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Ruya Notebooks #2: Distribution in the Middle East

The second title in the Ruya Foundation’s Ruya Notebooks series, Artist Hiwa K and Curator Aneta Szyłak in Conversation: 8 Essays on Contemporary Art, is being available for free in art spaces and cultural centres across the Middle East. A selection of eight texts on contemporary art and critical theory was made by the internationally acclaimed Iraqi-Kurdish…

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Ruya Notebooks #2: Hiwa K and Aneta Szyłak in Conversation: 8 Essays Selected By the Artist and the Curator

The Ruya Foundation is pleased to announce the launch of its new publication Hiwa K and Aneta Szyłak in Conversation: 8 Essays Selected By the Artist and the Curator. This is the second title in Ruya’s educational publishing project, Ruya Notebooks. For each Notebook a well known artist, curator or critic selects five short texts…

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Tamara Chalabi and Paolo Colombo speak at the ‘Conversations on Art’ symposium in New York

Tamara Chalabi and Paolo Colombo, co-curators of ‘Archaic’, the Iraq Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale, have been invited to speak at ‘Conversations on Art’ a symposium presented by the Global Fine Art Award (GFAA) and K&L Gates on 8 March 2018 in New York. The Iraq Pavilion was named a Finalist for GFAA in the ‘Best Public Art…

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Ruya sponsors the 3 Minute, 3 Days Film Festival in Baghdad

The Ruya Foundation is proud to be a sponsor the third edition of the 3 Minutes, 3 Days Film Festival in Baghdad. The festival is organised and programmed by Dr. Hikmat Al Baydhani, director of Art City Film and TV Productions, the largest independent film and television production studio in Iraq. Over the course of…