BARVALO. Roma, Sinti, Manouches, Gitanos, Travellers...

The summer of 2023 saw a true landmark accomplishment in the promotion and celebration of Romani art and culture. The Barvalo exhibition, on view from 9 May until 4 September at Marseille’s Musée des Civilisations de l’Europe et de la Mediterranée (“Mucem”), was the first of its kind: by far the largest and most visible museum project ever focused on Romani people, and likewise the only participatory, collaborative, Roma-driven, Roma-centred museum exhibition ever to be mounted at such a scale. Barvalo has been awarded The Historia Prize for the best museum exhibition of 2023.
“Barvalo”, meaning “rich” and by extension “proud” in Romani, was dedicated to the history and diversity of the Romani peoples of Europe. The exhibition, co-curated by ERIAC in partnership with the Mucem, was designed collaboratively by a team of nineteen people of Romani (Roma, Sinti, Manouches, Gitanos, Travellers) and non-Romani origin, of different nationalities and backgrounds who have all been working on this groundbreaking project since 2018.
The exhibition brought together 200 works and documents (printed, video and sound) from French and European public and private collections, including the Louvre Museum, the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, the Museum of Ethnography in Geneva, the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, the Nicéphore Niépce Museum in Chalon-sur-Saône, the Archives départementales des Bouches-du-Rhône, the Archives municipales de Marseille, the Médiathèque Matéo Maximoff, the Musée de Grenoble, the National History Museum and the National Archives of Romania, the Kai Dikhas Foundation, the European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture in Berlin, the Dokumentations- und Kulturzentrum Deutscher Sinti und Roma in Heidelberg.
Art historian Timea Junghaus, ERIAC’s executive director and Anna Mirga-Kruszelnicka, deputy director of ERIAC, co-curator of the exhibition, guide you through the different thematic sections and highlights of the exhibition.

[@trueffel1527]

Very interesting!

[@LarzGustafsson]

I will not support idolatry. I do love the Roma people though.

[@coryparni3620]

How dose delaine and damion de bar or what ever the are , get to insert them selves in to so much online 'romany ' videos ? . I'm not saying they are not but it's highly suspect when when people try to gain. This much recognition ...
Art is shite , it's subjective and so are they .

[@neilog747]

Why not ask them? They will be on social media. Its better than chingering on like a demented crop sprayer!

[@coryparni3620]

@neilog747 it's a rhytorecl question you big dinlo this is social media .