First English monograph on the artist Ceija Stojka –an Austrian Roma writer, painter, activist, musician, and survivor of the Holocaust
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Roma Artist Ceija Stojka
What Should I Be Afraid of?
This is the first English monograph on the artist Ceija Stojka (1933 –2013). Beginning in the 1980s, Stojka created over a thousand drawings and paintings, whose subjects range from landscapes and recollections of her happy, prewar existence as part of a large horse-trading family to the mounting oppression of the Roma under the Nazi regime.
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Having survived the three concentration camps Ravensbrück, Bergen-Belsen and Auschwitz as a child, Stojka left behind an oeuvre depicting her personal experience of arrests, exterminations, survival, and liberation, which was shared by millions. 2023 marks the 90th year of Stojka’s birth and the 10th year of her passing. It further celebrates the 30th Anniversary since Roma were recognised as an official ethnic group in Austria (1993) after years of activism during which Ceija Stojka stood together with other Austrian Roma to become part of the social majority.
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Texts by Jürs Anozie, S. Buhmann, L. French, M. Grobbel, S. Keppler-Schlesinger, C. Kurta
Includes unpublished texts and notebook excerpts by Ceija Stojka104 pages, 45 colour illustrations
14 x 20.5 cm, 5 1/2 x 8 in., hardcover
ISBN: 978-3-7774-4272-3
Events
New York, NY
| Austrian Cultural Forum New York
Keywords
Painting, 21st century, 20th century, Roma
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