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“I shall tell a legend of the bird that becomes a blade for the sake of truth.”*   The European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (ERIAC) invites visitors to linger in the space between being and non-being, between places and non-places – a terrain where forms shift, identities gather force, and truth reveals itself...

english | română   Institutul European al Romilor pentru Arte și Cultură (ERIAC) vă invită la Gala de decernare a Premiului Tajsa pentru Patrimoniul Cultural al Romilor, care va avea loc pe 29 noiembrie 2025, la Ateneul Român din București.   Premiul Tajsa pentru Patrimoniul Cultural al Romilor 2025 – Ceremonie de decernare & Gală...

  The European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (ERIAC) is honored to announce the finalists for the Tajsa Roma Cultural Heritage Prize 2025. The prestigious prize celebrates a Roma individual whose work elevates Roma cultural expression and reimagines heritage for future generations.   The selected finalists for the Tajsa Roma Cultural Heritage Prize 2025...

Open Call ERIAC–DAAD Residency Programme for Arts and Media 2025 The European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (ERIAC) and the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program jointly announce the launch of the ERIAC–DAAD Residency Programme for Arts and Media. Starting in 2025, this multiannual initiative offers an annual one-month residency in Berlin for one artist or cultural...

If art exists, most explicitly, in moments of crisis and catastrophe—as is attested by artists of the 13th Berlin Biennale and its Sister Organizations—what are its languages and preoccupations? What does it leave to us as viewers, spectators, audience, receivers, and is it what we expect, or can even understand fully in the present? In...

Despite efforts by scholars and educators in the last two decades, the genocide of the Roma remains underrepresented in commemorative practices, scholarship, and education on the Second World War in Europe. Several EU member states display strong feelings against their Roma populations, while others have made significant steps in the introduction of Roma History and...

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Forging and mending are ancestral practices among Roma artisans, where repair is both material and ontological. Lali Gabor’s coppersmithing intervention in the public sphere reclaims an urban space not through monumentality but through the intimate scale of the handmade. In the frame of the 13th edition of the Berlin Biennale, Lali Gabor is exhibiting Birdhouses,...

This paper seeks to explore the interaction between Roma identity and creative mechanisms, examining whether there is an ethnically defined form of art. It investigates the relevance of the concepts of belonging and the impact of a Roma artist’s social environment in the interpretation and reception of their artwork. By discussing the correlation between minority...

Dan Turner, Woven Strength, Inhabited Space, plants and mixed media, 2025    Spend some time among these precious herbs, heal your soul, listen to the wisdom they are here to offer and then visit our gallery across the street. Discover the exhibition HOLDING GROUND: Crafting New Paths in a Changing World We are the European...

  In the frame of ERIACNET4EU: ERIAC NETWORK TO ADVANCE ROMA INCLUSION BY COMBATTING AND PREVENTING ANTIGYPSYISM IN THE EU project in 2024, financed by the European Commission, and based on the insights and expertise of the members of the ERIAC Knowledge-Production and Publication thematic section, ERIAC is proud to present a POSITION PAPER WITH ...

In accordance with the ERIAC Statute, which stipulates that no member of the Pakiv Board may simultaneously hold a position in the Barvalipe Academy, Dr. Ioanida Costache’s seat in the Barvalipe Academy was vacated following her election to the Pakiv Board in March 2025. Consequently, an extraordinary election was conducted by the Pakiv Board to...

  International Guest Artists 2025: Romy Rüegger and Monika Kováčová A cooperation between the European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (ERIAC) and Villa Romana, Florence. Villa Romana and ERIAC are pleased to announce the recipients of their joint artist-in-residency programme for 2025: Romy Rüegger and Monika Kováčová. This ongoing collaboration—initiated in 2020—represents a shared...

April 8 marks World Roma Day, an occasion to reflect upon Romani people’s legacy of self-determination and the continuation of the revolutionary act began in 1971 at the first World Roma Congress: claiming our right to define our own future.   Today, we honor the efforts of Romani individuals and organizations who advance the Roma...

ERIAC Srbija, u saradnji sa REF, REDI i Ženskom Romskom Mrežom, a uz podršku Golden Rose Cosmetic sa zadovoljstvom poziva sve zainteresovane Romkinje da se prijave za učešće u Roma Sisterhood Tea House Session – prilici za umrežavanje, deljenje iskustava i izgradnju međusobne podrške. Ovaj događaj je deo Meseca romskog ženskog aktivizma.     Studije...

Kick-Off Meeting and Public Launch of ERIACNET4EU 2025: ERIAC NETWORK TO ADVANCE ROMA INCLUSION BY COMBATTING AND PREVENTING ANTIGYPSYISM IN THE EU   As part of the European Union’s Citizens, Equality, Rights, and Values Programme (CERV), ERIAC is excited to announce the next phase of its project: ERIACNET4EU – The ERIAC Network for Advancing Roma...

REPARATORY MEMORY AND TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE FROM A POST-POSTMODERN PERSPECTIVE   This essay is an introduction to extended research. It aims to reflect upon what a contemporary Romano Museum should hold as its mission and how it should look in order to meet the requirements and the demands of the 21st-century visitor and society in general,...

Villa Romana Residency in Florence for Roma Contemporary Artists 2025   For the sixth consecutive year, the European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (ERIAC) and Villa Romana continue their collaboration to support two contemporary artists of Roma origin, through an artistic residency programme in Florence. This program provides a dedicated space for artistic research, production, and...