English

Loading...
Event 

Ruya Shop: Salam Atta Sabri’s ‘Letters from Baghdad’

The Ruya Foundation presents new work from the Baghdad-based Salam Atta Sabri’s series Letters from Baghdad (2005 – ongoing). The series was first shown by Ruya at the Venice Biennale in 2015. Back then, the artist had produced a visual diary of over 150 drawings privately after his return to Baghdad with his family in…
Event 

Ruya Lab #2: artist Francis Alys gives presentation in Baghdad

Ruya Foundation invited the artist Francis Alys to Iraq. In Baghdad, he gave a presentation of his work to an audience of fifty professional artists and art students from the two art colleges there. He presented the film Reel-Unreel (2011), a project shot in Kabul in which children were asked to play with an old…
Interview 

Baghdad artist Rawan al Mukhtar talks about carpets, tribes and Iraqi toilets.

Rawan al Mukhtar (b.1991, Baghdad) lives and works in Baghdad. Her most recent work, the video installation Tellaqtin, 2015, explores the relationship between Eastern and Western culture. A student at the College of Fine Arts, University of Baghdad, where she has specialised in painting, Rawan often stages and photographs the scenes that she wants to portray, bringing…