The Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos (CCA, Lagos) is an independent non-profit making visual art organization founded in December 2007 by Bisi Silva (1962 – 2019) to provide a platform for the development, presentation, and discussion of contemporary visual art and culture. It seeks to create new audiences and to prioritise media such as photography, film and video, performance and installation art which have been under-represented in Nigeria.
It supports and presents the intellectual and critical work of art and culture practitioners through exhibitions, public programmes especially lecture talks, seminars and screenings as well as through workshops. In addition, it encourages and promotes the professionalisation of art production and curatorship in Nigeria and West Africa collaborating with artists, curators, writers, theorists and national and international organisations.
CCA, Lagos consists of an art space and a visual art library and a curatorial and artists’ archive.