This is Another Socially Engaged Conversation … on anti-racist practices

Date: 6–7 March, 2026
Venue: Jurányi Labor, Jurányi u. 3., 1027 Budapest / Jurányi Labor is located in the B building, III. floor, the entrance gate opens by pressing the doorbell!

The international gathering taking place on 6–7 March forms part of OFF-Biennale Budapest’s long-term program, which collaborates in various formats with artists and thinkers of Roma origin to explore contemporary forms, possibilities, and limitations of Roma cultural representation, as well as related social issues such as institutional racism. The program—comprising public presentations and a roundtable discussion, as well as closed workshops—marks an important milestone within the international collaborations connected to OFF-Biennale’s most recent edition, Poems of Unrest (2025), and continues the RomaMoMA project presented at documenta fifteen (2022).

The aim of the meeting is to connect Roma experiences with those of other marginalized, minority, and diasporic communities living in Europe, and to examine how art can contribute to achieving transformative justice in response to structural racism. A key objective of the program is to share good practices and to bring together different forms of knowledge—artistic, academic, and civic/activist.

Historically, the situation of Roma minorities in Europe has most often been discussed in relation to the respective national majorities, and less frequently in comparison with the experiences of other “non-white” European minorities. This program seeks to broaden that perspective: we aim to situate the knowledge of Roma artists and their allies within a wider European discourse on decolonization and justice.

The title of the program was inspired by a painting by the Gypsy Criminals.

Friday, 6 March

17:00 Angéla Kóczé (CEU Romani Studies): Who Cleans the Country? Postcolonial Ambivalence and the Politics of Anti-Roma Racism in Hungary
17:30 Lecture by Quinsy Gario, artist and educator from Curaçao and St. Maarten, based in the Netherlands
18:20 Clara Farkas: Presentation of Bura Gallery (Budapest)
18:40 Hilda Moucharrafieh: Presentation of (A)WAKE (Rotterdam)
19:20 Roundtable discussion with the speakers, moderated by Judit Ignácz

The Friday event is public and will be held in English.

On Saturday, 7 March, the program continues with closed workshops for young artists and professionals, the workshops will be led by Cigánybűnözők, Cat Jugravu, and Hilda Moucharrafieh.

The program is organized in collaboration between OFF-Biennale Budapest, Bura Gallery (Budapest), and the CEU Romani Studies Program, with the support of the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Hungary.

 

(Cover image: Gypsy Criminals, This is another socially sensitive exhibition, 2024, photo: courtesy of the artists)