Please join us for a Black Baroque x Critical Romani Studies conversation between artist Małgorzata Mirga-Tas and art historian Anna Mirga-Kruszelnicka.

Date: Monday, May 22, 2023

Time: 1:00PM-2:30PM CST

Location: Virtual

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Artist Bio: Małgorzata Mirga-Tas is a Polish-Roma artist and activist. In her works, she tackles the issue of anti-Gypsy stereotypes, building an affirmative iconography of Roma communities. She graduated from the Sculpture Department of the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow (2004). Her works have been presented at many solo and group exhibitions, including: the 14th Gwangju Biennale (2023), Göteborgs Konsthall (2023), the 59th Venice Biennale (2022), documenta15 in Kassel (2022), International Cultural Center in Krakow (2022), at the Guangzhou Triennial in China (2022), 11th Berlin Biennale (2020), Biennale Art Encounters in Timișoara (2019, 2021), 3rd Highway Biennale in Prizren (2021), at the Moravian Gallery in Brno (2017), Center of Polish Sculpture in Orońsko (2020), Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw (2020), Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum in Cologne (2021). She lives and works in Czarna Góra in Spisz.

Scholar Bio: Dr. Anna Mirga-Kruszelnicka is an anthropologist and a Roma activist, born in 1985 in Cracow, Poland. She earned her Ph.D. in Social and Cultural Anthropology at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) in 2016. She holds an MA in European Integration from UAB and an MA in Comparative Studies of Civilizations from the Jagiellonian University in Cracow (UJ). She is the author of policy evaluations, reports, and articles, co-editor of the “Education for Remembrance of the Roma Genocide: Scholarship, Commemoration and the Role of Youth“ (Libron, 2015), “Re-thinking Roma Resistance throughout History: Recounting Stories of Strength and Bravery” (ERIAC, 2020) and author of “Mobilizing Romani Ethnicity: Romani Political Activism in Argentina, Colombia, and Spain (CEU Press, 2022).

She has been an employee, member, founder, and collaborator of numerous Roma organisations in Poland and Spain. From 2008 to 2012 she was the European project coordinator at the Federation of Roma Associations in Catalonia (FAGIC). From 2013 to 2015 she was an Open Society Foundations Roma Initiatives Fellow, conducting a comparative study of the Roma associative movements in various countries of Latin America and Europe. From 2015 to 2017 she was the coordinator and curator of the Academic Section (aka. Roma Civil Rights Movement Section) in the RomArchive – Digital Archive of the Roma. Between 2017-2018 she was a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow of the Romani Studies Program at the Central European University (CEU) in Budapest. She serves as the deputy director of the European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (ERIAC) since January 2019.