Ola Hassanain

Visiting Critic

Ola Hassanain leads a critical spatial practice as a visual artist with architecture training and a current PhD candidacy at the Academy of Fine Art Vienna.  She premised her work on an idea of “space as political discourse”, an expanded notion of space, that tries to develop a literacy which can aid us to imagine different political ecologies. Ola’s development of critical spatial practice is partly informed by her post-academic training:

• a current teaching role at KABK Royal academy of Art in the Hague’s department of Interior Architecture and Furniture Design
• a Rijksakademie residency (2021-2023)
• BAK basis voor kunst fellowship (2017-2018)
• main tutor and co-development of the Blackerblackness Master course at the Sandberg Instituut (2021- 2023)
• teaching ‘Art in Context’ at HKU University of the Arts Utrecht at the Fine Art Department (2018-2022)

Ola’s work has been exhibited in a Solo at Buro Stedelijk in 2024, Hartwig Art Foundation commission showing at Casco Art Institute in 2021, Chicago Architecture Biennial and Sharjah Architecture Triennale.