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Invisible Beauty travels to S.M.A.K, Gent.

Last week a restaging of Ruya’s Invisible Beauty opened at S.M.A.K. Museum for Contemporary Art in Gent, Belgium. The exhibition was first shown as the Pavilion of Iraq at the 56th Venice Biennale 2015, for which Ruya appointed Philippe Van Cauteren, artistic director of S.M.A.K., as curator. Invisible Beauty showcases five Iraqi artists and the…
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Ruya Foundation launches Iraqi Contemporary Artist Database

We are pleased to announce the launch today of the first publically accessible online database of contemporary Iraqi artists. The Ruya Artist Database is a long term, ever-expanding project that will be a cornerstone to Ruya’s ongoing mission to promote the work of contemporary Iraqi artists internationally. The Ruya Artist Database will collate portfolios of a…
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Ruya Foundation at Art16

As part of our efforts to create international opportunities for, and foster recognition of, Iraqi contemporary artists working both in Iraq and abroad, we took part as a non-profit booth at Art16 art fair in London. The partnership with Art16 provided commercial opportunities for Iraq based artists who are otherwise disenfranchised from the art market.…