Timea Junghaus is an art historian, a leader of the Roma cultural and political movement, and a contemporary art curator. She serves as executive director of the European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (ERIAC). She has researched and published extensively on the conjunctions of modern and contemporary art, with particular reference to issues of colonialism, and minority representation. In recognition of her curatorial activities Junghaus received the Kairos – European Cultural Price in 2008. Her curatorial works include the Roma component of the Hidden Holocaust exhibition (Budapest Kunsthalle, 2004), Paradise Lost – the First Roma Pavilion at the 52nd Venice Biennale (2007), the Visual Art Section for the RomArchive (2016-2017), to name a few. Under her leadership since 2017, ERIAC presented Roma art in the most prestigious art events of the world: Venice Biennale 2019 and 2022, Manifesta 14, documenta fifteen, Milan Triennale 2022, Cannes film Festival 2023 and 2024, Mucem in Marseille 2023, among others.