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  Index of Works  


  2026

    ︎︎︎ Plot Twist

  2025

    ︎︎︎ The Greenest Room

  2024

    ︎︎︎ Counting Fingers

  2022

    ︎︎︎ Wooden Moth And Blue Slippers
    ︎︎︎ 9 Lives and Counting
    ︎︎︎ Found Reliefs
  2021
    ︎︎︎ 1985
  2019
    ︎︎︎ 42 Bahgat Ali
  2018
    ︎︎︎ The Bathroom Trip
    ︎︎︎ Moments
  2017
    ︎︎︎ Homage to Some Beautiful Things
    ︎︎︎ The Homograph
  2015
    ︎︎︎ Instar


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Hana El-Sagini




Biography


Hana El-Sagini (b. 1980, Cairo) is an Egyptian artist working across sculpture, installation, and painting.

Working with ceramics, bronze casting, wood, and textiles, she builds forms drawn from the body, everyday objects, and lived spaces. Her work holds tension between memory, care, and intrusion, often with a subtle sense of humor. Scale is central, bringing the viewer into direct physical relation with the work.

Her 2024 solo exhibition, “Counting Fingers”, at 421 Arts Campus (Abu Dhabi), transformed clinical sterile spaces into an eerie environment through over 200 ceramic elements. In 2025, her work was featured at the Saudi Arabia Museum of Contemporary Art (SAMoCA), Riyadh.

El-Sagini’s public and institutional commissions include a floor scenography for Fondation Beyeler’s 25th anniversary (2022) and a major public artwork for Adly Mansour Metro Station in Cairo. She received the Dean Collection Award in 2018, and her work is held in the collection of the Fenix Museum of Migration, Rotterdam.

She holds a Master of Arts from the Academy of Art and Design FHNW, Basel, and is an adjunct faculty member at Zayed University in Dubai, where she lives and works.




Résumé


Solo Shows

  • 2026(upcoming) - Gypsum Gallery, Cairo, Egypt.
  • 2024 - “Counting Fingers”, 421 Arts Campus, AbuDhabi, UAE.
  • 2021 - “1985”, Zamalek Art Gallery, Cairo, Egypt.
  • 2019 - “42 Bahgat Ali”, Zamalek Art Gallery, Cairo, Egypt.
  • 2018 - “Moments”, Zamalek Art Gallery, Cairo, Egypt.

Commissions / Public Art

  • 2022 - Floorscenography: “14 Meaows, Friday Beyeler”, 25th Anniversary, Fondation Beyeler Basel, Switzerland (cur. Chus Martínez).
  • 2022 - Adly Mansour Metro Station, 7-piece installation (in production), Cairo, Egypt.  

Selected Group Shows

  • 2026 - “Blue Gold”, Isola Design Space, Dubai, UAE (cur. Jad Karam).
  • 2025 - “Adaptability”, Saudi Arabia Museum of Contemporary Art, JAX, Riyadh, KSA (cur. Samer Yamani).  
  • 2025 - “The Greenest Room”, Sikka Art Festival, Dubai, UAE (cur. Maktoum AlMaktoum). 
  • 2024 - “Tomorrow is not what it used to be”, AlRiwaq Institution, Manama, Bahrain.
  • 2023 - Basel Social Club, Basel, Switzerland (cur. Hannah Weinberger).
  • 2022 - “Peace or Never”, Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel, Switzerland (cur. Chus Martínez & Fernanda Brenner).
  • 2022 - Art D’Egypte, Access Gallery, Cairo, Egypt (cur. Hany Rashed).
  • 2021 - “Presence is not the opposite of Absence”, Rundgang, Universität der Künste Berlin, Germany.
  • 2021 - “Absence”, Coculture, Berlin, Germany (cur. Khaled Barakeh).
  • 2018 - “Something Else”, International Off Biennale, Darb 1718, Cairo, Egypt (cur. Simon Njami & Moataz Nasr).
  • 2017 - “Magd El-Sagini Student Exhibition”, Ubuntu Art Gallery, Cairo, Egypt.
  • 2015 - “Slowly”, Untitled BCN Gallery, Barcelona, Spain (cur. Oriol Texidor).

Collections

  • 2023 - Fenix Museum, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

Grants/ Awards

  • 2025 - Teaching Artist Fellowship, DCT, Abu Dhabi, UAE. 
  • 2023 - 421 Artistic Development Program Grant, Abu Dhabi, UAE.
  • 2020- Fine Arts Collective Group, Universität der Künste Berlin (UdK), Germany.
  • 2023 - Campus Art Dubai (CAD10.0 × Public Art), Dubai, UAE.
  • 2019 - The Biafarin Art Award, Arte Laguna Prize, Italy.
  • 2018- The Dean Collection Grant Award #TDC20, USA.

Residencies / Art Fairs

  • 2026 (upcoming) - Solo Representation at Art Basel , Statements Section, Gypsum Gallery, Basel, Switzerland.

Teaching

  • (2024 - Present) - Adjunct Faculty, Zayed University, Dubai, UAE. 
  • (2025 - Present) - Clay and Collage Workshops, 421 Arts Campus, Abu Dhabi, UAE.
  • 2025 - Visiting Mentor At NYUAD for MFA Students, Abu Dhabi, UAE.  
  • (2015 - 2019) - Founder and teacher, B-Studio, Cairo, Egypt. 
  • (2015-2017) - Curriculum Creator and Manager, Magd El Sagini Art School, Cairo, Egypt.

Education

  • 2025 - Participant, Dubai Culture Public Art Education Program, Dubai, UAE.
  • 2022 - Master of Fine Arts, Academy of Art and Design, FHNW, Basel, Switzerland. 
  • (2015 - 2016) - Studio Art Program, Metàfora Academy of Contemporary Art, Barcelona, Spain. 
  • 2001 - BSc Economics, Faculty of Economics & Political Science, Cairo University, Egypt. 
  • (1993-2015) - Student and Apprentice of Artist Magd El-Sagini, Cairo, Egypt.