Anita
Horváth

Anita Horváth is a visual artist of Roma origin from Hungary, whose work explores identity, self-representation, and the visual language of collective memory through the lens of Roma women’s experiences. She graduated from the Budapest Metropolitan University (BA in Photography), focusing on the photographic representation of the Hungarian Roma, and earned her MA in Photography from the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design (MOME), where her thesis project offered an autonomous reinterpretation of OMARA’s artistic legacy.

Her ongoing series You Are Not Like Them speaks from the double minority position of Roma women, challenging traditional roles and harmful stereotypes by reclaiming authorship over their own image. Horváth’s works have been exhibited at Capa Center (European Kinship, 2025), Bura Gallery (2024, 2025) in Budapest, at the European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture, Berlin (CARGO – of Dust and Ashes, 2024), and also featured during OFF-Biennale Budapest (these walls are not here to defend us, 2025).
Her works have appeared in publications such as Élet és Irodalom, British Journal of Photography, Vogue Italia, HVG, and Népszava. Her solo exhibition Igyekszik az ember lánya (A Woman Tries Her Best) is on view at Bura Gallery until November 30, 2025.

Anita Horváth will be the first scholarship holder of the new ERIAC-DAAD residency program for arts and media starting in November 2025. Through this long-term cooperation, the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program and the European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (ERIAC) will enable one artist or cultural professional with a self-declared Roma identity to spend one month in Berlin each year. The program builds on a shared commitment to cultural equality and the empowerment of underrepresented voices in the international cultural sector.

The 2025 selection jury consisted of:
Małgorzata Mirga-Tas (artist and former DAAD Berlin Artist Program scholarship holder 2022)
Melanie Roumiguière da Silva (Head of Visual Arts, Deputy Director of the DAAD Berlin Artist Program)
Timea Junghaus (curator, art historian, and managing director of ERIAC)

The jury would like to publicly honor Rudy Dumas-Jandolo as the runner-up in the 2025 selection process, thereby recognizing the quality and relevance of his application.

Anita Horváth will present her artistic practice in a group exhibition at ERIAC starting on December 11, 2025. Other artists featured in this exhibition are Rudy Dumas-Jandolo (also a candidate of the ERIAC-DAAD Residency Program for Arts and Media) and Monika Kováčová (Villa Romana-ERIAC Artist in Residence 2025).