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The RomaMoMA Nomadic Library, initiated on the 50th anniversary of the First World Roma Congress, on International Roma Day, 8 April 2021, is currently on view at Schafhof: the European Center for Art Upper Bavaria, within the framework of the exhibition, Art and Healing – A Roma Contribution for Europe. Alongside the RomaMoMA Library, featured artists...

At the European Institute of Arts and Culture (ERIAC), each year, we work together with our network of partners and members to commemorate Roma Holocaust Day, an annual day of remembrance for the Roma and Sinti victims of the Holocaust held on 2 August. The date marks the night in 1944 when 2,897 Roma, mostly...

The third edition of the Autostrada Biennale launched 17 July in Kosovo. Extending between the cities of Prishtina, Prizren and Peja, What if a Journey… was curated by the Berlin-based curators Övül Durmusoglu and Joanna Warsza, and features Romani artist Małgorzata Mirga-Tas’s work, HERSTORIES. For the installation, supported by ERIAC, Mirga-Tas worked with Romani artist...

On 1 August 2021, Zeljko Jovanovic, Chairman of the Board, and Tímea Junghaus, Executive Director of the European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (ERIAC) – as the Commissioners of the Collateral event – publish the present call for the Curator of the Roma Exhibition in 2022. ERIAC has a unique and single mandate as...

This week we feature the solo exhibition of Valérie Leray, No Innocent Landscape, currently on view at the ERIAC Gallery Space in Berlin, opened on 2 August as part of the commemorations of the Roma Holocaust. On view 2 August – 29 October 2021. No Innocent Landscape Valérie Leray’s landscapes are marked by abandoned, neglected, contested or...

  [SERBIAN; English below]   ROMI PAMTE 2. AVGUST 2021.  MEĐUNARODNI DAN SEĆANJA NA ROME ŽRTVE HOLOKAUSTA Obeležavaju: EVROPSKI ROMSKI INSTITUT ZA UMETNOST I KULTURU SRBIJA, FOND ZA OBRAZOVANJE ROMA I OPRE ROMA SRBIJA 17:00h – 18:30h Beograd, Majke Jevrosime 51, prizemlje   U noći između 2. i 3. avgusta 1944. godine oko 4.300 muškaraca,...

NO INNOCENT LANDSCAPE Valérie Leray solo exhibition 02.08 – 29.10.2021   On view in the ERIAC gallery: Location: Reinhardtstraße 41-43, 10117 Berlin Opening hours: Monday to Friday 10-17h Visits are only possible with a previous appointment and a negative test result (not older than 24 hours). Fully vaccinated people can also show proof of vaccination.The last...

The following initiatives and events are developed by ERIAC members and partners to commemorate the 2 August – International Roma Holocaust Memorial Day.   JULY 31 Seminar on 2 August – Intrernationl Holocaust memorial day seminar by Prof. Dr. Hristo Kyuchukov in Turkish, workshop by Dr. Biser AlekovRomani , Theater play by Nataliya Tsekova in...

Helios F. Garcés, in his brilliant analysis published in Spanish in 2016, “El racismo antirom/antigitano y la opción decolonial”, which translates as “Anti-Roma/anti-Gypsy racism and the decolonial choice”, situates anti-Roma racism through a decolonial perspective at the very foundation on which modernity is built. The severe processes of racialisation have historically and materially displaced Roma...

Roma arts and culture have played an essential role in raising awareness of the fate of Sinti and Roma during the Holocaust. In particular, literature and poetry have conveyed compelling accounts of wartime trauma experienced by Sinti and Roma communities. Ahead of the August 2 commemorations, we have compiled a list of selected books on...

The question of the possibility for the continued existence and functioning of art after the experience of the Holocaust is one of the key themes in both art historical and philosophical thought. Within the artistic/creative practice of Roma artists – both those born after and before the war, survivors of the Holocaust and its witnesses...

At just ten years of age, Anna Maria Steinbach, known to her friends and family as ‘Setella’, was gassed in Nazi Germany’s Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp. While many may be unfamiliar with her name, many will be familiar with her image. Staring out of a wagon, her face full of fear as she was transported to the...

As part of the online campaign, we invited Spanish-Romani artist Rocio Montoya to develop a common visual identity to raise awareness of the Roma Holocaust Memorial Day. The designs, including posters, cover pictures, Facebook profile picture frames and billboard designs are made freely available for all to use.  Download the complete VISUAL IDENTITY here     Discover the...

  24.07 – 26.09.2021   The exhibition Art and Healing- A Roma Contribution for Europe opened in Schafhof – European Center for Art Upper Bavaria on July 24th. The exhibition features works by Valérie Leray (F), Selma Selman (BH), Dan Turner (GB), Alfred Ullrich (D), and the nomadic RomaMoMA library, consisting of approximately 100 English-language...

Europe’s Roma Remember Holocaust Victims as part of the annual commemorations of August 2nd Each year, August 2nd marks Roma Holocaust Memorial Day – a day of official remembrance for Romani victims of the genocide, which took place during the Second World War.  In a message of unity and with the objective of raising awareness of...

It is a great privilege to have been approached to share my thoughts on the RomaMoMA blog.[1] Nevertheless, my initial reaction was very personal and hesitant. I had to ask myself: who am I to be given this great opportunity to suggest, propose, advise, or simply share my personal scepticism, discomfort, and disenchantment about the...

The third edition of the contemporary art fair – Autostrada Biennale, launches today in Prizren, Kosovo The exhibition will feature the installation ‘HERSTORIES’ by Polish-Roma artist Malgorzata Mirga-Tas and Roma artist and activist Edis Galushi The installation features a series of large-format textile portraits of extraordinary Romani women created in collaboration with local Roma community...

Two weeks ago, we posted the video documentation of the Restitution panel discussion within the online conference, Critical Approaches to Romani Studies, organised by the Romani Studies Program at Central European University (CEU), in partnership with ERIAC and OFF-Biennale Budapest, 31 May 2021. Last week, we posted Part 1 of the transcript. Today we post...