Nigeria Imaginary - Homecoming - Museum of West African Art - Nigeria

Nigeria Imaginary: Homecoming, addresses the question of what defines national culture and how it is produced. This landmark exhibition, taking place in multiple spaces across the MOWAA Campus, positions Nigeria not as a single, fixed monolith but as a place of shifting imaginaries — a space where history, memory and identity intersect. By unsettling inherited narratives, the artists and their respective works invite audiences to see national identity as a process of continual reinvention and collective imagining. 

This exhibition brings together an intergenerational group of ten artists whose practices span painting, sculpture, installation, film, and text. For some, NIGERIA IMAGINARY: HOMECOMING marks their debut showing in the country; for others, it is a long-awaited return after many years.

NIGERIA IMAGINARY first debuted at the 60th International Venice Biennale in 2024 as the second-ever Nigeria Pavilion. Expanded in scope from its Venice iteration with four new artists, the homecoming of the exhibition stages a direct encounter with its intended audience, where questions of nationhood are not abstract but lived, contested and urgent.  Go to Website

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