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Proud Roma Free Europe celebrates Romani Language Day
Arts and Culture Event - Current Exhibition

Proud Roma Free Europe celebrates Romani Language Day

October 29, 2021
On the occasion of the World Day of Romani Language on 5 November, the European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (ERIAC) is releasing a collection of Romani language materials, under the umbrella of the Proud Roma Free Europe campaign. Barikane Roma Slobodo Evropa del pakiv pal o Dives le Romane Čhibjako To mark this year’s World Day...
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Reclaiming Ourselves Through Our Labour: Selma Selman’s artistic practice and modes of healing
Arts and Culture ROMAMOMA Uncategorized

Reclaiming Ourselves Through Our Labour: Selma Selman’s artistic practice and modes of healing

October 28, 2021
As I reflect upon how to synthesise ideas of a possible Roma museum, exhibiting the work of artists in a decolonised way, and on the work of Selma Selman in the context of her solo exhibition at the Kasseler Kunstverein in Kassel, Germany, which I co-curated with Olga Holzschuh, the following notions come to mind:...
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Art and Memory – and the Future
Arts and Culture ROMAMOMA Uncategorized

Art and Memory – and the Future

October 21, 2021
Alfred Ullrich’s pictures are irritating. Is this abstract art, or are they floral patterns, wallpapers, curtains? What is this? Moreover, what does this have to do with the culture of the Roma, to which the exhibition Art and Healing at the Schafhof European Centre for Art Upper Bavaria is dedicated, and in which, among others,...
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Yesterday Can Tell Us a Lot About Tomorrow
Arts and Culture ROMAMOMA Uncategorized

Yesterday Can Tell Us a Lot About Tomorrow

October 14, 2021
The 2014 exhibition, Tajsa, which I curated together with Katarzyna Roj, presented me with a great challenge. Up to that point, I had been putting on humble independent shows in places that did not have the status of a public institution. In my world, everything happened in real time: there was no long-term project schedule,...
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Tajsa Prize 2021
Academic Section Arts and Culture Event - Upcoming History and Commemoration Knowledge Production

Tajsa Prize 2021

October 11, 2021
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 next generations. The Prize aims to honor outstanding Roma individuals who are leading voices of the Roma cultural movement today. It seeks to encourage...
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ERIAC and Department of Romani Studies at Södertörn University join forces to develop university courses
Academic Section Event - Current

ERIAC and Department of Romani Studies at Södertörn University join forces to develop university courses

October 7, 2021
  ERIAC and the Department of Romani Studies at Södertörn University (SH) in Sweden are proud to announce their institutional partnership to join forces in advancing critical Romani scholarship and ensuring greater presence of Romani scholarly voices in academic settings. As part of the partnership agreement, Södertörn University in cooperation with ERIAC will offer distance-based...
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RomaMoMa – The Digital Roma Museum
Arts and Culture ROMAMOMA Uncategorized

RomaMoMa – The Digital Roma Museum

September 30, 2021
The exhibition Art and Healing – A Roma Contribution for Europe, on view at Schafhof – European Center for Art Upper Bavaria until 26 September, featured the nomadic RomaMoMA Library and works by Valérie Leray (F), Selma Selman (BIH), Dan Turner (UK), and Alfred Ullrich (D). Following our post on the RomaMoMA Library display at Schafhof and...
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ERIAC announces the Roma Exhibition – Collateral Event at the 59th La Biennale di Venezia to be held on 23 April – 27 November 2022
Arts and Culture Event - Upcoming Exhibition

ERIAC announces the Roma Exhibition – Collateral Event at the 59th La Biennale di Venezia to be held on 23 April – 27 November 2022

September 23, 2021
Following three previous editions in 2007 (Paradise Lost), 2011 (Call the Witness) and 2019 (FUTUROMA) featuring several Roma artists, in 2022 ERIAC will commission and support the establishment of the 2022 Exhibition. After a careful review of the curatorial concepts and exhibition proposals the international Jury selected the exhibition project Eugen Raportoru: The Abduction from...
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ADJACENT : RomaMoMA Nomadic Library display at Vulnerable Archives, SAVVY Contemporary
Arts and Culture ROMAMOMA

ADJACENT : RomaMoMA Nomadic Library display at Vulnerable Archives, SAVVY Contemporary

September 23, 2021
The ADJACENT design concept marries the barcode of a book from the RomaMoMA Nomadic Library with a functional object. In this case, ADJACENT is a white mobile table painted with black lines to form the barcode of We Roma: A Critical Reader in Contemporary Art. The concept title refers not only to the parallel lines...
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We are launching the second course of Barvalipe Roma Online University in 2021
Academic Section Event - Current

We are launching the second course of Barvalipe Roma Online University in 2021

September 21, 2021
We are launching the second course of Barvalipe Roma Online University!   Bavarlipe Roma Online University is an online educational platform where Roma and non-Roma can access knowledge about the Roma identity(ies), history(ies) and culture(s) through a collection of high-quality lectures delivered by leading Roma scholars on topics ranging from the Roma Holocaust to Roma...
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Thinking and Building through Roma Positionality
Arts and Culture ROMAMOMA Uncategorized

Thinking and Building through Roma Positionality

September 16, 2021
Even as I sit to write this short piece, I seek to find my voice through writing. For me, as a Romani woman, writing has become one of those forms that have allowed me to tell the history of anti-Roma Europe: the unspoken history. The embedded European racial terror against Roma and other racialised people...
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ROMAMOMA LIBRARY AT SAVVY CONTEMPORARY
Arts and Culture Event - Upcoming

ROMAMOMA LIBRARY AT SAVVY CONTEMPORARY

September 15, 2021
  ERIAC is delighted to join SAVVY Contemporary for Vulnerable Archives. On Silenced Archives and Dissenting Views. We will join the program of the closed research exchange to discuss Roma practice of remembering as a survival technique. In addition to our participation in the research exchange, SAVVY Contemporary will be the fourth stop for the...
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A Museum of Connections
Arts and Culture ROMAMOMA Uncategorized

A Museum of Connections

September 10, 2021
In my consideration for RomaMoMA, I have chosen an entire exhibition, Art and Healing – A Roma Contribution for Europe, currently on view at Schafhof: the European Center for Art Upper Bavaria. To choose a singular artwork would not fairly represent the wide range of works homogenised by the term ‘Roma Art’. This exhibition is...
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Selma Selman at the Kasseler Kunstverein
Arts and Culture Event - Current Exhibition

Selma Selman at the Kasseler Kunstverein

September 8, 2021
  ERIAC is pleased to support the exhibition of Selma Selman at the Kasseler Kunstverein. DON’T LOOK INTO MY EYES is the first comprehensive solo exhibition by Selma Selman in Germany, curated by Boshko Boskovic and Olga Holzschuh.  On view from 02.09 – 24.10.2021 Artist and activist Selma Selman (*1991 BiH) integrates narratives of the Roma community, including her...
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Delegation of the Council of Europe´s Advisory Committee on FCNM Visited ERIAC
Event - Past

Delegation of the Council of Europe´s Advisory Committee on FCNM Visited ERIAC

September 8, 2021
On September 25, 2021 the Delegation of the Council of Europe´s Advisory Committee on the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities (FCNM) visited the European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture in Berlin to gain insight into ERIAC´s mission and programme work. The Delegation was formed by Ms Marie B. Hagsgård (in respect...
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Owning the Game: Intersectional Self-Representation in the Roma LGBTQ+ Communities
Arts and Culture ROMAMOMA Uncategorized

Owning the Game: Intersectional Self-Representation in the Roma LGBTQ+ Communities

September 2, 2021
Introduction Representation matters. The great majority of those who will not feel the weight of this are those who do not suffer its absence. It is truly difficult to explain this type of absence to those who see themselves everywhere – in magazine columns, on the TV, and even in exhibition spaces. Nor is it...
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International Membership Engagement Initiative 2021
Arts and Culture Event - Current Exhibition History and Commemoration Uncategorized

International Membership Engagement Initiative 2021

August 27, 2021
  The INTERNATIONAL MEMBERSHIP ENGAGEMENT INITIATIVE, financed by the Federal Foreign Office of Germany (FFO) is an ERIAC initiative to build on the results of the international outreach projects 1-4, to facilitate and strengthen membership engagement. ERIAC conducts the international cultural outreach programs for the recognition and promotion of Roma arts and culture with the...
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Art and Healing – A Roma Contribution for Europe
Arts and Culture Event - Current Exhibition ROMAMOMA

Art and Healing – A Roma Contribution for Europe

August 26, 2021
The exhibition Art and Healing – A Roma Contribution for Europe opened in Schafhof – European Center for Art Upper Bavaria on 24 July. The exhibition features works by Valérie Leray (F), Selma Selman (BIH), Dan Turner (UK), Alfred Ullrich (D), and the nomadic RomaMoMA Library, consisting of approximately 100 English-language books focusing on Roma Art History and...
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