Ruya Foundation commissioned two art projects along the Tigris River and in the marshes of southern Iraq, to address the country’s water crisis. Iraqi artists Sherko Abbas and
The exhibition ‘Archaic’, the Iraq Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale was accompanied by a catalogue published by Mousse, including texts by Francis Alÿs, Andrea Applebee, Zainab Bahrani, Joumane Chahine, Roger Cook, Ed Kashi, Kalliopi Minioudaki, Venetia Porter, Nada Shabout, Robert Storr and Aneta Szyłak. Please contact the Ruya Foundation for copies: [email protected]
The Ruya Foundation has partnered with the 5th International Çanakkale Biennial, in Turkey, to show new work by artists Akam Shex Hadi and Salam Atta Sabri. Opening on 24 September 2016, this six-week exhibition will explore the theme of Homeland. Both artists have been commissioned by the Ruya Foundation to produce new work around this…
The Ruya Foundation collaborated with the Embassy of Canada to host an exhibition of recent work by Iraqi artists inside the International Zone in Baghdad. Though Baghdad’s artistic and international communities live in the same city, they’ve had little interaction. The exhibition aims to bridge this gap. In June 2015, Ruya’s Baghdad team met with Mr. Robert Bissett,…
The exhibition ‘Invisible Beauty’, the Iraq Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale, was accompanied by a new publication, produced by Ruya in collaboration with Mousse publishing. The publication includes specially commissioned new writing on the theme of ‘Invisible Beauty’ by Iraqi writers Ali Badr, Fares Haram, Sherko Bekas and Atyaf Rasheed, a text on Iraq’s…