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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…

Interview

“A Tapestry Woven in My Soul”: Sadik Kwaish Alfraji on childhood recollections that shaped him as an artist.

Sadik Kwaish Alfraji (b. Baghdad, 1960) lives and works in Amersfoort, the Netherlands. Trained as a painter and printmaker, he also makes animation videos and art books . Alfraji left Iraq in the 1990s, where he later settled in the Netherlands. As a young artist in Baghdad in the 1980s, Alfraji worked as an animator for a children’s television programme. At…

Video

Video: Opening week of Invisible Beauty, the Pavilion of Iraq at the 56th Venice Biennale

With special thanks to the artists and everyone who took part in the Pavilion of Iraq at the 56th Venice Biennale! Visit the Pavilion page for more photos of the artworks, our research trip in Iraq, and interviews with the artists.

Event

Art, Conflict and Iraq: Panel Discussion at 56th Venice Biennale

Ruya Foundation hosted a panel discussion on art, conflict and Iraq as part of its programme for the 56th Venice Biennale. Held at the Scuola Grande dei Carmini the panel examined the role of art in conflict, and the ways in which artists’ contributions to the subject can effect change. The speakers were from a…