Arts and Culture

For our RomaMoMA blog, we asked Roma and non-Roma artists and arts professionals to answer a simple but complex question: How do you imagine a Roma Museum? What should a Roma Museum collect and exhibit? While the responses are quite diverse, there is a conjunction of similar problematics and visions. In one case, the importance...

If Europe’s over fifteen thousand museums are truly “democratising, inclusive and polyphonic spaces for critical dialogue”, there is absolutely no need for culturally and ethnically specific museums. However, museums tend to assign Roma the place of the other, thereby reinforcing and eternalising the position of the Romani people and Roma artistic practice to the periphery...

The exhibition Andaro Angluno Vast by photographer Nihad Nino Pušija opened at ERIAC Space in the framework of EMOP on 25 September 2020, and is part of the Roma Components of the German Council of Europe Presidency during 2020. The exhibition opening was enriched with a speech by art historian Bojana Pejić. Due to new...

RomaMoMA Just Do It! B.A.M.N (By Any Means Necessary) – An Idea for A New Museum, a blank piece of paper? a constellation of ideas? reactivating a concealed memory? The image accompanying this text is a rough set of drawings, ideas for a motif, maybe a layout for a building which I was thinking of...

On 26 February 2018, in the framework of ERIAC’s first “International Cultural Outreach Program”, Prof. Dr. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak of Columbia University gave a lecture together with Roma feminist scholars. In this panel discussion organised in ERIAC’s office and art space in Berlin, outstanding Roma activists discussed the transformative potential of transnational alliances and the...

In 2023, Barvalo[1] will be held at the Museum of Civilisations of Europe and the Mediterranean (Mucem), in Marseille, in the south of France. This exhibition, focused on Romani cultures and professions, is designed in collaboration with Rom, Sinti, Gitano, Manouche and French Traveller representatives from France and across Europe. Through inviting Romani individuals to...

RomaMoMA, the aspiring project of imagining a Roma transnational museum, is not merely a theoretical exercise. A Roma transnational museum has been a central desire of the Roma movement since the 1960s. RomaMoMA is the natural evolution towards what is yet to come. This transnational European Museum is inevitable in Europe. The vision for RomaMoMA...

Imagine a presentation of Rosa Taikon’s silver jewellery at Hälsinglands Museum in Hudiksvall, a solo exhibition with Malgorzata Mirga Tas’s textile paintings at the Galerie für zeitgenössische Kunst in Leipzig, and a show with Robert Gabris’s drawings at Salonul de Proiecte in Bucharest. Then there is a retrospective of Ceija Stojka and her Holocaust memory...

This conversation between visual artists Oto Hudec and Emília Rigová took place in November 2017 as a part of the Nadikhuno Muzeumos / Invisible Museum exhibition project at Tranzit.sk. It addresses the absence of Roma representation in arts and culture spaces and challenges the idea of the traditional ethnographic role of museums, where “othering” through...

This text makes an argument for the utmost urgency to mark out and define new spaces for the (re)presentation, performance and practice of Roma cultural heritage (both tangible and intangible). The Museum of Roma Contemporary Art would break off the idealised neutrality of national/transnational space and claim rearrangement, as well as access to self-expression and self-representation....

Andaro Angluno Vast | First-Hand Exhibition: 25.09. – 15.12.2020 Nihad Nino Pušija ERIAC Space Reinhardtstr 41-43, 10117 Berlin In the framework of EMOP and of the Roma Component of the German Council of Europe Presidency during 2020. 25.09. – 15.12. 2020 Opening 25.09.2020 from 4p.m. to 8p.m.  😷Please wear a mask covering your nose and...

Hajde Te Khelas - ERIAC Dance Contest calls all Roma experts of dance, movement art and choreography, who perform alone, in pairs or in bigger groups from all over the world to present the virtuosity and diversity of Roma dance heritage passed on from generation to generation by applying with a short dance video. Read the call in Romanese, Albanian, Bulgarian, German, Hungarian, Polish, Romanian, Serbian, Slovakian and Spanish

  ERIAC ARTS AND CULTURE INNOVATION PROGRAM   SELECTION COMMITTEE RESULTS ANNOUNCED   The Selection Committee for the ERIAC Arts and Culture Innovation Program 2020, composed by the following members: Maria Bogdan, Chair of the Barvalipe Academy Florin Nasture Member of the Barvalipe Academy Emília Rigová Member of the Barvalipe Academy Mihaela Zatreanu Member of...

The Exhibition "Katitzi - A Literary Figure Rooted in Reality" is on view until middle of September 2020. Learn about the life and works of the Romani-Swedish activist and writer Katarina Taikon. Visit ERIAC Monday or Wednesday between 11-15h or watch the seven short introductory videos on Youtube or IGTV with curator Maria Lind and art critic Övül Durmuşoğlu. 

Performing the Museum Apr. 8, 2020 – Online Exhibition On the occasion of the International Roma Day, April 8th, ERIAC is opening its first online group exhibition entitled ‘Performing the Museum’ that will launch here on the website on April 8, 2020 at 5p.m. CET.     With and by works of six Roma and...

  ERIAC joins MUCEM to curate an exhibition about Roma   © MuCEM – Lisa Ricciotti – architects Rudy Ricciotti and Roland Carta   PRESS RELEASE   The European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (ERIAC) and Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilisations (MUCEM) in Marseille, France, are proud to announce the beginning of their...

ERIAC is proud to announce the opening of the FUTUROMA exhibition in Villa Romana, in Florence.   OPENING: 29. April 2020   ADDRESS: Villa Romana, Via Senese 68, 50124 Florenz, Italien   The program will be announced shortly.     FUTUROMA draws upon aspects of Afrofuturism to explore Roma contemporary art’s role in defining, reflecting...

Alina Serban – winner of the 1st Tajsa Roma Cultural Heritage Prize   It is our pleasure to announce that Alina Serban – Roma actress, playwright and director – was revealed as the winner of the first edition of the Tajsa Roma Cultural Heritage Prize!   The winner was announced on December 9 2019, during...