Event – Current

Reenchantment. Małgorzata Mirga-Tas / Film-screening and talk 18 April 2023, 19.00 Kino Sputnik, Hasenheide 54/5th, 10967 Berlin (III Hof, 5th floor)   “Reenchantment. Małgorzata Mirga-Tas” is a documentary film by Anna Zakrzewska that records the process of creating Małgorzata Mirga-Tas’s monumental work Re-enchanting the World for the Polish Pavilion at the Biennale Arte 2022 in...

Celebrating International Roma Day, the latest episode of the series “Wissen. Macht. Gerechtigkeit” (Knowledge. Power. Equity) is dedicated to Roma visibility. The series, a joint project of Wikimedia Deutschland and Deutschlandfunk Kultur, features inspiring discussions and breaks new grounds on previously underrepresented topics.   The rich history and diverse cultural production of Roma and Sinti...

  In the frame of the ERIANCET4EU project financed by the Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values Programme (CERV) of the European Union, and with a long-term goal of using culture and cultural diplomacy to strengthen open, rights-based, democratic, equal and inclusive society in EU, the European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (ERIAC) is inviting applications from...

BRINGING THE EU CLOSE TO ROMA: WEAVING ROMA CULTURE INTO THE FABRIC OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT by ERIACNET4EU. In the frame of the Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values Programme (CERV) of the European Union, ERIAC is leading the initiative ERIACNET4EU!  With the adoption of the new EU Roma Framework, the EU and its member states move...

Exhibition Opening: OMARA, “You Let Me Play” (International Roma Day Celebration)   Opening: 6 April 2023, 18.00 Location: ERIAC Art Space (European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture), Reinhardtstr. 41-43, 10117 Berlin   “I think I am a painter because I can present everything I live through in my life: the way my people are...

  ERIAC Executive Director Timea Junghaus was invited to the 2023 Anne Hill Blanchard Uncommon Artists Lecture Series, hosted by the American Folk Art Museum.   The annual series, honoring the late Anne Hill Blanchard, an inspiring and passionate leader in the field and a devoted supporter of the American Folk Art Museum, highlights new...

  Artist Residencies in Florence for Two Roma Contemporary Artists in 2023   Following the successful collaboration in 2020, 2021, and 2022, the European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (ERIAC) is happy to join forces again with Villa Romana and its artist residency programme to offer two residencies to Roma contemporary artists. This exciting initiative...

ROMHERITAGE Itineraries of Roma Cultural Heritage   romheritage.eu   ERIAC is partner in a consortium with Asociación Nacional Presencia Gitana (Spain), EPEKA (Slovenia), Associazione Thèm Romano (Italy), funded by the Creative Europe Programme (CREA) of the European Commission. The project duration is 24 months, between January 2023 and December 2024.   The ROMHERIATGE project aspires...

Join ERIAC and be part of the vibrant community of the European Roma arts and culture scene by filling in the online application form.     The European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture – ERIAC is a membership-based organization, that brings together Roma and non-Roma individuals and organizations, with relevant and demonstrated competencies and experience in...

Hälsinglands Museum is encouraging Romani artists to help investigate Romani angles of the concept ‘world heritage’ through a residency project/scholarship.   Every year, the region of Gävleborg offers a residency connected to the World Heritage Site “Decorated Farmhouses of Sweden”. Hälsinglands Museum, also located in this region, has been working with issues concerning Romani history and...

The European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (ERIAC) has joined forces with ARCA and the Artists at Risk (AR) residency programme to offer an artistic residency for Roma contemporary artists, curators, and other art practitioners from Ukraine. ERIAC was officially established on 07 June 2017, in Berlin, Germany. The Institute is a joint initiative...

ERIAC launches the Barvalipe blog – So Nakhlo with editors Dr. Adrian Marsh, Dr. Anna Mirga-Kruszelnicka, Dr. Dezso Mate, and Dr. Maria Bogdan. The launch of the Barvalipe blog – So Nakhlo, marks the advent of a new initiative in the development of a ‘space’ for Romani ‘voices’ to be ‘heard’. Since the arrival of...

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...

For there is always light, if only we’re brave enough to see it. If only we’re brave enough to be it. Amanda Gorman   On December 8-9, 2022, the European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (ERIAC) held its V General Assembly meeting, which took place in a hybrid form – physically in ERIAC Office,...

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...