Even as I sit to write this short piece, I seek to find my voice through writing. For me, as a Romani woman, writing has become one of those forms that have allowed me to tell the history of anti-Roma Europe: the unspoken history. The embedded European racial terror against Roma and other racialised people...

  ERIAC is delighted to join SAVVY Contemporary for Vulnerable Archives. On Silenced Archives and Dissenting Views. We will join the program of the closed research exchange to discuss Roma practice of remembering as a survival technique. In addition to our participation in the research exchange, SAVVY Contemporary will be the fourth stop for the...

In my consideration for RomaMoMA, I have chosen an entire exhibition, Art and Healing – A Roma Contribution for Europe, currently on view at Schafhof: the European Center for Art Upper Bavaria. To choose a singular artwork would not fairly represent the wide range of works homogenised by the term ‘Roma Art’. This exhibition is...

  ERIAC is pleased to support the exhibition of Selma Selman at the Kasseler Kunstverein. DON’T LOOK INTO MY EYES is the first comprehensive solo exhibition by Selma Selman in Germany, curated by Boshko Boskovic and Olga Holzschuh.  On view from 02.09 – 24.10.2021 Artist and activist Selma Selman (*1991 BiH) integrates narratives of the Roma community, including her...

On September 25, 2021 the Delegation of the Council of Europe´s Advisory Committee on the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities (FCNM) visited the European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture in Berlin to gain insight into ERIAC´s mission and programme work. The Delegation was formed by Ms Marie B. Hagsgård (in respect...

Introduction Representation matters. The great majority of those who will not feel the weight of this are those who do not suffer its absence. It is truly difficult to explain this type of absence to those who see themselves everywhere – in magazine columns, on the TV, and even in exhibition spaces. Nor is it...

  The INTERNATIONAL MEMBERSHIP ENGAGEMENT INITIATIVE, financed by the Federal Foreign Office of Germany (FFO) is an ERIAC initiative to build on the results of the international outreach projects 1-4, to facilitate and strengthen membership engagement. ERIAC conducts the international cultural outreach programs for the recognition and promotion of Roma arts and culture with the...

The exhibition Art and Healing – A Roma Contribution for Europe opened in Schafhof – European Center for Art Upper Bavaria on 24 July. The exhibition features works by Valérie Leray (F), Selma Selman (BIH), Dan Turner (UK), Alfred Ullrich (D), and the nomadic RomaMoMA Library, consisting of approximately 100 English-language books focusing on Roma Art History and...

The RomaMoMA Nomadic Library, initiated on the 50th anniversary of the First World Roma Congress, on International Roma Day, 8 April 2021, is currently on view at Schafhof: the European Center for Art Upper Bavaria, within the framework of the exhibition, Art and Healing – A Roma Contribution for Europe. Alongside the RomaMoMA Library, featured artists...

At the European Institute of Arts and Culture (ERIAC), each year, we work together with our network of partners and members to commemorate Roma Holocaust Day, an annual day of remembrance for the Roma and Sinti victims of the Holocaust held on 2 August. The date marks the night in 1944 when 2,897 Roma, mostly...

The third edition of the Autostrada Biennale launched 17 July in Kosovo. Extending between the cities of Prishtina, Prizren and Peja, What if a Journey… was curated by the Berlin-based curators Övül Durmusoglu and Joanna Warsza, and features Romani artist Małgorzata Mirga-Tas’s work, HERSTORIES. For the installation, supported by ERIAC, Mirga-Tas worked with Romani artist...

On 1 August 2021, Zeljko Jovanovic, Chairman of the Board, and Tímea Junghaus, Executive Director of the European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (ERIAC) – as the Commissioners of the Collateral event – publish the present call for the Curator of the Roma Exhibition in 2022. ERIAC has a unique and single mandate as...

This week we feature the solo exhibition of Valérie Leray, No Innocent Landscape, currently on view at the ERIAC Gallery Space in Berlin, opened on 2 August as part of the commemorations of the Roma Holocaust. On view 2 August – 29 October 2021. No Innocent Landscape Valérie Leray’s landscapes are marked by abandoned, neglected, contested or...

  [SERBIAN; English below]   ROMI PAMTE 2. AVGUST 2021.  MEĐUNARODNI DAN SEĆANJA NA ROME ŽRTVE HOLOKAUSTA Obeležavaju: EVROPSKI ROMSKI INSTITUT ZA UMETNOST I KULTURU SRBIJA, FOND ZA OBRAZOVANJE ROMA I OPRE ROMA SRBIJA 17:00h – 18:30h Beograd, Majke Jevrosime 51, prizemlje   U noći između 2. i 3. avgusta 1944. godine oko 4.300 muškaraca,...

NO INNOCENT LANDSCAPE Valérie Leray solo exhibition 02.08 – 29.10.2021   On view in the ERIAC gallery: Location: Reinhardtstraße 41-43, 10117 Berlin Opening hours: Monday to Friday 10-17h Visits are only possible with a previous appointment and a negative test result (not older than 24 hours). Fully vaccinated people can also show proof of vaccination.The last...

The following initiatives and events are developed by ERIAC members and partners to commemorate the 2 August – International Roma Holocaust Memorial Day.   JULY 31 Seminar on 2 August – Intrernationl Holocaust memorial day seminar by Prof. Dr. Hristo Kyuchukov in Turkish, workshop by Dr. Biser AlekovRomani , Theater play by Nataliya Tsekova in...

Helios F. Garcés, in his brilliant analysis published in Spanish in 2016, “El racismo antirom/antigitano y la opción decolonial”, which translates as “Anti-Roma/anti-Gypsy racism and the decolonial choice”, situates anti-Roma racism through a decolonial perspective at the very foundation on which modernity is built. The severe processes of racialisation have historically and materially displaced Roma...

Roma arts and culture have played an essential role in raising awareness of the fate of Sinti and Roma during the Holocaust. In particular, literature and poetry have conveyed compelling accounts of wartime trauma experienced by Sinti and Roma communities. Ahead of the August 2 commemorations, we have compiled a list of selected books on...