COLLATERAL EVENT OF THE 58TH INTERNATIONAL ART EXHIBITION — LA BIENNALE DI VENEZIA CURATED BY DANIEL BAKER COMMISSIONED BY ERIAC — FONDAMENTA ZATTERE ALLO SPIRITO SANTO 417 11 MAY - 24 NOVEMBER 2019

ARTISTS: CELIA BAKER JÁN BERKY MARCUS-GUNNAR PETTERSSON ÖDÖN GYÜGYI BILLY KERRY KLÁRA LAKATOS DELAINE LE BAS VALÉRIE LERAY EMÍLIA RIGOVÁ MARKÉTA ŠESTÁKOVÁ SELMA SELMAN DAN TURNER ALFRED ULLRICH LÁSZLÓ VARGA

ERIAC EUROPEAN ROMA INSTITUTE

COMMISSIONED BY COMMISSIONED FOR ARTS AND CULTURE photo credit: Daniel Baker

INTERVIEW CURATOR, DANIEL BAKER Daniel Baker is a Romani Gypsy artist, of La Biennale di Venezia – “Paradise Lost” and researcher, and curator. Originally from Kent, “Call the Witness,” which took place during the now based in London, his work is exhibited 52nd and 54th International Art Exhibition of WITH THE COMMISSIONERS internationally and can be found in collections La Biennale di Venezia, respectively. In 2018, across the globe. Baker earned a PhD in after hosting an open call for curators, an 2011 from the Royal College of Art, with his international jury consisting of Professor Dr. Ethel dissertation, “Gypsy Visuality: Gell’s Art Nexus Brooks, Tony Gatlif, Miguel Ángel Vargas, and OF FUTUROMA and its Potential for Artists,” after previously ERIAC management selected him to curate the earning a MA in Sociology/Gender and Ethnic Roma Collateral Event. TIMEA JUNGHAUS Studies from Greenwich University, and a BA (Hons) in Fine Art from Ravensbourne College of Baker’s work examines the role of art in the WHAT IS THE HISTORY OF THE it is to think beyond national Art and Design. enactment of social agency through an eclectic PRESENCE OF ROMA ART AT THE representations. I believe it is very practice that interrogates contemporary LA BIENNALE DI VENEZIA? important for the Biennale itself to Baker has contributed to numerous exibitions, art discourse and its social implications via recognise how Roma revolutionise held various residencies, and curated several the reconfiguration of elements of the Roma The Biennale opened its doors in and contribute with a new vision to commissions. He previously worked as an aesthetic. For more information about Baker and 1895, and it is the most prestigious their institution. The Roma exhibition exhibitor and consultant for the first and second his revolutionary work, visit www.danielbaker.net art event in the world. However, demonstrates how to create a Roma events at the International Art Exhibition during this 124 years, there has space of transnational alliances, been Roma presence only 3 trans-border collaboration. It Zeljko Jovanovic times, with the first time being in inspires a self- definition of a Chair of the ERIAC Board 2007. In between 1894 and 2007, transformative character to Europe: Director of the Open Society Roma Initiatives Office, there was no mention of any through which our widely dispersed members of the Roma community and fragmented belongings can in the Biennale history or archives. transcend national boundaries, and CURATORIAL While it is a gigantic effort and invite universal participation. ZELJKO JOVANOVIC somewhat of a heroic undertaking “IMAGINING ROMA to make the Roma exhibition IS THERE STILL ANYONE IN WHAT IS THE SIGNIFICANCE OF HOW WOULD YOU REGARD possible at the Biennale – it is of EUROPE NOT ACCEPTING THE BEING THE COMMISSIONER THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE CONCEPT BODIES IN SPECULATIVE utmost importance for the Roma TERM “ROMA ART”? OF THE ROMA EXHIBITION – ROMA COMMUNITY COMING community to be included and for FUTUROMA – AT THE 58TH LA TOGETHER AT THE BIENNALE FUTUROMA draws upon aspects of Afrofuturism the art world to learn think beyond The notion of Roma arts and BIENNALE DI VENEZIA, AND IN VENICE – ESPECIALLY to explore Roma contemporary art’s role in FUTURES OFFERS A the nation states in this significant culture was very highly debated BEING PART OF THE OPENING IN CONNECTION TO defining, reflecting and influencing Roma culture. art event. until the years of early 2000. The CEREMONY ON THE 10TH OF CELEBRATING ROMA ARTS AND The exhibition offers new and spontaneous intertextuality of Roma scholarship COUNTER-NARRATIVE” MAY, 2019? CULTURE? re-interpretations of Roma past, present and The first Roma exhibition of on Roma arts and culture and futures via a fusion of the traditional and the 2007 was called “Paradise the excellence of artists of Roma It is an immense honour to be Exhibiting at the futuristic in order to critique the current situation Lost” featuring a selection of origin have stabilized this notion part of an opening where ERIAC, is immensely important for us, for Roma people and to re-examine historical contemporary Roma artists from of Roma art. It’s not an ethnic as a Roma-led institution, is as we can showcase our vision events. Imagining Roma bodies in speculative eight European countries with category. Roma arts speaks very presenting an exhibition 12 years of ourselves and of the world in FUTUROMA futures offers a counter narrative to the reductive Open Society Foundations being authentically and sensitively from after the first Roma pavilion time and space alongside other ways that Roma culture has been understood the commissioner and its catalyst. within the Roma subjectivity. The opened here in Venice. I am nation-states. We can show, like and constructed—thereby moving our cultural The exhibition marked the arrival notion of Roma art has been the walking in the footsteps of the many Roma do in sports, that OPENING PROGRAM expression beyond the restrictive motifs of of contemporary Roma culture on most important vehicle in the past previous generations of Roma when rules are clear and fair, oppression toward a radical and progressive the international stage and sent five decades to speak positively intellectuals, artists and cultural and when we are not judged by vision of Roma to come. MAY 10, 2019 16.00 – 22.00 an important message of inclusion. about the Roma experience, to producers who have shaped our the colour of our skin but by the In 2011, the exhibition “Call the gain visibility and momentum for artistic and activist history. That richness of our talent, we can do The confluence of traditional knowledge and 16.00 – 18.30 18:30 – 19:00 Witness” addresses the situation of the Roma political movement and history is a basis for FUTUROMA, just as well as any other group contemporary art practice evident within PUBLIC CELEBRATION, RECEPTION PERFORMATIVE MARCH the Roma within European culture to fight against anti-Gypsyism. a forward-looking reflection that has established a nation. FUTUROMA combines to highlight possibilities TO THE FUTURE and society. The current FUTUROMA that is itself making history – at Despite the fact that we do not for different ways of being. Here artworks are PALAZZO CAVALLI FRANCHETTI exhibition is a Roma initiative HOW DO YOU SEE THE FUTURE a time when Roma in European formally have the same status rooted in the techniques and traditions of the S. Marco, 2847, 30124 Venice, Italy 19.00 – 22:00 with a Roma curator and artists of OF ROMA IN THE CONTEXT OF societies are increasingly at the Biennale, our artistic Roma diaspora, but at the same time decisively EXHIBITION OPENING Roma origin exhibiting. It embodies CONTEMPORARY ART? threatened by populism and expression breaks through any forward-looking. The acts of remembering and Performance by the notion of Roma contribution fascism, which exploit deeply social, economic or political imagining manifest within these artworks point Delaine Le Bas FONDAMENTA ZATTERE and Roma leadership as well as The Future of Roma in ingrained prejudice against bars that have been put on us. toward ambitious visions of life affirming futures and Mihaela Drǎgan Allo Spirito Santo, 417, excellence and highest quality of contemporary art is bright. The Roma. That prejudice is the and at the same time allow reinterpretation our 30123 Venice, Italy standards in arts. number of majority organizations wrong answer to the question HOW DO YOU IMAGINE collective pasts. Welcome address: who invite the Roma contribution of who the Roma are. This THE FUTURE OF ROMA Presentation WHY IS IT NECESSARY TO HAVE is growing, while the community exhibition, on the other hand, is REPRESENTATION IN THE In their unique manner each of the artworks Zeljko Jovanovic Daniel Baker A ROMA PRESENCE AT THE is pressing for art institutions a first-person expression of who VENICE BIENNALE? HOW on display in FUTUROMA variously employ and Chairman of the ERIAC Board and Director, Curator BIENNALE? and professional museum spaces Open Society Foundations Roma Initiatives Office we are. DO YOU IMAGINE THE deconstruct different aspects of the primeval, simultaneously on multiple locations. REPRESENTATION OF ROMA the everyday and the futuristic. These objects Moritz Pankok Roma presence at the Biennale Paolo Baratta Director, Kai Dikhas Contemporary Arts Gallery WHAT MADE IT POSSIBLE TO (ARTS AND CULTURE) IN move between the familiar and the unexpected unveils the pedagogy of how President/ Andrea del Mercato, Director, BUILD SUCH AN AMBITIOUS GENERAL? taking us beyond the confines of time and place La Biennale di Venezia inspiring, fertile and transformative Performative lecture by PROJECT? to a different kind of objectivity—to a place to The world of arts, while always Prof. Ethel Brooks see anew. New site-specific works emphasize Performance by Feminist scholar, Rutgers University FUTUROMA was made possible able to help build nation-states, the implications of materiality—physical stuff Santino Spinelli and Dijana Pavlovic by the immense artistic gravitas was never limited to states. On that takes up space in the world. After all, it is – poetry and music Rashida Bumbray, of our curator, Daniel Baker, the the contrary, it has served as an the Roma’s physical presence that is continually Curator and choreographer artists whose works are exhibited expression of suffering caused contested, marked by questions of where and how here, the visionary leadership of by nation-states – for example we are permitted to exist. Opening remarks: AFTER-PARTY Timea Junghaus, who pioneered the case of oppressed minorities with DJ László Farkas ‘Gypsyrobot’ the Roma presence at the Venice – as well build bridges among As well as being a means to re-discover Roma Heiko Maas Minister of Foreign Affairs, Biennale a decade ago, and the states – between and history in an impactful and engaging way the incredible people who work with Germany, for instance. Art has project is a chance to envision a future where Snezana Samardzić-Marković, ERIAC. Their collective strength always been a divine touch upon Roma truly belong. As Roma we are too often told Director General of Democracy, Council of Europe has been the key to putting this the deeply situated humanity in that we have no future—that we remain relics of together and it only exemplifies each of us. As such, Roma arts the past. FUTUROMA draws together visions of what the Roma people are and culture represent a unique Patrick Gaspard our future to present an alternative perspective President, Open Society Foundations capable of doing when they opportunity for the Venice informed by all that came before and the promise come together from different Biennale to fulfil the ambition of of all that can be, placing us firmly in the here parts of the globe, and when art and expand its promise for Timea Junghaus and now. Executive Director, European Roma Institute for Arts Timea Junghaus they have a few determined the future. and Culture Timea Junghaus Executive Director of ERIAC friends. Executive Director of ERIAC Music by Dorantes Tímea Junghaus is an art historian and contemporary art curator. She started in the position of Executive Director of the European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture in September 2017. PERFORMING ARTISTS OF THE EXHIBITION OPENING MEDEA RROMNJA Our Bodies & Voices Are Ours Our Skin, Hair & Eyes Are The Colours They Are Meant To Be We Will Not Be Bound By Dust Covered Manuscripts We Will Not be Silenced We Know Our History We Will Be Empowered Through Each Other DIJANA ALEXIAN GYPSY DORANTES We Are International Dorantes (Lebrija, Sevilla, 1969), known as “The jewel of the We Are Universal PAVLOVIĆ GROUP ROBOT flamenco piano” cannot be easily Dijana Pavlović (1976) is an The musical group has been László Farkas is a Hungarian described musically. Belongs to Italian naturalized Serbian researching and developing for Roma DJ, media producer and the flamenco world by cradle and We Have Infinite Talents actress, activist and politician. years the Romani music culture. Roma LGBTQI activist currently experiences, but his creations are Born in Kruševac (Serbia); she The concert is nothing more than living in Berlin. He plays under absolutely personal. It has nothing We Have Expert Knowledge graduated from the Faculty of a seminar - concert through the DJ-alterego Gypsyrobot, who to do with the most common fusion Dramatic Arts of the University Romani musical styles for an is an artificial human, a two-soul experiments. He has endowed the We Are Roma of Belgrade. For several years, ideal journey into the depths biorobot with the “disco lover” piano with an enriching dimension, Pavlović has been promoting the of Romani history and culture female soul and with a “house is a virtuoso instrumentalist culture and literature of the Roma, interpreted in an absolutely and techno freak” male soul. He that denotes his step by the We Are FutuRoma! also playing the role of cultural original way. The leader of the regularly performs at European conservatory and, in addition, it “Through these collaborations, (Delaine Le Bas, Belgrade, 5th February 2019) mediator in schools. Group: Alexian Santino Spinelli, LGBTQI Pride events. He is the sounds really jondo. accordionist and singer known founder of the Queer Roma internationally for its many media project called “QRTV combining performance, acting, cultural activities, has taken part Europa”. in numerous television programs, writing texts, theatre, stage design, his writings are published in major newspapers and international costuming, art, visual and audio publications. The Alexian group has participated in all the most “FUSION OF media and technology we will important festivals besides those of gypsy and ethnic music helping to spread the ancient Romani THE TRADITIONAL continue to challenge what is culture worldwide. presumed about us, who we are, AND THE FUTURISTIC…” what we are, what we look like, what our potential is. THE FUTURE IS ROMA -

Medea Rromnja FUTUROMA, Theatre. Installation. performance Directed by: Slaviša Markovic and Moritz Pankok, Stage: Delaine Le Bas, Dramaturgy: Tina Turnheim, Production Manager: Sabrina COME OUT NOW! Apitz, Music: Flo Thamer, Video: Matthias Schellenberger, Theater Pedagogy: Anna Koch. With: Mihaela Drǎgan, Sakip Jusic, Estera Join us! We are Radically Diverse Iordan, Delaine Le Bas, Ramona Rahimić, Theresa Selter, Dafni Sofianopoulou, Estera Sara and we will celebrate who we are Stan, Tamara Weber, Luca-Zoé. Photo credit: Moritz Pankok and what we have to offer!” “THE FEDERAL “ROMA ART EXISTS “WE ROMA ARE A GOVERNMENT – THIS IS AN ACT PEOPLE; WE HAVE MONUMENT OF HOPE CONTINUES ITS OF AFFIRMATION AN IDENTITY AND A “THROUGH FUTUROMA, “ERIAC IS GREAT NEWS ENGAGEMENT FOR AND NOT ONE OF CULTURE. WE ARE NOT THE PROTECTION OF DEFENSE!” A “SOCIAL PROBLEM”. ERIAC IS CHANGING FOR ALL EUROPEANS Thomas Acton, 2007 THE HISTORY OF DETERMINED TO NATIONAL MINORITIES WITH THE EUROPEAN AT THE EUROPEAN ROMA INSTITUTE FOR VENICE BIENNALE FOR COUNTER THE “THE FEDERAL AND INTERNATIONAL ARTS AND CULTURE, ALL MINORITIES, NON- NEGATIVE PREJUDICE GOVERNMENT LEVEL. SUBSEQUENTLY, OUR CHILDREN WILL TERRITORIAL NATIONS THAT POISONS COMMISSIONER FOR The Monument of Hope AT THE INVITATION BE PROUD OF THEIR AND THOSE SECTORS PEOPLE’S MINDS AND MATTERS RELATED a participatory and OF THE FEDERAL HERITAGE. THEY WILL OF POPULATION SOULS.” TO ETHNIC GERMAN accumulative monument Nicoleta Bitu, 8 June 2017 GOVERNMENT THE MEET THE FUTURE to be handed to the WHO DO NOT FIT THE RESETTLERS AND leadership of the Venice RIGID FRONTIERS OF “EUROPEAN ROMA HEADS ON.” NATIONAL MINORITIES Dijana Pavlovic, 8 June 2017 Biennale to testify the “ERIAC WILL INSTITUTE FOR ART NATIONAL CULTURAL SUPPORTS ERIAC’S immense need for urgent TRANSFORM THE AND CULTURE” NARRATIVES.” INITIATIVE TO SEEK “ERIAC WILL HELP inclusion of Europe`s Anna Mirga-Kruszelnicka, 25 April 2019 NEGATIVE DISCOURSE WAS ESTABLISHED largest minority into the A PERMANENT STIMULATE AND ABOUT ROMA IN BERLIN IN JUNE permanent program PRESENCE AND ENCOURAGE “THE EUROPEAN ROMA INTO A DISCOURSE 2017. THE PROJECT, of the La Biennale di PARTICIPATION OF ROMA CULTURAL Venezia. INSTITUTE FOR ARTS OF CULTURAL INITIATED BY THE EUROPEAN ROMA IN PRODUCTION. IT WILL Testimonies are collected AND CULTURE WILL RECOGNITION AND COUNCIL OF throughout the Biennale FUTURE BIENNIALS OF SERVE AS A TOOL FOR USE THE POWER OF RESPECT.” EUROPE AND THE from the FUTUROMA Delaine Le Bas, 8 June 2017 CONTEMPORARY ART RESTORING ROMA audience. The Monument CULTURE TO COMBAT OPEN SOCIETY ENDURING PREJUDICES IN VENICE.” CULTURE, ROMA is on display in the FOUNDATIONS, Dr Bernd Fabrizius, April 3 2019 “WE ARE ALL GYPSIES”, HISTORY, AND ROMA exhibition space at the WITH OUR OWN Opening of the Call the Witness –Exhibition IS DESIGNED TO FUTUROMA exhibition. POSITIVE IDENTITY.” Salman Rushdie, 2011 DIGNITY.” The Book of Testimonies Romani Rose, 8 June 2017 REDUCE PREJUDICE “NEVER AGAIN, A Sead Kazanxhiu, 8 June 2017 is available for the AGAINST THE ROMA VENICE BIENNALE audience`s viewing… MINORITY IN EUROPE WITHOUT A ROMA This is how Roma change AND SUPPORT EXHIBITION!“ (the art) world…. Timea Junghaus, June 8 2007 THEIR SUCCESSFUL INTEGRATION BY SYSTEMATICALLY RECORDING AND FUTUROMA EXHIBTION VENUE FONDAMENTA ZATTERE PUBLICLY PRESENTING Allo Spirito Santo, 417, THE ARTS AND 30123 Venice, Italy CULTURE OF THE ROMA IN EUROPE.” Federal Foreign Minister Heiko Maas, February 13th 2019. CELIA MARCUS- BAKER GUNNAR was born in 1923 in Kent, the youngest of nine children born to the Coates family of English Romani Gypsies. She PETTERSSON raised a large family and spent time born in 1987 in Arvika, is a Swedish in occupations including hawking and illustrator educated in graphic design farm labour. Celia’s wool works began and illustration at Konstfack. In 2014, he in 2006. Her work has been exhibited debuted as a picture book illustrator in: ‘No Gorgios’, Novas, London, UK, with the books Dansbus & Kaktrubbel, 2007; ‘Refusing Exclusion’, Badbomber & Simhopp, and Camping & Biennale, Prague, , Kurragömma, as a part of the government’s 2007; ‘More love ours than can ever Roma strategy to integrate Roma into be repaid’, FEINKOST, Berlin, Germany, society. The stories are set in the present 2009. ‘The Glass Delusion’, The National day and have Roma children as the main Glass Centre, Newcastle, UK, 2010. characters. In 2015, the picture book ‘Call the Witness’, 54th Venice Biennale, Bosses Rymdäventyr, Bonnier Carlsenm was Venice, Italy, 2011. Lives and works in released by Petrus Dahlin with illustrations London, UK. by Pettersson; that year, he also received the Albert Engström’s youth prize. In 2018, Pettersson debuted his own picture book

FUTUROMA ARTISTS FUTUROMA Modig somm ett lejon, a humorous and ARTISTS FUTUROMA detailed picture book with animal idioms written in verse. He lives and works in Arvika, Sweden. For more information, visit: www.marcusgunnar.se

Abstract 1 2015 Pencil, pen and watercolour on paper Private collectio

Wool Work 2006 Knitted textile installation Courtesy of the artist

JÁN BERKY ÖDÖN was born in Studenec, Detva, Slovakia in 1951. Apprenticed as a welder, Berky worked GYÜGYI in engineering in Detva for 21 years. In 2002, after a period of unemployment, he was born in 1966 in Mátészalka, discovered the plastic arts as a means of Hungary. His graphic works combine overcoming depression. Berky employs a Christian iconography with a kind of number of different media in his work. Themes Gypsy genesis mythology and can be which appear in his work include: the fate considered a personal rationale for of the Roma, their history and current social the world order. He debuted with a situation, and Roma music. Berky is also a group exhibition at the István Pataky talented musician, and his paintings have won Cultural Centre in 1984. His work was several awards. A documentary film about included in the 2nd National Exhibition Berky was produced in 1998. He lives and of Self-taught Gypsy Artists at the works in Detva, Slovakia. Museum of Ethnography in Budapest. He has participated in several group shows including "The Contemporary Gypsy Religious Art" (2003), "The Female Figure in Gypsy Art" (2005), as well as a series of thematic exhibitions organized by The Gypsy House. He lives and works in Budapest, Hungary.

Zöld Alma (Green Apples) 2000 Mixed media on paper “AT THE BIENNALE, WE ROMA Courtesy of the artist CAN SHOW OUR BOND TO THE

Ján Berky Khatar avlam the kaj dzavas? TYPICALLY ROMANI - AND TO THE (Where we came from and where we are going?) 1997 Collage on paper UNIVERSAL HUMAN CULTURE ON AN Courtesy of the artist and the Museum of Romani Culture, INTERNATIONAL FLOOR.” FUTUROMA ARTISTS LAKATOS KLÁRA Budapest, Hungary. Kethano Drom,andLungoDrom.Shelivesworksin appeared inRomajournals,includingAmaroDrom, Experiment).Herdrawingshavefrequently Diary Szolnokig collectionofpoems,"Napló-Kisérlet"(English: collection ofchildren’sbooks,aswelltheZsoltCsánya Roma Parliamentin2001.Shehasillustratedherown inthe exhibition washeldattheBalázsJánosGallery the UniversityofPécsinculturalorganisation.Herfirst correspondent studentandlaterearnedadegreeat SzabóGrammerSchoolinBudapestasa from Ervin in1968. Shegraduated was borninCsenger,Hungary, Courtesy oftheartis Courtesy Mandala 2017 Klára Lakatos Mixed media Courtesy oftheartist Courtesy Ceramic, whiteclayandglaze Dark Origin2008 Billy Kerry BILLY KERRY Cambridge, UnitedKingdom allow newinsightintothewaywelivetoday. Lives andworksin Pop Cultureinclasheswhichchallengeestablishedvaluesto elements andaestheticmotifsrangingfromVictorianatocurrent and constructedconformity. Heemploysdiverseconceptual and challengespreconceivedviewsofethnicity,genderroles investigates between bodyandobject.Through hiswork,Kerry andmaterial; narrates thecloseinterrelationbetweenartist eclecticpractice at CambridgeRegionalCollege. Kerry's Billy hasbeeninspiringothersbyteachingandsupporting inLondon. Sincegraduatingin2009 Chelsea CollegeofArt andeducatorfromCambridge, UK.Billytrainedat is anartist VALÉRIE LERAY VALÉRIE “FUTORAMAIS AS UNFOLDING.” WHERETHE PAST IS THEFUTURE TURNEDTOWARDS CYCLORAMATHAT IS www.valerieleray.photography Germany andOrléans,France: festival, Paris,Berlin,Orléans.Livesandworksin (Mexico D.F), PyngyaoInternationalPhotography Monat derFotografie(Berlin),Fotoseptiembre exhibited invariouscountriesincluding:Europäischer Directorate ofCulturalAffairs.Herworkshasbeen oftheRegional 2009, Leray receivedthesupport of “The EuropeanYear forInterculturalDialog”.In 2008, herproject“Nomads”wasawardedaspart photography. incontemporary absence ofHistory In Leray’s workdealswithquestionsofthepresenceand Paris 8University. Asanindependentphotographer as MasterofPhotographyandMultimediaatthe France in1975.Shegraduated was borninChartres, / InternmentCampforGypsies 1940-1946, Castel “delaPierre”Coudrecieux 2006 France 2006,Photograph Courtesy oftheartist Courtesy Valérie Leray Courtesy oftheartist Courtesy Photograph byDamianLe Bas Romani Embassy2015 Delaine Le Bas visit www.delainelebas.com various locationsthroughoutEurope. Formoreinformation, &Learning London. Arts Livesandworksin Contemporary Theatre inBerlin.Le Basisalsoassociatecuratorat198 late husbandDamianwhichtookplaceatMaximGorki The FirstRomaBiennale2018;anideainitiatedbyher and iscocuratorwithHamzeBytyciforComeOutNow! andcuratorforAthensBiennale2018 2012. Sheisartist Hunt wasexhibitedatGwangjuBiennaleSouthKorea the 2007Venice Biennale. Le Bas’installationWitch exhibiting atThe FirstRomaPavilionParadiseLost at Biennale’s 2005&2007.Shewasoneofsixteenartists Delaine Le Bas’workshavebeenexhibitedatPrague “THEFUTURE IS ROMA - DELAINE LE BAS LE DELAINE HAVETO WEARE AND WHAT WE WEWILL CELEBRATE WHO RADICALLYDIVERSE AND NOW!JOIN US! WE ARE FUTUROMA,COME OUT

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FUTUROMA ARTISTS EMÍLIA RIGOVÁ SELMA (born 1980, Trnava) is a visual artist and university teacher based in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia. In her SELMAN graphics, installations, performances and site- specific interventions she works with the topic (born 1991 in Bihac, Bosnia and of cultural and social stereotypes and politics Herzegovina) is an artist of Romani of the body. Rigová’s work focuses on minorities origin. Her work is representative of systematically eradicated from hegemonic historical her life struggles and those of her discourses, collective memory and visions of common community. Selman participated in future. She works with the topic of constructions Tania Bruguera’s International Summer of Romani identity and cultural and political Academy in Salzburg, “Arte Util” (Useful appropriation of the Romani body in Westernculture. Arts) in 2013. She was a fellow of the Rigová exhibits extensively and is also active as Roma Graduate Preparation Program a writer and editor. She is laureate of the Oskár at Central European University in Čepan Award for young Slovak artists. Lives and Budapest, Hungary. In Selman received works in Banská Bystrica (SK): the prestigious “Zvono Award”, given www.emiliarigova.com/ to the best young artist in Bosnia and Herzegovina, winning her a residency in New York City. Selman holds an MFA from Syracuse University. Lives and works “FUTUROMA IS A WAY FOR THE in the USA and Europe: GENERAL PUBLIC TO RECOGNIZE www.selmanselma.com

FUTUROMA ARTISTS FUTUROMA OUR ROMA CULTURE THROUGH ARTISTS FUTUROMA Selma Selman MICRO STORIES OF INDIVIDUALS, Self-portrait (washing machine) 2016 BECAUSE IT IS A WAY TO BREAK Photograph by Tanja Kanazir FREE FROM STEREOTYPING OR Courtesy of the artist DELUSIONS THAT ARE CONSTANTLY CIRCULATING ABOUT US.” “I BELIEVE THAT WE ARE LIVING IN A WORLD THAT IS INDEFINITE (…) I BELIEVE NEW DREAMS ARE COMING TO Emília Rigová ALL OF US, AND I BELIEVE NOW IS THE TIME TO OPEN Raw Gender 2016 Digital image THIS WORLD TO THE BEST POSSIBLE DREAMS.” Courtesy of the artist

MARKÉTA DAN TURNER is an artist and educator from London, a Romani Gypsy born in 1956 in Kent, UK. Turner trained ŠESTÁKOVÁ at St Martins School of Art, London, where he completed a BA Hons in Fine Art (Sculpture). was born in Rokycany, Pilson Region, Czech Republic, Recently his art is concerned with changes in in 1952. After the death of her mother, Sestáková grew group identity and social cohesion. He uses up in a children’s home, later rediscovering the world of traditional iconic objects to explore themes of the Roma, never to leave again. Since the mid-1990’s, transaction, scrutinising interactions between she has devoted time to the traditional practice of Romani and mainstream cultures. Dan has embroidery. Sestáková’s hand-embroidered works depict worked with the Wellcome Trust Reading Room Romani life as a pastoral idyll. The current problems and Chisenhale Art Place on collaborative that Roma face are not the subject of her work, but projects which examine traditionally perceived she is not oblivious to such concerns and has discussed ideas of Romani of luck and healing and how them regularly in the Romani newspaper, Romano these experiences feed into collective memory. Hangos, published in Brno. She lives and works in České Lives and works in London, . Budějovice, Czech Republic. “WORKING WITH ARTISTS “EVERY COUNTRY, NATION OR ETHNICITY OF ALL AGES FROM HAS ITS OWN CULTURE ALL OVER THE WORLD AND HISTORY – IN MY OFFERS A UNIQUE EMBROIDERED PICTURES, OPPORTUNITY TO BUILD I SHOW THE ROMA A ROMA ART MOVEMENT CULTURE.” IN OUR OWN IMAGE. “ Markéta Šestáková Slunecnice (Romksy Zivot), Sunflowers (Roma life) 2005 Dan Turner Wool embroidery Seeds of Change 2019 Courtesy of the artist Installation and related artefacts and the Museum of Romani Culture, Brno Courtesy of the artist ALFRED ABOUT ERIAC RESPECT OF THE DIGNITY OF ERIAC has a unique and single mandate AND ROMANI ULLRICH as the first transnational, European- level organization for the recognition of IDENTITY was born in 1948 in Schwabmünchen, Germany, to a Roma arts and culture. Sinti family. He spent his childhood in Austria. Like many The European Roma Institute for Arts Austrian Roma, many of Ullrich’s family became victims and Culture e.V. (ERIAC) is a joint of Nazi racial persecution. Reflections upon war and initiative of the Council of Europe, the DIVERSITY AND PLURALITY the social situation of his childhood form the source Open Society Foundations, and the of his artistic inspiration. He employs various graphic Roma Leaders’ initiative – the Alliance OF ROMANI IDENTITIES AND techniques as well as creating objects and assemblages. for the European Roma Institute. ERIAC is Ullrich’s works are included in collections across Austria an association registered under German CULTURES and Germany (Graphotek and Stadtbibliothek/Artothek law on 07 June 2017, in Berlin, Germany. in Berlin). He exhibits extensively, including the 2nd ERIAC exists to increase the self-esteem Roma Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, Call the Witness of Roma and to decrease negative in 2011. Ullrich is a member of the Artists Association prejudice of the majority population ROMANI LEADERSHIP WITH THE Dachau and the BBK Munich and Upper Bavaria. Lives towards the Roma by means of arts, and works in Dachau, Germany. culture, history, and media. ERIAC acts as an international creative SUPPORT AND CO-OPERATION “ROMA ARE CITIZENS OF hub to support the exchange of creative ideas across borders, cultural domains OF NON-ROMA ALMOST EVERY COUNTRY and Romani identities. ERIAC aims to be IN THE WORLD. THEY the promoter of Romani contributions

FUTUROMA ARTISTS FUTUROMA to European culture and talent, REPRESENT A DIVERSE success and achievement, as well as to ENGAGEMENT AND document the historical experiences IMAGE OF THE SOCIAL of Romani people in Europe. ERIAC CONTRIBUTION OF AND CULTURAL REALITIES exists to be a communicator and public educator, to disseminate a positive ROMANI ORGANIZATIONS IN VARIOUS SOCIAL AND image and knowledge about Romani CULTURAL SYSTEMS.” people for dialogue and building mutual AND INDIVIDUALS IN THE respect and understanding. ESTABLISHMENT AND ONGOING Alfred Ullrich O.T. 1997 ACTIVITIES OF THE INSTITUTE Lythographic print on paper Courtesy of the artist and the Museum of Romani Culture, Brno POLITICAL AUTONOMY AND NON-PARTISANSHIP Donations for FUTUROMA are welcome

European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture LÁSZLÓ VARGA Bank Name: Deutsche Bank HIGHEST QUALITY STANDARDS IN was born in 1963, in Csenger, Hungary, to a Roma- Bank Address: Deutsche Bank AG, Taunusanlage 12, Jewish family. Although he initially wanted to become 60325 Frankfurt am Main OF ARTS AND CULTURE a car mechanic, Varga realized early on that drawing IBAN: DE74 1007 0024 0935 7351 00 and painting were the most interesting parts of his study SWIFT: DEUTDEDBBER curriculum. In his free time, Varga began to attend art classes, where he learned to draw and paint. Varga later attended courses for autodidacts at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts in Budapest where he also learned the techniques of sculpture and printmaking. In 2006, Varga earned a degree in cultural management and film history at the Karolyi Gáspár University in Szombathely. He has since participated in several group exhibitions in Budapest, Hungary.

László Varga Tanulmány a Végtelenről (Study of the infinite) 1991 Pencil on paper Courtesy of the artist and the Ethnographic Museum, Budapest photo credit: ERIAC FUTUROMA — THE PROMISE OF ALL THAT CAN BE, PLACING ROMA FIRMLY IN THE HERE AND NOW!

PUBLISHER: MANAGEMENT: FUTUROMA OPENING: DESIGN: ERIAC Zsigmond Bernáthy ERIAC Timea Junghaus MUSIC: www.solid.hu PLACE OF PUBLISHING: executive director Romano Dromi: EUROPEAN ROMA Berlin, Germany Anna Mirga-Kruszelnicka Lina, ABM Remix 2010 PRINT: deputy director Printed in Italy with the support of INSTITUTE FOR ARTS EDITORS: PERFORMANCE: Ufficio Nazionale Antidiscriminazini Razziali Zsófia Bihari AND CULTURE Aleksandra Koluvija curatorial assistant Emilia Rigova: (UNAR), Rome, Italy and Marina Csikós “There is no freedom without victory” — Almir Huseini Ishtar, 2019 – Supported by Michal Miko FILM REFERENCE ON PAGE 5: program officer Berlin - 10117 Mitte SPECIAL THANKS: Kecskemet Film. Luisella Pavan-Woolfe Joanna Khandjieva Selma Selman: Gypsy Tales – Doja, the Gypsy Fairy Reinhardtstrasse 41-43. head of CoE Venice Office financial manager “Viva La Vida“ and „Roma Performing the flag Original tale by Magda Szecsi, and her team — Katalin Németh No 1”, Video Performance drawings by Terez Orsos www.eriac.org program officer Directed by Maria Horvath 2015 FUTUROMA LOCATIONS ARE PROVIDED BY: Istituto Veneto di Scienze Lettere ed Arti

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