Arts and Culture

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...

ERIAC celebrates the first awardee of the Tajsa Prize with a memorable concert on December 9 at the Maxim Gorki Theater   The Tajsa Prize, awarded to an outstanding Roma individual enriching Roma arts and culture, embodies the philosophy of ERIAC and the spirit of Roma history and cultural heritage while looking onwards, shaping and...

Finalists of the Tajsa Roma Cultural Heritage Prize 2019 announced   The Tajsa Prize honors an outstanding Roma individual who is enriching Roma arts and culture, embodies the founding principles of ERIAC, drawing inspiration from Roma cultural heritage while shaping and re-inventing forms of Roma cultural expressions for the next generation.   The Tajsa Prize...

Introduction to the exhibition: KATITZI – A LITERARY CHARACTER ROOTED IN REALITY     Opening: November 15, 2019 6p.m. ERIAC Space   The subject of this exhibition is Katarina Taikon’s (1932-1995) autobiographical figure Katitzi, who is the main character in thirteen children’s books and eight comic albums, originally published in Swedish between 1969 and 1982....

Teachers from the Academy of Anti-Discrimination Education visit ERIAC   On October 10, a group of 35 teachers from Poland, taking part in the second edition of the Academy of Anti-Discrimination Education, which has been ongoing since January 2018, has visited ERIAC as part of the educational program. The project  of the Academy of Anti-Discrimination...

  On the occasion of the celebration of the International Roma Day (8 April), the European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (ERIAC) and the Rumänisches Kulturinstitut Berlin (RKI) join forces to honor Romani women – as leaders and survivors, guardians and re-inventors of culture, revolutionaries and change-makers. In a joint exhibition titled, “Roma Women...

Sead Kazanxhiu, Selma Selman: GYPSYISM BALKANISM Uniting Peripheries   Opening: 08 November 2018, 18:30   ERIAC´s new exhibition “Gypsyism Balkanism- Uniting Peripheries,” presenting the inspiring works of Sead Kazanxhiu and Selma Selman, was opened by the Berlin-based performance artist Tanja Ostojić (“Integration Project” – Kunstverein Düsseldorf 2003). (c) Benjamin Renter   The opening was attended...