A Whitespace Creative Arts Foundation
A space for
creative
expression.
We empower artists, encourage collaboration, and create opportunities for the next generation of cultural practitioners through exhibitions, public installations, research, and cultural programming.
A note from the foundation
Who
we are.
A Whitespace Creative Arts (AWCA) Foundation is committed to empowering artists, encouraging collaboration, and creating opportunities for the next generation of cultural practitioners. Beginning as a concept space, AWCA has grown into a foundation focused on bridging the gap between potential and opportunity for Nigeria's emerging talent.
AWCA was founded on the idea of providing a space where artists could experiment without the constraints of commercial pressures. Early initiatives like the Big Sixty Arts Festival embodied this vision, offering creatives across disciplines a platform to showcase their work.
Through capacity-building, infrastructure development, and long-term support for artists, AWCA is strengthening Nigeria's cultural ecosystem. Its work is centered on urban development, cultural programming, and preserving material heritage through sustainable and impactful practices.
Within this, AWCA produces art exhibitions that bring together artworks, objects, and ideas in carefully curated formats, supported by documentation, context, and key moments from each presentation. Its cultural programming spans workshops, festivals, talks, and residencies, creating space for participation, exchange, and shared learning. It also develops public installations that engage with architecture, the environment, and audiences in everyday settings, extending creative work into lived and public spaces.
Three entries from the archive
Highlights.
A public installation, an exhibition, and a series of interviews — three recent entries that map the breadth of the foundation's practice.
The Herds Lagos
A migrating procession of life-size puppet animals moving through the city as a public reckoning with climate displacement.
Afrobeat Rebellion: Fela Anikulapo-Kuti
A landmark multi-sensory exhibition tracing the radical legacy of Fela Kuti and the political vocabulary of Afrobeat.
The Idea Behind, Connecting The Dots
On collaboration as cultural infrastructure — and why no single institution holds the full picture.
An evolving ledger
Collaborators
& partners.
Institutions, brands, and cultural organisations AWCA has worked with across exhibitions, programming, and public installations.
From the clippings file
In the
press.
Selected coverage of AWCA projects, exhibitions, and public installations from national and international outlets.
Let's build
cultural futures
together.
We work with foundations, governments, institutions and individuals committed to building the cultural infrastructure of tomorrow.