Exhibitions Archive
Moments where Fathi Hassan’s stories come alive on walls.
Abu Dhabi Art
Richard Saltoun Gallery’s presentations at Abu Dhabi Art bring together artists from the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia whose practices explore themes of memory, identity, diaspora, and migration. Spanning generations and diverse cultural perspectives, the exhibitions examine how experiences of displacement, movement, and cultural exchange shape personal and collective histories.
Through painting, drawing, sculpture, textiles, and mixed media, the featured artists create distinct visual languages that reflect on heritage, belonging, and the enduring connections between place and identity. Together, the presentations highlight the richness of cross-cultural dialogue and the evolving narratives of contemporary art in a global context.
Art Cologne
For Art Cologne, Richard Saltoun Gallery presents a group exhibition bringing together works by Annegret Soltau, Bracha, Samira Abbassy, Fathi Hassan, Greta Schödl, and Toyen. Following recent solo exhibitions dedicated to Annegret Soltau at The Städel Museum and Bracha at K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, the presentation highlights artists whose practices explore identity, memory, materiality, and the relationship between personal and collective histories.
The exhibition brings together diverse artistic approaches across generations, showcasing works that challenge traditional forms and reflect on themes of transformation, heritage, and human experience.
1-54 Contemporary Art Fair
The 2025 edition of 1-54 London Art Fair brings the works of Fathi Hassan, Alimi Adewale, Nabil El Makhloufi, Sara Benabdallah, and Girma Berta in a collective exploration of identity, heritage, memory, and transformation. Through painting, photography, mixed media, and symbolic compositions, the artists reflect on personal and collective histories while examining the evolving experiences of contemporary Africa and its diasporas.
The exhibition highlights diverse artistic approaches that revisit cultural memory, displacement, urban realities, and the relationship between tradition and contemporary expression. Together, the works create a dialogue across generations and geographies, emphasizing the vitality and complexity of contemporary African art.
ARCOmadrid
For ARCOMadrid 2025, Richard Saltoun Gallery presents a group exhibition bringing together modern and contemporary artists whose practices span abstraction, minimalism, conceptual art, and experimental forms. Featuring works by Romany Eveleigh, Fathi Hassan, Reena Saini Kallat, Bice Lazzari, Bob Law, Greta Schödl, Samira Abbassy, Olga de Amaral, and Francis Picabia, the presentation highlights a dialogue across generations and artistic movements.
Through diverse media and visual languages, the exhibition explores themes of identity, memory, materiality, and perception, emphasizing the enduring relevance of artists who challenge conventional boundaries while forging new connections between historical and contemporary artistic practices.
AKKIJ
AKKIJ is a solo exhibition by Egyptian-born, Edinburgh-based artist Fathi Hassan, exploring themes of identity, memory, and language through paintings, drawings, and calligraphic works spanning over four decades of his practice. Named after the artist's Nubian childhood name, the exhibition reflects on cultural heritage and ancestral memory. AKKIJ is held at Richard Saltoun Gallery.
artmonte-carlo
For Art Monte-Carlo, Richard Saltoun Gallery presents a group exhibition bringing together works by a diverse selection of international artists, exploring themes of materiality, abstraction, identity, and artistic experimentation. The presentation features post-war textile pioneers Magdalena Abakanowicz and Jagoda Buić, alongside calligraphic works by Fathi Hassan and Huda Lutfi, Surrealist paintings by Juliana Seraphim, and intricate works on paper by Greta Schödl.
The exhibition highlights connections between different generations and artistic practices, showcasing how artists transform materials, symbols, and personal histories into powerful visual languages that transcend cultural and geographical boundaries.
I can see you smiling Fatma
I Can See You Smiling Fatma is a solo exhibition by Fathi Hassan, presented by Richard Saltoun Gallery, featuring a new body of paintings and a site-specific wall painting inspired by the artist’s Nubian heritage and personal history. Dedicated to his mother, Fatma, the exhibition explores themes of migration, displacement, memory, and diasporic identity through Hassan’s distinctive fusion of abstract calligraphy, symbolic imagery, and vibrant compositions.
Drawing from Nubian cultural traditions, ancient scripts, and visual elements connected to landscape and heritage, Hassan creates a poetic language where text and image exist beyond literal interpretation. His works reflect on the preservation of cultural memory and the complex relationship between identity, history, and belonging, transforming personal experiences into universal reflections on movement and transformation.
blue water
AKKIJ is a solo exhibition by Egyptian-born, Edinburgh-based artist Fathi Hassan, exploring themes of identity, memory, and language through paintings, drawings, and calligraphic works spanning over four decades of his practice. Named after the artist's Nubian childhood name, the exhibition reflects on cultural heritage and ancestral memory. AKKIJ is held at Richard Saltoun Gallery.
Moments where Fathi Hassan’s stories come alive on walls.
Migration of Signs
Williams College Museum of Art, 2015. Courtesy of Williams College Museum of Art.
Migration of Signs highlights works created by Hassan in the last five years. The works are allegories of spiritual journeys and reform movements like the Arab Spring. They illustrate that the meaning and interpretation of symbolic signs is not fixed.
Textures
National Museum of African Art. February 11, 2005 - September 04, 2005
The interplay of word, image and space creates visual poetry in these contemporary installations. The works employ text and graphic symbols to tell stories about memory, identity and the power of language. In doing so, they bring African visual histories into the global debate on conceptualism, which often melds word and image. In diverse ways, they celebrate the marriage of aesthetic form and literal meaning, play with the ambiguity of text and help us to consider the active role of the viewer in the "translation" process of "reading" visual images.
The format of installation art demands a dialogue that involves intense, personal and direct relationships among the viewer, the space and the artwork. It provides provocative means to explore and challenge language's graphic and literal powers. The artists featured here draw our attention to the arbitrary, ephemeral, shifting yet potent meanings assigned to the graphics that make up written texts. While many of the "texts" the artists work with are invented or fragmented, all of these artworks assume, through a remarkably varied array of materials, mesmerizing forms that turn complex stories into visual poetry.
