Tarkib Organization for Arts & Culture

Tarkib

is a platform for the research, training, production and presentation of contemporary art dedicated to promoting emerging and mid-career Iraqi artists.

Tarkib had been working since 2015.

Tarkib is a collective that unit artists from different art disciplines, ages and genders.

Tarkib’s mission Tarkib’s mission Tarkib’s mission Tarkib’s mission Tarkib’s mission is to introduce contemporary art to the Iraqi creative and cultural scene.

Its vision

is to build up a contemporary identity in Iraq visualized via artistic expression.

Tarkib has a high degree of flexibility in creating its programs and addressing its audience. It is a resource both for the people who make active use of it, and for those who participate in it as visitors.

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Tarkib’s purpose is to talk about the content, form and function of art and its role in society.

Socially speaking Tarkib aims to support the Iraqi youth to express themselves and to encourage social cohesion among the youth, especially women and vulnerable individuals.

OUR PROJECTS n 2024: 10th editio

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TARKIB BAGHDAD CONTEMPORARY ARTS FESTIVAL 30.000 vi sitors

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Iraq’s only multi-disciplinary arts festival which takes place on four days every year in order to connect the audience to the city’s contemporary art.

Dedicated to new multifaceted installations and conceptual artworks from emerging and mid-career Iraqi artists.

Directed to artworks that form a boundary between arts and everyday life, explore new socio-cultural spaces , work interdisciplinary and interactive.

Every year in a different location to bring life to places and to put a spotlight on Iraqi cultural heritage.

OUR PROJECTS

Exhibition and a narrative tour of the city

500 visit ors Outcome of an annual series of workshops in contemporary art.

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With presentations in public space across the city of Baghdad.

In order to bring the arts to the people.

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Young artistic positions that deal with their perspective of identit y.

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BAIT TARKIB

“Thank you that you made Bait Tarkib for us.”

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“By time, Bait Tarkib became like a museum for Iraqi contemporary art.”

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Headquarter and research site

TARKIB FOR TEACHING ART “After only one month, I was able to draw out of my mind.”

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Offered for a moderate fee “Imagine, some of our ballerinas attend the Ballet Dance Lab for more than 3 years.”

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OUR COLLECTIVE

Hella Mewis Curator

Zaid Saad Visual Artist

Akram Assam Theater Director

Atef Al Jaffal Graphic Designer

TABI Visual Artist

Muhaned Taha Visual Artist

Hussam Mohammed Visual Artist

Noor Al Waily Visual Artist

Hussain Muttar Architect

AISHE Architect

Sarhand Khaled Architect

Anwar Ahmed Artivist

Tarkib is not working on a business or entrepreneurship model.

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Our head quarter is Bait Tar kib to re a and a lize our Iraqi place wh activiti es ere t y o u th skill h s and can dev e in a e wide knowledg lop e range .

To en s of ou ure the conti r act nuati iviti on es

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