Bareforytka Roma

Bareforytka Roma - the Warsaw Roma - is a project combining Roma tradition with modern art, addressed to young Roma living in Warsaw's North and South Praga, implemented by the Foundation Dom Kultury.

It was an amazing project connecting two seemingly distant worlds. In the fall of 2018, our befriended Roma group took part in creative workshops led by visual artists and Roma musicians. The youth created screen-printing projects based on Gypsy graphic motifs, and printed T-shirts with their own hands in the “Florist’s Graphics” studio. They collected herbs and prepared herbariums under the supervision of Anna Siekiera in the kindly shared room of the Museum of Modern Art on the Vistula River. They created zines in the studio of the Academy of Fine Arts. They also learned street photography on the streets of Praga and portrait photography at the Multicultural Center, under the supervision of Małgorzata Brus and Andrzej Grzymała-Kazłowski.

The resulting works were shown at an exhibition at the Praga Museum of Warsaw. The curator of the exhibition was museum educator Katarzyna Witt. The exhibition opening was accompanied by workshops of Roma songs and modern art, a lecture for young and old dedicated to the fate of Polish Roma and Roma dishes tasting. Almost 200 people participated in two slots of the event – one in the morning, for youth and school children from Warsaw schools, and one in the afternoon, open to the general public.

The project “Bareforytka Roma open workshops” was funded by the City of Warsaw.

The “Bareforytka Roma” project was carried out in cooperation with the Praga Museum of Warsaw, thanks to funding from the Minister of Culture and National Heritage from the Culture Promotion Fund.

We would like to thank the Multicultural Center, the Pracownia Wschodnia collective, the