Tímea Junghaus

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Tímea Junghaus (born March 28, 1975 as Romni in Hungary ) is a Hungarian art historian , curator and cultural activist . She advocates greater recognition of the art of minorities - and especially Roma art . In 2007 she curated the first international Roma pavilion Paradise Lost at the 52nd Venice Biennale . Tímea Junghaus is a member of the board of trustees of the RomArchive , a digital archive curated by Roma for the art of the Sinti and Roma.

Life

From 1993 she studied art history at the Eötvös Loránd University , where she graduated in 2003 with a thesis on contemporary art of the Hungarian Roma as a Master of Arts . She is the first Romni in Hungary to hold a degree in art history.

In 2002 she founded the János Balázs Gallery in the eighth Budapest district of Józsefváros . In 2003 she worked for the Hungarian Ministry of Culture as coordinator for the Hungarofest Agency. She is on the lookout for talent while traveling and organizes artist meetings. Your RomaMoma initiative is committed to creating a Roma art museum .

Exhibitions

With her “cultural inclusion strategy”, Tímea Junghaus pursues the goal of “liberating cultural workers from the minority from the ethnic and folkloric niche assigned to them by the art market”.

As co-curator of the exhibition The Hidden Holocaust in the Kunsthalle Budapest , she did pioneering work in 2004 in the acceptance of Roma artists into the art public.

In 2005 she took over the leadership of the Roma Cultural Participation Project at the Budapest Open Society Institute . Her exhibitions focused on the contemporary art of Romnja , with sacred painting, critically with Orientalism and specifically with the work of János Balázs and Péli Tamás .

Under the title We Are Who We Are , she exhibited at the Minoriten in 2004 at the Graz cultural center .

For the exhibition Von der Ab Absheit des Lagers (2006) at the Kunsthaus Dresden , she arranged the joint work "Black Train (Wonder Barrack)" by Gyöngyi Kalanyos with Tereza Orsos, Zsolt Vari, Tibor Balogh, Marton Gaudi, Zoltan Nagy and Jano Bori, which during of the exhibition "Hidden Holocaust" curated by her.

In 2007 she curated the first international Roma pavilion Paradise Lost at the 52nd Venice Biennale . There, in the Palazzo Pisani Santa Marina , 16 Roma artists from eight countries were represented. The pavilion had over 20,000 visitors. It was a milestone for the visibility of Sinti and Roma: They appeared as "individual artists" who "make their positions heard in the established art scene".

In 2016 Timea Junghaus developed the exhibition "(Re-) Conceptualizing Roma Resistance" for the Hellerau Festival Theater .

Memberships

Tímea Junghaus is a member of the board of trustees of the RomArchive , a digital archive curated by Roma for the art of the Sinti and Roma.

Awards

  • Junghaus' studies were supported by a Kállai Ernő grant .
  • In 2008 she was awarded the KAIROS Prize of the Alfred Toepfer Foundation FVS . The jury praised her efforts "to open up the contemporary visual arts of the European Roma beyond existing clichés." In this way, they sharpened "public awareness of the contribution of the Roma to cultural diversity in Europe."

Fonts

  • Tímea Junghaus, Katalin Székely (Ed.): Meet Your Neighbors - Contemporary Roma Art from Europe. Open Society Institute 2006, ISBN 963-9419-99-0 . (An anthology of modern Roma art, on which Junghaus contributed as editor and author).
  • Tímea Junghaus, Katalin Székely (ed.): Paradise Lost: The First Roma Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, Munich, London and New York 2007, ISBN 978-3-7913-6145-1 , exhibition catalog of the Roma Pavilion at the 52. Venice Biennale.

She dealt with the culture and questions of minority education with numerous publications in magazines.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Organizer: Paradise Lost. The First Roma Pavilion. Curator and Artists, Biographies, texts. (PDF) In: Universes in Universe. Worlds of Art, Art scenes, protagonists, events in the global art context. Art magazine, 2007.
  2. ↑ a b c Karola Fings : Sinti and Roma. History of a minority. Beck Verlag , Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-406698484 , p. 120.
  3. ↑ Kunsthaus Dresden (Christiane Mennicke), Art Fund / Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (Silke Wagler), Educational Work Further Thinking in the Heinrich Böll Foundation (Jens Hommel) (Ed.): Exhibition catalog “From the absence of the camp. Reflections of contemporary art on the topicality of remembering ”. Berlin 2007 - in the unpaginated catalog, work 16 Black Train (Wonder Barrack) by Gyöngyi Kalanyos says: "With thanks to the Roma Cultural Participation Project of OSI Budapest's Arts and Culture Network Program."
  4. ↑ On the absence of the camp. Reflections on contemporary art on the topicality of remembering. Website of the Kunsthaus Dresden, March 10th - May 7th, 2006.
  5. ↑ Tímea Junghaus, Katalin Székely (ed.): Paradise Lost: The First Roma Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. (PDF) Munich / London / New York 2007, ISBN 978-3-7913-6145-1 .
  6. ^ Karola Fings: Sinti and Roma. History of a minority. Beck Verlag, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-406698484 , p. 119.
  7. ↑ Radio Romarespekt # 16 - The Knowledge - Timea Junghaus, Feature (60 min), coloRadio, April 2017
  8. ^ Alfred Toepfer Foundation: KAIROS Prize Winner 2008
  9. ^ Tímea Junghaus, Katalin Székely: Meet Your Neighbors - Contemporary Roma Art from Europe. (PDF) Open Society Institute, Budapest 2006, ISBN 963-9419-99-0 .
personal data
SURNAME Junghaus, Tímea
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian art historian, curator and cultural activist
DATE OF BIRTH March 28, 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Hungary