photo by Norbert Hartyányi
Amina Al-Hassan’s work is rooted in the physical and emotional act of painting. Her practice explores identity, memory, transformation and a sense of place through abstraction, texture, colour and layered mark-making. Using acrylics, oil pigment sticks, and mixed media on canvas, she creates expressive compositions that emerge through gestures, textures and spontaneity.
Her work moves between the intuitive and the observed. Drawing from personal memories, natural environments, and the spaces she encounters, she transforms fragments of the visible world into abstract, emotionally charged compositions. Rather than depicting a place literally, she is interested in what remains after looking: a rhythm, a colour, a shadow, a fragment of form, or a particular atmosphere.
Oil pigment sticks and the fluidity of acrylics allow her to move quickly between bold marks and subtle transitions. The canvas becomes a space where layers are added, scraped back, and reworked. This process mirrors the emotional layering of lived experience: complex, imperfect, and deeply human.
Layering plays a central role in her practice—not only as a visual technique but as a metaphor for how identity is formed. Just as her paintings are built from multiple layers, so too are we shaped by overlapping experiences, memories, places, and emotions.
Her visual language is abstract yet emotionally charged. She often works intuitively, guided by mood, rhythm, colour, and the physical response of the materials. Through colour, texture, and form, she aims to evoke a sense of presence, inviting viewers to slow down and connect with their own inner landscapes.
Minaa Art is her way of translating the unseen into the visible. It is a practice of reflection, resilience, and release—an ongoing exploration of how inner experience and the world around us can become one visual language.
B.1981 Accra, Ghana
Lives and works in Budapest, Hungary
EXHIBITIONS
2026 Let the Sun Shine In
Group Exhibition & Art Fair
TAW Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
8 July – 31 August
2026 Visualize Yourself
Group Exhibition
DANTE Community Art Space, Budapest, Hungary
23 April – 28 May
2025 Hidden Layers of My Soul
Solo Exhibition
DANTE Community Art Space, Budapest, Hungary
15 January – 15 February
AWARDS & RECOGNITION
2026 Best of June Collection
Curated by Chief Curator Rebecca Wilson
Saatchi Art
2026 New This Week Collection
22 June 2026
Curated by Chief Curator Rebecca Wilson
Saatchi Art
2026 Honorable Mention
Discovery Art Fair Open Call
Selected among the Top 20 Artists
SELECTED PRESS