Coronation Art Gallery Opens ‘The Value of Belief’ to Wide Acclaim

Coronation Art Gallery opened its most ambitious exhibition programme to date with an evening devoted to the people who have helped shape Nigeria’s contemporary art landscape.

The Value of Belief: Collectors, Conviction and the Making of Cultural Futures opened at Coronation Plaza in Lagos. Senior executives, business leaders, collectors, artists and members of the media attended the event, alongside Coronation Group Chairman Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede and board members.

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Last night reminded us why spaces like this matter. The conversations in that room, between collectors, artists, clients and executives, could not have happened anywhere else.

The exhibition brings together works from the private collections of three Nigerian collector-patrons: Kayode Adegbola, Kola Aina and Seyi Ajibola. Their decades of deliberate collecting form the central focus of a show built around the idea that cultural value often depends on commitment before wider recognition arrives.

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The willingness to see worth before the world agrees, to commit before there is consensus, and to hold on long enough for something lasting to take shape.

Kayode Akindele, managing partner at Coronation Capital, said, “Last night reminded us why spaces like this matter. The conversations in that room, between collectors, artists, clients and executives, could not have happened anywhere else.” He added that the exhibition was about “the willingness to see worth before the world agrees, to commit before there is consensus, and to hold on long enough for something lasting to take shape.”

Ngozi Akinyele, Coronation Group’s chief marketing and communications officer, said the company viewed prosperity as extending beyond financial returns. “What we preserve, the talent we enable, the stories we carry forward and the legacies we leave, these are equally real expressions of wealth,” she said.

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What we preserve, the talent we enable, the stories we carry forward and the legacies we leave, these are equally real expressions of wealth.