A series of portraits of internationally renowned Roma artists and activists.
Photography is the most historically complex and problematic genre to ever appropriate the Romani subject. Will Roma and Sinti ever be able to dissociate themselves from the traumatizing – sexualizing and criminalizing – practices of photographic representation used throughout the history of anthropology and ethnography? And has it become definitively impossible
to turn and re-turn the photographic gaze?
Since his first exhibition in Sarajevo (1988), the questions sketched out
above have been central to the work of the artist and photographer Nihad
Nino Pusija. He continues to offer new ways to create and perceive
authentic images while dealing with anti-Roma prejudices and their political
consequences, such as deportation and assimilation. In doing so, he
contributes to the contemporary European art scene’s on-going critical
analysis of the role that pictures of so-called ‘others’ play in the self-image
of those portrayed.
Nihad Nino Pušija (D/BIH) was born 1965 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and
Hercegovina, and is a fine art photographer. His work focused primarily on
documentary and portrait photography, which aims to capture Roma identity
in Berlin, where he has been based for the past 32 years, and elsewhere in
Europe. Important themes in his work include the politics of recognition,
minority positions in contemporary artistic and curatorial practice, South –
East Europe, refugees, conflict resolution, integration, inclusion, and the
Roma and Sinti in Europe.
Curators: Era Trammer and Álvaro Garreaud
The exhibition is a collaboration between Galerie Kai Dikhas and the
Bildungsforum against Antiziganismus. It will take place in two parts, at the
Kunstraum Dikhas Dur and at the Bildungsforum
Opening: 16.May 2024 – 7pm
Exhibition: 17.May – 30 June
Place: Bildungsforum gegen Antiziganismus & Kunstraum Dikhas Dur, Prinzenstr. 84.2, 10969 Berlin
