Arts and Culture

International Guest Artists 2024: Charly Bechaimont and Lila Loisse   A cooperation between the European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (ERIAC) and Villa Romana in Florence. Villa Romana and ERIAC are pleased to announce the winners of their joint artist-in-residency program for 2024, following successful collaborations since 2020. Villa Romana is a place of...

Roma consider themselves as an integral part of Ukrainian society, the diversity of which presents a unique cluster of European culture that has to be safeguarded and promoted. Roma in Ukraine have their own exclusive cultural heritage that have been safeguarded internally by the communities for centuries despite persecution, genocides and wars or globalization or...

Alina Șerban has been selected as the winner of ERIAC’s Scholarship for Producers awarded in partnership with Marché du Film and ImpACT Lab, offering the opportunity to participate in the ImpACT Lab Workshop, taking place during Cannes Film Festival 2024. Șerban’s in-development debut feature film, “I Matter,” resonated strongly with the criteria set out by ERIAC, demonstrating both...

Foreigners Everywhere is the official title of this year’s Venice Biennale, which also marks the 60th edition of the International Art Exhibition. While there is no Roma Pavilion in the official frame of the Biennale, ERIAC continues to support initiatives that mitigate the need for a permanent Roma Pavilion as a platform to display experimental...

ERIAC is proud to announce the public launch of the project titled “Reclaiming Our Past, Rebuilding Our Future: New Approaches to Fighting Antigypsyism” (JEKHIPE), financed by the European Commission under the Citizens, Equality, Rights, and Values Programme (CERV).       Under the Jekhipe project, the Consortium partners, including the European Roma Grassroots Organisations Network...

Date and Time: April 10, 2024, 10:00 – 12:00 Location: European Parliament, Brussels. Altiero Spinelli (ASP), Room 5G2. Streaming link: HERE   In collaboration with MEP Patricia Maya Caro, The Left in the European Parliament, and ERGO Network, the European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (ERIAC) is organizing a High-Level Conference during Roma Week...

  In the frame of the ERIANCET4EU project financed by the Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values Programme (CERV) of the European Union, and with a long-term goal of using culture and cultural diplomacy to strengthen open, rights-based, democratic, equal and inclusive society in EU, the European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (ERIAC) is inviting applications from...

Is it the Berliner’s open-minded attitude? Their peculiar sensitivity towards questions of identity? Are the roots to be found in the migration routes of the Roma? Where did it all start? One thing is undeniable: Berlin has consistently played a crucial role in the cultural and social life of the Roma diaspora and, synchronically, Roma...

Scholarship to Join the ImpACT Lab Workshops in Cannes We are pleased to announce the forging of a new partnership with Marché du Film and ImpACT Lab which aims to bridge the gap between Roma representation on film and the lived experience of contemporary Roma communities across Europe. It is time to address the film...

Artist Residencies at Villa Romana in Florence for Two Roma Contemporary Artists    In their fifth consecutive collaboration, the European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (ERIAC) and Villa Romana are once again uniting to continue the residency programme in Florence, extending a unique opportunity to two talented Roma contemporary artists. This exciting initiative draws upon the ground-breaking work, expertise,...

Care permeates almost every aspect of our social reality. It is partly in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic that both collective and individual care has been brought into sharper focus than ever before. The global pandemic has shed light on the politics of care and has shown the heavy burden on women, social workers,...

The surface is never simply smooth or clean in Selma Selman’s works. The artist paints on objects such as car bonnets, bathtubs or satellite dishes as naturally as if they were stretched canvases. These objects are then either displayed freely in the room or are carefully arranged on the wall, constantly moving on the border...

  The European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture is dedicated to fostering collaboration and celebrating the rich heritage of the Roma community. As ERIAC prepares to welcome new members in 2024, the call for associate members presents a unique opportunity for individuals and organizations passionate about arts, culture, and history to actively contribute to...

The exhibition currently on view at the European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (ERIAC) Serbia, in Belgrade, titled “Gypsyism, Balkanism – Through a glass, darkly”, curated by Bratislav Mitrović, features five artists of Roma origin, who engage in intimate dialogue with the history of -frequently hurtful- representations of Roma. Through their works, Małgorzata Mirga-Tas...

There is no singular truth; this people, like any other, has its own history, tradition, and language, embodying a source of culture. It is precisely this source that constitutes an unfinished process of existence. The Roma serve as a prime example that identity is complementary and ever evolving, both on an individual and a collective...

Berlin Tales  Emanuel Barica, Luna De Rosa, Mihaela Drăgan, Nihad Nino Pušija, Mersud Selman, Alfred Ullrich, David Weiss   15 December, 2023 – 5 April, 2024 Exhibition opening: 14 December 2023, 6.00 – 9.00 pm       Berlin has consistently played a crucial role in the cultural and social life of the Roma diaspora...

Everyone belongs elsewhere, and elsewhere could mean both everywhere and nowhere. Sung by Remedios Silva Pisa, Yasmin Levy, Eleni Vitali, Emel Mathlouthi, Zeynep Bastik and others, ‘Naci en Alamo’ (‘I was Born in Alamo’) is a Ladino–Greek Romani ‘song about displacement and homelessness, and ultimately about nostalgia for a birthplace that was never home’ (Aciman...

The European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (ERIAC) proudly recognizes Małgorzata Mirga-Tas as the distinguished recipient of the prestigious Tajsa Roma Cultural Heritage Prize 2023. Handpicked from an impressive array of over eighty submissions, Mirga-Tas stands as an exemplar of excellence and commitment in advancing Roma cultural heritage.   Małgorzata Mirga-Tas, a Polish-Roma artist...