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Ruya Shop: Oliver Beer’s ‘REanimation’

For ‘Reanimation’ British artist Oliver Beer (b. 1985) presents two video works, both based on well known scenes from Disney films and produced by Beer in collaboration with school children in France and Britain. Reanimation [Alice Falling] (2016) reconstructs a scene from Alice in Wonderland (1951) in which Alice falls into a rabbit hole and…

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‘I want to convey a lifetime of relentless, never-ending conflict.’: interview with Iraq Pavilion artist Serwan Baran

Iraqi-Kurdish artist Serwan Baran will present the solo exhibition ‘Fatherland’ at the Iraq Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale. Baran was born in Baghdad in 1968, and lives in Beirut, Lebanon. He graduated from Iraq’s Babel University with a degree in Fine Arts and was taught by the Syrian-German artist Marwan. Baran served as a…

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‘Fatherland: Serwan Baran’ the Iraq Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale

Serwan Baran will represent Iraq at the 58th Venice Biennale, presenting a solo exhibition which will run from 11 May to 24 November 2019. This will be the fourth National Pavilion of Iraq commissioned by the Ruya Foundation and follows the critical success of ‘Archaic’ which Ruya commissioned for the 57th edition of the Biennale…

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Ruya Shop: Hiwa K. Home Grounds

The Ruya Shop presents ‘Home Grounds’, a screening of three video works by the Berlin-based artist Hiwa K. The artist fled Iraq in 1996 and studied at the Akademie der Bildende Kunst in Mainz. His installation, video and performance-based work explores his personal experiences of Iraq, migration, and conflict. The presentation includes Hiwa K’s early…