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August 2 \u2013 September 14, 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Opening: Friday, August 1, 2025, 6:00 pm<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wir konnten nichts tun<\/em> is the title of a painting by Ceija Stojka (1933\u20132013), a Holocaust survivor, artist, and Romani woman. The painting describes the situation in the concen\u00adtra\u00adtion camps where, as a child, she witnessed the racially motivated exter\u00admi\u00adna\u00adtion of her family and her people. In the early 1990s, Ceija Stojka decided it was time to take action: As a self-taught artist, she began creating an extensive artistic and literary oeuvre. Through her poems and pictures, she gave expres\u00adsion to the unspeakable and created powerful images for her memories using her own visual language. In doing so, she managed not only to banish her trauma but also to free herself from its clutches. What was once a helpless \u201cWir konnten nichts tun\u201d became a powerful, political, and emanci\u00adpa\u00adtory act. Stojka\u2019s art is now recognized and exhibited worldwide. She is consi\u00addered one of the most important pioneers of contem\u00adporary Sinti and Roma art. The exhibi\u00adtion at the Kunst\u00admu\u00adseum Wolfsburg includes some of her most striking works from the Kai Dikhas Collec\u00adtion, whose name trans\u00adlates to \u201cplace to see.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ceija Stojka was liberated from the National Socialist regime at the Bergen-Belsen concen\u00adtra\u00adtion camp, not far from Wolfsburg. The camp appears repeatedly in her work, in both her poems and paintings. For a long time, Sinti and Roma were absent from the German conscious\u00adness as a group of prisoners and victims of genocide. Even after 1945, they continued to be margi\u00adna\u00adlized and stigma\u00adtized. Only after a long struggle was their suffering recognized. Ceija Stojka was an important voice in this struggle. August 2 has now been estab\u00adlished as European Holocaust Remem\u00adbrance Day for Sinti and Roma: On the night of August 2 to 3, 1944, the Nazis murdered more than 4,000 remaining Sinti and Roma detainees in Auschwitz-Birkenau. This exhibi\u00adtion is being held in comme\u00admo\u00adra\u00adtion of this event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The exhibi\u00adtion Ceija Stojka. Wir konnten nichts tun<\/em> will open on Friday, August 1, 2025, at 6:00 p.m<\/strong>. Following opening remarks by Andreas Beitin, Director of the Kunst\u00admu\u00adseum Wolfsburg, and an intro\u00adduc\u00adtion by Katrin Unger, Deputy Director of the Bergen-Belsen Memorial, a panel discus\u00adsion with Santino Stojka, Ceija Stojka\u2019s grandson, and Gabriela Stojka, her daughter-in-law, will provide background infor\u00adma\u00adtion on the artist\u2019s life and work. Gabriela Stojka spent her life at Ceija\u2019s side and will share her memories with the audience\u2014not only of Ceija\u2019s stories, but also of her artistic work and her struggle for recogni\u00adtion and against exclusion in the civil rights movement of the Sinti and Roma. Santino Stojka is politi\u00adcally active: He organizes comme\u00admo\u00adra\u00adtions in Vienna and is chairman of the H\u00d6R (Associa\u00adtion of Austrian Roma Students). He belongs to the next genera\u00adtion of the long struggle for equality, at a time of a notice\u00adable shift to the right in society, when many people are asking themselves, in reference to the title of the exhibi\u00adtion: What can we do?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The discus\u00adsion will be moderated by Andrea Wierich, research assistant at the Compe\u00adtence Center against Antizi\u00adga\u00adnism of the Lower Saxony Memorials Foundation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Curator of the exhibi\u00adtion: Moritz Pankok, Artistic Director of the Kai Dikhas Foundation<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The exhibi\u00adtion and opening events are taking place in coope\u00adra\u00adtion with the Kai Dikhas Founda\u00adtion and the Compe\u00adtence Center against Antizi\u00adga\u00adnism of the Lower Saxony Memorials Foundation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Location: Lounge of the Kunst\u00admu\u00adseum Wolfsburg, above Caf\u00e9 Kunstpause<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Opening hours: Tuesday to Friday, 10:00 am \u2013 6:00 pm
Saturday, Sunday and public holidays, 11:00 am \u2013 6:00 pm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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