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In Memoriam Mustafa Asan aka RR Marki (1960-2022)
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In Memoriam Mustafa Asan aka RR Marki (1960-2022)

December 4, 2022
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.
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Sinti and Roma – Between Romanticizing and Othering -Performative Symposium on December 10, 2022
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Sinti and Roma – Between Romanticizing and Othering -Performative Symposium on December 10, 2022

December 10, 2022
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...
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ERIAC exhibition: Woman to Woman. Małgorzata Mirga-Tas and Eugen Raportoru.
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ERIAC exhibition: Woman to Woman. Małgorzata Mirga-Tas and Eugen Raportoru.

December 5, 2022 – February 28, 2023
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...
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Sami Mustafa: Fairy Tales that Tell Your Story, and Cultural Transmission over Space and Time
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Sami Mustafa: Fairy Tales that Tell Your Story, and Cultural Transmission over Space and Time

November 28, 2022
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...
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“Reenchantment. Małgorzata Mirga-Tas”, directed by Anna Zakrzewska, premiers today!
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“Reenchantment. Małgorzata Mirga-Tas”, directed by Anna Zakrzewska, premiers today!

November 27, 2022
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...
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The World Premiere: “Reenchantment. Małgorzata Mirga-Tas” directed by Anna Zakrzewska.
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The World Premiere: “Reenchantment. Małgorzata Mirga-Tas” directed by Anna Zakrzewska.

November 23, 2022
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...
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The Roma Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. From Abduction to Seduction, from Marginal to Universal
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The Roma Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. From Abduction to Seduction, from Marginal to Universal

November 16, 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...
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Finissage: The Abduction from the Seraglio at the 59th International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia
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Finissage: The Abduction from the Seraglio at the 59th International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia

November 15–25, 2022
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...
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Fairytales from my Grandfather. Sami Mustafa at Manifesta 14
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Fairytales from my Grandfather. Sami Mustafa at Manifesta 14

October 26, 2022
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...
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Manifesta 14 closes on 30 October 2022
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Manifesta 14 closes on 30 October 2022

July 22 – October 30, 2022
The 14th edition of Manifesta, the European Nomadic Biennial, is taking place from 22 July until 30 October 2022 in Prishtina, Kosovo. Organised for the occasion of the biennial, Manifesta 14 has set up the Manifesta 14 Western Balkans Project to enlarge the outreach and duration of the biennial by developing a cross-regional collaboration platform,...
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Overlapping Seraglios
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Overlapping Seraglios

October 26, 2022
As a young girl, I knew what not to speak. I knew not to talk about my legs in front of my elders. I knew not to talk about desire. I was told that if I were to use a tampon, it might get lost “up there”, and that sex was only with my (future)...
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Raportoru – from the in(DE)finite identity to The Abduction from the Seraglio. The Roma Cultural Resistance: Between Stereotype and Archetype
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Raportoru – from the in(DE)finite identity to The Abduction from the Seraglio. The Roma Cultural Resistance: Between Stereotype and Archetype

October 13, 2022
Painter Eugen Raportoru stands out both through the compositional value of his creations and by the themes addressed, which include significant and subtle references to Roma culture and history, thus endowing meaning to his ethnic belonging, the backbone of the artist’s inner constitution. Raportoru is a Roma painter and a universal painter at the same...
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When art making is just one part of the story
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When art making is just one part of the story

September 29, 2022
Eugen Raportoru is a phenomenon that cannot be understood outside of the complex circumstances characterising Romanian society and culture of the last fifty plus years. His validation as an artist came late, when other colleagues of his generation were already long on their vocational path. Somehow against all odds, if we are to believe the...
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WEAVE
Academic Section Arts and Culture Conference Event - Past Exhibition Media

WEAVE

September 19, 2022
Widen European access to cultural communities via Europeana    WEAVE – Widen European Access to cultural communities Via Europeana project aims to develop a framework to link the tangible and intangible heritage of cultural communities, safeguarding the rich and invaluable cultural heritage which they represent. In particular, the project will aggregate over 5,000 new high-quality...
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Open Road / Phundrado Drom: Laying Foundations for the Roma and Sinti Centre in Prague
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Open Road / Phundrado Drom: Laying Foundations for the Roma and Sinti Centre in Prague

September 15, 2022
On 3 June 2022, the Museum of Romani Culture in Brno and the Ethnographic Museum of the National Museum in Prague opened an exhibition, entitled Open Road / Phundrado drom. The exhibition, curated by contemporary artist Emília Rigová and curator of the Slovak National Gallery Petra Hanáková, is part of a long-term plan to build...
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Discover the WEAVE toolkit – online workshops
Academic Section Arts and Culture Event - Upcoming

Discover the WEAVE toolkit – online workshops

September 5, 2022
register now to learn about the tools for cultural heritage institutions that help collections management and curation: 7/9 – 8/9 – 9/9 – 13/9 DISCOVER THE WEAVE TOOLKIT A hands-on series of online workshops is being organised to showcase the capabilities of the different tools made available by the WEAVE project towards new forms of...
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Art and Culture Matter More than Ever- Roma Biennale 2021
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Art and Culture Matter More than Ever- Roma Biennale 2021

September 1, 2022
The Roma Biennale, an authentic festival that celebrates art, as well as its creators, was held for the second time last year. Although it was postponed in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic, its realisation in 2021 symbolically coincided with the 50th anniversary of the First World Roma Congress, an event at which Roma internationally...
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Dariya Kanti starts her artist residency at Villa Romana, Florence
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Dariya Kanti starts her artist residency at Villa Romana, Florence

August 25 – September 25, 2022
The residence, co-founded by ERIAC and Villa Romana, Florence, will last from 25 August to 25 September 2022. The European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (ERIAC) joined forces with the Villa Romana (Florence) residency programme to offer artistic residencies for two Roma contemporary artists in 2020. This exciting initiative drew upon the ground-breaking work, expertise,...
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