Tímea Junghaus has joined the Board of the Snétberger Music Talent Foundation, strengthening one of Europe's leading institutions supporting young Roma musicians and expanding opportunities for future generations through education, artistic excellence and cultural leadership.

What if Roma art is not a separate category, but a key to understanding the cultural geography of contemporary Europe? This ERCF Commentary explores how new regional collaborations are transforming the conversation.

ERCF continues to expand its network across Central and Eastern Europe, developing new partnerships that connect artists, institutions and cultural initiatives through research, collaboration and transnational exchange.

As Hungary rethinks the future of its museum system, the European Roma Cultural Foundation argues that lasting reform requires more than institutional change. It also demands structural inclusion, cultural equality and meaningful representation of Roma heritage.

Three works from Emília Rigová's acclaimed series The Place Where Nothing Will Grow Anymore (2025) have entered the Ludwig Museum Budapest Collection. The acquisition marks an important recognition of a powerful artistic practice addressing the history of forced sterilization of Roma women and its enduring consequences.

Austrian Romani artist, writer and Holocaust survivor Ceija Stojka transformed personal testimony into a powerful act of cultural remembrance. This ERCF Perspective explores how her work continues to shape conversations on memory, self-representation and cultural agency in Europe today.

From Situationist experimentation to contemporary cultural rights debates, Pinot Gallizio's legacy offers valuable insights into cultural agency, participation and self-representation. This ERCF Perspective reflects on what his work can teach us about building more democratic and inclusive cultural futures.

The first Joint Declaration on Culture signed by the European Parliament, the Council of the EU and the European Commission highlights the growing importance of cultural rights, artistic freedom and cultural agency in Europe.

ERCF Executive Director Tímea Junghaus has published a new chapter in the volume Minority Policies and Governance in Europe. The publication explores how Roma cultural agency, self-representation, and power-sharing can reshape European cultural policy beyond traditional frameworks of inclusion.

Mo Diener, performance and installation artist and founder of Switzerland's first Roma contemporary art collective, is in residence with ERCF in Budapest — working from the city and a shared table toward what comes next.

The Dalan Fund backs ERCF's new Roma feminist curatorial strategy — placing Roma women, feminist and queer voices at the centre of programming, funding, and decision-making in Budapest and beyond.

ERCF joins Pauline Curnier Jardin's major exhibition at Palais de Tokyo - a practice rooted in Roma ancestry that reads the female body, ritual, and deviance as sites where other futures become possible. https://palaisdetokyo.com/en/exposition/virgin-turns/

Twenty years after the landmark 2006 survey, ERCF returns to the artists of Meet Your Neighbours — tracing their journeys and the new Roma talents emerging beside them across four countries.

The European Roma Cultural Foundation has joined ICOM Hungary, the Hungarian National Committee of the International Council of Museums. We enter the museum field as members, with a seat where the terms of Hungarian museum practice are set, we will advocate Roma participation and for the conservation and visibility of Roma public collections in Europe.