Mona Hatoum and the exhibition arc from Fondazione Prada
Published on 08/27/2026 at 10:58 | Editorial responsibility: Rafael Müller, Editor-in-Chief AD HOC NEWS
Mona Hatoum has built a body of work in which everyday materials become charged with risk, memory and political tension. In 2026 she extends this trajectory with the site-specific project Over, under and in between at Fondazione Prada in Milan, a presentation that brings together three installations exploring instability and fragility as White Cube outlines in its exhibition announcement.
Exhibitions tracing instability and risk
At Fondazione Prada's Cisterna in Milan, Mona Hatoum presents the project Over, under and in between, running from January 29 to November 9, 2026, with three large-scale installations titled all of a quiver (2022), Map (2015) and Web (2025) that respond directly to the former distillery architecture and address instability, danger and fragility in the viewer's bodily experience as detailed by the White Cube news text on the Fondazione project.
The exhibition in Milan takes up recurring motifs in Hatoum's practice, such as cartographic grids, fragile glass and precariously balanced structures, extending her long-standing interest in geopolitical displacement and the vulnerability of the human body into the context of a major European institution while foregrounding the way viewers navigate between suspended and floor-based works.
Museum and collection presence in 2025-2026
Beyond Milan, Mona Hatoum appears in the thematic group exhibition We, Such Fragile Beings at Podo Museum on Jeju Island, which runs from August 9, 2025 through August 8, 2026 and brings together thirteen artists, including Hatoum, Jenny Holzer and Sarah Sze, to address conflict, displacement and collective memory in relation to the famous 'Pale Blue Dot' image as Artdaily reports in its exhibition overview.
In that context Hatoum contributes a 1.6-ton concrete mass with exposed rebar suspended in mid-air, a work that condenses her engagement with industrial material into a single tense gesture and aligns with the broader exhibition's focus on how fragile beings persist amid planetary-scale images and ongoing conflicts, situating her practice firmly within current museum debates on empathy and coexistence.
All news and background on Mona Hatoum
For further reporting on Mona Hatoum's exhibitions, awards and institutional projects, the AD HOC NEWS archive offers additional articles and context on her installations and sculptures.
The work core and materials
Mona Hatoum is best known for installations and sculptures that rework domestic and industrial objects into situations charged with threat, often using materials such as stainless steel, barbed wire, concrete, glass and everyday furniture to destabilize the viewer's sense of safety while evoking the political realities of exile and surveillance.
Where the artist stands now
Overall Mona Hatoum remains a central figure in international contemporary art, with major institutional projects such as Over, under and in between and recurring inclusion in large-scale thematic exhibitions underlining the continued relevance of her materially precise and politically attuned practice.
Key facts on Mona Hatoum
- Artist: Mona Hatoum
- Medium / Genre: Installation and sculpture (conceptual)
- Born: 1952, Beirut, Lebanon
- Place(s) of practice: Studio in London
- Active since: Late 1970s, with early performance and video works in the 1980s
- Key work groups: Homebound, Grater Divide, Hot Spot, Mobile Home
- Current/last exhibition: Over, under and in between, Fondazione Prada, Milan, January 29 – November 9, 2026
- Major collections: Tate (London), MoMA (New York), Centre Pompidou (Paris), Hamburger Bahnhof (Berlin)
- Awards: Hamburger Bahnhof Lifetime Achievement Award 2026
- Next date: currently no announced date in the 30-day window
Frequently asked questions about Mona Hatoum
Where can I currently see works by Mona Hatoum?
In 2026 Mona Hatoum's installations are on view in the project Over, under and in between at Fondazione Prada in Milan and in the thematic exhibition We, Such Fragile Beings at Podo Museum on Jeju Island, both highlighting her large-scale sculptural practice.
What kind of work does Mona Hatoum show in We, Such Fragile Beings?
At Podo Museum's exhibition We, Such Fragile Beings on Jeju Island she presents a 1.6-ton concrete mass with rebar suspended in mid-air, a work that emphasizes weight, suspension and latent violence within a broader discussion of fragility.
What defines Mona Hatoum's recent project at Fondazione Prada?
The project Over, under and in between at Fondazione Prada brings together three installations, all of a quiver, Map and Web, which activate the Cisterna building through precarious structures in glass, metal and mapped surfaces that foreground instability and the viewer's bodily movement.
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