Venice biennale
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The Pavilion of Iraq at the 57th Venice Biennale 2017
The Ruya Foundation is pleased to announce that Tamara Chalabi, Chair and Cofounder of Ruya, and Paolo Colombo, Art Adviser at the Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, will co-curate the National Pavilion of Iraq at the 57th Venice Biennale, 13 May – 26 November 2017. The exhibition, ‘Archaic’, will explore the duality and tension in…
Invisible Beauty, the Iraq Pavilion at the Venice Biennale
[soliloquy slug=”venice-biennale”] RUYA commissioned Invisible Beauty, the exhibition for the Iraq Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale. Curated by Philippe Van Cauteren, Artistic Director of S.M.A.K., Ghent, Invisible Beauty features five contemporary artists from across Iraq and the diaspora: two generations of Iraqi photographers, in the shape of Latif Al Ani and Akam Shex Hadi, visual artist Rabab Ghazoul, ceramicist…
Pavilion of Iraq, 55th Venice Biennale
[soliloquy id=”899″] June – November 2013 Ruya commissioned the National Pavilion of Iraq for the 55th Venice Biennale. The exhibition, Welcome to Iraq, was the first to present Iraqi and Kurdish artists working from within the country at an international art fair. Curator Jonathan Watkins, director of the Ikon Gallery in Birmingham, and Ruya chairman Tamara Chalabi…