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Opening on the occasion of the 55th anniversary of April 8, International Roma Day, Yesterday is Tomorrow, is a group exhibition which explores how traditional craft practices re-emerge in contemporary art as sites of innovation, memory, and cultural resilience. Techniques such as weaving, embroidery, woodcarving, are often associated with heritage or domestic labour. Yet these...

Kai Dikhas Foundation is delighted to host a unique world music concert by the project Songs of Roma in Berlin. Audiences will experience the rich acoustic music of the Roma of Central Europe, with traditional songs and contemporary compositions performed in the Romani language, live and with heartfelt passion. The event is supported by the...

ERIAC is pleased to host the book launch and German language presentation of The Roma: A Travelling History. The author, Madeline Potter, will be present and in conversation with Dr. Anna Mirga Kruszelnicka, Executive Director of ERIAC. This event is organized in partnership with Ullstein Publishing House and the Romanian Cultural Institute (RKI) in Berlin....

The 20th of February 2026 marks the 170th anniversary of the Abolition of Roma Slavery in the Romanian Principalities, one of the most silenced chapters of European history: the enslavement of Roma between 1385 and 1856. Despite its magnitude, this history remains largely absent from school curricula, museums, and public memory in Romania and across...

    An exhibition by Eugen Raportoru on the 170th anniversary of the Abolition of Roma Slavery in the Romanian Principalities In his latest exhibition, Eugen Raportoru revisits the past, grounded in the conviction that materiality itself carries history. His installations, often incorporating recycled elements, do not aim to reconstruct the past, but rework its...

“I shall tell a legend of the bird that becomes a blade for the sake of truth.”*   The European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (ERIAC) invites visitors to linger in the space between being and non-being, between places and non-places – a terrain where forms shift, identities gather force, and truth reveals itself...

The European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (ERIAC) commends George Soros on receiving the European Civil Rights Prize of the Sinti and Roma, in recognition of his decades-long commitment to advancing the rights and empowerment of Roma communities across Europe.The prize was established in memory of Holocaust survivors and pioneers of the Roma civil...

The European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (ERIAC) invites applications for the position of Thematic Section Coordinators for 2026. This internal call is open exclusively to ERIAC members who wish to take an active role in supporting the work of the Institute and its membership community.   ERIAC is seeking five professionals – one...

Open Call ERIAC–DAAD Residency Programme for Arts and Media 2025 The European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (ERIAC) and the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program jointly announce the launch of the ERIAC–DAAD Residency Programme for Arts and Media. Starting in 2025, this multiannual initiative offers an annual one-month residency in Berlin for one artist or cultural...

If art exists, most explicitly, in moments of crisis and catastrophe—as is attested by artists of the 13th Berlin Biennale and its Sister Organizations—what are its languages and preoccupations? What does it leave to us as viewers, spectators, audience, receivers, and is it what we expect, or can even understand fully in the present? In...

Council of Europe Secretary General Alain Berset made the following statement to mark European Roma Holocaust Memorial Day on 2 August:   “On the night of 2–3 August 1944, more than 3,000 Roma men, women and children were murdered at Auschwitz-Birkenau. This atrocity marked one of the darkest chapters of the Roma Holocaust, in which...

  ERIAC Serbia expresses its deep concern over the recent statement made by Serbia’s Minister for Human and Minority Rights and Social Dialogue, Mr. Demo Beriša, regarding the Roma community. Public remarks by state officials that rely on paternalism perpetuate harmful stereotypes rooted in anti-Roma racism. These not only contribute to the stigmatization of Roma...

Despite efforts by scholars and educators in the last two decades, the genocide of the Roma remains underrepresented in commemorative practices, scholarship, and education on the Second World War in Europe. Several EU member states display strong feelings against their Roma populations, while others have made significant steps in the introduction of Roma History and...

Why Roma Holocaust Education Matters Despite efforts by scholars and educators in the last two decades, the genocide of the Roma remains underrepresented in commemorative practices, scholarship, and education on the Second World War in Europe. Several EU member states display strong feelings against their Roma populations, while others have made significant steps in the...

This paper seeks to explore the interaction between Roma identity and creative mechanisms, examining whether there is an ethnically defined form of art. It investigates the relevance of the concepts of belonging and the impact of a Roma artist’s social environment in the interpretation and reception of their artwork. By discussing the correlation between minority...

Dan Turner, Woven Strength, Inhabited Space, plants and mixed media, 2025    Spend some time among these precious herbs, heal your soul, listen to the wisdom they are here to offer and then visit our gallery across the street. Discover the exhibition HOLDING GROUND: Crafting New Paths in a Changing World We are the European...

  International Guest Artists 2025: Romy Rüegger and Monika Kováčová A cooperation between the European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (ERIAC) and Villa Romana, Florence. Villa Romana and ERIAC are pleased to announce the recipients of their joint artist-in-residency programme for 2025: Romy Rüegger and Monika Kováčová. This ongoing collaboration—initiated in 2020—represents a shared...

REPARATORY MEMORY AND TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE FROM A POST-POSTMODERN PERSPECTIVE   This essay is an introduction to extended research. It aims to reflect upon what a contemporary Romano Museum should hold as its mission and how it should look in order to meet the requirements and the demands of the 21st-century visitor and society in general,...