OMARA Mara Oláh. DIKH OMARA

With contributions by Péter Bencze, Timea Junghaus, Ábel Sánta, Selma Selman, Everybody Needs
Art, RJSaK ARCHIV, RomaMoMA and a display by Studio Caruso.

An exhibition curated by Fredi Fischli and Niels Olsen

2 October – 9 November 2024
gta exhibitions at ETH Zurich, ONA Fokushalle, Oerlikon
Neunbrunnenstrasse 50, CH-8050 Zurich

Opening: 1 October 2024, 6pm

18 October 2024, 6pm
Talk by Timea Junghaus (European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture)

Presenting more than one hundred paintings, drawings, videos, artists’ books and photography, RomaMoMA is pleased to contribute to the first comprehensive monographic exhibition of OMARA Mara Oláh (1945 – 2020) in Switzerland, hosted by gta exhibitions, ETH Zurich.

“OMARA challenged systemic exclusion, injustice and racism. She appeared on television and published in journals. By visiting prisons to talk to the inmates about the life of the Roma, Omara advocated for more inclusive (art) institutions. (…) She declared that her home was the first museum dedicated to Roma artists. Omara’s work gained both national and international recognition. In 2007, she was featured at the first Roma Pavilion of the Venice Biennale and in 2022 her work was included in Documenta 15”.

The exhibition, curated by Fredi Fischli and Niels Olsen is organized in collaboration with Everybody Needs Art and also includes RomaMoMA’s showcase of its nomadic library – “a library on the road” – created as a study room for Roma art and cultural history.

As part of a public education program, it will also feature a talk by art historianTimea Junghaus, executive director of ERIAC, who has extensively researched and written about OMARA’s oeuvre.

For further information, please visit gta exhibitions website and read their press release here.