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Exhibition 

‘Letters from Kathmandu’ a community art project inspired by the ‘Letters from Baghdad’

‘Letters from Kathmandu’ is a community art project inspired by Salam Atta Sabri’s series of drawings, ‘Letters from Baghdad’ (2005 – 2015). The artists Sanjeev and Sunita Maharjan, co-founders of the Drawing Room in Kathmandu, Nepal, held drawing workshops with local schools and community centres across four cities in the Kathmandu Valley. The project was…
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…