30.4. – 14.6.2026

On Wednesday, 29 April at 6 p.m. we open our next exhibition.

‘The non-violent revolution is feasible’ is a mini-retrospective with older, recent and new works by Hungarian/Syrian artist Róza El-Hassan (1966, lives in Budapest), who is best known for her wooden sculptures, drawings and ceramic figures. All these categories of works by El-Hassan are represented in this selection that we now offer to Finnish audiences.

The exhibition title refers not only to current world events but is also a translation of Die gewaltfreie Revolution ist machbar, the title of a brochure by Sebastian Kalicha, editor of the Viennese anarchist monthly journal Graswurzelrevolution (Grass Roots Revolution).

The exhibition itself reflects El-Hassan’s long and highly political quest for non-violent action, social fairness and attention to grass roots life. One of the earlier works featured is compiled video documentation of the performance series R. Thinking/Dreaming about Overpopulation: Blood Donation (2001–03), which started from an image of PLO leader Yasser Arafat donating blood in Gaza for the victims of the 9/11 attacks in New York and Washington DC. El-Hassan staged blood donating performances at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade and in a hospital in Budapest, but a planned third iteration of the project at ETH, the Federal Technical University in Zurich, was cancelled.

This is Róza El-Hassan’s first solo exhibition in a Nordic country, but she has exhibited extensively throughout the international art world and represented Hungary at the 47th Venice Biennale in 1997. The exhibition is organised in collaboration with her Budapest gallery, Longtermhandstand.