Aghala Museum | Koya south of Kurdistan مۆزه‌خانه‌ی ئاغاله‌

Aghala Museum

The building of Aghala Museum in Koya city is ready for inauguration

The building of Aghala Museum in Koya city is ready for inauguration
The Museum is located in bottom of Haybat Sultan mountain near Koya University, the building map is designed by engineer Ahmad Balkhayee and Rostam Aghala , on a land which is 650 Miter square.
A selection of modern art painting for Kurdish and foreign artist will be shown , the museum is going to have the ownership all the pieces of Art which are presented there .
Aghala Museum will become the largest place for showing Kurdish and international artist work in the region and it will become a cultural and learning institution for modern art in Middle East, in all Kurdistan there will be no any other place which can compete with Aghala Museum.
Building this Museum took 4 years of very careful work with special stone from Kore and Qaradagh area , the building style is a copy of Koya Houses from 150 years ago.
The idea and initial fund for the project came directly from famous Kurdish artist Rostam Aghala , later the Kurdish polotition man Nichervan Barzani supported him financially in finishing period and he became the main supporter for this project .,

It is worth mentioning Asia cell and USA consulate in Erbil contributed financially in some parts of the project .

Rostam Aghala
Painter/Art photographer

Born in 1969 Koya, Kurdistan, Iraq
Graduated in 1989 at Fine art Institute, Sulaymani
Managing Zamwa Gallery for 12 years

Selected shows 
1989 His first successful Show at Media Gallery Hawler Kurdistan (shown 500 Paintings).
1992- Show at Sulaymani and Koya
1994 -Show in this year at Sulaymani
1995- Show in Media Hall, Hawler
1996 - Show in Sulaymani Hall ( Daboka)
1997 , 1998, 2000, 2002 and 2003 shows in Sulaymani

International Exhibition 
1992 slide show of art work in Kuwait and Italy
1995 A show in Paris with support of (A.M.I)
2008 A show in Germany Konsluta Gallery
2002 Tokyo Biennale JALA in Japan
2010 JALA Biennale show in Japan

Prizes 
2000- Second prize Poster show International Red Crescent competition
2000- first prize in Art Photography Italy for Festival of Kurdish artist
2001- second prize in Art Photography Italy for Festival of Kurdish artist

Publication
2005 Ministry of culture publishing catalogue of selected work
2007 Complete collection of his art works published by Aras Publishing
2009 Taw Magazine published selection of photographs

Inside Art Museum

Source:Site Kurdistan ART