Drawn principally from the unsurpassed collection of Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, this exhibition examines the achievement of the trailblazing Baghdad Modern Art Group, founded by Iraqi artists Jewad Selim and Shakir Hassan Al Said in 1951. Active through the early 1970s, the group produced paintings, sculptures, and drawings and operated as a site of cultural exchange across West Asia, North Africa, and Europe, influencing artists for generations to come. Through artworks and archival materials, What Lingers in the Artist’s Mindtraces the group's legacy while reflecting on the devastating impact of war on Iraq's cultural memory, treating absence and fragmentation as integral to historical narrative. The exhibition is curated by Nada Shabout.

For more information please visit the Mathaf Museum website.

Tagged 22/06.