Arts and Culture

RomaMoMA Nomadic Library

On this 50th anniversary of the First World Roma Congress, on International Roma Day, 8 April, we present a large-scale, on-going project, which is becoming a centrepiece of RomaMoMA, in various locations where we will have a presence. If you and your institution have an interest in providing a location and/or occasion for the RomaMoMA...

Conference | Roma Youth: Together for Emancipation and Empowerment

The role of history in the participation and inclusion of Roma young people In the framework of the programme of the German Presidency of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe   Online conference and public event 7-8-9 April 2021 on the occasion of International Roma Day and the 50th anniversary of the First...

WORLD ROMA CONGRESS. 50th Anniversary Exhibition

  ABOUT WORLD ROMA CONGRESS ART On the 8th of April 2021 we celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the groundbreaking 1st World Romany Congress which took place in London in 1971 and which has been a milestone of the International Romany Movement. Arts and Culture have been a strong inspiration for the political movement of...

FAMILY ARCHIVES exhibition

This week, we feature the Family Archives exhibition, currently on view at ERIAC Art Space Berlin, adapted from the exhibition originally curated within Diaspora Europe at the Volksbühne Berlin in December 2020. The Family Archives exhibition is a subjective counterpoint to research into the public and institutional archives. This research is carried out with the participation of European...

OPEN CALL: Caricature Competition for Artists of Roma Origin

    *CLICK HERE FOR CALL IN: ALBANIAN, CATALAN, CROATIAN, GERMAN, ITALIAN, RUSSIAN, SLOVAK, SPANISH and UKRAINIAN   To commemorate the uprising in the Auschwitz concentration camp on 16 May 1944, on Romani Resistance Day, the European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (ERIAC) announces an international competition for Roma visual artists, graphic designers, cartoonists, and talented...

JOAKIM ESKILDSEN and NIHAD NINO PUŠIJA: A PHOTOGRAPHIC JOURNEY INTO ROMA LIVES

March 25, 2021, 5 pm CET Federal Foreign Office, Werderscher Markt 1, 10117 Berlin   Live opening on ERIAC Facebook   The exhibition video is also available here:   Camera and editing: Kornél Szilágyi | Music: Sandro Roy and Jermaine Landsberger Trio feat. Giovanni Weiss; Lauenberger Quartett during the Sinti_ze Jazz Concert at Diaspora Europe...

Claiming the Past by Occupying Contemporary Spaces and Minds

Long gone are the times When Roma wandered around, But I still see them. They are like running water Always running away […] (Papusza: Water that always wanders)[1]  I think I became a feminist the moment I started to defend my mother and aunts from the violence they suffered. I have learned that I am...

OPEN CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS

10 Commissions will be offered to International artists On the 8th of April 2021 we celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the groundbreaking 1st World Romany Congress which took place in London in 1971 and which has been a milestone of the International Romany Movement. Arts and Culture have been a strong inspiration for the political...

Family Archives

      17 March – 15 May 2021 ERIAC Art Space Berlin   The Family Archives exhibition is a subjective counterpoint to research into the public and institutional archives. This research is carried out with the participation of European Sinti and Roma public figures, intellectuals, artists, citizens and youth, who are willing to share their...

GUIDED TOUR of FUTUROMA exhibition with CURATOR DANIEL BAKER

This week, we are excited to share an unreleased video tour through the FUTUROMA exhibition with curator Daniel Baker, in person! The group exhibition FUTUROMA, curated by Daniel Baker and commissioned by ERIAC, was a collateral event of the 58th International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia in 2019. The exhibition then travelled to Florence,...