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SOLO

EXHIBITION

Qassim

Alsaedy

22 Apr -

28 May

2011

Diversity

and Art

Netherlands

Born

Baghdad

1949, AlSaedy studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Baghdad

from 1969-73. He was a student of the late Shakir Hassan al-Said, one of

the most significant and influential artists of Iraq and even the Arab World.

During his time at the academy Alsaedy was arrested and imprisoned for

almost a year. Free again in1979, he organized with other Iraqi artists an

exhibition in Lebanon, as a statement against the Iraqi regime. Back in

Iraq, he joined the Kurdish rebels in the North, where he also was active

as an artist and even exhibited in tents. After the Anfal campaign against

the Kurds in 1988 he withdrew to Libya where he could work in relative

freedom and where he became a teacher at the Art Academy of Tripoli

until 1994, when he came to the Netherlands. Alsaedy's work is

dominated by two themes, love versus pain and the ongoing cycle of

growth and decay, a recycling of material when man leaves his characters

and traces as a sign of existence through the course of history. Love is

represented by beauty in bright and deep colors. The pain from the scars

of war and destruction is visualized by the empty cartridge cases from the

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battlefield or represented by the rusty nails, an important element in

many of his works. "The pain has resolved as the nails are completely

rusted away", states Alsaedy. In his three dimensional work, the duality of

pain and beauty is always the main theme. For this occasion Qassim

Alsaedy will present his installation of several objects 'Shortly after the

War'. The ceramic objects are created in collaboration with the

Dutch/German artist Brigitte Reuter.

Diversity & Art

SOLO

EXHIBITION

London

Rashad

Selim

Sound Base

19 Aug - 26

Sept 2010

Janet Rady

Fine Art

Presented

during the

holy month of Ramadhan, this thought provoking exhibition features

works from the Re-Piano project including prints, juxtapositions, book art

and projections shown for the first time as well as workshops

throughout. [email protected]

WEB

LAUNCH

Khalid

al-Qassab

Website

In Memory

of Dr Khalid

Qassab

SOLO

SHOW

& Book


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Signing

Ali Talib

12 Dec

2009

Karim

Gallery

Amman

Jordan

Group

Show

The Reces-

sionists

4 - 7 Dec

2009

Somerset

UK

Middle East

and

European

Art

Iraqi Artists

featured are

Rashad

Selim,

Maysaloun

Faraj, Khalid

al-Jadir,

Hana Mal

Allah and

Feisal Laibi


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SOLO

SHOW

Sadik

Alfraji

15 Nov - 13

Dec 2009

For the

Love of

Zainab

Hague,

Netherlands

Seasons

Galleries

Sadik Alfraji

Group Show

Baghdad

Photo

Slovakia

4 Dec 2008

to 27 Feb

2009

Gandy

Gallery

Artists:

Wamidh al

Ameri,Salam Haddad,Wathiq al Ameri & Ali al Fatwawi curated by

Roza El-Hassan.

Ghassan

Malik

PHOTOS

Iraq


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SOLO

Exhibition

Boats and

Burdens:

Kites and

Shattered

Dreams

Maysaloun

FARAJ

25 Mar-25

Jun 2009

ayagallery

London

For the

women of

Iraq who

despite

burden

upon

unprece-

dented

burden

stand tall,

proud and

resilient,

like her

precious date palms nurturing like the sweet waters of Dijla and Furat.

And for her children who will reclaim the skies with their imagination, the

future with their dreams. A culmination of three decades of sheer

inspiration, creativity and intense artistic involvement, this collection of

paintings and ceramics in tribute to Iraq's heroic women is essentially

Faraj's response to the war on Iraq, her land and her people. Tomorrow

my Heart will Heal Earthstone 30x19x10cm 2008

Retro-

spective

1970-2008

Dia Azzawi

21 Mar-10

Apr 2009

Emirates

Palace

Hotel

Abu Dhabi

Music &


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Arts

Foundation

Group

Show

Paris,

France

22 Jan-28

Feb 2009

Talents

from the

East

Gallery Orenda

Karim Saifou with artists from Japan, Poland, Turkey and Iran.

Group

Show

France

2 July - 2

Sept 2008

Karim Sifo

This work

by Karim

Sifo is from

a collection

entitled

Mind and

Liberty.

The

exhibition

will be

traveling to

five other

French

cities as

well as

Lisbon.

Solo

Exhibition

London

6-18 Jul

2008

Karim

al-Asadi

Approaching

a Hope

Posk


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Gallery

Group

Show

Utrechet,

the

Netherlands

12-29 Jun

2008

The New

Salon

CBK-Utrech

& Central

Museum

Sadik

Alfraji

participates with fifty solo artist in a presentation featuring a video

installation and a series of drawings entitled Identity has a Face with

no Features.

Solo Show

London

16-21

June 2008

Mustafa

Ja'far

Black

Words in

Red Ink

Iraq War

Menier

Gallery

See iNCiA

Supported

Projects for details.

Solo

Exhibition

Afifa Aleiby

29 Mar - 10

May 08

Den Haag

De Twee

Pauwen

Gallery

In the words of


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Hans Vogels

'... The figures

in Afifa Aleiby's

work reflect in

an absolutely

serene silence

the tragic event

or traumatic

experience that

is still being

dealt with.

Classical Greek

or Roman

sculptures are

particularly

well-suited to express such metaphors. Although they cannot speak, their

appearance tells you enough of their past. Likewise, the titles Afifa Aleiby

gives to her works, such as 'Dreaming on the Grass', 'Abandoned' or

'Silence', refer to solitude and an overall feeling of desertion. Nonetheless,

her paintings are not overtly pessimistic. A recent work, entitled 'Tree of

Life' indicates this in its depiction of a mother with child. Moreover, her

works often feature humoristic or mysterious elements, such as balloons

or masks. Her bright colours also make her paintings attractive and

pleasant to watch. The facts that her paintings provoke thought, and are

more than merely depictions of external reality; make her a prominent

representative of the contemporary 'Scuola Metafysica'.'

Solo

Exhibition

Ali Talib

14 - 28 Apr

2008

Dubai, UAE

Green Art

Gallery


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Joint

Exhibition

Germany

15 Mar -

16 April

2008

Gravid

Periods

Moham-

med

Sami &

Reinhard

Frotscher

Markgraf

Gallery

Solo

Exhibition

Dubai

11 - 23 Feb

2008

Firyal

al-Adhami

Cards from

Meso-

potamia II

Green Art

Gallery

In the

words of

Firyal 'I will

continue to

raise the

question of

our ravaged

cultural

heritage

through paintings and exhibitions. However, I suspect there was a

method behind the madness. For all we know, in 40-50 years, you may

see our looted artefacts publicly displayed in shows all over the world.

They could even be auctioned in Baghdad.'

Solo

Exhibition

London

1-31 Mar

2008

Alaa Siraih

A&C Gallery


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My city is

either a

souvenir or

a reality

that can be

looked at

through a

sensitive

eye and an

emotional

and excited

mind. It is

an attempt to fix my longings on canvas. Though it is not an invitation to

go back to the past, it reflects the need to go beyond the coloured spaces

and behind the entrances of my cities which are built on the ground of the

past as it was in itself life waiting to be set free from its captivity.

Group

Show

Germany

24 Jan - 29

Feb 2008

Galerie Im

Zentrum

Participating

Artists:

- M Sami

- Ulrich

Wilhelm

Ropke

- Reinhard

Fotscher

Solo

Exhibition

Netherlands

10 Nov

2007 - 13

Jan 2008

Sadik

Kwaish

Alfraji

Born April

9th

Stedelijk

Museum


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Herto-

genbosch

Iraqi born

artist Sadik

Kwaish

Alfraji

(Baghdad,

1960) can not get round the current situation in his native country. He

resides in the Netherlands, but lives the same fear and threat as his fellow

countrymen. This has a significant influence on his work. One enormous

painting and an eleven-part video installation provide a penetrating view

of how the events in Iraq are reflected in his work. In the word of Alfraji

'This exhibition is not a description of a war or the daily death lived in

Iraq. It is a birth certificate of a Plague that has filled the air in the name

of 'Freedom', a freedom that has been dreamt of by Iraqis for

generations. I invite you to read my painting, not to merely look at them'.

Group Exhibition

The Hague, Netherlands

19 Oct 2007 - 31 Jan

2008

Green Zone: Red Zone

With the opening of

Gemak: Centre for

Non-Western Arts and

Politics

Participating

Artists: Adel Abidin,

Wafaa Bilal, Nedim Kufi,

Hana Mal Allah and

Rashad Selim (Iraq),

Peter Kennard & Cat

Picton Phillipps (UK),

Paul Chan (USA) and

Mark Bijl (NL) and The

Open Shutters: Iraq

photography project and

documentaries made by

the Independent Film &

Television College,

Baghdad.

The artists explore the currently ongoing scission in Baghdad between a

corporate international Green Zone and a Red Zone where the

infrastructure of civilian life is relentlessly destroyed. This includes such

intangibles as the Iraqi secular culture; attack on Al-Mutanabi Street

Book Market. What is happening in Iraq may be seen as an extreme

form of the privatization of government, the abandonment of public

services, and an apocalyptic security ideology, which is also being used to

reshape Western societies. A debate cycle, a public art project by Rashad

Selim and a research looking at the 'green lines' in Den Haag will bring


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this debate home, to the seat of Dutch government and of many

institutions of international law. Gemak is a co-operation project between

the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag and the Vrije Academie, Werkplaats voor

Beeldende Kunsten. This exhibition is further supported by Kosmopolis

Den Haag, Hivos NCDO Culture Fund, and the Prince Bernhard Culture

Fund. For further information and contacts see Gemak.

Solo

Exhibition

Northampton,

UK

13 Oct - 25

Nov 2007

Satta

Hashem

Colour, Love

and Mind

Northampton

Museum & Art

Gallery

In the words of

Satta Hashem

"This

exhibition is an

extension of

the scientific

theory about

the brain in

romantic love.

The theme is

related to my

general

understanding

of love, not

just as a

process

between two

people but as

a wider feeling

connected to other experiences. Colour, which is my subject, I am now

relating to the feeling of love because colour is not a physical thing; it is

sensation, like feeling hot or cold. Mixing the sensations of colour and love

was my aim in creating this exhibition." Contact Lois Winstanley

[email protected]

Photography

Exhibition

London UK

3 Oct - 2 Nov

2007

Open Shutters:

Iraq


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South Bank

An extraordinary

experimental

exhibition of

personal photo

stories brings real life in Iraq to London's South Bank. In the spring of

2007 a group of 8 Iraqi women and a six year old child participated in a

unique creative event. Using digital photography, the women set out at

considerable risk to make deeply personal and emotional photo stories of

their lives in Iraq, now. Open Shutters Iraq will receive a 4 week preview

at The Scoop at MoreLondon (Queen's Walk), before its European tour.

The stories are presented using internally lit monoliths, aligned along the

bank to form a complete, temporary sculpture which allows their pictures

and testimony an illuminating presence at the heart of London (Free

Admission and lit until 1am daily). Open Shutters is an in-depth

participatory photography programme that helps women share personal

emotional experiences with the wider world through images and text. The

focus is on women from diverse communities and cultures, women who

live and work outside the public forum. Partnerships, training and practical

support are all provided. Eugenie Dolberg

([email protected]), artistic director of open shutters and

Maysoon Pachachi, documentary film maker can be available for

interview. In the words of Eugenie "It is not that stories of kidnapping,

soldiers occupying your house, brothers and fathers disappearing in

prisons and narrow escapes from death are all that unfamiliar, but the

actual lived experience is full of often unexpected consequences. I feel

that the truth of events lies inside the people who live them, but, sadly,

this truth is so often silenced". Contact: Ade Lukes

([email protected]). Supported by The Foreign Ministry of

Norway, Index on Cencorship, MoreLondon and Standard 8.

Video Art

Chess

Mohammed


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al-Shimmary

2007

Book Publication

2007

The Orange Trees of Baghdad:

In Search of my Lost Family

A memoir by Leilah Nadir with

photos by Farah Nosh

Born to an Iraqi-Christian father

and a British mother, and raised

in Britain and Canada, Leilah

Nadir has never set foot on Iraqi

soil. Distanced from her Iraqi

roots through immigration and

now cut off by war, the closest

link she has to the nation is

through her father, who left

Baghdad in the 1960s when he

was sixteen to pursue his studies

in England. He never looked

back, until now, through his

daughter's journey to uncover

her lost family roots. Her

father's most vivid memory is of the garden at the family house: the

rosebushes that lined the walls, the date palm that intermingled with the

palm fronds, and the orange tree that hung over the roses. His Iraq is of

mythical origins; his beginnings are in a garden. But through her cousins

still living in Baghdad she experiences the thunderous explosions that

continuously rain down upon the country today, and describes losing their

great-aunt in the terrifying aftermath of the invasion. Leilah's friend,

photographer Farah Nosh, brings home news of Leilah's family after her

visits to Iraq, as well as stunning photos of civilians and their often tragic

stories. And just as Leilah gives up hope of ever meeting her family, a

surprise reunion takes place.

Solo Exhibition

Massachusetts USA

1-29 Nov 2007

Contemplations

MJ Alhabeeb

Burnett Gallery

Preview 1 Nov 2007

5-8pm


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Solo Exhibition

Trondheim, Norway

9 Sept - 20 Oct

2007

And So Trees were

Named

Yahya al-Sheikh

Lilya Gallery

Solo Exhibition

Amman Jordan

5-26 Sept 2007

Mohammed Ghani Hikmet

Orfali Gallery

Joint Exhibition

London UK

ayagallery

6 June - 6 Sept 2007

Sophisticated Ways:


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Destruction of an

Ancient City

Hana Mal Allah and

Rashad Selim

Directed by Christine

Garabedian; introduced

by Raji Omar Stolen

Dreams is a 22-minute

documentary following the artists Hana Mal Allah, Rashad Selim and

Maysaloun Faraj in the lead up to the exhibition Sophisticated Ways in

the Destruction of an Ancient City recently held at ayagallery. A

two-part online feature of the film is now viewable on Witness.

Joint

Project

Baghdad

Iraq

Al-Adhamya

Wall

Conversion

April 2007

Iraqi artists

in Baghdad

join forces

to convert

the

'American'

concrete

barriers set

up around the Adhamiya district into huge art murals. For further visuals

see iNCiA Supported Projects. For urther information in Arabic see Iraqi

Fine Arts.

Joint Exhibition

Manama, Bahrain

8-18 April 2007

Positive: Negative

Ghassan Ghayeb & Nazar

Yahya

Albareh Art Gallery

Typewriter and Poetry by

Mahmoud Darwish

Ghassan Ghayeb

Mixed media

2007


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Group Exhibition

Baghdad, Iraq

April 2007

Reliefs de La Memoire

Hewar Gallery

Participating Artists: Qassim al-Sabti,

Akram Naji, Hayder Ali, Shaddad Abdul

Qah'har, Karim Saifou

Group Exhibition

London

11-17 April 2007

Birds of War

Hawks, Doves and

Illegal Eagles

Candid Arts Trust

Gallery

[email protected]

A dynamic

collaboration

between british and

Iraqi artists and

their unique

interpretations of

the Iraq conflict to

mark the fourth

anniversary of

the Iraq invasion. Participating artists: Tanya Tier, Firyal al-Adhamy, Lou

Mckeever, Anahit Sarkes, Alaa Siraih and Kadhim al-Khalifa. In

conjunction with stop the war coalition and cnd.

Joint Exhibition

Poetry Recital

26 Feb-9 Mar 2007

Island of Treasures


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In collaboration

with De Montfort

University and

Cultural

Exchanges Arts

Programme,

Shree Jalaram

Community

Centre hosts this

exhibition; a

celebration of

Islamic and Arabic

culture featuring

the work of four

contemporary artists; John Lancaster, Satta Hashem (Leicester based

painters), Abdulkareem Kased and Awad Nasir (London based poets).

The exhibition explores the influence of ancient Arabic culture on the

artists individual practices, reflecting points of common interest through

the visual language as well as differences evident in their cultural and

educational backgrounds. Some of Hashem's work is inspired by the

poetry of both participating poets. Other paintings are work in progress

for a commission by The National Museums Liverpool on the theme of

'Freedom'. For John Lancaster the importance of craft and the intense

focus on painting result in large works. An educational programme with

talks by the artists and poetry recitals accompany the exhibition.

Contacts: [email protected], [email protected],

[email protected]

Solo Exhibition

Bahrain

2-16 Dec 2006

Postcards from

Mesopotamia

Firyal al-Adhamy

Inspired by

Al-Adhamy's

reaction to the

tragic looting of the

Museum of

Baghdad in 2003,

this exhibition is a

unique collection of

recent paintings in

tribute. Moved by

an article by Robert

Fisk entitled Civilization Torn to Pieces, Firyal's immediate impulse was to

try to put back these missing pieces through art. A colourful

interpretation of the ancient history of Iraq in these tumultous times. The

show was under the patronage of HE Shaikh Rashid Bin Khalifa Al Khalifa.

Solo


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Exhibition

Toronto,

Canada

25 Feb 2007

Human

Rights from

Anfal to

Now

Dara Aram

Cedar Ridge Art Gallery

Presented by Dara Aram, a Toronto-based artist, born in Kurdistan, Iraq.

The exhibition demonstrates the concerns about global atrocities and

explores the human devastation of the genocidal Anfal campaign by the

former Iraqi regime spanning from 1980-88. The presentation will also

include Kurdish music performed by Farzad and a speech by Dr

Hassanpour/Professor at the University of Toronto.

[email protected]

Solo Exhibition

Damascus Syria

25 Feb 2006-15 Mar 2007

Ali Talib

Attassi Gallery

Group Exhibition

Dafatir

New York, USA

19 Jan 2007

Centre for Book Arts

Dafatir features works by Dia

al-Azzawi, Sadiq Kawish Alfraji,

Ammar Dawod,Mohammad,

Fakher, Ismail Fattah, Ghassan

Gha'eb, Nedim Kufi,Hana'

Malallah, Moaid Nama, Rafa

al-Nasiri, Mahmmud al-Obidi,

Ibrahim Rashied, Kareem Rissan,

Shakir Hassan Al Said,

Mohammed al-Shamary, Samar


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Usama, and Nazar Yahya.

Organized by Dr. Nada Shabout, Assistant Professor of Art History at the

University of North Texas. Contact Program Manager Sarah Nicholls

[email protected]

Solo Exhibition

Amman, Jordan

29 Nov-16 Dec 2006

Mohammed Muhrildin

Dar al-Anda

Born Basra, Iraq, 1938. Studied

painting in Baghdad 1956-9.

Degree in Arts from the Warsaw

Academy of Fine Arts, Poland,

1966. Granted an Honorary

Award, Sixth Asian Art Biennial,

Bangladesh, 1993; 1st Prize,

2nd International Festival,

1988; 2nd Prize, Ankara First

International Art Biennial,

Turkey; Honorary Prize,

International Poster Exhibition,

Baghdad, 1986. Lives and

works in Amman, Jordan.

Group Show

New York USA

7-27 Dec 2006

Agora Gallery

Including the works of

Walid al-Qaisi

Solo

Exhibition


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Manama

Bahrain

Hana Mal

Allah

Albareh

Gallery

Group

Exhibition

London

Oct

2006-Feb

2007

Words,

Frag-

mented,

Unbroken

In follow up

to the

British Museum's groundbreaking ayagallery Word into Art exhibition

(May-Sept 2006) ayagallery is proud to present this show featuring 'word'

based art drawn from ayagallery's own collection of In-House artworks as

well as new works in a range of media to include painting, sculpture,

ceramics, photogrpahy and appleque (layered textile). Participating artists

are Halla Ayla, Hamza Bounoua, Taha al-Hiti, Maysaloun Faraj, Karim

Farhan, Said Farhan, Rashad Selim and the budding young talent Nadya

Mousawi. Please see Exhibitions.

Solo Exhibition

Berlin, Germany

6 Oct 2006

Sixth One-Man

Exhibition

Munir al-Ubaidi

Galerie

Bildersschmuck

Krossener Str. 34

10245 Berlin

T 030 2977 0810

E Munir_alubaidi@


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web.de

Baghdad

Watercolour on paper

2006

Solo

Exhibition

Amman

Jordan

13-27 Sept

2006

Love and

Death

Ali Talib

Orfali

Gallery

Amman,

Jordan

www.

orfali.net

www.

alitalib.com

Sacrifice Mixed media on canvas 130x160cm 2006

Group Exhibition

London, UK

18 May-2 Sept 2006

Word into Art

Artists of the Modern

Middle East

The British Museum


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Admission Free

Word into Art

presents highlights of

the contemporary art

and culture emerging

from the Middle East

and North Africa

today. The works

displayed, many

shown for the first

time, reflect issues of

identity and politics,

and the richly diverse

artistic heritage of the

region. A powerful theme running through all the works is how artists

engage and experiment with the Arabic script. Word into Art not only

testifies to the strong calligraphic tradition of the Middle East, but also

demonstrates the powerful and imaginative ways in which artists are using

writing today. The exhibition is curated by Dr Venetia Porter (curator at

the British Museum, specializing in the collections of Islamic art and the

contemporary art of the Middle East). She is also the author of the

coinciding Word into Art book. The event is sponsored by Dubai Holding.

Over 80 visual artists from across the modern Middle East are

represented. Iraqi artists form the largest represented group from

one country! This includes: Iman ABDULLAH . Dia AZZAWI . Shaker

Hassan AL SAID. Salah Faisal al- ALI. Ghani al- ANI. Sina ATA . Suad

al-ATTAR . Wasma al-CHORBACHI Maysaloun FARAJ. Said FARHAN.

Ghassan GHAIB. Sati HASHIM. Mustafa JAFAR. Salam KHEDHER.

Hassan MASSOUDY. Mohammed MUHRILDIN. Rafa al- NASIRI .

Mediha OMAR. Kerim RISSAN. Rashad SELIM. Mohammed al-

SHAMMERY. Nazar YAHYA

Solo

Exhibition

London, UK

4 Jan - 30

June 2006

Issam El

Said:

Artist .

Scholar .

Thinker

ayagallery

This

presentation

is in

conjunction

with

selected

exhibits

drawn from


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ayagallery's

In-House collection of works by Iraqi Artists. Exhibits are at ayagallery

and issam-el-said.co.uk.

Allah al-Kalima . Oil on canvas . 50x50cm . 1986 . IS 331

Solo Exhibition

Amman, Jordan

18 Jan-15 Feb 2006

Ahmed Al Bahrani

4 Walls

Solo Exhibition

Amman, Jordan

21 Nov-7 Dec 2005

Ismail Fattah

paintings . prints . sculptures

4 Walls

The opening of this show is

under the patronage

of The Minister of Culture HE Mr

Amin Mahmoud.

Solo Exhibition

Doha, Bahrain

20 Nov-10 Dec 2005

Himat Mohamed Ali

A tribute to Shaker Hassan Al

Said

Al-Riwaq Gallery

This show is under the

patronage of

Al-Shaikha May Bint

Mohamed Al-Khalifa


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Exhibition Tour

Michigan, USA

17 Oct 2005

25th Annual Print Competition

Clack Art Center

Alma College, Michigan

Tour venues: Flora Kirsch Beck

Gallery, Alma College, MI

14 Nov-15 Dec 2005 Kellog

Community College, Battle Creek,

MI

Jan-6 Feb 2006 Crooked Tree Art

Council, Petoesky, MI

14 May 18 June 2006 The Scarub

Club, Detroit, MI

Contact Professor Lopez-Isnardi

[email protected]

Etching by Dr Hashim al-Tawil

Operation Iraqi Freedom

Group Exhibition

Sydney, Australia

11 Aug-10 Sept 2005

Songs of Travelling

Birds:

Iraqi Artists in Exile

Blacktown Arts Centre

Artists: Mazin Ahmed, Ali

Abbas, Abbas Makreb,

Jasem Hassan

The artist Mazin Ahmed

has been selected to take

part in the 5th

international Biennial of

Contemporary Art in

Florence, Italy 2005

under the

title Dialogue Betweeen Civilisations.

Solo Exhibition

Lausanne, Switzerland

29 Sept-29 Oct 2005

Karim Farhan

Livres a lLre ou a Regarder

Galerie Giovanetti

Born in 1958, Baghdad Iraq.


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Studied art in Baghdad and

Lausanne, Switzerland where

he currently lives and works.

Karim Farhan draws his

inspiration from his Iraqi

heritage reflected in his use

of matter, texture, colour and

by combining signs and

symbols. With this he

achieves a sense of mystery

and antiquity in a

contemporary style.

This is

realised in

his latest

exhibition

with the

theme of

books and

book

covers; first

and last

pages; gates of knowledge; poetry and spirituality, where images of peace

and meditation become.

Group Exhibition

Texas, USA

17 Oct-22 Nov

2005

Dafatir:

Contemporary

Iraqi Book Art

University of

North Texas Art

Gallery

A groundbreaking

exhibition

representing 17

contemporary

artists from Iraq

will focus on

dialogues between

innovation and

tradition. Dafatir

(the Arabic word

translates as

"notebooks") is

organized by Dr.

Nada Shabout, a native of Iraq and Assistant Professor of Art History at

UNTG. All works on view were drawn from the collection of artist Dia


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al-Azzawi, London, who has had the greatest impact on the development

of book art in modern Iraq. Participating Artists: Azzawi (UK), Sadiq

Kawish Alfraji (Netherlands), Ammar Dawod (Netherlands), Mohammad

Fakher (Iraq), Ismail Fattah, Ghassan Ghaib (Jordan), Nedim Kufi

(Netherlands), Hana Mal allah (Iraq), Rafa al-Nasiri (Jordan), Mahmmud

al-Obidi (Iraq), Kareem Rissan (Iraq), Shaker Hassan Al Said,Mohammed

al-Shammarey (Jordan), Samar Usama (Jordan), Nazar Yahya (Jordan).

Reviews

http://www.glasstire.com/reviews/dallas/IraqArt.htm

http://www.dallasobserver.com/issues/2005-11-03/culture/artbeat.html

Publication

Maqamat

al-Hariri

(cover detail)

The facsimile

reproduction of this

important Arabic

literary masterpiece

contains 334 pages

38x27cm with 101

miniature

illustrations by

Al-Wasiti, Iraq.

This edition is

presented in a high quality leather bound silk lined presentation slip case.

The manuscript is accompanied by a separate volume containing an

introductory three-part essay by Oleg Grabar, Professor of Islamic Art,

Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, USA. The essay gives firstly, the

historical and cultural setting; secondly, a description of the illustrations

and their relationship to the text and thirdly and outline of comparative

elements and the importance of the manuscript. It is printed in English,

French, German and Arabic. For further information or to place and order

contact [email protected]

Call to Artists .

Collaborative Exhibition

World-Wide

Globalising Resistance to

the War in Iraq: One by One

Art Exhibition

If you oppose the war in Iraq

and if you own a pen or pencil,

you may wish to participate in

the largest collaborative

artwork ever! You do not need

to be a professional artist to be

part of this project of

resistance. The organization

Iraq Body Count estimates that

at least 25,000 Iraqi civilians


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have been killed because of the

US invasion of Iraq; the British medical journal Lancet estimates more

than 100,000 Iraqi civilian fatalities. There have been over 1,600

American fatalities. To Participate contact Gene

Fellner [email protected]

Festival &

Workshops

Rabat, Morocco

8 June 2005

Iraqi artists Alaa

Siraih and Imad

Mansour with 12

Moroccan artists.

Albert Camus

School

T 037 765339

Solo Exhibition

Toronto, Canada

27 May-9 June 2005

Interconnections

Dara Aram

Praxis Gallery

www.praxisart.net

Group Exhibition

Doha, Bahrain

14-28 May 2005

Improvisations

Al Riwaq Gallery, Bahrain

[email protected]


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Participating Artists:

Dia Al Azzawi

Rafa Al Nasiri

Mahmud Al Obaidi

Nazar Yahya

Ali Talib

Ghassan Ghaib

Kareeim Rissan

Poster

Publication

The late

Saad Shakir

(1935-2005)

Sculpture by Khaled al-Rahhal (1926-87)

Auction

London, UK

28 April 2005

Issam El-Said

Bonhams

Rare collection of artworks by the

late Iraqi artist, scholar, architect

and thinker

The Wedding

Issam El-Said

Oil on canvas

183x152cm

1967

Art Presentation (London)

30 April – 30 May 2005

Issam El-Said: Artist . Scholar

. Thinker

ayagallery

www.issam-el-said.co.uk

On the occasion of Islamic week in

London and to coincide with Bonham's

auction of works by the late Issam


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El-Said (28 April 2005), ayagallery

will be presenting a rare collection of

paintings and limited edition

etchings by the late Issam El-Said.

Iqtarabet al Sa'ah

Limited edition etching

40x30cm

1965

Solo Exhibition

Massachusetts, USA

28 Mar-4

May 2005

A Melody of

Curves & Angles:

Classical Arabic

and Islamic

Calligraphy by

MJ Alhabeeb

Cambridge

Multicultural Arts

Center, Cambridge Massachusetts, USA

http://www.people.umass.edu/mja http://www.cmacusa.org

/HTML/exhibitions.htm

Solo Exhibition

Valencia, Spain

29 Apr-15 May

2005

Saad Ali

Medinat

al-Laimoun

(City of Lemon)

Autos El Castellano

International

Conference on

Printmaking

(Washington DC,

USA)

31 Mar – 3 April

2005 . Power in

Print: Southern

Graphic Council

International


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Conference .

Hashim al-Tawil .

Bringing together works by 26 graphic artists of varied nationalities and

backgrounds, artist Dr Hashim al-Tawil is a participant in the print portfolio

entitled Re-Interpreting the Middle East. The work seeks to question

the power of representation and counter-representation in the

stereotyping of ‘East’ and ‘West’. However, rather than bemoaning the

ever-growing division between these two cultural perspectives, this project

seeks to employ other pictorial and rhetorical strategies such as those of

linkage, suturing, bridging, fusion, and hybridization to address this

problem.

Hashim al-Tawil’s work entitled Iraqi

Landscape 2005 is a presentation

of the US invasion of Iraq and its

impact on the culture and the

society of that country. The visual

references signify the destructive,

pointless invasion, occupation, and

the continued loss of innocent lives

of both Americans and Iraqis. In his

presentation The Plundering of

Modern Iraqi Art (2003-5) Hashim

al-Tawil briefly describes the scope

of loss and destruction inflicted on

Modern Iraqi art immediately after

the US invasion of Iraq through two

major fields; The first is the looted

Saddam Art Centre Markaz Saddam

Lilfunun, which housed the entire

collection of contemporary Iraqi

visual art. The second is the public monuments scattered throughout Iraq,

particularly in Baghdad e.g. The Unknown Soldier, The Martyr’s Monument

and museum, The Monument of Freedom and others. The portfolio will

travel to Sharja, Doha, Amman, Michigan, and possibly Beirut

(May-August 2005). See http://www.powerinprint.gmu.edu/ for further

details.

Exhibition

(Lugano

Switzerland

L’Officinaarte)

19 Mar – 10 Apr 2005

O God, How Much Longer?

This presentation of photos, videos and communications of Al-Fadhil is an

interrogative that contains within itself, to a large degree, the creative

project that Al Fadhil (Iraq 1955) has been developing over the past

decade. In one of the three rooms of the “Officina” the artist has put at

the disposition of users photographs that aim to transmit their socially


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problematic content by way of aesthetic vision. “Back on Earth” and “The

Thing” are the titles of videos realised around the image of a bullet. In

2004 the artist tackled the question of violence, devising a trial of the

bullet as a symbol of moral responsibility. The object denied all

responsibility – which pertains to man, obviously – and declared its

transformation into an aesthetic entity. Intervening to modify space

according to the needs of the concept, without touching the object in

question, is a constant in the researches of Al Fadhil. In the third room, a

mask of the artist’s face, which asks “O God, how much longer?” will be

placed up high, while the floor will be covered by carpets and a number of

publications on art, put at the disposition of the public, to consult and add

to.

www.officina-arte.ch . ww.iraqpavilion.com . www.emergencybiennale.org

Exhibition (Ottawa, Canada)

17 Mar - 9 Apr 2005

Traces

Farouk Kaspaules

GALLERY 101

Farouk Kaspaules’ exhibition entitled,

Traces, incorporates imagery of the

Marsh Arabs and the region of the Tigris

and Euphrates, extending all the way

from north Iraq to Kurdistan. Traces

affirms the beauty and impact of the

land and the people of this region. As an

Iraqi-born Canadian artist, who left Iraq

for political reasons in the mid-1970s,

his work is committed to addressing

cultural identity in relation to place, as

both a diaspora experience and also as an artist living in Canada. The

silk-screens and photomontages are layered with images of art and

architecture, juxtaposed with warfare icons. The works achieve a sublime

nature via their serene quality, focused moments and landscapes.

Moreover, Kaspaules’ exhibition expands our visual language of war and of

other human struggles. The exhibition draws attention to our position and

negotiation when understanding war and conflict and identifies the ability

of visual arts to confront these issues. Kaspaules’ exhibition, presented

simultaneously with the works of Josée Pellerin, connects the local and

global implications of history and our every day reality. With this, the

artist Josée Pellerin presents two photo-installations addressing a

correlation of our personal experiences in the city.

[email protected] . www.gallery101.org

Exhibition & Publication

(London UK)

4 Feb - 17 April 2005

Art Now

Jananne Al-Ani

Tate Britain


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The Visit by Jananne

al-Ani

The Visit is Jananne

al-Ani's most ambitious project to date, and adds to an impressive body of

video and photographic work, distinguished by its finely-honed, evocative

portraits and its complex, often intimate narratives. The Visit was

commissioned by Film and Video Umbrella and Norwich Gallery.

Supported by Arts Council England, Film London and the Henry Moore

Foundation.

Publication

The first monograph on the work of Jananne Al-Ani has been published to

coincide with this exhibition. Introduced by Steven Bode, with essays by

Claire Doherty and Angela Weight. Interview with the artist by Richard

Hylton. ISBN: 1 90427 014 X. Price: £12.50. For more information

contact Lindsay Evans [email protected]. Images © The Artist. Courtesy

Film and Video Umbrella.

Solo Exhibition

(Washington, USA)

18 Feb - 1

April 2005

New Beginnings

Leila Kubba

The Jerusalem

Fund Gallery & The

Iraqi Cultural

Society

Leila Kubba was born and educated in Iraq. She studied at the Manchester

College of Art and Architecture and the Corcoran College of Art Design.

She has exhibited widely in the United States and across the world. Her

works are in public and private collections including the Abu Dhabi Cultural

Center, the National Gallery of Jordan and the British Museum.

http://www.thejerusalemfund.org/contactus.html.

Solo Exhibition (London UK)

6-18 March 2005

Parallel With the Event

Kadhim al-Khalifa

Posk Gallery

238-246 King Street, London W6


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Solo Exhibition (Washington,

USA)

1-28 Feb 2005

Layered Dreams

Leila Kubba

KARMA and Evolving

Perceptions

Two-Man Exhibition (Amman,

Jordan)

1 March 2005

Generation's Dialogue

Mohammed Muhrildine & Dlair

Saad Shaker

Orfali Gallery

Art, Poetry and Music

(Amman, Jordan)

13 & 15 Feb 2005

Awakened by the Witch

Poet Qassim Haddad and Artists

Mohammed Amiri & Hilda Hiary

Music by Tariq al-Nassir

Orfali Gallery


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Art Journal Launch (Dubai, UAE)

Canvas: Art and Culture from the

Middle East and Arab World

Issue 1 Winter 2004/5

Publisher and Editor-in-Chief: Ali

Khadra

[email protected]

Solo Exhibition (Dubai,

UAE)

8-18 Feb 2005

Poetic Abstractions

Rafa Nasiri

Green Art Gallery

Solo Exhibition (Amman, Jordan)

8 Jan - 23 Feb 2005

The Tenth Maqama: Paper, Clay and

Memory

Mahmoud Taha

Sponsored by Bank Audi the exhibition is

hosted by 4 Walls

4 Walls . P.O.Box 841042 . Amman

11184 . Jordan

Tel: (962-6) 5920902 Direct

Tel: (962-6) 5934111 Sheraton Amman

Fax: (962-6) 5920820

www.4walls.org

Artwork by Mahmoud Taha

Group Exhibition (London, UK)


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17 December 2005

Body, Soul and Seed: Artists

Against Depleted Uranium

Maya Askari, iNCiA and the

founding members of I&IXDU

hosted a Private View of

Contemporary Art at the residence

of Maya Askari, London.

Contributing Artists:

Maysaloun Faraj . Leila Kubba .

Jannane el-Ani . Carol Fulton .

Hanna Mal Allah . Margareta Kern .

Rima Farah . Anahit Sarkes .

Richard Hudson . Adam Bricusse . Hani Mazhir . Kareem Risan . Malik

Shuker . Mohamed Daami . Setar Kawosh . Riad Bazzaz . Assim El Rubaii .

Saadi Daoud . Alaa Siraih . Rashad Salim . Peter Kennard RCA . Catpicton

Phillipps RCA and Henry Hemming, who with Al Braithwaite, Stephen

Stapleton and Georgie Weedon have recently published the book "OFF

SCREEN" an artistic record of a year-long journey across the Middle East

2002-2003. The exhibition featured artworks in a range of media

including; paintings, drawings, prints, sculpture, ceramics, installations,

video works and photography.

The exhibition also featured a

tribute to the late departed

Artist Nuha Al Radi who died

earlier in 2004 from Lukemia.

[email protected]

Nuha Al Radi

Just a Palm Tree

etching

Group Exhibition

(Bad Ems, Germany)

6 Nov - 6 Dec 2004

Mohammed Abdullah

Balmoral Castle, Bad Ems,

Germany


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Group Exhibition

(California, USA)

19 Oct - 5 Nov 2004

Somewhere

Elsewhere

A Premiere Contemporary Art

Exhibition By artists of Arab and

Iranian heritage on the theme of

Orientalist imagery.

Opening Reception: Worth

Ryder Gallerym 116 Kroeber Hall

Bancroft and College Ave. on UC

Berkeley Campus, CA 94720. T

510-642-2582

Symposium: 31 Oct 2004 at 160

Kroeber Hall. www.birwaz.org

Salwa Mikdadi . Independent

Curator . PO Box 7005 . Berkeley,

CA 94707

[email protected]

Book Fair

(Frankfurt)

6-11 Oct 2004

Celebrating the

Creativity of the

Collaboration

between Iraqi Art

and Literature

Yahya al-Wassiti

with Abu

Mohammed

al-Harriri, Dia

Azzawi with Saadi Yousif, Fadhil al-Azzawi & Nadim Kufi with al-Sayab,

Ghassan Gaib with Mudhaffar al-Nawab. Plus a selection of books from

Iraqi artists: Ismael Fattah, Dia Azzawi, Rafa al-Nasiri, Ammar Dawood,

Nedim Kufi, Karim Risan, Nizar Yahya, Ghassan Gaib, Hana Mal

Allah, Samer Usama and Mohammed al-Shimmary.

[email protected]

Group

Project

(Baghdad,

Iraq)

Winter 2002


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Environment & Art

College of Fine Arts, Baghdad, Iraq

Guernica and I:Peace & War

by Qais al-Sindi

New paragraph


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Documents

International Network for Contemporary Iraqi Artists - i NC i A