Arts and Culture

Today, on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, we honour the victims of Nazi violence: six million Jewish people, hundreds of thousands of Roma and Sinti, and countless others persecuted and murdered, including disabled people, LGBTQ+ individuals, and political dissidents.   We honour their memory by refusing to forget and by renewing our responsibility to resist intolerance...

Dijana Pavlović, artist, activist, actress and Deputy Chair of the ERIAC Board, and Noell Maggini, fashion designer and finalist of the Tajsa Roma Cultural Heritage Prize 2025, will participate in the special edition of Fashion Beyond Waste on January 30, during Berlin Fashion Week. A ZeroW’s format dedicated to showcasing designers and projects developed through...

  Carnegie Hall in New York, one of the world’s most prestigious platform of artistic achievement, will host on February 2, 2026, from 8:00 PM, the Concert for the Day of Remembrance / Samudaripen, in the Weill Recital Hall. Promoted and organized by the Union of Roma Communities in Italy (UCRI) on the occasion of...

The European Film Academy has announced its newly elected Board for the 2026–2027 mandate, marking a historic milestone for representation in European cinema: for the first time, a dedicated board seat has been created for transnational minorities in Europe.   Filmmaker and cultural professional Petro Rusanienko (Ukraine) has been elected to this newly established position,...

Public Announcement: ERIAC Executive Leadership Transition Berlin, 5 January 2026   The European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (ERIAC) is completing a planned transition in its executive leadership, following a period of institutional renewal and strategic development.   Over the past year, ERIAC has undertaken significant governance renewal, including the reconstitution of its governing...

The European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (ERIAC) is pleased to announce the selection of the Thematic Section Coordinators for the year 2026. Following an internal call open to ERIAC members, five professionals have been selected to take on this important role, each representing one of ERIAC’s core thematic sections:   Arts and Culture...

Across Europe, museums are redefining themselves as spaces of civic participation and ethical responsibility, placing inclusion at the core of cultural democracy. Within this shift, the marginalization of Roma communities remains a major challenge. Although Roma are Europe’s largest ethnic minority, they are largely absent from cultural institutions due to longstanding systemic barriers—not a lack...

The RomaMoMA Nomadic Library, ERIAC’s itinerant library of contemporary Roma literary, artistic and cultural knowledge, accompanies contemporary Romani textile artists Małgorzata Mirga-Tas’s current exhibition at Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg. The exhibition runs from November 22nd, 2025 until March 15th, 2026 and offers a singular retrospective of Mirga-Tas’s textile world. This selection of books was curated by the...

Demonstrating their continued commitment to amplifying Roma and Sinti voices in Holocaust remembrance, European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (ERIAC) and the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies have selected the recipients of the 2025 Roma Holocaust Voices Fellowship. This year’s Creative Fellowship is awarded to filmmaker Lisa Smith, while the Academic Fellowship goes...

“I shall tell a legend of the bird that becomes a blade for the sake of truth.”*   The European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (ERIAC) invites visitors to linger in the space between being and non-being, between places and non-places – a terrain where forms shift, identities gather force, and truth reveals itself...

  The European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (ERIAC) is pleased to announce Selma Selman as the winner of the Tajsa Roma Cultural Heritage Prize 2025. Selected from an exceptional group of finalists, Selman is recognized for her bold artistic practice and her commitment to empowering Roma communities through both cultural and social work....

  ERIAC is proud to announce that members of the internationally acclaimed Mahala Rai Banda will perform at the Tajsa Roma Cultural Heritage Prize 2025 Gala on 29 November 2025 at the Romanian Athenaeum.   Mahala Rai Banda is a renowned Romani band founded by violinist and composer Aurel Ioniță, bringing together musicians from the...

  ERIAC is honoured to welcome violinist Antonio Piculeață as part of the artistic programme of the Tajsa Roma Cultural Heritage Prize 2025, taking place on 29 November 2025 at the Romanian Athenaeum.   Antonio Piculeață, official Ambassador of Romanian culture, is a violinist born in New York into a distinguished family of classical and...

  ERIAC is pleased to present Zejna Murkić as the opening performer of the Tajsa Roma Cultural Heritage Prize 2025 Award Ceremony & Gala, taking place on 29 November 2025 at the Romanian Athenaeum in Bucharest.   Zejna Murkić is a singer from Loznica, Serbia, who began her professional career in 2009 and later established...

The European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (ERIAC) is pleased to announce that the 4th edition of the Tajsa Roma Cultural Heritage Prize Award Ceremony & Gala will take place on Saturday, 29 November 2025, at the Romanian Athenaeum in Bucharest, beginning at 19:00.   The Tajsa Prize is awarded every two years to...

A cooperation between the European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (ERIAC) and Villa Romana   ERIAC and Villa Romana are pleased to announce that Romy Rüegger has begun her residency in Florence as part of the International Guest Artists 2025 programme. Through this joint initiative, now in its fifth year, both institutions reaffirm their...

    english | română   The European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (ERIAC) invites you to the Tajsa Roma Cultural Heritage Prize – Award Ceremony and Gala, taking place on November 29, 2025, at the Romanian Athenaeum in Bucharest.   Tajsa Roma Cultural Heritage Prize 2025 – Award Ceremony & Gala Saturday, November...

  The European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (ERIAC) is honored to announce the finalists for the Tajsa Roma Cultural Heritage Prize 2025. The prestigious prize celebrates a Roma individual whose work elevates Roma cultural expression and reimagines heritage for future generations.   The selected finalists for the Tajsa Roma Cultural Heritage Prize 2025...