groepstentoonstelling door Suzana Milevska

The exhibition Call the Witness includes works by seven extraordinary artists who actively work from within and beyond their Roma identities. The works take up the role of “testimonies,” which in their own languages bear witness to past sufferings (such as the Holocaust) and of present and future anxieties, which seem to so intimately relate to the very existence of the Roma in our world. Each of these artists actively speculates about another possibility, and from within the Roma subjectivity proposes that we imagine how things could be otherwise.

This exhibition is part of a research trajectory leading to the realization of the Roma Pavilion in the context of the Collateral Events at the 54th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, 2011, organized by BAK. Commissioned by the Open Society Foundations and hosted by the UNESCO Venice Office located in the Palazzo Zorzi, the Roma Pavilion emerges into a makeshift exhibition over time through the flux of additional testimonies—works of art, performances, talks, and conversations by and with artists, philosophers, and politicians, in which the situation of the Roma and Roma art are considered as emblematic for the world today, in order to speculate, in soldarity, about more hopeful futures.

For more information regarding Call the Witness, see here.

Exhibitions

Exhibition

22.05.–24.07.2011

Call the Witness

Exhibition

01.06.–09.10.2011

Call the Witness, Roma Pavilion

Publications

newsletter

Call the Witness

essay

Call the Witness

by Suzana Milevska

exhibition text

Call the Witness

by Maria Hlavajova