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Manolo Gómez Romero: “the freedom and creative balance of a 5000-year-old child”
Arts and Culture Exhibition ROMAMOMA Uncategorized

Manolo Gómez Romero: “the freedom and creative balance of a 5000-year-old child”

August 22, 2024
Almost two decades have passed since the first exhibition of contemporary Roma art was held at the Venice Biennale in 2007. In these years, Roma representation has been discontinuous, although the periodicity and the demand for their own pavilion continues to be a struggle for institutions and agents such as the European Roma Institute for...
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CARGO – of Dust and Ashes
Event - Upcoming Exhibition ROMAMOMA Uncategorized

CARGO – of Dust and Ashes

July 31, 2024
CARGO – of Dust and Ashes                       exhibition featuring works of Charly Bechaimont (FR), Anita Horváth (HU), Lila Loisse (UK) Curated by RomaMoMA | Emese Molnár August 2nd marks the 80th anniversary of the Roma Holocaust, a repressed trauma that has only recently resurfaced thanks to the intellectual and political efforts of Romani elites beginning...
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May 16 – Romani Resistance Day
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May 16 – Romani Resistance Day

May 16, 2024
We are loud. We remain silent. We protest. We perform. We bring our bodies to the streets. We hide away. We scream resistance, while we unlearn harmful practices of our upbringing. We stand alone. We form communities. Resistance may take different forms, but one truth remains immutable: we should all have the “Right to Respond”....
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Winners of Artists in Residence 2024 in Villa Romana, Florence
Arts and Culture Event - Past Exhibition ROMAMOMA Uncategorized

Winners of Artists in Residence 2024 in Villa Romana, Florence

May 7, 2024
International Guest Artists 2024: Charly Bechaimont and Lila Loisse   A cooperation between the European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (ERIAC) and Villa Romana in Florence. Villa Romana and ERIAC are pleased to announce the winners of their joint artist-in-residency program for 2024, following successful collaborations since 2020. Villa Romana is a place of...
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(Event) Roma in Ukraine – Fighters for Democracy, Human Rights and Justice
Arts and Culture Conference Event - Past Event - Upcoming Exhibition

(Event) Roma in Ukraine – Fighters for Democracy, Human Rights and Justice

May 16, 2024
Roma consider themselves as an integral part of Ukrainian society, the diversity of which presents a unique cluster of European culture that has to be safeguarded and promoted. Roma in Ukraine have their own exclusive cultural heritage that have been safeguarded internally by the communities for centuries despite persecution, genocides and wars or globalization or...
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Intersectional Dimensions of Care. Curatorial Considerations around the Exhibition ‘Handle with Care’
Arts and Culture Event - Past Exhibition ROMAMOMA Uncategorized

Intersectional Dimensions of Care. Curatorial Considerations around the Exhibition ‘Handle with Care’

February 26, 2024
Care permeates almost every aspect of our social reality. It is partly in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic that both collective and individual care has been brought into sharper focus than ever before. The global pandemic has shed light on the politics of care and has shown the heavy burden on women, social workers,...
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From the Pissoir to the Bathtub — Selma Selman Destroys Conventions with Axe and Drill
Arts and Culture Event - Past Exhibition ROMAMOMA Uncategorized

From the Pissoir to the Bathtub — Selma Selman Destroys Conventions with Axe and Drill

February 9, 2024
The surface is never simply smooth or clean in Selma Selman’s works. The artist paints on objects such as car bonnets, bathtubs or satellite dishes as naturally as if they were stretched canvases. These objects are then either displayed freely in the room or are carefully arranged on the wall, constantly moving on the border...
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The Red Wheel of Pain and Power – On Zoran Tairović’s Works
Arts and Culture Event - Past Exhibition ROMAMOMA

The Red Wheel of Pain and Power – On Zoran Tairović’s Works

January 11, 2024
The exhibition currently on view at the European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (ERIAC) Serbia, in Belgrade, titled “Gypsyism, Balkanism – Through a glass, darkly”, curated by Bratislav Mitrović, features five artists of Roma origin, who engage in intimate dialogue with the history of -frequently hurtful- representations of Roma. Through their works, Małgorzata Mirga-Tas...
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ERIAC Exhibition Opening: Berlin Tales
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ERIAC Exhibition Opening: Berlin Tales

December 15, 2023 – April 24, 2024
Berlin Tales  Emanuel Barica, Luna De Rosa, Mihaela Drăgan, Nihad Nino Pušija, Mersud Selman, Alfred Ullrich, David Weiss   15 December, 2023 – 5 April, 2024 Exhibition opening: 14 December 2023, 6.00 – 9.00 pm       Berlin has consistently played a crucial role in the cultural and social life of the Roma diaspora...
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Bravo, Barvalo! Pioneering Participation, Curatorial Courage, and a New Approach to Roma-Driven Museum Projects
Arts and Culture Event - Past Exhibition ROMAMOMA

Bravo, Barvalo! Pioneering Participation, Curatorial Courage, and a New Approach to Roma-Driven Museum Projects

November 14, 2023
The summer of 2023 saw a true landmark accomplishment in the promotion and celebration of Romani art and culture. The Barvalo exhibition, on view 9 May until 4 September at Marseille’s Musée des Civilisations de l’Europe et de la Mediterranée (“Mucem”), a Tier-1, national-level French museum, was the first of its kind: by far the...
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JEWELLERY AND ACTIVISM
Arts and Culture Exhibition ROMAMOMA Uncategorized

JEWELLERY AND ACTIVISM

October 10, 2023
– About the Exhibition Roma Jewellery Tradition – Rosa Taikon at the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm In the process of creating the exhibition, Roma Jewellery Tradition – Rosa Taikon, Rosa Taikon’s expressive jewellery became a point of departure for a demonstration of Roma history and heritage as well as a platform for the civil rights struggle of the...
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Painting Back: Decolonization Through Art
Arts and Culture Exhibition ROMAMOMA Uncategorized

Painting Back: Decolonization Through Art

October 2, 2023
In 2022, at the fifteenth edition of documenta in Kassel, I witnessed an interesting conversation between two visitors standing in front of a large-scale and impressive work by Tamás Péli. ‘Péli studied at the Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten in The Hague,’ one of the two women read out from the label. The other immediately...
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Erik Tollas, artist in residence at Villa Romana: thoughts on “a house which is a home”
Arts and Culture Event - Past Exhibition Uncategorized

Erik Tollas, artist in residence at Villa Romana: thoughts on “a house which is a home”

September 16 – November 19, 2023
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...
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Handle with Care: RomaMoMA Nomadic Library at the Ludwig Museum
Arts and Culture Event - Past Exhibition Uncategorized

Handle with Care: RomaMoMA Nomadic Library at the Ludwig Museum

September 14–25, 2023
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...
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“Being Roma Is My Strength”
Arts and Culture Exhibition ROMAMOMA Uncategorized

“Being Roma Is My Strength”

September 25, 2023
“Being Roma Is My Strength” was expressed explicitly by artist Ionela Mihaela Cîmpeanu during the very moving experience of a guided walking tour in April 2023 over the final weekend of the exhibition, Chronic Desire – Sete Cronică, which I co-curated as the inaugurating event of Timișoara 2023 European Capital of Culture. Embarking on my...
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”I SEWED FOR US” – RomaMoMA IN CONVERSATION WITH LISA MAREI SCHMIDT, DIRECTOR OF THE BRÜCKE MUSEUM
Arts and Culture Exhibition ROMAMOMA Uncategorized

”I SEWED FOR US” – RomaMoMA IN CONVERSATION WITH LISA MAREI SCHMIDT, DIRECTOR OF THE BRÜCKE MUSEUM

September 7, 2023
The exhibition, Sivdem Amenge / I sewed for us / Ich nähte für uns, with works by Polish-Romani artist Małgorzata Mirga-Tas was on view from 26 June till 3 September 2023 at the Brücke Museum in Berlin. RomaMoMA interviewed Lisa Marei Schmidt, Director of the Brücke Museum, for the occasion.
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A Self-Portrait of the Roma, Without the Stereotypes – BARVALO Featured in The New York Times
Arts and Culture Event - Past Exhibition Knowledge Production

A Self-Portrait of the Roma, Without the Stereotypes – BARVALO Featured in The New York Times

July 27, 2023
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....
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Ceija Stojka: We Were Ashamed
Arts and Culture Event - Past Event - Upcoming Exhibition

Ceija Stojka: We Were Ashamed

August 2 – October 6, 2023
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...
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