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The Open Society Institute, the Allianz Kulturstiftung and the European Cultural Foundation are pleased to sponsor The First Roma Pavilion at the 52nd Venice Biennale. With artists representing eight countries, this is the first truly European pavilion in the Biennale's history, located in an exceptional space – Palazzo Pisani Santa Marina, a typical 16th-century Venetian palace in the city’s Canareggio district.
Aryeh Neier
President, Open Society Institute
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The last issue of the newsletter of Paradise Lost-The First Roma Pavilion at the 52nd Venice Biennale
Published monthly, this newsletter covers the exhibition Paradise Lost, as well as the connecting events related to the Roma Pavilion.
IN FOCUS
Roma Pavilion closes, over 20,000 visitors
Paradise Lost, the First Roma Pavilion at the Venice Biennale of Contemporary Art was closed on November 16. More
Roma Pavilion International Award for Young Curators and Art Critics goes to…
Tijana Stepanovic, Hungary for her essay entitled Fat Barbie, Tattoo and Rules of Spelling. The submitted applications were reviewed by an international jury of five made up of Barnabas Bencsik, Silvina Der-Meguerditchian, Annie Fletcher, Marina Grzinic and Beral Madra. More
Roma Pavilion presented in London
Time of the Gypsies? was an evening of art, debate and music in London’s ‘Frontline Club’, marking Paradise Lost - The First Roma Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. More
… and in Rome
Over 200 students and professors packed the amphitheater at the Department of Art of the University Sapienza in Rome on November 26 to see presentations of the Virtual Biennale by ArteFacta and the First Roma Pavilion. More
Travelers exhibition opens in Galerie Steinle in Munich
Three artists presented in Paradise Lost-The First Roma Pavilion at the 52nd Venice Biennale of Contemporary Art are featured in an exhibition which will be open in Munich until the end of January. More
Virtual Roma Pavilion available online
Those who could not travel to Venice this summer can still visit the Biennale online, thanks to the ArteFacta project. One of the exhibitions featured in this free-of-charge multimedia tour on the Internet is Paradise Lost. Ten out of more then 360 short movies featured on this website are about the First Roma Pavilion. More
Who visited the Roma Pavilion?
With over 20,000 guests, Paradise Lost was one of the most visited exhibits at the 52nd Biennale. Among the visitors were numerous museum curators, gallerists, collectors, art lovers, representatives of media, civil society, academia, educational institutions and government. More
From the Book of Visitors: L’arte Rom: una gradita sorpresa
Hundreds of guests signed the Book of Visitors. Besides expressing their gratitude and congratulations to the artists, pavilion curators and managers, they often confessed that the Pavilion “opened their eyes” and helped them to discover a world that they knew nothing about before. More
Events in and around the Pavilion
A number of connecting events were organized at and around the exhibition Paradise Lost. They included literary readings, debates about Roma identity and art, concerts of Gypsy music and presentations of the Pavilion in London and Rome. These events, as much as the exhibition, brought Roma art and Roma people closer to the visitors of the Biennale, one of the most prestigious cultural events in the world, and to the art lovers in Rome and London who could not visit Venice this summer. The full list of event is available here.
Video
Paradise Lost, a journey in Roma art
Dutch film-maker, director and camerawoman Meral Uslu portrays some of the artists exhibiting at the Roma Pavilion and interviews exhibition curator Timea Junghaus.
The production of the film was made possible by the European Cultural Foundation, Prince Claus Fund and Allianz Kulturstiftung.
We apologize for the inactive links published in the previous issue of the Roma Pavilion News.
Part I
Part II
WHAT DO THEY SAY ABOUT THE ROMA PAVILION
The visitors, art critics, media continue to praise The First Roma Pavilion: while for many, Roma art is ”una gradita sorpresa”, others reflect on the importance of the Roma Pavilion for challenging the Venice Biennale’s concept of national pavilions, or on the importance of building bridges among the nations in a new Europe. More
MEDIA ABOUT THE FIRST ROMA PAVILION
Leading international media about the Pavilion – read and listen to the media coverage, published or broadcasted since the opening of the Pavilion. More
ESSAY
Fat Barbie, Tattoo and Rules of Spelling by Tijana Stepanovic, the winner of the Roma Pavilion International Award for Young Curators and Art Critics More
THE PAVILION DIARY
Who visited the Pavilion during the last month? Numbers, names, and testimonies from the Book of Visitors. More
QUOTE OF THE MONTH
“We are grateful to have been invited to Venice, but resent the brutal measures taken by the authorities against our sisters and brothers. We hope that this excessive wave of intolerance will soon be over and forgotten when we will be back in two years, anew in the friendly environment of inclusion and openness characteristic of this country, the alma mater of arts and beauty.”
-- Andras Biro, founder of the Hungarian Self-Reliance foundation and European Roma Rights Center, at the closing of the Roma Pavilion, November 16, 2007
“We are extremely happy for your presence in Rome, in this university, as an artist first, then as a woman and as a Roma person. We believe that the city of Rome must continue to be the City of Welcome to all kinds of races and people, as it has been for centuries in history”
-- Jean-Leonard Touadi, Deputy Mayor and Integration Commissioner of the City of Rome, meeting Delaine Le Bas, an artist represented in the First Roma Pavilion, at a presentation of the Pavilion at the University Sapienza in Rome on November 26, 2007.
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