TABI entered Tarkib world in 2018 when she was studying at the College of Fine Art. She found something different and started to explore another world of what art can be. Art for her is a tool to express what she feels.

Her early work was characterized by human figures surrounded by a chaos of wires addressing the visual pollution of the city and how it effects unconsciously on humans. Her feelings are deep as her message in each single painting is.

In summer 2020, she developed the character Magrood, a figure in geometric forms, who represents the disadvantaged, the unfortunate and the forgotten who neither give benefit nor cause harm to society or themselves. Magrood is searching, Magrood is watching, Magrood is trying to analyze and understand. Her character Magrood is still surrounded by cables and wires and therefore effected by visual pollution.

TABI (b. 1998) lives and works in Baghdad. In 2020, she graduated from the Visual Art Department, College of Fine Art, Baghdad University.

Jumana Ridha is painting and drawing since her early childhood and she loves to express her emotions through singing. She did not study art. She studied politics instead. But, she found herself in art. She entered Tarkib early, in 2016. Her first room installation “Khora”, presented on the occasion of 2. TARKIB Baghdad Contemporary Arts Festival 2016, she transferred the visitors into the daily life world of an Iraqi woman. The feelings of Iraqi women are often her inspirations and subjects addressed in her art. Other topics are related to experiences of human beings, because Jumana has the capability of empathy, to feel and read other people without that they are saying words.

Jumana Ridha (b. 1993) lives and works in Baghdad. She graduated from the Political Science Department, Baghdad University, in 2015.

In her paintings Noor Al Waily focuses on topics that narrates women‘s feelings, their suffering and perception within the community. Her paintings are colourful provided with figurative elements and abstract shapes and lines. One repeating element is a bird‘s peak, which blends gently into the overall composition of her art pieces. The eye is an expression for her to create an attention, to open your eye to happenings around you. She is experimenting with mixed media, but the medium of a painting is the centre of her installations.

Noor Al Waily (b. 1989) graduated from the Visual Department of the College of Fine Arts, Baghdad University, in 2015. Her professor and supervisor was the pioneer Dr. Balasim Mohammed (1958-2021). Since 2017, she is a member of TARKIB. She currently works as an illustrator at Uruk Newspaper.

Hella Mewis (b.1971) has a degree in business administration and is a freelance curator and art manager living and working in Baghdad, Iraq since 2012.

In 2015, she founded together with young Iraqi artists the collective TARKIB and since 2017 she is running the group‘s art center BAIT TARKIB as the artistic director.

In 2014, she started her photo series „City Cartography“. She is documenting the architectural environment of the activities she either is organising or attending. Her series are in black and white to underline the eternalness of the moment.

Since the very beginning of her living in Baghdad, she is investigating Iraqi art. Her current research project is art in public space in Baghdad from 1921 until to the present which will merge into an open source map-based online archive.

Hajer Qusay is a freelance filmmaker. First, she attended the activities of Tarkib as a visitor. In summer 2019, she became a member and presented her video-art „Enforced-Dreams“ on the occasion of „FORB-Collective Exhibition“ in Bait Tarkib.

In her art, be it film, video art, performance or installation, she depicts the feelings and thoughts of women in Iraq, on the one hand. On the other hand she is question social conventions psychology and its effect on each single individual and the Iraqi community in general. She feels she has to talk for others who have not the ability for expression. Her work is an encouragement for women and men to scrutinize and to rehtink.

Atef Al Jaffal, b. in Baghdad 2000, is a graphic designer, performance artist and sound designer. Since 2018, he is a member of Tarkib and the collective‘s graphic designer and video editor. His works is shaped by an interdisciplinary nature. He often merges his different interests to create something new. His sound composition are playing with design patterns and his designs try to find the ideal composition. His performances are researches, examining psychological experiences and trauma and how to heal these trauma.

The sculptor Loay Al Hadhary, b. 1981, lives and works in Baghdad. In 2006, he graduated from the Visual Art Department at the College of Fine Arts, Baghdad University and started to work in Al Iraqia TV Channel. Since 2018, he is a member of the artist collective TARKIB.

Loay Al Hadhary does not follow any mainstream thinking or culture, not in his art, not in his life. He prefers to use unusual materials to create his sculptures such as fiberglas. His figures are representatives of the society mainly from vulnerable and shelterless groups. Therefore, the subjects he is addressing are socio-critical and deep in thinking. Art for Loay is like a life cycle. If he would stop doing it, he would die.

Hussain Al Harbi, b. in Baghdad 1997, is a percussionist and plays in different bands since 2018. He believes in the necessity of changing and correcting the social perspective and the bad stereotypes of percussion instruments and their players. Therefore, he founded his own percussion band SANJAT in 2021. Since 2019, he is a member of Tarkib.

Hussam Mohammed, b. in Baghdad 1990, graduated from the visual art department at the College of Fine Art, Baghdad University in 2015. Since 2017, he is a member of the artist collective TARKIB and developed his own distinctive style of creating abstract big-size sculptures. He is using rosty iron as the prefered material and is addressing subjects related to psychological diseases within the Iraqi society. The corrosion effect of iron is for Hussam like the effect of a disease on a human being.

Hussain Muttar, b. in Baghdad 1998, graduated as a civil engineer from the Baghdad University in 2021. He currently works as a freelance writer and translator. Since 2017 he follows his passion to city landscape photography and storytelling. His photographs capture the urban development of the city of Baghdad in the last 100 years, investigate the architect‘s contribution in the past, both international and Iraqi architects, and question the current urban planning of the city. His writings take readers on an imaginary journey. His short novels are both fantastic and based on Iraqi natural history.

Zaid Saad, b. in Baghdad 1991, graduated from the visual art department at the College of Fine Art, Baghdad University in 2015. He is a member and one of the founder of the artist collective TARKIB.

Since 2016, he works intermediate and conceptual. His art pieces focus on subjects related to human rights and emigration from Iraq. He is interested in stamp and stencil technics and combines different material. While in his early works he used moving boxes printed with messages in stencil technics, his new discovery is the material concrete to form his abstract sculptures.

Muhaned Taha, b. in Baghdad 1991, graduated from the visual art department at the College of Fine Art, Baghdad University in 2016. Since 2017, he is a member of the artist collective TARKIB and is since than one of the active members. He attended all activities of TARKIB as both, an artist and a coordinator.

Muhanad Taha is a painter and specialised in big-size murals. Since 2017, he works in conceptual art. Since 2020, he devoted himself to environmental art presented as performance or installation. He is mainly addressing subjects reflecting the symbiosis between nature and human.

Akram Assam, b. in Baghdad 1985, received his Master of Arts from Amsterdam University in 2021. He is one of the founding members of the artist collective Tarkib, which is active since 2015.

Akram Assam's main topic in his theatrical work is the investigation of the impact of war and violence on humans. For him, theater is not fun or just a story, theater can convey knowledge and experience to the audience so that they can understand the world around them more profoundly and holistically.

To achieve this, he devised a new method: collecting real memories about himself and others. They are the foundation of the work, but transformed into a fantasy setting through the use of performance, motion, video, photography and most important, his special lighting design.