Sketches for Overpopulation—Clothes, 2000
From a series of 30 drawings, pencil and watercolour on paper, 40.5 × 30 cm
Kunstmuseum Basel, Kupferstichkabinett, 2003

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Seven things you need to know about RÓZA EL-HASSAN:

1. born in Budapest, of Hungarian and Syrian Origin,
2. she has been since the mid-1990s, one of Hungary’s most prominent contemporary artists
3. her work includes drawings, sculptures, objects, installations, performances and videos as well as curatorial and social projects
4. in 1993, she was invited to participate in the Aperto section at the Venice Biennale, where she designed the Hungarian pavilion in 1997
5. her work reflects an ongoing quest for her own identity as well as the scene of a critical engagement of fundamental questions about artistic autonomy, political relevance, and aesthetic aspirations
6. after a retrospective of her work at Műcsarnok Kunsthalle (Budapest) in 2006
7. the Kupferstichkabinett (Department of Prints and Drawings) of the Kunstmuseum Basel presents a first survey of her graphic work entitled In Between Drawings and Objects, on view from 11 February to 20 May, 2012