Sayed Sattar Hasan
(He/him)
Address: Interkulterelt Museum, Tøyenbekken 5, 0188 Oslo
Floor: 2
Room number: Second floor gallery of the museum
The studio is open Saturday 26 April from 12-17
Sayed Sattar Hasan lives and works in Oslo, Norway. Hasan’s practice is conceptually driven, process-based, and takes an open approach to art making. This has led to learning and exploring traditional crafts, to playing with brand identity.
Hasan takes a critical approach to the language of diversity and inclusion used in society and the cultural world. Through his Norwegian alter ego ‘Hasansen’ Hasan boldly places the character at the center of Norway’s cultural narrative to provoke such questions as who gets to author or belong in a popular national story.
Photography, video, weaving, wood work, installation
In my studio
For the duration of 2025 I will be using the second floor of the Intercultural Museum as a studio and workshop space as I develop the project Hasansens Factory.
The projects aim is to create a classic multicultural Norwegian object through a combination of traditional crafts and create a template for reproduction.
For Oslo Open I will open the 2nd floor of the museum to the public and invite them to see my progress so far.
CV
Collections
• Oslo Museum, Nordnorsk Kunst Museum, REV Collection, Sogn og Fjordane Kunst Museum.
Selected Solo Shows
• Kunst i Fokus, Fylkeshuset, Tromsø (NO), in collaboration with NNKM, 2023 – 2024.
• Hasansens Kjelke, Sogn og Fjordane kunst Museum (NO) 2022.
• Stimuli 2, workshop and solo show, Nordnorsk Kunst Museum (NO), 2021.
• Hasansens Kjelke, Intercultural Museum, Oslo Museum (NO), 2020 – 2021.
• Hasansens Benk, Rom for Kunst, Oslo Sentral Station (NO), 2020 – 2021.
• How Are You Doing Sleaford? National Centre of Craft and Design (UK), 2018.
• My Granddad’s Car pt.2, Stephen Lawrence Gallery, London (UK), 2017
• My Granddad’s Car pt.2, New Art Exchange, Nottingham (UK), 2016
• Recurrence, Ikhlaq – Ul – Zahoor Gallery, Lahore (PK), 2014.
• My Granddad’s Car, Heathrow terminal 5, London (UK), 2012.
Selected Group Shows
• Mill Island>MølleØy, GAMPA, Czech. Rep, 2023.
• Index, Atelier Nord, Oslo (NO), 2023.
• Jeg kaller det kunst, National Museum (NO), 2022.
• Stimuli 6, Nordnorsk Kunst Museum (NO), 2022.
• Opp. Og ned, Oslo City Hall (NO), 2022.
• As far as my Eye can Sea, Bomuldsfabriken Kunsthall (NO), 2021.
• NAE Open, New Art Exchange, Nottingham (UK), 2019.
• Detroit Kunsthalle Under New Management, Studio 17, Stavanger, (NO), 2018.
• Monumental/Temporal, Urtegate 9, Oslo, (NO), 2018.
• Here, There and Everywhere, Artspace Boan, Seoul (SK), 2018.
• Charting the Invisible, APT Gallery, London (UK), 2017.
• My Granddad’s Car II, 2nd Changjiang, Video and Photography Biennale, (CN), 2017.
• My Granddad’s Car II, Alchemy Festival, Southbank Centre, London (UK), 2017.
• Form, Just Another Photography Festival, New Delhi (IN), 2015.
• Sunscreen Project, East-midlands Pavillion, Venice Biennale (IT), 2015.
• Third Space, NN Contemporary Northampton (UK), 2015.
• Form, Format International Photography Festival, Derby (UK), 2015.
• Movement, Bogotá Arte Contemporáneo (CO), 2015.
Online Releases
• Who is Hasansen? online video release, Intercultural Museum, Oslo Museum (NO), 2021.
• The Story of Hasansen, podcast commission, Fermynwoods Contemporary (UK), 2021.
Recent Talks and Performances
• A Brief History of HAM, performative reading, PRAKSIS (NO) 2023.
• 30:10, artist talk, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo (NO) 2023.
• How to be a Norwegian Artist, performative talk, Haugar Kunstmuseum, (NO), 2023.
• Kunstner Viser Kunster, with Lotte Konow Lund on Ahmed Umar, Kunstnernes Hus, 2023.
• Artist Talk, Sogn og Fordane Kunst Museum (NO), 2022
Residences
• MølleØy – Residency, with Detroit Kunsthalle (NO) and Centre for Open Culture (Czech), at Studio 17 (NO), 2022.
• Oslo City Hall Studio, Atelier C, (NO), 2019 – 2022.
• PRAKSIS Artist Residency 9, Oslo, (NO), 2018.
• British Council Residency Programme, with New Art Exchange (UK) & Artspace Boan (SK), 2018.
• Artist Residency, New Art Exchange, Nottingham (UK), 2015.
• Artist residency, National College of Art, Lahore (PK), 2014.
Selected Workshops
• PRAKSIS Development Forum, 2019 – present.
• DKS, ‘Hvem er Hasansen’. 2022 – 2023.
• Today is Our Tomorrow, in collaboration with PRAKSIS Teen Advisory Board, 2022.
• DKS Testlab in association with Fotogalleriet and Oslo Kunstforening (NO), 2021.
• Utopia Amiss, Trans Art Institute (Online), 2021.
• Mutated Tradition, Fermynwoods Contemporary (UK), 2019.
Funding
• Arbeidsstipend (one-year), Kulturrådet, 2023
• Diverse Stipend, Kulturrådet 2022.
• Corona Crisis Fund for artists, BOA, 2021.
• Kunst og Kulturtiltak, Oslo Kommune, 2020.
• Lyd og Bild fund, kulturradet, 2019.
• Developing Your Creative Practice, Arts Council England, recipient of DYCP funding award 2019.
• Arts Council England Grants for the Arts Award, 2016, 2015 & 2011.