News 

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…
Event 

Ruya Shop: Aladeen Mohammad Kazem

The Ruya Shop presents a solo exhibition of Aladeen Mohammad Kazem’s recent paintings. The Hilla-based artist studied fine art and drawing at the University of Babylon, and his work is in private collections in Iraq and abroad. Kazem’s work brings together stories from Iraq’s contemporary reality, with references to its ancient history. His deep concern…
Cartoon 

‘Art and Elections’: April Cartoon

The Baghdad-based cartoonist Khudair Alhimyari’s series on culture and Iraq continues. This month’s theme is ‘Art and Elections’. Your Favorite Candidate A gallery invigilator ushers a visitor to the exhibition room. The visitor however, admires a series of election posters: ‘I find the work repetitive, but nonetheless beautiful’.
Video 

Ruya Shop: ‘Floating World’ a programme of video work presented by Ikon Gallery

Ikon, an internationally acclaimed contemporary art gallery located in Birmingham, UK presents a programme of video work by British and international artists, in partnership with The Ruya Foundation. Floating World includes silent films that variously communicate the strangeness of everyday life, as if to suggest that human beings are aliens on Earth. Artists include Michel…