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Robert Czibi is a visual artist of Roma origin who emigrated from Hungary to London in 2010. Czibi began painting in the early 1990s while studying and working as a member of the Open Studio Art Foundation in Városliget, Budapest. In 2004, after Hungary joined the EU, Czibi travelled to Greece and Cyprus and worked in Athens and Crete before returning to Central Europe for his first solo exhibition at the Goethe Institute in Budapest. In the following years, he participated in various art projects and workshops in Hungary, also influenced by a Roma art group, where he began to focus on issues of ethnicity, identity and values of Roma culture.
Robert Czibi’s Roma heritage has an impact on his choice of themes, lightens his exploration of real life and the artistic context, and allows new qualities to appear in creative production and everyday life. In addition to acrylic, pastel and watercolour, his current interests include image transfer and collage techniques, exploring a different form of expression, using image transfer and watercolour combined on paper. Czibi often applies patterns and artefacts from traditional Roma culture in contexts that go beyond what is usually understood and expected from Roma culture. It is an exploration of the possibility of borrowing elements of culture through art, images and media.
2022 YRA22 Young Romani Artists group exhibition Stiftung Kai Dikhas, Berlin
2021 World Roma Congress Art Exhibition 198 Gallery, London & Stiftung Kai Dikhas, Berlin.
2021 World Roma Congress 50th Anniversary, online
2019 Roma Stories touring exhibition, collaborating with Roma Support Group – Oral History Project
2019 A group exhibition on analogue collage at Genesis Cinema Gallery, London
2019 Transfers Collage exhibition at UCL Festive of Culture, London
2018 Gypsy Roma Travellers History Month celebration, exhibition at City Hall, London
2017 AQUARELLAND solo exhibition at Bon Matin Cafe, London, Finsbury Park.
2017 Sense of belonging: Mozaics from a new Portrait of London at Waterstones Gallery, Gower street.
2017 ROOTS a multi artist exhibition at Park Theatre,London
2016 Exhibition Vagabond of Bloomsbury part of UCL’s Festival of Culture
2016 New York City at NYU Romani/Gypsy Art and Letters Conference. Presenting on my Roma identity and my works on the same theme was exhibited during the event.
