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Roma Self-representation in the History of the Venice Biennale | Discussion
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Roma Self-representation in the History of the Venice Biennale | Discussion

October 6, 2021
WEAVE LabDay Roma Self-representation in the History of the Venice Biennale 11 October 2021 14:00-16:00 CET ZOOM   hosted by the European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (ERIAC) in cooperation with WEAVE (Widen European Access to Cultural Communities Via Europeana) and Council of Europe representation in Venice     CONCEPT In this first ERIAC...
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RomaMoMa – The Digital Roma Museum
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RomaMoMa – The Digital Roma Museum

September 30, 2021
The exhibition Art and Healing – A Roma Contribution for Europe, on view at Schafhof – European Center for Art Upper Bavaria until 26 September, featured the nomadic RomaMoMA Library and works by Valérie Leray (F), Selma Selman (BIH), Dan Turner (UK), and Alfred Ullrich (D). Following our post on the RomaMoMA Library display at Schafhof and...
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ERIAC announces the Roma Exhibition – Collateral Event at the 59th La Biennale di Venezia to be held on 23 April – 27 November 2022
Arts and Culture Event - Upcoming Exhibition

ERIAC announces the Roma Exhibition – Collateral Event at the 59th La Biennale di Venezia to be held on 23 April – 27 November 2022

September 23, 2021
Following three previous editions in 2007 (Paradise Lost), 2011 (Call the Witness) and 2019 (FUTUROMA) featuring several Roma artists, in 2022 ERIAC will commission and support the establishment of the 2022 Exhibition. After a careful review of the curatorial concepts and exhibition proposals the international Jury selected the exhibition project Eugen Raportoru: The Abduction from...
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ADJACENT : RomaMoMA Nomadic Library display at Vulnerable Archives, SAVVY Contemporary
Arts and Culture ROMAMOMA

ADJACENT : RomaMoMA Nomadic Library display at Vulnerable Archives, SAVVY Contemporary

September 23, 2021
The ADJACENT design concept marries the barcode of a book from the RomaMoMA Nomadic Library with a functional object. In this case, ADJACENT is a white mobile table painted with black lines to form the barcode of We Roma: A Critical Reader in Contemporary Art. The concept title refers not only to the parallel lines...
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Thinking and Building through Roma Positionality
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Thinking and Building through Roma Positionality

September 16, 2021
Even as I sit to write this short piece, I seek to find my voice through writing. For me, as a Romani woman, writing has become one of those forms that have allowed me to tell the history of anti-Roma Europe: the unspoken history. The embedded European racial terror against Roma and other racialised people...
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ROMAMOMA LIBRARY AT SAVVY CONTEMPORARY
Arts and Culture Event - Upcoming

ROMAMOMA LIBRARY AT SAVVY CONTEMPORARY

September 15, 2021
  ERIAC is delighted to join SAVVY Contemporary for Vulnerable Archives. On Silenced Archives and Dissenting Views. We will join the program of the closed research exchange to discuss Roma practice of remembering as a survival technique. In addition to our participation in the research exchange, SAVVY Contemporary will be the fourth stop for the...
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A Museum of Connections
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A Museum of Connections

September 10, 2021
In my consideration for RomaMoMA, I have chosen an entire exhibition, Art and Healing – A Roma Contribution for Europe, currently on view at Schafhof: the European Center for Art Upper Bavaria. To choose a singular artwork would not fairly represent the wide range of works homogenised by the term ‘Roma Art’. This exhibition is...
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Selma Selman at the Kasseler Kunstverein
Arts and Culture Event - Current Exhibition

Selma Selman at the Kasseler Kunstverein

September 8, 2021
  ERIAC is pleased to support the exhibition of Selma Selman at the Kasseler Kunstverein. DON’T LOOK INTO MY EYES is the first comprehensive solo exhibition by Selma Selman in Germany, curated by Boshko Boskovic and Olga Holzschuh.  On view from 02.09 – 24.10.2021 Artist and activist Selma Selman (*1991 BiH) integrates narratives of the Roma community, including her...
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Owning the Game: Intersectional Self-Representation in the Roma LGBTQ+ Communities
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Owning the Game: Intersectional Self-Representation in the Roma LGBTQ+ Communities

September 2, 2021
Introduction Representation matters. The great majority of those who will not feel the weight of this are those who do not suffer its absence. It is truly difficult to explain this type of absence to those who see themselves everywhere – in magazine columns, on the TV, and even in exhibition spaces. Nor is it...
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International Membership Engagement Initiative 2021
Arts and Culture Event - Current Exhibition History and Commemoration Uncategorized

International Membership Engagement Initiative 2021

August 27, 2021
  The INTERNATIONAL MEMBERSHIP ENGAGEMENT INITIATIVE, financed by the Federal Foreign Office of Germany (FFO) is an ERIAC initiative to build on the results of the international outreach projects 1-4, to facilitate and strengthen membership engagement. ERIAC conducts the international cultural outreach programs for the recognition and promotion of Roma arts and culture with the...
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Art and Healing – A Roma Contribution for Europe
Arts and Culture Event - Current Exhibition ROMAMOMA

Art and Healing – A Roma Contribution for Europe

August 26, 2021
The exhibition Art and Healing – A Roma Contribution for Europe opened in Schafhof – European Center for Art Upper Bavaria on 24 July. The exhibition features works by Valérie Leray (F), Selma Selman (BIH), Dan Turner (UK), Alfred Ullrich (D), and the nomadic RomaMoMA Library, consisting of approximately 100 English-language books focusing on Roma Art History and...
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RomaMoMA Nomadic Library as A Roma Contribution for Europe
Arts and Culture Event - Current Exhibition ROMAMOMA Uncategorized

RomaMoMA Nomadic Library as A Roma Contribution for Europe

August 19, 2021
The RomaMoMA Nomadic Library, initiated on the 50th anniversary of the First World Roma Congress, on International Roma Day, 8 April 2021, is currently on view at Schafhof: the European Center for Art Upper Bavaria, within the framework of the exhibition, Art and Healing – A Roma Contribution for Europe. Alongside the RomaMoMA Library, featured artists...
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ERIAC Partners Mark Annual Day of Remembrance for Roma Holocaust Victims
Arts and Culture Event - Current History and Commemoration

ERIAC Partners Mark Annual Day of Remembrance for Roma Holocaust Victims

August 18, 2021
At the European Institute of Arts and Culture (ERIAC), each year, we work together with our network of partners and members to commemorate Roma Holocaust Day, an annual day of remembrance for the Roma and Sinti victims of the Holocaust held on 2 August. The date marks the night in 1944 when 2,897 Roma, mostly...
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My feminism does not shout, but it tells stories: Małgorzata Mirga-Tas and Edis Galushi in conversation with Joanna Warsza
Arts and Culture Event - Current Exhibition ROMAMOMA Uncategorized

My feminism does not shout, but it tells stories: Małgorzata Mirga-Tas and Edis Galushi in conversation with Joanna Warsza

August 12, 2021
The third edition of the Autostrada Biennale launched 17 July in Kosovo. Extending between the cities of Prishtina, Prizren and Peja, What if a Journey… was curated by the Berlin-based curators Övül Durmusoglu and Joanna Warsza, and features Romani artist Małgorzata Mirga-Tas’s work, HERSTORIES. For the installation, supported by ERIAC, Mirga-Tas worked with Romani artist...
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CALL FOR CURATOR: Collateral Event at the La Biennale di Venezia – 59th International Art Exhibition
Arts and Culture Event - Current

CALL FOR CURATOR: Collateral Event at the La Biennale di Venezia – 59th International Art Exhibition

August 1, 2121
On 1 August 2021, Zeljko Jovanovic, Chairman of the Board, and Tímea Junghaus, Executive Director of the European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (ERIAC) – as the Commissioners of the Collateral event – publish the present call for the Curator of the Roma Exhibition in 2022. ERIAC has a unique and single mandate as...
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NO INNOCENT LANDSCAPE – VALÉRIE LERAY
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NO INNOCENT LANDSCAPE – VALÉRIE LERAY

August 5, 2021
This week we feature the solo exhibition of Valérie Leray, No Innocent Landscape, currently on view at the ERIAC Gallery Space in Berlin, opened on 2 August as part of the commemorations of the Roma Holocaust. On view 2 August – 29 October 2021. No Innocent Landscape Valérie Leray’s landscapes are marked by abandoned, neglected, contested or...
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ERIAC Serbia: “AND YOU GOD SURVIVED” – DOCUMENTARY SCREENING
Arts and Culture Event - Current History and Commemoration

ERIAC Serbia: “AND YOU GOD SURVIVED” – DOCUMENTARY SCREENING

August 2, 2021
  [SERBIAN; English below]   ROMI PAMTE 2. AVGUST 2021.  MEĐUNARODNI DAN SEĆANJA NA ROME ŽRTVE HOLOKAUSTA Obeležavaju: EVROPSKI ROMSKI INSTITUT ZA UMETNOST I KULTURU SRBIJA, FOND ZA OBRAZOVANJE ROMA I OPRE ROMA SRBIJA 17:00h – 18:30h Beograd, Majke Jevrosime 51, prizemlje   U noći između 2. i 3. avgusta 1944. godine oko 4.300 muškaraca,...
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ERIAC EXHIBITION: NO INNOCENT LANDSCAPE – VALÉRIE LERAY
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ERIAC EXHIBITION: NO INNOCENT LANDSCAPE – VALÉRIE LERAY

August 2, 2021
NO INNOCENT LANDSCAPE Valérie Leray solo exhibition 02.08 – 29.10.2021   On view in the ERIAC gallery: Location: Reinhardtstraße 41-43, 10117 Berlin Opening hours: Monday to Friday 10-17h Visits are only possible with a previous appointment and a negative test result (not older than 24 hours). Fully vaccinated people can also show proof of vaccination.The last...
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