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The pride of a people as a social engine. The Proud Roma manifesto
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The pride of a people as a social engine. The Proud Roma manifesto

January 25, 2022
O barikanipe jekhe naciako sar socialo motoro. O manifesto Barikane Roma by Helios Fernández Garcés The short film Proud Roma, directed by filmmaker Pablo Vega and starring Roma actors and artists Alina Serban and Tony Gabarri, will be released on 25 January 2022 as part of the Proud Roma Free Europe campaign. The production revolves around a speech staged in the setting...
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In which the Polish government invites a Romni to the Venice Biennale and the puzzle begins
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In which the Polish government invites a Romni to the Venice Biennale and the puzzle begins

January 20, 2022
Art most definitely speaks for itself, but La Biennale di Venezia is not just about art: it is also political, and the political language it speaks is not exactly democratic (in the sense we think of in the 21st century) or grassroots. At La Biennale, nations converse and compete, displaying their developments and achievements, hopes...
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The Word for World Is Forest
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The Word for World Is Forest

January 13, 2022
I had planned to discuss here the art of emancipation, an original perspective, and the starting point taken by an artist who brings a breath of fresh air. Drawing on the works of Krzysztof Gil, I had intended to analyse his visual strategies, which decolonise canonical art in an original and personal way, exploring elements...
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“Proud Roma” Short Film Premiere Registration
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“Proud Roma” Short Film Premiere Registration

January 12, 2022
The European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (ERIAC) is honored to invite you to the SHORT FILM PREMIERE “PROUD ROMA” by PABLO VEGA On January 25, 2022 at 20.00 ONLINE ***Please note that due to the current Covid situation, the physical premiere in Kino Babylon in Berlin has been cancelled.    Produced as part...
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Practising Archival Alliances: RomaMoMA at Vulnerable Archives
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Practising Archival Alliances: RomaMoMA at Vulnerable Archives

December 17, 2021
“But don’t worry, coz you won’t rule any more, the future is ours”.[1] Undermining the modernity/coloniality strategy of situating other knowledges and identities in a disempowered past through the act of labelling communities as “traditional” and “primitive” and denying them the right to participate in the present, Mihaela Drăgan, with her performance, Roma Futurism: The...
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Zita Moldovan, the winner of the 2nd TAJSA Roma Cultural Heritage Prize in 2021
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Zita Moldovan, the winner of the 2nd TAJSA Roma Cultural Heritage Prize in 2021

December 10, 2021
Zita Moldovan, the winner of the 2nd Tajsa Roma Cultural Heritage Prize in 2021   We are pleased to announce that Zita Moldovan – Roma actress, journalist, and host for more than 15 years of the Roma TV show – was revealed as the winner of the first edition of the Tajsa Roma Cultural Heritage...
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The Intersecting Gaps of Unknowing
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The Intersecting Gaps of Unknowing

December 9, 2021
Starting at the End: Unknowing OFF-Biennale Budapest was about to end in late April, when one of its most prestigious and yet under-recognised artworks, Péli Tamás’s Birth arrived in Budapest, to the Budapest History Museum in the Castle.[1] Shortly after closing the Mara Oláh exhibition[2] at the Glove Factory Community House (Kesztyűgyár Közösségi Ház), I...
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From the Dining Hall to the Budapest History Museum: Contemporary Roma art and cultural heritage, trapped in community space?
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From the Dining Hall to the Budapest History Museum: Contemporary Roma art and cultural heritage, trapped in community space?

December 2, 2021
The present text[1] presents a brief overview of the cultural and communal mission of Romano Kher from Hungary, especially focusing on their summer camps where significant artworks were displayed and made a major impact on generations of Roma youth. I argue here that due to a lack of proper institutional background, Roma cultural and art...
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COLLECTIVELY CARRIED OUT: Tamás Péli’s Birth
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COLLECTIVELY CARRIED OUT: Tamás Péli’s Birth

November 25, 2021
This week we present the film documenting the opening of the exhibition, Collectively Carried Out: Tamás Péli’s Birth. ERIAC Executive Director Tímea Junghaus takes you on an exclusive art historian-guided tour of the exhibition.   Entitled Birth, Tamás Péli’s monumental artwork is of unparalleled significance in many respects. Painted on fibreboard, the panel painting of...
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Dismantling ethnography, decolonising the museum, flipping the map: Wesiune thana / Place in the Woods by Małgorzata Mirga-Tas
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Dismantling ethnography, decolonising the museum, flipping the map: Wesiune thana / Place in the Woods by Małgorzata Mirga-Tas

November 18, 2021
There is no doubt that for some time now we have been witnessing two cultural processes in Europe, that are simultaneously complementary and competitive. On the one hand, the last decades of the twentieth century and the first decades of the twenty-first century can be characterised as a period of unprecedented growth of interest in...
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Unexpected Encounters: Polish Pavilion at the International Art Exhibition — La Biennale di Venezia
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Unexpected Encounters: Polish Pavilion at the International Art Exhibition — La Biennale di Venezia

November 11, 2021
On 28 September 2021, a jury assembled at the Zachęta – National Gallery of Art to select the winning curatorial project for an exhibition to be held at the Polish Pavilion as part of the 59th International Art Exhibition in Venice in 2022 (La Biennale di Venezia, 23 April – 27 November 2022, curated by...
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Roma at the Venice Biennale
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Roma at the Venice Biennale

November 4, 2021
The selection of Małgorzata Mirga-Tas to represent Poland at the 59th International Art Exhibition at the Venice Biennale is a great step forward for Roma contemporary art, Roma recognition and for the Roma people. Mirga-Tas has been exhibiting internationally for many years to great acclaim, and this opportunity is a fitting milestone in the artist’s...
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Reclaiming Ourselves Through Our Labour: Selma Selman’s artistic practice and modes of healing
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Reclaiming Ourselves Through Our Labour: Selma Selman’s artistic practice and modes of healing

October 28, 2021
As I reflect upon how to synthesise ideas of a possible Roma museum, exhibiting the work of artists in a decolonised way, and on the work of Selma Selman in the context of her solo exhibition at the Kasseler Kunstverein in Kassel, Germany, which I co-curated with Olga Holzschuh, the following notions come to mind:...
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SAFEGUARDING OUR ROMANI LANGUAGE – SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
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SAFEGUARDING OUR ROMANI LANGUAGE – SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

October 22, 2021
  DUJTO INTERNACIONALO KONFERENCIA “LINDOS SAMA PAL AMARI ROMANI ČHIB” DIGITALO IVENTO ZOOM WEBINAR  Novembro 5, 2021 10.00-16.00h CET   Ando 5-to Novembro, kana si le Lumjako Dives pal i Romani Čhib, o Evropako Romano Instituto vaš Arte thaj Kultura (ERIAC) organizisarel i Dujto Internacionalo Konferencia „Lindos sama pal amari Romani Čhib”, ando parteneriato le...
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Art and Memory – and the Future
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Art and Memory – and the Future

October 21, 2021
Alfred Ullrich’s pictures are irritating. Is this abstract art, or are they floral patterns, wallpapers, curtains? What is this? Moreover, what does this have to do with the culture of the Roma, to which the exhibition Art and Healing at the Schafhof European Centre for Art Upper Bavaria is dedicated, and in which, among others,...
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Yesterday Can Tell Us a Lot About Tomorrow
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Yesterday Can Tell Us a Lot About Tomorrow

October 14, 2021
The 2014 exhibition, Tajsa, which I curated together with Katarzyna Roj, presented me with a great challenge. Up to that point, I had been putting on humble independent shows in places that did not have the status of a public institution. In my world, everything happened in real time: there was no long-term project schedule,...
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Reinventing the Romani wheel: a visual essay on the history of Rom*nja under socialist rule
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Reinventing the Romani wheel: a visual essay on the history of Rom*nja under socialist rule

October 7, 2021
Blue on the top, green on the bottom, a red star in the centre. At first glance, the poster for the exhibition, Manuš heißt Mensch – Manuš means human, seems to aim for a clear connection to the Romani flag, and therefore a perspective on Romani activism and politics. On closer examination, however, the question...
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RomaMoMa – The Digital Roma Museum
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RomaMoMa – The Digital Roma Museum

September 30, 2021
The exhibition Art and Healing – A Roma Contribution for Europe, on view at Schafhof – European Center for Art Upper Bavaria until 26 September, featured the nomadic RomaMoMA Library and works by Valérie Leray (F), Selma Selman (BIH), Dan Turner (UK), and Alfred Ullrich (D). Following our post on the RomaMoMA Library display at Schafhof and...
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