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Hälsinglands Museum is encouraging Romani artists to help investigate Romani angles of the concept ‘world heritage’ through a residency project/scholarship.   Every year, the region of Gävleborg offers a residency connected to the World Heritage Site “Decorated Farmhouses of Sweden”. Hälsinglands Museum, also located in this region, has been working with issues concerning Romani history and...

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...

The Romani art of European countries[i] has been struggling to become institutionalized as a term and to secure institutional foundation for its development—much like Jewish art once did. Although the situation varies across individual countries, there are now several important institutions in place across Europe, operating transnationally to promote and sustain the careers of Roma...

The Roots Roma singer Hilja Grönfors and film director Katariina Lillqvist started their cooperation in the late 1980s, during the annual Roma festival in Porvoo, a town on the southern coast of Finland. Grönfors was a regular performer there, and Lillqvist was curating the film section of the festival, as well as taking care of...

ERIAC launches the Barvalipe blog – So Nakhlo with editors Dr. Adrian Marsh, Dr. Anna Mirga-Kruszelnicka, Dr. Dezso Mate, and Dr. Maria Bogdan. The launch of the Barvalipe blog – So Nakhlo, marks the advent of a new initiative in the development of a ‘space’ for Romani ‘voices’ to be ‘heard’. Since the arrival of...

Though she only began to make art at the age of forty-three, Omara (Mara Oláh, 1945–2020) became one of the most prolific Roma artists of her generation. Born in Monor, Hungary, to a musician father and a mother from a tinker family, Omara juggled multiple jobs, working primarily as a cleaning lady, until one day,...

Let me start by paraphrasing what artist Sead Kazanxhiu said recently: 2022 has been a golden year for Romani contemporary art. It is possible to make this statement because the creations of Romani artists were to be found at major art events across Europe, from Venice, through the documenta fifteen in Kassel and Manifesta in...

For there is always light, if only we’re brave enough to see it. If only we’re brave enough to be it. Amanda Gorman   On December 8-9, 2022, the European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (ERIAC) held its V General Assembly meeting, which took place in a hybrid form – physically in ERIAC Office,...

10 November 2022, Day One I am having a cup of coffee outside the Svilara Cultural Station. And I think to myself, there are all kinds of stations. This one is about waiting. What are you waiting for? For something to transpose me into a new reality. I am thinking about the concept of the...

It is with great sadness that we have learned that one of our great contemporary artists, Mustafa Asan has passed away on December 3. His colleagues from the Roma Jam Session Art Kolektiv announced the sad news yesterday. Our condolences to all his family and friends. Visit his profile on Romarchive website.

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...

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 12:00 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...