TEHRAN -- Farideh Lashaii and Mitra Kavian will represent Iran at the opening ceremony of an Iranian Women’s painting exhibition at the Museum of Asia and the Pacific in the Polish capital Warsaw on Sept. 8, the Cultural Heritage News (CHN) agency reported here Tuesday.

Dena group has already dispatched Lashaii to Warsaw and will send Kavian to the capital before the ceremony.

The paintings were exhibited at the Ludwig Museum in Koblenz, Germany, in 2005 and later in Krakow, a city in southern Poland.

“Two or four represent Dena at the inauguration ceremonies of the international events,” said Farah Ossuli, a group member.

Dena paintings are not based on a singular theme, but all are of feminine view, noted Gizella Varga Sinaii, also a group member.

Gizella Varga Sinaii, Farah Ossuli, Ra’na Farnud, Shahrzad Ossuli, Nasrin Khosravi, Aria Shokuhi Eqbal, Maryam Shirinlu, Mitra Kavian, Farideh Lashaii, and Ma’sumeh Mozaffari are some of Dena members.

The exhibition has received a warm welcome in Poland and some of the artworks have been sold.

If a Dena member’s work is sold, she has to add another, added Ossuli.

On the exhibition’s objectives, she said, “We aim to display Iranian women’s paintings in the world and communicate with our counterparts and art-lovers. “We are going to encourage the young artists to enter the difficult but attractive world of art and to express our gratitude to the veterans, who have been taking strides toward the promotion of art for years.”