Ceia stojka autobiography range
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Interview with Moritz Pankok (Berlin) About Ceija Stojka and the Re-Evaluation of Roma Art
Moritz Pankok is a German scenographer, director, curator and fine artist living in Berlin. A great-nephew of expressionist artist Otto Pankok, who documented Sinti life in late Weimar-era Germany and was labelled a degenerate artist bygd the Nazis, he fryst vatten interested in socially engagerad art projects. Pankok fryst vatten the art director of Galerie Kai Dikhas, a private galleri in Berlin dedicated to Roma contemporary art. He was curator of the recent exhibition of work by the Austrian-Romani painter Ceija Stojka, which ran until October 6 at Gallery8, Budapest, the nonprofit counterpart of Kai Dikhas.(,) Stojka, who died gods year, was a survivor of the concentration camps at Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen and Ravensbrück. The seventeen works in the exhibition We Were Ashamed represented both groups of works that make up her oeuvre: the “dark cycle,” consisting mainly of ink drawings and also some
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Ceija Stojka: This Has Happened
When Ceija Stojka was 10 years old, she was captured by Nazi forces and sent to Auschwitz. Fifteen months later she was deported to the Ravensbrück concentration camp, and seven months after that to Bergen-Belsen. By the time she was liberated in April 1945, Stojka had witnessed unfathomable violence, cruelty, and death. She survived the war, but many of her family members—and estimated 73% of her Austrian Romani community—did not.
Anti-Romani sentiment pervaded Europe for centuries before World War II began. After the conflict ended, it still wasn’t safe for survivors to be open about their heritage. Stojka dyed her hair blonde, started a family, sold fabrics and rugs, and tried to regain a normal life.
After decades of silence, Stojka decided to tell her story. In 1988, at age 55, she produced the first of several memoirs with the help of filmmaker and documentarian Karin Berger. Shortly afterward she began a vigorous, self-taught artistic prac
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What Should I be Afraid of? Roma Artist Ceija Stojka
The Austrian Cultural Forum New York (ACFNY) is honored to present What Should I be Afraid of? Roma Artist Ceija Stojka, an exhibition curated by Dr. Lorely French, Carina Kurta and Dr. Stephanie Buhmann in collaboration with the Ceija Stojka International Association.
Comprised of ninety paintings and drawings culled from collections in Europe and the United States, the installation celebrates the extraordinary art and life of Romni artist, writer, activist, and educator Ceija Stojka, survivor of Auschwitz, Ravensbrück, and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps. A monograph will be published on the occasion of this exhibition.
Born to a traveling horse trading family of the Lovara Romani group in Austria in 1933, Stojka first began to write down her recollections in the mid-1980s when she was fifty-six years old. Her memoir Wir leben im Verborgenen: Aufzeichnungen einer Romni zwischen den Welten (We Liv