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Sinti and Roma – Between Romanticizing and Othering -Performative Symposium on December 10, 2022

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...

ERIAC partners with ARCA and Artists at Risk to launch a residency programme for Ukrainian Roma artists

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 exhibition: Woman to Woman. Małgorzata Mirga-Tas and Eugen Raportoru.

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 13h 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...

Sami Mustafa: Fairy Tales that Tell Your Story, and Cultural Transmission over Space and Time

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...

“Reenchantment. Małgorzata Mirga-Tas”, directed by Anna Zakrzewska, premiers today!

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...

The World Premiere: “Reenchantment. Małgorzata Mirga-Tas” directed by Anna Zakrzewska.

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...

The Roma Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. From Abduction to Seduction, from Marginal to Universal

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...

Finissage: The Abduction from the Seraglio at the 59th International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia

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...

Fairytales from my Grandfather. Sami Mustafa at Manifesta 14

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...

Manifesta 14 closes on 30 October 2022

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,...