Akam Shex Hadi Archives - Ruya Foundation For Contemporary Culture In Iraq

PROJECT

Book: ‘Invisible Beauty’

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…

Defining ‘Homeland’: Artists Akam Shex Hadi and Salam Atta Sabri to participate at the 5th International Çanakkale Biennial

“Kites float in the sky and embody our desire to free ourselves in flight. But their movement is neither spontaneous nor free, they always return home”. In a new series by the photographer Akam Shex Hadi, the artist has photographed his subjects, anonymous women, men and children of the city of Sulaymaniyah, surrounded by barbed…

PROJECT

Exhibition: Ruya partners with the 5th International Çanakkale Biennial

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…

Event

Invisible Beauty travels to S.M.A.K, Gent.

Last week a restaging of Ruya’s Invisible Beauty opened at S.M.A.K. Museum for Contemporary Art in Gent, Belgium. The exhibition was first shown as the Pavilion of Iraq at the 56th Venice Biennale 2015, for which Ruya appointed Philippe Van Cauteren, artistic director of S.M.A.K., as curator. Invisible Beauty showcases five Iraqi artists and the…