27.02.2026 – 21.09.2026
With the support of the Cultural Forum Paris, the Musée des Beaux-Arts et de l’Archéologie in Besançon is dedicating a solo exhibition with over 100 works to the Austrian Romani artist, contemporary witness and activist Ceija Stojka (1933–2013). As a child during the Nazi era, Ceija Stojka was deported from Vienna to the Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen and Ravensbrück concentration camps. In the 1980s, she became the first Romani woman in Austria to speak out about the persecution of the Roma before and during the war and the Nazi extermination system, and in the 1990s she also began to paint. The exhibition follows Ceija Stojka’s categorisation of her paintings into ‘light works’ – landscapes and scenes reflecting the life of the Roma in their wanderings – and ‘dark works’ bearing witness to persecution, deportation and life in the concentration camps.
Ceija Stojka
27.02.2026 – 21.09.2026
Austrian Cultural Forum Paris
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