Arts and Culture

An interview with: Françoise Dallemagne, in charge of Collections and Research, Mucem, Julia Ferloni, head of « Commerce, Industry, Artisanship” collections, Mucem, Alina Maggiore, PhD candidate, Mucem/Aix-Marseille University/Freiburg University.  RomaMoMA: In 2017, the Museum of Civilizations of Europe and the Mediterranean (Mucem) has launched a co-curated exhibition project with ERIAC on Roma history, self-representation and...

Together with the artist Alexine Chanel, we would like to invite you to a very special event taking place in the frame of the exhibition of OMARA, “You Let Me Play”, which is on view in ERIAC until the 12th of May. RED DRESS EVENT Tableau Vivant will be a feminist gathering and participative event...

Barvalo  Roma, Sinti, Manoushes, Gitanos, Travellers… Opening on Tuesday, 9 May, 2023 at the Mucem (Museum of Civilizations of Europe and the Mediterranean) in Marseille Developed in partnership and co-curated by ERIAC   “Barvalo”, meaning “rich” and by extension “proud” in Romani, is dedicated to the history and diversity of the Romani peoples of Europe....

Reenchantment. Małgorzata Mirga-Tas / Film-screening and talk 18 April 2023, 19.00 Kino Sputnik, Hasenheide 54/5th, 10967 Berlin (III Hof, 5th floor)   “Reenchantment. Małgorzata Mirga-Tas” is a documentary film by Anna Zakrzewska that records the process of creating Małgorzata Mirga-Tas’s monumental work Re-enchanting the World for the Polish Pavilion at the Biennale Arte 2022 in...

  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...

Exhibition Opening: OMARA, “You Let Me Play” (International Roma Day Celebration)   Opening: 6 April 2023, 18.00 Location: ERIAC Art Space (European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture), Reinhardtstr. 41-43, 10117 Berlin   “I think I am a painter because I can present everything I live through in my life: the way my people are...

  ERIAC Executive Director Timea Junghaus was invited to the 2023 Anne Hill Blanchard Uncommon Artists Lecture Series, hosted by the American Folk Art Museum.   The annual series, honoring the late Anne Hill Blanchard, an inspiring and passionate leader in the field and a devoted supporter of the American Folk Art Museum, highlights new...

  Artist Residencies in Florence for Two Roma Contemporary Artists in 2023   Following the successful collaboration in 2020, 2021, and 2022, the European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (ERIAC) is happy to join forces again with Villa Romana and its artist residency programme to offer two residencies to Roma contemporary artists. This exciting initiative...

Following the invitation from the consortium implementing the European Capital of Culture Timisoara 2023 programming, ERIAC started a formal partnership with the organizers Centrul de Proiecte al Municipiului Timișoara and the local organization the Intercultural Institute Timisoara. We will organize a series of events throughout 2023. You can find the list of events below, and...

 ERIANCET4EU aims at protecting, promoting and raising awareness of the rights of Roma citizens of the EU and thereby strengthening the EU values, in particular of equality, justice and non-discrimination, and thus, contributing to building a more democratic EU, where all citizens can enjoy equal access and protection of their rights. ERIACNET4EU offers the expertise,...

Hälsinglands Museum is encouraging Romani artists to help investigate Romani angles of the concept ‘world heritage’ through a residency project/scholarship.   Every year, the region of Gävleborg offers a residency connected to the World Heritage Site “Decorated Farmhouses of Sweden”. Hälsinglands Museum, also located in this region, has been working with issues concerning Romani history and...

Roma Oral Storyteller Open Call   Open call for an English-speaking Roma oral storyteller of Slovak or Czech background to deliver two storytelling sessions in person as part of a forthcoming participatory artmaking, community outreach project in southeast Kent. This is a paid opportunity.   About the Project: Mother Trees Connect the Forest will launch...

The European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (ERIAC) has joined forces with ARCA and the Artists at Risk (AR) residency programme to offer an artistic residency for Roma contemporary artists, curators, and other art practitioners from Ukraine. ERIAC was officially established on 07 June 2017, in Berlin, Germany. The Institute is a joint initiative...

The Romani art of European countries[i] has been struggling to become institutionalized as a term and to secure institutional foundation for its development—much like Jewish art once did. Although the situation varies across individual countries, there are now several important institutions in place across Europe, operating transnationally to promote and sustain the careers of Roma...

Though she only began to make art at the age of forty-three, Omara (Mara Oláh, 1945–2020) became one of the most prolific Roma artists of her generation. Born in Monor, Hungary, to a musician father and a mother from a tinker family, Omara juggled multiple jobs, working primarily as a cleaning lady, until one day,...

The PROUD ROMA TALENT competition concluded last week and the much-anticipated announcement of the winners took place on 8 December, live-streamed from the ERIAC General Assembly celebration in Berlin. This year, all European self-declared Roma were eligible to apply with video submissions in MUSIC, DANCE and all other PERFORMANCE genres to show the world that...

Let me start by paraphrasing what artist Sead Kazanxhiu said recently: 2022 has been a golden year for Romani contemporary art. It is possible to make this statement because the creations of Romani artists were to be found at major art events across Europe, from Venice, through the documenta fifteen in Kassel and Manifesta in...

10 November 2022, Day One I am having a cup of coffee outside the Svilara Cultural Station. And I think to myself, there are all kinds of stations. This one is about waiting. What are you waiting for? For something to transpose me into a new reality. I am thinking about the concept of the...