El-Hassan Róza: Breeze / Szellő
Opening: September 2, 2025, 6 PM
Venue: Kende Street 1, 1111 Budapest
Opening speech: Lívia Páldi
Curator: Dániel Ongjerth
Since 2014, Róza El-Hassan has been working with traditional Syrian adobe architecture within the framework of her nomadic exhibition series Breeze. In this process of reflection, architecture takes on multiple layers of meaning and emotional-associative dimensions, becoming a symbolic space that unites — among others — concern for our planet, the dimension of global sustainability issues, compassion for the victims of the Middle Eastern crisis and for refugees, as well as personal experiences, childhood memories, and family connections.
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Breeze is an ongoing working process whose central theme is peace and sustainability in both global and political terms. The exhibition is the outcome of this reflection, bringing together a wide variety of media never before shown in Hungary, including collages, paintings, adobe models of different scales, and video works. Its central element is the replica of a traditional Syrian beehive-shaped, domed house adapted to the exhibition space. Over the past years, this work has been presented in many places around the world: in 2015 at M HKA in Antwerp, in 2016 in Sharjah curated by Hans-Ulrich Obrist, in 2016 in partial form in Budapest at INDA Gallery as part of The Architecture of Empathy exhibition and in Basel in the show Future’s Dialect with Martha Rosler, in 2017 again in Antwerp at the Red Star Line Museum and in Novi Sad.
The large-scale hut can now be seen in Budapest for the first time. Its construction was realized with the collaboration of the Master School of Architecture and more than 30 volunteers, without whom the work could not have come into being: Péter Bencze, Zsolt Bogáthy, Dalma Borenich, Csenge Czeglédi, Tamás Dévényi, Alíz Farkas, Noémi Gyárfás, Róbert Herczku, Bálint Horváth, Franciska Horváth, Holli Ivády, Anna Kistamás, Katalin Kosdi, Viktória Monhor, Dávid Ongjerth, Borbála Orosz, Viktória Pinczési, Anna Pinczési, Tímea Piróth, Petra Polányi, Bálint Puskás, Helga Rajz, Julianna Skrabák, István Szabó, Zsófia Szabó, Alexandra Szekeres, Zsófia Szabó, Zsófia Szemző, Veronika Szenes, Lilla Törteli, Norbert Virág, and Bea Zoltai.
The exhibition was realized in collaboration with the Master School of Architecture and KettőKettő Studio. Documentation of the building process was carried out by the staff of the Ludwig Museum—special thanks to Rita Dabi-Farkas, István Dabi, Viktória Popovics, and Zsófia Szabó.
The exhibition was supported by the National Cultural Fund and Kékes Narancs hardware store.
Visiting hours: September 3 – November 14, 2025, every Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday from 2 PM to 6 PM.
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