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European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture is pleased to announce five finalists for the Tajsa Roma Cultural Heritage Prize 2023     The pre-selection committee is delighted to announce the five finalists for the prestigious Tajsa Roma Cultural Heritage Prize 2023, chosen from over eighty submissions to The European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (ERIAC)....

  ERIAC is a membership-driven organization that brings together individuals and organizations, both Roma and non-Roma, who possess relevant and demonstrated arts and culture expertise and are committed to ERIAC’s values.   ERIAC’s associate members are grouped into four thematic sections: Arts and Culture, History and Commemoration, Research and Publication in arts and culture, and...

European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture is Proud to Announce the Launching Of The Tajsa Roma Cultural Heritage Prize 2023       The Tajsa Prize embodies the founding principles of ERIAC and the spirit of Roma history and cultural heritage while looking onwards, shaping and re-inventing forms of Roma cultural expressions for the...

Exhibition and open studios launched at the historic artists’ house Villa Romana with the participation of current Villa Romana fellows and ERIAC artist in residence, Erik Tollas. Following an open call and the decision of the international jury, Erik Tollas was selected to be the artist in residence during the month of September at Villa...

ERIAC is delighted to accept the invitation of the Wiener Holocaust Library and join an evening lecture by the winner of our 2022 Ernst Fraenkel Prize. The jury has awarded Ari Joskowicz’s book, Rain of Ash: Roma, Jews, and the Holocaust the prize. The judges found it to be “a compelling and important book which deserves to...

Handle with Care is the title of the new exhibition that opened at the Ludwig Museum, the contemporary art museum of Budapest. Upon the invitation of the curators and as an integral part of this new temporary exhibition, the RomaMoMA Nomadic Library traveled to Hungary for the opening on September 14, 2023.     The...

AUTOSTRADA BIENNALE “All Images Will Disappear, One Day” We arrived to the closing week of the 4th Autostrada Biennale, which will conclude in a final celebration on Saturday, September 9, 2023 in the three cities Prizren, Prishtina and Mitrovica. ERIAC in the frame of the International Cultural Outreach Program, supported the participation of two artists...

ERIAC is excited to officially announce the recipients of grants through the #ERIACNET4EU initiative. A significant amount of €170,000.00 has been allocated to support a total of 12 grants, thoughtfully given to ERIAC member organizations from 7 EU member states. This effort has been possible thanks to funding from the European Commission under the Citizens,...

  Building on the experience of the six previous Outreach projects, ERIAC conducts the International Cultural Outreach Program 2023 with the support of the German Federal Foreign Office. Through strengthening the existing digital and physical infrastructures, collaborations, and institutional communication, this year’s Outreach project aims to enforce ERIAC’s role as a referential source for Roma...

A milestone event and the largest of its kind ever, the exhibition BARVALO in Mucem is making waves on the international scene, this time in The New York Times. The exhibition, co-curated by ERIAC, chronicles Roma history and showcases its cultural achievements in 800 square meters. BARVALO is on view until 4 September in Marseille....

You and your friends are warmly invited to the exhibition opening on August 2, commemorating International Roma Holocaust Remembrance Day*.   We Were Ashamed Ceija Stojka   Opening: Wednesday, August 2, 6 – 8 pm Spaces of Misunderstandings by Luna De Rosa; 7pm   On view from August 3 to October 6 European Roma Institute...

  #ERIACNET4EU   In accordance with the duty of transparency and rules on granting procedures, reinforced by the contractual framework with the European Union as the main donor, ERIAC is glad to publish the list of FSTP beneficiaries awarded under ERIACNET4EU project financed by the Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values Programme (CERV) of the European...

ERIAC’s Executive Director Timea Junghaus will hold a guided tour through the exhibition ‘I Sewed for Us’ on Thursday, 20 July 2023 at 6 pm. ‘I Sewed for Us’, curated by Lisa Marei Schmidt and Melanie Roumiguière, is the first solo exhibition of Małgorzata Mirga-Tas in Berlin. You can find information about the exhibition on...

Recently, ERIAC was honored to welcome esteemed guests for diplomatic visit purposes.   On 6 July, European Parliament Member Sabine Verheyen, Chairwoman of the Committee on Culture and Education visited our office in Berlin. The visit meant a fruitful and inspiring discussion that helped outline a common perspective between the European Parliament and ERIAC. We...

𝗘𝗥𝗜𝗔𝗖 is thrilled to partner with the 𝗥𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗙𝗶𝗹𝗺 𝗙𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗮𝗹, a highly esteemed biennial event that kicks off today and will last for six incredible days. Since its inception in 2009, the 𝗥𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗙𝗶𝗹𝗺 𝗙𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗮𝗹 has played a pivotal role in Kosovo, fostering understanding and collaboration between the Roma community and other communities within the...

What a joy to read about the BARVALO exhibition in Le Monde. Thanks to Roxana Azimi for such insight into this exhibition. The show is on view from Wednesday, 10 May 2023, to Monday, 4 September 2023, in Museum of Civilizations of Europe and the Mediterranean in Marseille (MuCEM).     https://www.lemonde.fr/culture/article/2023/06/04/avec-barvalo-le-mucem-compose-un-hymne-aux-cultures-romani_6176093_3246.html

Artists: Małgorzata Mirga-Tas, Ľuboš Kotlár, Mara Oláh Omara, Vera Lacková, Zoran Tairović Curated by Bratislav Mitrović The same degree and intensity of generalization, reductionism, and stereotyping apply to imagining the Balkans and the Roma. Maria Todorova’s concept of Balkanism provides a sound theoretical framework to explore the deployment of Balkanist stereotypes against Roma in Eastern Europe...

PUBLIC DISCUSSION: Peripheries Unite! Cultural resistance, social justice and the potential of alliances across movements in Europe*   16 May 2023 | 18h00  ERIAC Berlin, Reinhardtstrasse 41-43   Participants: Emilia Roig, author and scholar, director of the Centre for Intersectional Justice. Tayo Awosusi-Onutor, singer and activist, Board of Directors of RomaniPhen. Anna Mirga-Kruszelnicka, anthropologist, author...