Fokus.
Hamed Abdalla
- Exhibition
- 27.1.2024–26.5.2024
- Fokus room

The Egyptian artist Hamed Abdalla (1917-1985) was a pioneer of Egyptian modernism. He lived in Europe from the 1950s onwards. This exhibition is the first to be dedicated to him in Switzerland. He worked intensively with Paul Klee and experimented with various techniques.
Arabic calligraphy was a central starting point. As an artist of the Hurufiyya movement, which developed new artistic possibilities from the Arabic alphabet, he invented his own "creative words" in which he mixed abstraction and human forms.
The focus room comprises 50 works by Hamed Abdalla in various, partly experimental, techniques, plus archival materials that illustrate his engagement with Klee's work.
Curators: Zamân Books & Curating: Morad Montazami, Madeleine de Colnet
Fokus. Hamed Abdalla is part of the permanent exhibition Kosmos Klee.
The collection offers visitors a chronological overview of Klee's artistic oeuvre and presents around seventy works as well as biographical material and archive items, which are changed regularly.
Smaller focus exhibitions with a thematic reference to Paul Klee and his work are shown in one room at a time.
Upcoming guided tours
Sun 30.3.2025
—12:00Treffpunkt: beim Café
Sun 30.3.2025
—15:00Punto d'incontro: al Café
Tue 1.4.2025
—12:30Treffpunkt: beim Café
Sun 6.4.2025
—12:00Treffpunkt: beim Café
Sun 13.4.2025
—12:00Treffpunkt: beim Café
Tue 15.4.2025
—12:30Treffpunkt: beim Café

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Upcoming exhibitions
19.7.2025–5.10.2025
7.11.2025–22.2.2026
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19.9.2025–18.1.2026
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