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‘Art and Creativity’: January Cartoon Series by Khudair Alhimyari
For January, Ruya has commissioned a weekly cartoon series on Art and Creativity, by Baghdad-based caricaturist Khudair Alhimyari.
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Ruya Foundation announces artists for National Pavilion of Iraq 2017
The Ruya Foundation is pleased to announce the participating artists for the National Pavilion of Iraq at the 57th Venice Biennale in May 2017. The exhibition, ‘Archaic’, will display the work of eight Modern and contemporary Iraqi artists in dialogue with ancient Iraqi artefacts. It will also include a new commission by internationally acclaimed Belgian-born…
Interview
Plastic Women and Teahouses: interview with the artist Rozhgar Mustafa
Rozhgar Mustafa is a video and performance artist based in Sulaymaniya. After training as a painter at the Institute of Fine Arts and the University of Sulaymaniya, Mustafa soon began experimenting with video, performance and ready-made objects to make works about women and womanhood in Iraq. In 2011, Mustafa arranged for a group of protesters…
Interview
Family Trees and Pop Culture Rebels: director Samir on his documentary film Iraqi Odyssey.
On 2 December, the Ruya Foundation co-sponsored the Iraqi premiere of the award-winning documentary film Iraqi Odyssey (2014). The film traces the epic journey of the filmmaker Samir’s own family who left Iraq more than half a century ago, and are now scattered across the world. Samir (b.1955, Iraq) is a Swiss-Iraqi film director, writer and…