Arts and Culture

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...

It is with great sadness that we have learned that one of our great contemporary artists, Mustafa Asan has passed away on December 3. His colleagues from the Roma Jam Session Art Kolektiv announced the sad news yesterday. Our condolences to all his family and friends. Visit his profile on Romarchive website.

ERIAC Director, Timea Junghaus will join the performative symposium Unexpected Lessons on December 10 with a lecture “Sinti and Roma – Between Romanticizing and Othering” at 6 pm on December 10. The event is part of the transdisciplinary TALKING OBJECTS LAB, which approaches the topics of Decolonizing Knowledge and Memory, Rethinking Museums and Objects, and...

5 December – 28 February 2023 On view in the ERIAC gallery: Location: Reinhardtstraße 41-43, 10117 Berlin Opening hours: Monday to Friday 10-17h   OPENING EVENT: 9 DEcember 2022 12:00 Location: Reinhardtstraße 41-43, 10117 Berlin   This is the recognition we bring to each other, of pleasure, of satisfaction, of beauty, of possibility, through a...

Some of my happiest memories as a small child are related to my father telling stories during the long, cold nights of a winter when there were power cuts due to the Yugoslav wars. Those were the happiest moments during those unhappy times. My father’s strong bond with his seven children was a foundation of...

This is a film recording of the process of creating Małgorzata Mirga-Tas’s monumental work Re-enchanting the World for the Polish Pavilion at the Biennale Arte 2022 in Venice. The artist decided to let a camera into her studio to talk about the Roma culture and the close relationships between the women she works with. Recorded...

ERIAC is proud to partner with producers  of “Reenchantment Małgorzata Mirga-Tas”— Kijora Film and Zachęta — National Gallery of Art, and the Polish Institute in Rome, Adam Mickiewicz Institute.  This is a film recording of the process of creating Małgorzata Mirga-Tas’s monumental work Re-enchanting the World for the Polish Pavilion at the Biennale Arte 2022...

  ***CLICK HERE FOR CALL IN: Srpski, Magyar, Shqip, български, Português, македонски, Español, Română, Italiano, Français and Romanes Are you a Proud Roma? Have you got a talent to show the world? Now’s your chance – Applications for ERIAC’s PROUD ROMA TALENT competition have been extended by 1 week! APPLY NOW until 29 November and compete with...

Organized as a collateral event of the 59th edition of the International Art Exhibition of Venice, the Roma Pavilion was a point of great interest on the Biennale’s crowded and extremely competitive map. And rightly so! Hosted this year by the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti (the Palazzo Loredan) and commissioned by the...

The debate with outstanding Roma women feminists will explore the diverse and intersecting strategies of resistance at the crossroads of arts, academia and politics. The speakers will examine how for Roma women artists, scholars, activists and politicians the personal and the political, the individual and the collective and the personal and the public overlap across...

On November 5, the World Day of Romani Language, the European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (ERIAC) is organizing the Third International Conference “Safeguarding Our Romani Language”, in partnership with the Intercultural Institute Timisoara and West University Timisoara, under the auspices of the Timisoara – European Capital of Culture 2023.        ...

  ***CLICK HERE FOR CALL IN: Srpski, Magyar, Shqip, български, Português, македонски, Español, Română, Italiano, Français and Romanes Are you a Proud Roma? Have you got a talent to show the world? Now’s your chance – Applications for ERIAC’s PROUD ROMA TALENT competition are now OPEN! APPLY NOW until 22 November and compete with other Roma talents around Europe for a chance to win the 3000€ grand...

Sami Mustafa is an independent film-maker, producer, and writer. His work explores memory and storytelling, often returning to the stories of his childhood. For Manifesta 14 Prishtina, he embarked upon a long-term collaborative project with members of the organisation Proud Roma to collect and preserve traditional Roma folktales – and, working with groups of youngsters...

The 14th edition of Manifesta, the European Nomadic Biennial, is taking place from 22 July until 30 October 2022 in Prishtina, Kosovo. Organised for the occasion of the biennial, Manifesta 14 has set up the Manifesta 14 Western Balkans Project to enlarge the outreach and duration of the biennial by developing a cross-regional collaboration platform,...

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)...