Biography

Asrafun Nahar Ruhin (B.1991 in Bangladesh) is an art practitioner and researcher based in the Hague, Netherlands

Ruhin graduated with distinction from the Master’s in Artistic Research at the Royal Academy of Arts, The Netherlands, partially supported by a Holland Government Scholarship. Earlier, she completed an MFA in Painting at Rabindra Bharati University, India, on a fully funded ICCR Government Scholarship.

Alongside her anti-disciplinary artistic practice, she extends her (re)search through workshop facilitation, curatorial work, and art-therapeutic projects, creating participatory spaces. It explores the intersection of various levels of exploitation embedded in anthropocentric, colonial, and patriarchal agencies, which are the forces of ecological and gender-based struggle. However, performative installations, text, drawings, moving images, sound, and light are the primary media of expression. She (re)assembles and juxtaposes concerns, times, substances, contexts, and spaces to reflect on collective experiences. She considers that identifying “cliché” is always product of political agencies. Using her own body and clichéd substances (overused and leftover) as an archive, she engages with fundamental common concerns and asserts a critical stance toward human-centered agency.