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Mobile, Virtual, Ephemeral: Collections of the Future?
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Mobile, Virtual, Ephemeral: Collections of the Future?

March 17, 2022
In the times of museums being burned down because of war or put at risk because of climate disaster effects – what is a meaning of a public art collection? Could we imagine a different definition of collecting, an alternative circulation of objects, or an art museum without art objects? What if museums start collecting...
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Roma Women – Performative Strategies of Resistance
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Roma Women – Performative Strategies of Resistance

March 10, 2022
The European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (ERIAC) is proud to present Eugen Raportoru: The Abduction from the Seraglio, accompanied by Roma Women: Performative Strategies of Resistance, an official collateral event at the 59th International Art Exhibition, curated by Ilina Schileru. In the long history of La Biennale, this is only the fourth occasion when a presence of...
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Emília Rigová at the 23rd Triennale Milano International Exhibition
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Emília Rigová at the 23rd Triennale Milano International Exhibition

March 4, 2022
The European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (ERIAC) is proud to present Emília Rigová: And the One Doesn’t Stir without the Other, curated by Timea Junghaus, an official Roma exhibition at the 23rd Triennale Milano International Exhibition. The Triennale takes place 15 July – 11 December 2022, under the title Unknown Unknowns. An Introduction...
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Eugen Raportoru: The Abduction from the Seraglio and Roma Women: Performative Strategies of Resistance
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Eugen Raportoru: The Abduction from the Seraglio and Roma Women: Performative Strategies of Resistance

February 28, 2022
Collateral Event of the 59th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia Curated by Ilina Schileru Commissioned by the European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (ERIAC), Željko Jovanović, Timea Junghaus Exhibition Venue: Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti | Campo S. Stefano 2945 Opening Event: 22 April 2022, 6–7pm Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere...
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Eugen Raportoru: The Abduction from the Seraglio & Roma Women: Performative Strategies of Resistance
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Eugen Raportoru: The Abduction from the Seraglio & Roma Women: Performative Strategies of Resistance

February 25, 2022
Collateral Event of the 59th International Art Exhibition Curated by Ilina Schileru Commissioned by the European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture   Exibition Site: Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti | Campo S. Stefano 2945 Opening Event: 22 April 2022 Public Dates: 23 April – 27 November 2022 Commissioners: ERIAC, Zeljko Jovanovic, Timea...
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Re-enchanting the World Małgorzata Mirga-Tas
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Re-enchanting the World Małgorzata Mirga-Tas

February 17, 2022
The Re-enchanting the World project by the Polish-Roma artist for the Polish Pavilion at the 59th International Art Exhibition is an attempt to expand the Polish and European iconosphere and art history with representations of Roma culture. Adhering to the title of this year’s edition of the Biennale Arte (The Milk of Dreams), the artist will create...
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Symposium: Institutions and Resistance – Alliances for Art at Risk
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Symposium: Institutions and Resistance – Alliances for Art at Risk

February 7, 2022
  On Saturday 12 February 2022, Timea Junghaus, ERIAC executive director, art historian and curator will participate in Section 2: Institutions as Resistance of the Symposium Institutions and Resistance – Alliances for Art at Risk.   Online Language: English   The event in livestream – The symposium is only available in English and without subtitles...
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Thoughts after Florence
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Thoughts after Florence

January 27, 2022
Last October, I participated in a joint artist residency with a stipend offered by ERIAC and Villa Romana. The scholarship grants the opportunity for young European Roma artists to travel, build networks and broaden their knowledge by educating themselves in Florence, one of Europe’s most ancient and illustrious art centres. Villa Romana is situated on...
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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 27, 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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