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 diferent 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 fexibility 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.
Artistically speaking
Artistically speaking
Artistically speaking
Artistically speaking
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.
Iraq’s multi-disciplinary arts festival which takes place on four days every year in order to connect the audience to the city’s contemporary art. only
Dedicated to new multifaceted installations and artworks from emerging and mid-career Iraqi artists. conceptual
Directed to artworks that form a boundary between arts and everyday life, explore new socio-cultural , work interdisciplinary and interactive.
spaces spotlight
Every year in a diferent location to bring life to places and to put a on Iraqi cultural heritage.
Exhibition and a narrative tour of the city
500 visitors
Outcome of an annual series of workshops in contemporary art.
October 2023: 6th edition
With presentations in across the city of Baghdad.
71 artists
& artworks
In order to bring the arts to the people.
5 editions
Young artistic positions that deal with their perspective of
public space identity.
“Thank you that you made Bait
Tarkib
for us.”
Tute, ballerina, 6 years
workshops
“By time, Bait Tarkib became like a museum for Iraqi contemporary art.”
Loay Al Hadhary, Sculptor
8 rooms
53 showcase events
With a broad and high-quality program of artistic and cultural events, trainings and workshops
Work space for 15 artists of the collective
210 labs
Opened in 2017
155 artists presented
Headquarter and research site
TARKIB FOR TEACHING ART
“After only one month, I was able to draw out of my mind.”
TABI
The educational program line of Tarkib
Since 2018
Art courses for all ages and levels in diferent art disciplines
Given by local art experts
760 participants trained 210 labs conducted
Ofered for a moderate fee
“Imagine, some of our ballerinas attend the Ballet Dance Lab for more than 3 years.”
Atef Al Jafal
