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Within the JEKHIPE project – Reclaiming Our Past, Rebuilding Our Future: New Approaches to Fighting Antigypsyism (JEKHIPE), the European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (ERIAC) contributed a distinct epistemological and methodological perspective, one that foregrounds cultural memory, artistic practice, and self-representation as essential components in addressing antigypsyism.   JEKHIPE, funded under the European Commission’s...

Romani Language Initiative   In 2025, the Romani Language Initiative continued its comprehensive and strategic approach to promoting the language, based on the Council of Europe’s curriculum. Textbooks for levels A1 to B1 were further distributed and tested, while the B2 textbook, comprising of five units, was intensively developed. Simultaneously, the Romani Language Council was...

  The European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (ERIAC) announces the launch of the Romani Gili Contest, a social media-based initiative dedicated to celebrating, preserving, and promoting Roma musical heritage.   In Romani, “gili” means song — a form of expression that carries memory, emotion, and identity across generations. Roma songs have long served...

Opening on the occasion of the 55th anniversary of April 8, International Roma Day, Yesterday is Tomorrow, is a group exhibition which explores how traditional craft practices re-emerge in contemporary art as sites of innovation, memory, and cultural resilience. Techniques such as weaving, embroidery, woodcarving, are often associated with heritage or domestic labour. Yet these...

[anunțul în română, mai jos] [EN] The European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (ERIAC) is seeking a Financial Manager to support the implementation of the Roma Voices project. The successful candidate will ensure sound financial management of the project in compliance with Romanian legislation, donor requirements, and ERIAC’s institutional standards. This position offers the...

ERIAC is pleased to host the book launch and German language presentation of The Roma: A Travelling History. The author, Madeline Potter, will be present and in conversation with Dr. Anna Mirga Kruszelnicka, Executive Director of ERIAC. This event is organized in partnership with Ullstein Publishing House and the Romanian Cultural Institute (RKI) in Berlin....

The 20th of February 2026 marks the 170th anniversary of the Abolition of Roma Slavery in the Romanian Principalities, one of the most silenced chapters of European history: the enslavement of Roma between 1385 and 1856. Despite its magnitude, this history remains largely absent from school curricula, museums, and public memory in Romania and across...

    An exhibition by Eugen Raportoru on the 170th anniversary of the Abolition of Roma Slavery in the Romanian Principalities In his latest exhibition, Eugen Raportoru revisits the past, grounded in the conviction that materiality itself carries history. His installations, often incorporating recycled elements, do not aim to reconstruct the past, but rework its...

As the Berlinale opens its doors, the European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture returns to the European Film Market with a clear intention: to strengthen the position of Romani filmmakers within the European audiovisual landscape.   Meet ERIAC at EFM ERIAC will be present at the European Film Market from 12 to 18 February...

Under the direct supervision of the ERIAC Executive management, the EU Grant Manager is responsible for the correct management and administration of ERIACNET4EU – a large European project focusing on developing actions that support the implementation of the new EU Roma Framework. The Grant manager will be responsible for the overall coordination of the project...

  On the occasion of the International Roma Day (April 8), ERIAC joins the Council of Europe’s Youth Department and Roma and Travellers Division in bringing together Roma youth organisations and young people at the European Youth Centre to celebrate Roma identity and articulate the concerns and aspirations shaping their present and future, within the...

“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...

Why Roma Holocaust Education Matters 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...