Arts and Culture

As a young girl, I knew what not to speak. I knew not to talk about my legs in front of my elders. I knew not to talk about desire. I was told that if I were to use a tampon, it might get lost “up there”, and that sex was only with my (future)...

Painter Eugen Raportoru stands out both through the compositional value of his creations and by the themes addressed, which include significant and subtle references to Roma culture and history, thus endowing meaning to his ethnic belonging, the backbone of the artist’s inner constitution. Raportoru is a Roma painter and a universal painter at the same...

Eugen Raportoru is a phenomenon that cannot be understood outside of the complex circumstances characterising Romanian society and culture of the last fifty plus years. His validation as an artist came late, when other colleagues of his generation were already long on their vocational path. Somehow against all odds, if we are to believe the...

Widen European access to cultural communities via Europeana    WEAVE – Widen European Access to cultural communities Via Europeana project aims to develop a framework to link the tangible and intangible heritage of cultural communities, safeguarding the rich and invaluable cultural heritage which they represent. In particular, the project will aggregate over 5,000 new high-quality...

Widen European access to cultural communities via Europeana    WEAVE – Widen European Access to cultural communities Via Europeana project aims to develop a framework to link the tangible and intangible heritage of cultural communities, safeguarding the rich and invaluable cultural heritage which they represent. In particular, the project will aggregate over 5,000 new high-quality...

On 3 June 2022, the Museum of Romani Culture in Brno and the Ethnographic Museum of the National Museum in Prague opened an exhibition, entitled Open Road / Phundrado drom. The exhibition, curated by contemporary artist Emília Rigová and curator of the Slovak National Gallery Petra Hanáková, is part of a long-term plan to build...

  11.9.2022, 1.00 pm-10.00 pm CEST Location: Nordstadtstadion, address: Struthbachweg 3, 34127 Kassel Languages: English, German   This event is part of Meydan #3: next to the lumbung Film program, it includes a Harvest Festival, lumbung Kios pop-up market, film program, and more. lumbung member OFF-Biennale Budapest presents the Roma Street Festival. A workshop with Daniel Baker on the secret sign...

Ya es hora – Now is the time  “Freeing art from naturalistic forms and bringing it to life with its own dynamism to make the viewer feel all the emotion of an idea the whole emotion of an idea that is the synthesis of my artistic aspiration.” Helios Gómez: Dias de Ira (Berlin, 1930)  ...

The WEAVE project is excited to invite you to our final conference which will explore the connections between tangible and intangible heritage, cultural communities and the process of digital transformation of cultural heritage organisations. The programme will open up with several keynote speakers, continue with presentations of the main project outcomes and of the effort in building the...

register now to learn about the tools for cultural heritage institutions that help collections management and curation: 7/9 – 8/9 – 9/9 – 13/9 DISCOVER THE WEAVE TOOLKIT A hands-on series of online workshops is being organised to showcase the capabilities of the different tools made available by the WEAVE project towards new forms of...

The Roma Biennale, an authentic festival that celebrates art, as well as its creators, was held for the second time last year. Although it was postponed in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic, its realisation in 2021 symbolically coincided with the 50th anniversary of the First World Roma Congress, an event at which Roma internationally...

The residence, co-founded by ERIAC and Villa Romana, Florence, will last from 25 August to 25 September 2022. The European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (ERIAC) joined forces with the Villa Romana (Florence) residency programme to offer artistic residencies for two Roma contemporary artists in 2020. This exciting initiative drew upon the ground-breaking work, expertise,...

In commemoration of the 78th anniversary of the tragic events of 2 August, 1944 ERIAC has partnered with the National Museum of the Romanian Peasant (MNTR) in Bucharest to remember and honor the memory of the victims of the Roma Holocaust, and the deportation of thousands of Roma children to Transnistria under Marshall Antonescu’s Romania...

Since its establishment in 2017, the European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture has spearheaded an unprecedented effort to support Roma artists and to find untapped talent within Roma community and has become an international creative hub to support the exchange of creative ideas across borders, cultural domains and Romani identities. Our mandate covers a...

Please check the list of our Summer Events. In addition to the exhibitions listed below, you can also visit “All the Birds are Praying for Our Children” featuring works of Farija Mehmeti, Sead Kazanxhiu and Zoran Tairović in ERIAC Serbia in Belgrade. Next week we will host Alina Serban, Sead Kazanxhiu, and Zorain Tairović in...

Commemorative event in the frame of the Eugen Raportoru: Gelem, Gelem Samudaripen exhibition took place at the National Museum of the Romanian Peasant (MNTR) in Bucharest. Curated by Cătălina Olteanu and coordinated by Ilina Schileru, Eugen Raportoru’s latest exhibition Gelem, Gelem Samudaripen opened in commemoration of the 78th anniversary of the tragic events of 2 August, 1944 and in memory of the artist’s mother, one of the thousands children deported to Transnistria under Marshall Antonescu’s Romania in 1942.

ERIAC was proud to present “A Concert of Sinti and Roma and American Jazz” at Stiftung Kai Dikhas in Berlin. This performance was part of ERIAC’s new music initiative which celebrates the rich tradition of Sinti and Roma jazz. The all-star ensemble performed a diverse selection from Sinti and Roma and American jazz styles, as...

We are here. We are everywhere. Europe would want to contain us, to control us, to destroy us. And still we survive. We survive. In multiple acts of resistance, we care for our children and our elders; we care for each other; we hold onto our love and our family. We are still here. The...