Meet the European Roma Cultural Foundation
BOARD MEMBERS:
Dr. Maria Bogdan, ERCF board member, researcher and media scholar, fellow at the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies, based in Vienna.
Andrea Gruber, ERCF board member, Educational Advisor on trauma-informed and inclusion approaches, Council of Europe, based in Hungary.
Timea Junghaus, ERCF board member, esecutive director, European Roma Cultural Foundation, based in Berlin&Budapest.
Dr.Angéla Kóczé, ERCF board member, Associate Professor and Chair of the Romani Studies Program, Central European University, based in Vienna.
Dr. Éva Judit Kovács, ERCF board member, Acting Director, Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies, based in Vienna and Budapest.
Sári Péli-Koroknai, ERCF board member, line producer for film and television, Lions Production, based in Budapest.
Dr. Anna Lujza Szász, ERCF board member, sociologist and lecturer at Corvinus University of Budapest.
OUR FOUNDER
Ildikó Sárközi is a Hungarian businesswoman who built her fortune on a rare talent for sales and who holds firmly to European values. She had watched Roma creative production come into its own and understood the seriousness of the work being done by Roma cultural theorists, and when the First Roma Pavilion at the Venice Biennale earned its standing in the world she founded the institution that would carry that recognition forward, entrusting its direction and its resources to the women whose vision it exists to serve. Her conviction is plain: creativity must remain free and independent, and art holds a power both to heal our societies and to renew them. ERCF started operation in 2010, in Budapest.
We work in common. What we make, we make with others, and we hold the labour of those who came before as the ground beneath our own. To collaborate is to admit that creation belongs to the many. A culture is raised by many hands, over many years, and we build ours in that knowledge.