Hashel’s 2024 carbon footprint achieved a 4.9% reduction in tCO2e compared to 2023, despite his increased participation in exhibitions, biennales, and programs, and increasing the scope of the carbon footprint to include artwork materials.
Hashel has made an effort to optimize his website to achieve a lower carbon impact by limiting the amount and size of media.
www.hashelallamki.com has achieved a carbon rating of C, and is currently cleaner than 59% of all web pages globally, according to Website Carbon Calculator.
Hashel’s artwork is inherently connected to circularity. His studio is located in an industrial area, where discarded materials are abundant. His creative process is inspired by scrap metal, repurposed bedsheets, pillowcases or napkins and other discarded materials, which he transforms into valuable resources for new works. In 2024 Hashel added the measurement of his circularity impact into sustainability reporting. The scope of the materials and artworks measured can be found in Table 2: Circularity Scope and Data.
Narratives for Social Mindshifts – A 2024 highlight of an artwork where Hashel weaves themes of sustainability in the narrative is Part Time Lovers, created for Sharjah Biennial 16.
“Part Time Lovers invites viewers to interpret his “thrown shells” not as mere artistic flourishes but as symbolic cues that engage audiences in deciphering the interplay between humanity and nature. The nine-meter polyptych, commissioned for the 16th Sharjah Biennial and exhibited at the Sharjah Art Museum, operates as a surreal landscape layered with complex narratives about environmental fragility, interconnectedness, and personal accountability. This work imagines a landscape shaped by phenomena such as altered rain patterns and tectonic shifts, offering a visual language that reflects the intimate and global consequences of climate change.” Curatorial Team, Sharjah Biennial, 2025.
Systemic Impact – When planning an exhibition, Hashel invites his partners to unite efforts by proposing new approaches to reduce emissions or improve circularity.
Hashel is committed to supporting the Gallery Climate Coalition’s Strategic Climate Funds policy in recognition of his carbon impact. His 2023 carbon footprint of 16.2 tCO₂e corresponds to an SCF contribution of USD 1,037 (USD 64 per tonne of CO₂e), which he will allocate to “insetting” initiatives in 2025. Insetting involves investing in strategies, actions, or materials that accelerate decarbonization—such as transitioning to renewable energy or collaborating with sustainability professionals.
1. Activity and operations of studio and artistic practice
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2. Participation in exhibitions, biennales, art fairs and residencies
2024 list of programmes (8 total: 5 international exhibition & 1 national exhibitions, 2 residencies):
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This sustainability report has been developed by culture-led sustainability agency UreCulture SL, who support culture actors to step into leadership roles in regenerative sustainability thanks to the support of Tabari Art Space.
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