Nurettin Erkan: My paintings are paintings of resistance.
Scott Jacobsen's interview with renowned US based Kurdish Artist Nurettin Erkan
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Azad Nanakeli: My art work is related to current events
Scott Douglas Jacobsen's interview with Artist Azad Nanakeli
International Women’s Day, The critical look of an artist at concealment
Regina Tauschek He breaks taboos with his works. Reflecting on the puritanical interpretation of Islam and traditions, he sensitively grabs the male world by the crotch and therefore lives dangerously. The artist wishes women the…
Sahira Ismail gives artistic meaning to women’s domestic craft
On the 27th of August 2016 an exhibition by artist Sahira Ismail entitled ‘a house made of Rags’ was launched. Hosted at the museum of Sulaymania, the exhibition contained fourteen unique abstract works of art typically collage in form and…
How to make sense of feminist art in a culture where women’s voices are absent
By Kani Kamal WHEN I studied art at university in Sulaymania 16 years ago, the course was based on an old fashioned way of thinking. There was a gendered mentality so, for example, in most cases only men could study painting and sculpture,…