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Bratislava: Exhibition

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Bratislava: Exhibition

The exhibition “Colour World – Coloriskeri luma” opened on Thursday in the Baroque courtyard of the University Library in Bratislava (UKB). It presents works from the 17th national art competition organized by the civic association Romano Kher – Roma House with the aim of improving communication between the majority and the Roma national minority. The theme of this year’s competition, which brings together Roma children and children from the majority society, was Roma traditions – baptism, wedding, funeral.

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Bulgaria, Zaharna Fabrika, and Art

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Bulgaria, Zaharna Fabrika, and Art

The interdisciplinary cultural project “Dom” presents the reality of marginalized children in Bulgaria through the means of painting and video. The project is of a documentary nature, and the goal is to draw attention to the impact of the social environment on children and the place they occupy in it.

Initially, the fields of research were the Roma Mahalas in Svoge and Stolipinovo in Plovdiv, but after the events surrounding the destroyed houses in the “Zaharna Fabrika” district in Sofia, where Roma houses were recently destroyed, they decided to include them in their project.

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Prague Exhibition

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Prague Exhibition

The exhibition “Rohatí / The Horned Ones” is on display at Prague’s Artivist Lab until June 7, combining the works of Monika Kováčová and Adrián Kriška. The art installation connects blacksmithing and textile creation with queer identity, Romani tradition and the mythology of resistance. The opening took place on April 7 as part of the celebrations of International Roma Day.

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Children Art

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Children Art

The Gemersko-Malohontské Museum (GMM) in Rimavská Sobota, Slovakia, opened the 14th annual exhibition entitled Romano dživipen [Roma life] on Wednesday (April 30). The exhibition is a showcase of children’s works created as part of a competition aimed at presenting the culture of the Roma ethnic group. Almost 130 drawings by children from three districts were submitted for the current year.

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Czechia: Education, Art, and Roma

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Czechia: Education, Art, and Roma

What is the power of words, culture and art in creating a feeling that one belongs somewhere and can be proud of oneself? This is a question that concerns not only minorities in Czech schools. The way to do this can be social support from the environment and art. For Roma students, it is offered, for example, by the Ara Art organization, which is dedicated to activist culture, or the Kher publishing house, which publishes children’s books on Roma themes. How to ensure that children’s talent and potential do not go to waste?

Roma children make up roughly three percent of all students in Czech schools. However, they are not enrolled evenly. According to PAQ Research data, in 2023 there were approximately 130 segregated schools where Roma made up at least a third of the students.

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Based on the historical naval battle in Lepanto, in which forcibly recruited Roma were involved as rowing slaves in 1571, seven artists who are Sinti or Roma are exhibiting contemporary art positions. They confront this history with themselves and at the same time enter into a multi-voiced dialogue with each other. They confidently demand visibility and equality in European culture. The exhibition was shown on the occasion of the Venice Biennale 2024 and was seen by 135,000 visitors.

An interview of Luna De Rosa und Moritz Pankok on the Exhibition.

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Public Collection

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Public Collection

The Brno Museum of Romani Culture launched a public collection on Monday, the aim of which is to raise money to acquire a portrait of Romani singer Věra Bílá. It wants to buy the portrait because it sees Bílá as an exceptional personality who has appealed to a wide audience with her art. The collection will last 60 days, and the aim is to raise 70,000 crowns. Bílá died on March 12 at the age of 64 in a Pilsen hospital. The Rokycany native was probably the most famous Czech singer in the world at the turn of the millennium, and years ago she sold out the Paris Olympia.

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Romani Artist

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An interview with Šarlota Bottová, a Romni who learned the basics of drawing from her father, and learned the rest by herself. “It’s a big challenge for me, but I prefer to capture the face, the emotion, the personality,” she says.

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Małgorzata Mirga-Tas

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Another article, this time in the Polish press about Małgorzata Mirga-Tas’ exhibition in Berlin. The host of the exhibition is the famous Brücke Museum, presenting only Expressionist painters associated in the early 20th century in the group “Die Brücke”. Małgorzata Mirgi-Tas’s exhibition “Sivdem Amenge. I sewed for us” is an artistic dialogue with selected artists of this group. But not only.

The article states that Małgorzata Mirga-Tas is currently the most famous contemporary Polish visual artist in the world.

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Munich: Artwork

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The city of Munich decides to realize a work of art that gives the history and present of the Sinti and Roma a voice in the city centre and brings the culture of remembrance to life. With a large majority, the general assembly of the city council now voted in favour of the implementation of a permanent, participatory art project by the artist Ladislava Gažiová on the Frauenplatz. The victims of the systematic persecution and murder during the Nazi regime are remembered and the current life of the Sinti and Roma in Munich is made visible. In this way, the city also wants to counteract the discrimination that still exists.

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Małgorzata Mirga-Tas

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An interview on Polish TV of the Romani artist Małgorzata Mirga-Tas. She talks openly about her inspirations in art, Roma women who are important to her, and about stereotypes she would like to fight against. She admits that the Roma have to “try twice as hard, prove twice as hard”. “We are second-class citizen,” says Mirga-Tas. The artist is involved in many social projects counteracting exclusion, racial discrimination and xenophobia. She also participated in the reconstruction of the monument commemorating the Genocide of the Roma.

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