collage+Treehouse+2024.JPG archive - Queer as Collage II Queer as Collage Come hang out and make art together. Collage (from the French coller, meaning to glue or to stick together. Queer as all the parts that make a whole. Queer as dissonance, Queer as resonance. Queer as seeing beauty in the contradictions of life. Queer as making something out of nothing. Queer as lives all the way outside of normal and all the way amazing. Queer as glue, scissors, tape, staples, a line of poetry, a found photograph, a picture torn out of a magazine. Queer as as as. . . . . . .Everyone is welcome https://www.treehouselagos.com/archive/sudanesefilm monthly 0.5 2025-01-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6050d584d8942322526d4909/70b93050-60f1-4b09-be48-02b152761ec6/2+Treehouse+Jamal+by+Ibrahim+Shaddad+1981.jpg archive - Sudanese Film Screening - Monangambee is a nomadic panafrican microcinema in Lagos Films 1. Al Mahatta (The Station) 1989, Eltayeb Mahdi, 16’ Sudan, in the late 1980s. People cross the desert on foot or cover long distances by car and truck. In Al Mahatta, Eltayeb Mahdi shows encounters at one of the large crossroads between the capital Khartoum in the center of the country and Bur Sudan on the Red Sea. 2. Al Dhareeh (The Tomb) 1977, Eltayeb Mahdi, 16’ A man claims to be able to heal people. An alleged tomb of a pious sheikh is the setting of the story. His followers arrive from near and far to get healed and in that process lose a lot of money. Even after the fraud has been exposed his followers are still convinced of his powers. 3. Wa Lakin Alardh Tadur (It Still Rotates) 1978, Suliman Elnour, 19’ Suliman Elnour's graduation film depicts everyday life at the time in a school in the fifth province in Yemen. There are no formalities, no boundaries between students and teachers, criticism and self-criticism are important means of communication and the support of girls' education is of high significance. 4. Jamal, (A Camel) 1981, Ibrahim Shaddad, 14’ A report from the life of a camel, most of which plays out in a dreary, small room – a sesame mill. 5. Insan (Human Being) 1994, Ibrahim Shaddad, 27’ The trials and tribulations of a Sudanese villager in a large alien city. Shot entirely without dialogue, the film’s innovative use of sound helps tell the story of a shepherd who leaves his wife and herd to settle in a nearby town. // Screening in collaboration with Monangambee: a nomadic panaAfrican microcinema in Lagos. Our screenings engage Black continental and diasporic filmmakers, as well as Third Cinema, and cinematic movements stemming from the Global South in general. We try as much as possible to have the filmmakers present, in person or virtually, as the screenings are followed by discussions. Our name was decided as an homage to late Sarah Maldoror’s debut film, Monangambee (1969), in conversation with her daughter, Annouchka de Andrade. Set in Angola but shot in Algeria, Monangambee speaks to the fundamental misrecognition(s) between colonized and colonizers in a Fanonian vein, while also centering the possibilities of revolutionary care work. Quite fittingly, the name of the film is taken from a war cry colonized Angolans employed to warn of the approach of Portuguese slave traders. Read more here and @monangambee https://www.treehouselagos.com/archive/writeifyouplease monthly 0.5 2025-06-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6050d584d8942322526d4909/58b216be-43ff-4fd7-a0bf-606f5ec6d477/IMG_6091.JPG archive - WRITE, IF YOU PLEASE Write, if you please is a FESTAC 2077 presentation of their ongoing exploration of alternative publishing practices. Manifesto ACTS! is FESTAC 2077’s inaugural multi-year program. The project’s ultimate task–writing a manifesto for FESTAC 2077–initiates projects, experiences, and interactions which take up notions of the public and publicness, authorship and authority, spectacle and speculation, text and intertextuality. Through sonic and visual fragments from their 2023 and recent July workshop, Write, if you please explores publishing as an invitation, and printing as a public and collaborative process. Viewers are invited to imagine, enact, and recreate FESTAC 2077 manifestos. This exhibition is presented in partnership with AWCA and made possible by the Goethe Institut Nigeria's Support + Connect Initiative. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6050d584d8942322526d4909/83e9236c-16c6-4bac-992c-f0d890b8649e/IMG_6103.JPG archive - WRITE, IF YOU PLEASE - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6050d584d8942322526d4909/f8346c96-3a0f-41a2-834d-94401ac69678/IMG_6077.JPG archive - WRITE, IF YOU PLEASE https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6050d584d8942322526d4909/de524a61-6a19-4003-87fc-838b4775d4b2/IMG_6102.JPG archive - WRITE, IF YOU PLEASE https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6050d584d8942322526d4909/5b7ce84f-eb0c-407d-b5ce-cc86f58e70b4/IMG_6103.JPG archive - WRITE, IF YOU PLEASE https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6050d584d8942322526d4909/781099ac-f947-4138-91da-2ae608a60c5d/IMG_6104.JPG archive - WRITE, IF YOU PLEASE https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6050d584d8942322526d4909/ca201dcc-d2ef-4ace-b361-4214a4971a48/IMG_6105.JPG archive - WRITE, IF YOU PLEASE https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6050d584d8942322526d4909/b7b92f4e-0ba0-4bef-9b7f-02372a0f24db/IMG_6113.JPG archive - WRITE, IF YOU PLEASE https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6050d584d8942322526d4909/b514ec18-c0d8-4ca9-9f63-3f3eee7467c3/IMG_6115.JPG archive - WRITE, IF YOU PLEASE https://www.treehouselagos.com/archive/wateryearning monthly 0.5 2025-11-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6050d584d8942322526d4909/8dc4329e-3f20-497e-afef-19c41c28eafd/3+Treehouse+Lagos+2025.jpg archive - Watery Yearning - WATERY YEARNING Join us for a series of screenings, talks and workshops organized in collaboration between Lagos-based Monangambee and London-based Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA, @icalondon) with the support of the British Council (@britisharts), engaging artists of African descent and the diaspora in conversation with John Akomfrah’s oeuvre, in terms of aesthetics, practice and social commitments. This project was prompted by John Akomfrah’s work at the 2024 Venice Biennale, Listening All Night to the Rain. Water as a literal and metaphorical element, particularly the Atlantic Ocean, is spotlighted in this program as the locus of longing, regeneration and return for individuals and generations in West Africa and its diaspora. These films question the manners in which the project of globalization and racial capitalism attempt to sever the inextricable relations and ecologies between Black populations and the water bodies that sustain them. In Watery Yearnings, water is presented as a site for sustainable lives, healing, and rest. Preceded by a film and storytelling workshop with the multidisciplinary artist Olukemi Lijadu (details to follow soon). Films: 1. Drexciya, Akosua Adoma Owusu, 2010, Ghana, 13mn @akosuadoma 2. Life on the Horn, Mo Harawe, 2020, Somalia, 25mn @moharawe 3. Aqua, Samba Félix N’diaye, 1992, Senegal, 12mn 4. In Praise of Still Boys, Julianknxx, 2021, Sierra Leone, 5mn @julianknxx 5. Testament, John Akomfrah, 1988, UK/Ghana, 88mn https://www.treehouselagos.com/archive/dishlagos monthly 0.5 2025-11-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6050d584d8942322526d4909/19aa2df2-d646-42ce-ad8d-90dd42f407df/3+DISH%21+Treehouse+Lagos..JPG archive - DISH! with Timi + Wura - DISH! with Timi + Wura Join us for a series of spicy conversations on the Lagos Art Scene! https://www.treehouselagos.com/archive/lisacsoto monthly 0.5 2025-11-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6050d584d8942322526d4909/6bf0067c-4ac0-4a3f-aa88-0f4b4193517d/2+Lisa+C+Soto+Treehouse+2025.JPG archive - Lisa C Soto - Tectonic Transference Lisa C Soto’s work weaves photography, installation and sculpture with the botanical universe. Her most recent installations ruminate on the concept of the ‘weed’ not only as plant terminology but as language that distinguishes foreigners from those who belong. Born in Los Angeles and based between Puerto Rico and Ghana, her current work includes photo transfers on handmade paper, depicting the abstracted landscapes of these two homes. Soto is currently in the doctoral program at KNUST, Kumasi, in the painting and sculpture department. https://www.treehouselagos.com/archive/ngoziajah monthly 0.5 2025-11-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6050d584d8942322526d4909/a36bb5a5-6bb5-4907-8b39-872397b6efad/1+Ngozi+Ajah+Schommers.jpg archive - Ngozi Ajah Schommers - In Conversation with Ngozi Ajah Schommers Ngozi Ajah Schommers is a German-Nigerian artist based in Bremen. She works with painting, drawing, sculpture, installation, performance, and text to address issues related to identity, equality, memory, culture, migration and colonialism. Her material exploration includes paper, readymade objects, synthetic hair and her natural hair, which she uses to study the relationship between the body and space, query complex realities and history. Often these focus on her experience and the experiences of other women. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6050d584d8942322526d4909/9fc1cf71-0d1b-4d96-b150-87b0c4a20287/2+Ngozi+Ajah+Schommers+Treehouse+2025.jpg archive - Ngozi Ajah Schommers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6050d584d8942322526d4909/f2e123fc-42ef-42fd-83b0-4c8c0722162c/4+Ngozi+Ajah+Schommers+Treehouse+2025.jpg archive - Ngozi Ajah Schommers https://www.treehouselagos.com/archive/passedlife monthly 0.5 2021-10-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6050d584d8942322526d4909/b0e189ab-4cff-485c-b110-6e31a5a18bf8/THIS+Kalejaiye_844184-1.00_14_52_18.Still009.jpg archive - SAROSAYÉ: Ayomide Kalejaiye https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6050d584d8942322526d4909/67ccb7c3-48f9-4308-ae7a-a6c488dc95e6/Kalejaiye_844184-1.00_00_09_28.Still002.jpg archive - SAROSAYÉ: Ayomide Kalejaiye https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6050d584d8942322526d4909/78bb9596-d571-4956-a064-39d94757af40/Kalejaiye_844184-1.00_08_11_10.Still006.jpg archive - SAROSAYÉ: Ayomide Kalejaiye https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6050d584d8942322526d4909/007af656-21dc-4baf-b5f2-af9046ea762e/Kalejaiye_844184-1.00_18_21_12.Still013.jpg archive - SAROSAYÉ: Ayomide Kalejaiye https://www.treehouselagos.com/archive/taiwoaiyedogbon monthly 0.5 2022-08-23 https://www.treehouselagos.com/archive/queer-as-collage monthly 0.5 2022-07-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6050d584d8942322526d4909/e85ab261-4961-4202-a1bb-b6721c9e5c5a/Treehouse+2022+queer+as+collage.JPG archive - Queer As Collage https://www.treehouselagos.com/archive/draw-your-heart-out monthly 0.5 2022-07-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6050d584d8942322526d4909/c1d27855-6174-4dac-b6bd-4659f34be1f6/Draw+your+heart+out+The+Treehouse+June+18+2022.JPG archive - Draw Your Heart Out