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From the Dining Hall to the Budapest History Museum: Contemporary Roma art and cultural heritage, trapped in community space?
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From the Dining Hall to the Budapest History Museum: Contemporary Roma art and cultural heritage, trapped in community space?

December 2, 2021
The present text[1] presents a brief overview of the cultural and communal mission of Romano Kher from Hungary, especially focusing on their summer camps where significant artworks were displayed and made a major impact on generations of Roma youth. I argue here that due to a lack of proper institutional background, Roma cultural and art...
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COLLECTIVELY CARRIED OUT: Tamás Péli’s Birth
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COLLECTIVELY CARRIED OUT: Tamás Péli’s Birth

November 25, 2021
This week we present the film documenting the opening of the exhibition, Collectively Carried Out: Tamás Péli’s Birth. ERIAC Executive Director Tímea Junghaus takes you on an exclusive art historian-guided tour of the exhibition.   Entitled Birth, Tamás Péli’s monumental artwork is of unparalleled significance in many respects. Painted on fibreboard, the panel painting of...
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Finalists of the Tajsa Roma Cultural Heritage Prize 2021 announced!
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Finalists of the Tajsa Roma Cultural Heritage Prize 2021 announced!

November 22, 2021
Finalists of the Tajsa Roma Cultural Heritage Prize 2021 announced The Tajsa Prize honors an outstanding Roma individual who is enriching Roma arts and culture, embodies the founding principles of ERIAC, drawing inspiration from Roma cultural heritage while shaping and re-inventing forms of Roma cultural expressions for the next generation.   The Tajsa Prize is very...
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Dismantling ethnography, decolonising the museum, flipping the map: Wesiune thana / Place in the Woods by Małgorzata Mirga-Tas
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Dismantling ethnography, decolonising the museum, flipping the map: Wesiune thana / Place in the Woods by Małgorzata Mirga-Tas

November 18, 2021
There is no doubt that for some time now we have been witnessing two cultural processes in Europe, that are simultaneously complementary and competitive. On the one hand, the last decades of the twentieth century and the first decades of the twenty-first century can be characterised as a period of unprecedented growth of interest in...
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The Role of Artist Residencies in the Promotion of Roma Contemporary Art
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The Role of Artist Residencies in the Promotion of Roma Contemporary Art

November 12, 2021
  WEAVE LabDay The Role of Artist Residencies in the Promotion of Roma Contemporary Art 19 November 2021 11:00am – 12:30pm CET ZOOM   hosted by the European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (ERIAC) in cooperation with WEAVE (Widen European Access to Cultural Communities Via Europeana)     Speakers: Timea Junghaus, ERIAC Executive Director Angelika Stepken,...
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Unexpected Encounters: Polish Pavilion at the International Art Exhibition — La Biennale di Venezia
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Unexpected Encounters: Polish Pavilion at the International Art Exhibition — La Biennale di Venezia

November 11, 2021
On 28 September 2021, a jury assembled at the Zachęta – National Gallery of Art to select the winning curatorial project for an exhibition to be held at the Polish Pavilion as part of the 59th International Art Exhibition in Venice in 2022 (La Biennale di Venezia, 23 April – 27 November 2022, curated by...
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ERIAC joins the 12th meeting of the Council of Europe Dialogue with Roma and Traveller civil society
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ERIAC joins the 12th meeting of the Council of Europe Dialogue with Roma and Traveller civil society

November 4, 2021
On Novemner 2-3, 2021, representatives of ERIAC joined the 12th meeting of the Council of Europe Dialogue with Roma and Traveller civil society (Concept note + Romani version).   The meeting took stock of recent developments in the teaching of Roma and Traveller history and Holocaust remembrance at school and in non-formal learning environments such as Youth work...
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Roma at the Venice Biennale
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Roma at the Venice Biennale

November 4, 2021
The selection of Małgorzata Mirga-Tas to represent Poland at the 59th International Art Exhibition at the Venice Biennale is a great step forward for Roma contemporary art, Roma recognition and for the Roma people. Mirga-Tas has been exhibiting internationally for many years to great acclaim, and this opportunity is a fitting milestone in the artist’s...
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Proud Roma Free Europe celebrates Romani Language Day
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Proud Roma Free Europe celebrates Romani Language Day

November 5, 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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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

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
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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
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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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