Contemporary Abstract Art
Mixed media on canvas. Gold leaf, diamond, heavy texture — built by hand in Milan. Nine solo exhibitions. The European Parliament, Brussels.
Available works
Every work is an original. No prints, no editions. Prices listed where set. Shipping arranged personally. Studio visits in Milan on request.
AvailableThe invisible battles — layered texture and held tension. This large work refuses to resolve.
AvailableA wound healing unevenly — scar as texture, not failure. Proof of survival at 160×120 cm.
AvailableGold runs through this like a story never meant to be told — 150×100 cm of accumulated memory.
AvailableEarth, water, fire, air — felt through texture, not symbolised. Elemental at 150×100 cm.
AvailableChange arriving through texture — a shift in the surface, a layer that wasn't there before.
AvailableIdentity built, defended, and celebrated. Every layer of this canvas is an act of that.
AvailableA cartography of the interior — territory that exists only in accumulated geography.
AvailableTwo forms building toward the same light, each making the other possible.
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AvailableThe routes the heart takes — doubling back, detouring, arriving somewhere unexpected.
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AvailableTribute to the celebrated opera — emotion, tension, and the majesty of a timeless narrative.
AvailableNot a portrait — a record. The layers are the identity. What you see is only the most recent year.
AvailableThe places we left that did not leave us — held in texture and weight.
AvailableNot to represent the world but to remake it. Each brushstroke an act of reordering.
AvailableBeauty carrying darkness within — grief and grace in the same bloom.
AvailableThe residue of everything we reached for in the night — gold on dark ground.
AvailableCourage, justice, temperance, wisdom — as textures, not abstractions.
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AvailableAccumulated mark-making that refuses to reduce life to any single emotion or colour.
AvailableMilan embedded in colour and memory — the light of an afternoon you decide to stay.
AvailableFeelings covered because the world is not ready for them — layered, pressing, real.
AvailableGreen, yellow, orange, red on black ground — emotion through thick, built texture.
AvailableGrowth happening in layers, in pressure — invisible from outside.
AvailableVinyl record at the centre — music and universe, the rhythm beneath everything.
AvailableA focal point amid radiating lines — purpose amid chaos, time made visible.
AvailableWaiting as an act of sustained belief — the texture of time refused to be wasted.
AvailableFragmented geometric shapes united — a testament to resilience and human diversity.
AvailableRows of figures in vivid colours — individuality held inside collective energy.
AvailableThe last memory of pure, unsupervised becoming — before rules were invented.
AvailableThe moment before fully waking — the pulse already present, the mind between worlds.
AvailableTwo things becoming one without either disappearing — irreversible and exact.
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AvailableThe sea spirals, returns, insists. This small work holds that full enormity.
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AvailableLight interrupted does not disappear — it bends, finds another way.
AvailableSound into colour — each pixel a beat, rhythm becoming pattern, colour becoming melody.
AvailableDesire and restraint — the tension between what we long for and what we allow.
AvailableInner dignity — the quiet nobility that persists regardless of circumstance.
AvailableInner light and transformation — rising from darkness to embrace the energy within.
AvailableMoving without urgency — someone who has learned that pace and destination are not the same.
AvailableGolden tones and abstract shapes — the beauty that lies just beyond grasp.
AvailablePyramids, hieroglyphics, gold — timeless grandeur and legendary mythology.
AvailableA city held in memory — its harbour, light, and particular quality of distance.
AvailableCurrents breaking against obstacles, creating something more interesting than smooth flow.
AvailableWhat the original leaves behind in the world — the sound after the source is gone.
AvailableThe whole exceeding its parts — the moment collaboration produces what neither could reach alone.
AvailableThe bonds that connect us — bold, tangled, alive. The texture of being in relation.
AvailableSweeping strokes of continuous movement — unstoppable, fluid, in constant transformation.
AvailablePulsating energy and wave-like patterns — nature's constant renewal in paint.
The Diamond Collection
Each work contains a natural diamond or gemstone, set into the surface by hand. GIA-certified where noted. The stone is embedded where the painting demands it — not as decoration but as revelation. A unique position in contemporary art at this price point and emotional depth.
90 × 80 cm · 2024
0.70 ct Natural Diamond · GIA Certified
Her silence speaks of endurance and grace. The diamond at her third eye gathers every unseen sorrow and returns it as light. From pain, clarity; from silence, radiance.
Sold · Private Collection
80 × 70 cm · 2024
0.30 ct D-Color Diamond + 3 Emeralds (0.20 ct)
A deep blue surface holds what was lost — a name, a language, a home. Golden fragments trace forgotten origins. At the centre, a diamond glows, sustained by three emeralds.
€12,000
80 × 70 cm · 2024
0.30 ct Natural Diamond · GIA Certified
Through fractures in the surface, a diamond emerges — born of pressure and the very questions that sought answers. A meditation on endurance and unexpected beauty.
€8,300
All diamond works include gemological certification. Insurance valuation and secure shipping arranged personally. Private viewings in Milan on request.
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Signature work
90 × 80 cm · Mixed media on canvas · 2024
Beneath a calm green surface, a solitary scar traces the canvas — deliberate and unforgettable. From its depths, hidden sparks emerge, revealing a quiet and unexpected beauty. Strength and impenetrability give way to grace and delicacy for those who look closer.
The canvas speaks of resilience and vulnerability — the hidden strength that only reveals itself to those willing to look beyond the surface. A magnifier accompanies this piece, inviting its owner to discover the delicate shimmer of diamond powder within.
Mixed media on canvas with diamond powder
The artist
"I work in Milan.
I think in Lebanese.
I paint in a language
with no alphabet."
— Ghanem Hassan
Ghanem Hassan is a self-taught contemporary artist based in Milan. Born in Lebanon in 1993, he grew up in a context where resilience was a condition of life. Academically trained in finance with two master's degrees, he chose to leave stability behind to rebuild himself through art.
His work explores displacement, identity, and emotional transformation. Through layered textures and symbolic materials — gold leaf, diamond powder, set gemstones — he reflects on dreams that survive instability: fragile yet enduring.
In 2026, he presented his 9th solo exhibition, Beyond the Departure, at the European Parliament in Brussels. His work has been exhibited in Milan, New York, London, Hong Kong, and Athens, and is listed on Artbridger Hong Kong.
Press & recognition
Solo Exhibition · 2026
Ghanem Hassan's 9th solo exhibition was presented at the European Parliament, Spinelli Building, Brussels — February 2026. A body of work examining the moment when staying is no longer possible, shown in one of Europe's most significant institutional spaces.
Collaboration · 2025
In collaboration with Antoine Milano, Via Montenapoleone 18, Ghanem presented works in which natural diamonds and emeralds were physically set into the canvas surface. GIA-certified stones embedded in mixed media — a new category at the intersection of fine art and jewellery.
Luxury Collaboration · 2024
A collaboration between Ghanem Hassan and Sartorio, presented at Salone del Mobile — Milan's global design week. Original works exhibited alongside luxury fashion, positioning THEGEEART at the intersection of contemporary art and Italian luxury.
International Platform · 2025
Ghanem Hassan's work is featured on Artbridger Hong Kong, presented during Art Central Hong Kong Art Week 2025 — one of Asia's most significant contemporary art fairs. An international collector audience engaging with the displacement narrative and diamond works.
International Group Shows · 2024
Works by Ghanem Hassan shown simultaneously across three continents through The Holy Art Gallery's Art on Loop program — New York, London, and Athens in 2024. International collector exposure across three of the world's most significant art markets.
Fashion & Design · 2025
Ghanem Hassan presented original works during both Milan Fashion Week (Spazio Spiga, September 2025) and Milan Design Week (Bici Progetti, April 2025) — positioning THEGEEART at the centre of Milan's dual identity as the world capital of fashion and design.
Solo exhibitions
February 2026
European Parliament — Spinelli Building
Brussels, Belgium · 9th Solo Exhibition
October 2025
Antoine Milano · Via Montenapoleone 18
Milan, Italy · Diamond & emerald works
September 2025
Spazio Spiga · Via della Spiga 7
Milan, Italy
April 2025
Bici Progetti · Via della Spiga 9
Milan, Italy
January 2025
Penta Event & Guest House
Desio, Italy
June–July 2024
Avani Hotel, Milan
Milan, Italy
April 2024
Vittorio Emmanuele, Milan
Milan, Italy · Luxury collaboration
May 2024
Villa Sormani
Brianza, Italy
Oct–Nov 2023
Passepartout Gallery, Milan
Milan, Italy · First solo gallery show
Collective exhibitions & awards
Award · 2025
Milan, Italy
Award · 2024
Milan, Italy
Group Show · 2025
Milan, Italy · 2025
Group Show · 2024
Milan, Italy · 2024
Group Show · 2025
Milan, Italy · 2025
Group Show · 2024
Milan, Italy · 2024
Group Show · 2025
Italy · 2025
Group Show · 2024
Italy · 2024
Group Show · 2025
International · 2025
Group Show · 2024
International · 2024
Group Show · 2023
International · 2023
International · 2025
Artbridger · Hong Kong
International · 2025
Art Week 2025
International · 2024
The Holy Art Gallery · New York
International · 2024
The Holy Art Gallery · London
International · 2024
The Holy Art Gallery · Athens
Program · 2024–2025
International
Program · Active
UN SDGs Initiative
Sold works
Every sold work represents a collector who chose to live with Ghanem's language. Documented here as the permanent record of the practice — and as proof that collectors are already moving.
SoldBetween clarity and dissolution — the mind at the edge of its own architecture.
SoldSilence running through everything like veins, carrying what cannot be said.
SoldWinter as interior state — the cold that is distance from the self you were before.
SoldThe duality within a single person — two faces sharing one history.
SoldEmotional presence — the quality of someone who fills a room with depth, not volume.
SoldA city demanding you become someone new simply by arriving.
SoldUnderground movement — the hidden circulation of a city's life.
SoldPerformed with full knowledge of its ending, which makes it the most complete.
SoldThe marks that prove we were here — left without intending to.
SoldPresence made indirect — everything that stands in light casts a shadow.
SoldWhat runs through us we did not choose — the inheritance carried without signing for it.
SoldDignity from the refusal to be diminished — the true aristocracy of character.
SoldColour so refined it trembles on the edge of disappearing — most itself in fragility.
SoldThe cosmos reduced to something you can hold — vast scale in intimate paint.
SoldNothing wholly lost — fragments are the material of new wholes.
SoldThe mythologies carried from childhood — creatures guarding the edges of the known.
SoldNot as object but as condition — the state of being embedded in something edgeless.
SoldThe city at night reduced to light — human presence compressed into luminous points.
SoldThe oldest ceiling — still there, still indifferent, still magnificent.
SoldNot a symbol of loss — proof of survival when everything around it has gone.
SoldExpressiveness concentrated in one feature — presence, desire, language, refusal.
SoldLove that does not soften its edges to be comfortable — precision as intimacy.
SoldSilence of a particular quality — the kind that precedes everything.
SoldWhat cuts us is also what we cannot release — sharpness as intimacy.
SoldGrief carried with dignity — sorrow that is also sovereignty.
SoldTwo worlds in one skin — ancient and ultramodern, compressed into layered intensity.
SoldNot the carol — the actual silence of winter, stillness before peace.
SoldBetween clarity and dissolution — the mind at the edge of its own architecture.
SoldQuestions posed in gold — answers hidden in the sheen.
SoldNot absence of sound but its fullest form — containing everything said and unsaid.
SoldThree in one — the mathematical impossibility describing most things worth believing.
SoldThe vibration continuing after the source has stopped.
SoldMore versions of yourself simultaneously — closer to truth than one intact image.
SoldThe geometry of contained ambition — days spent inside small walls.
SoldThe ideal grid — the utopia of organised human longing.
SoldComplexity that is not disorder — the tangle of what connection looks like up close.
SoldEnergy emanating outward — power moves, it does not wait to be noticed.
SoldThree in motion — the choreography of a group small enough for intimacy.
SoldThe people who built things they were not credited for.
SoldCarrying what we are to wherever we arrive — we cannot leave ourselves behind.
SoldConnection as colour — the web is a structure, a made thing, evidence of the maker.
SoldSovereignty as state of being — the king not because of throne but presence.
SoldThe city filtered through light and motion — impressions, not facts.
SoldThe daily ceremony of ending — the sky marking time.
SoldArms open to everything, including the difficult parts — especially those.
SoldThe cycles organising existence — not metaphor but the actual shape of things.
SoldWhat remains after tearing — more honest than what was intact.
SoldDarkness as colour's densest concentration — visible only when eyes adjust.
SoldSongs sung to children in the dark — culture, love, and what came before carried forward.
SoldEnergy that weaves and crosses — the fabric of what is alive.
SoldJoy as radiance — a quality of light that changes the atmosphere of any room.
SoldThe underlying beat of visual experience — the pattern beneath variation.
SoldRoutes taken not because we know where they lead but because we must move.
SoldThe sun's radiant energy channelled through bold, interconnected strokes.
SoldThe vibrant dance of colours reflecting the harmony of interconnected experiences.
SoldComplex intertwined choices — bold strokes evoking direction and confusion at once.
SoldSoft undulating lines — the peaceful, powerful rhythm of nature's ebb and flow.
Collector inquiries
All works are original. No intermediaries. Studio visits in Milan can be arranged. Commissions and exhibition collaborations welcome.
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