Milan Oláh
created: 03. 12. 2025 15:58 modified: 03. 12. 2025 15:59
Milan Oláh comes from the family of musicians in Klenovec. He plays the contra viola, in the Sendreiovci Band as well as in other family bands in Klenovec.
The photo was made in 2024 at the Living Book event on the topic of the Roma World Day.
category: fine arts
tags: secular digital artistic in persona photography Milan Oláh academic audience internal
Milan Deme
created: 03. 12. 2025 14:44 modified: 03. 12. 2025 14:45
Milan Deme comes from Klenovec, plays the double bass. At the time of the photo shoot, he was 64 years old. He comes from a family of musicians. He has no musical education, he is self-taught. He plays in the band Sendreiovci. As a musician, he participated in the creation of film music for the film Sherlock Holmes.
The photo was taken in 2024 during the Living Book event on the occasion of World Roma Day.
category: fine arts
tags: secular digital artistic in persona photography Milan Deme academic audience internal
Dávid Oláh
created: 03. 12. 2025 14:28 modified: 03. 12. 2025 14:29
Dávid Oláh comes from the village of Klenovec. He was born into the family of musicians. He graduated from the Peter Dvorský Conservatory in Košice. He plays the violin. He performs in the Sendreiovci Band, as well as in family bands in Klenovec. He is employed by the Military Music in Banská Bystrica - he performs there in the Jánošík cimbalom band. The photo was taken in 2024 during the Living Book event on the occasion of World Roma Day.
category: fine arts
tags: secular digital artistic in persona photography Dávid Oláh academic audience internal
Dalibor Cibuľa
created: 03. 12. 2025 14:19 modified: 03. 12. 2025 14:19
Dalibor Cibuľa comes from the village of Klenovec. He was born into a family of musicians. He graduated from the Ján Levoslav Bella Conservatory in Banská Bystrica, and continues his studies at the Academy of Arts in Banská Bystrica. He plays cimbalom. He performs in the Sendreiovci Band, as well as in family bands in Klenovec.
The photo was taken in 2024 during the Living Book event on the occasion of World Roma Day.
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tags: secular digital artistic in persona photography Dalibor Cibuľa academic audience internal
Jana Sendreiová
created: 03. 12. 2025 11:21 modified: 03. 12. 2025 11:22
In 2005, Janka Sendreiová performed with the Anyalai Gipsy Band and other soloists at Carnegie Hall in Manhattan, New York. The performance was a great success. Film music composer Hans Zimmer chose two Romani musical groups from Slovakia for part of the music for the film Sherlock Holmes 2: A Game of Shadows directed by Guy Ritchie: The Sendreiovci from Kokava nad Rimavicou and the Cigánski baróni from Gelnica. Together with her husband Vlado Sendrei, they form the band Sendreiovci.
The photo was taken in 2024 during the Living Book event on the occasion of World Roma Day.
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Sofiya Zahova
created: 03. 12. 2025 11:14 modified: 03. 12. 2025 11:14
Sofiya Zahova is the director of the Vigdís International Centre for Multilingualism and Intercultural Understanding at the University of Iceland. The centre operates under the auspices of UNESCO and is an affiliated organisation of the Vigdís Finnbogadóttir Institute for Foreign Languages at the University of Iceland. Sofiya Zahova is primarily dedicated to the study and research of Romani literature in Europe and is a member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. She currently represents Iceland on the Steering Committee for the International Decade of Indigenous Languages 2022-2032.
category: fine arts
tags: secular digital artistic in persona photography Sofiya Zahova academic audience internal
Monika Rigó
created: 03. 12. 2025 11:05 modified: 03. 12. 2025 11:05
Monika Rigó (the civil name Monika Šipošová), a singer from Šamorín, she comes from the musical family, she started singing since she was a small child. Her first musical performances were in the local church choir, later she focused more on modern and classical songs. The highlight of her career was a concert with the Hundred-Piece Gypsy Orchestra from Budapest. In 2007, Margit Bangó crowned her the Slovak Queen of Gypsy Songs.
The photo was taken while documenting a non-public recording in 2023.
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Milan Berky
created: 14. 11. 2025 07:40 modified: 14. 11. 2025 07:41
Milan Berky (1961-) comes from Lučenec, he spent the most part of his life working on the railways as a train driver. His more intense art work began when, after almost 35 years he lost his work. The change in his life meant he got time to develop his childhood passion - drawing. His work focuses primarily on portraits, characteristic feature of them is extraordinary deatail and realism. He mainly uses charcoal, what allows him to achieve the great depth and contrast of his black-and-white works that have an almost photographic effect. His works include portraits of famous personalities, but also portraits of ordinary people, Roma men and women from cultural, social and sporting life.Milan Berky has gained recognition not only in Slovakia but also abroad, despite the fact that he has no formal artistic education. He has received several awards, including first place in the portrait category at the International Fine Arts Fair in České Budějovice (2017) and the Inspiration award for contribution to culture (2022). His drawing – a portrait of an Iraqi statesman – was used on Iraqi postage stamps in 2023.
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tags: secular digital artistic in persona photography Milan Berky academic audience internal
Petra Kurutzová
created: 14. 11. 2025 07:28 modified: 14. 11. 2025 07:29
Luník IX - Memories - Memoirs, the book subtitled as A Ghetto?, and The Most Beautiful Neighbourhood?, is the unique collection of 12 interviews with 15 respondents with seemingly nothing in common. Many of them never even met. There's only one thing they share: they are or were living at the most known Slovak housing estate Luník IX. The publication was presented by the author Klára Kohoutová and the editor of illustrations Petra Kurutzová. The discussion was hosted by Erika Godlová on September 8, 2023 in the Libresso Café in Prešov. The photo was taken during the above-mentioned event.
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Klara Kohoutová
created: 14. 11. 2025 07:14 modified: 14. 11. 2025 07:20
Luník IX - Memories - Memoirs, the book subtitled as A Ghetto?, and The Most Beautiful Neighbourhood?, is the unique collection of 12 interviews with 15 respondents with seemingly nothing in common. Many of them never even met. There's only one thing they share: they are or were living at the most known Slovak housing estate Luník IX. The publication was presented by the author Klara Kohoutová and the editor of illustrations Petra Kurutzová. The discussion was hosted by Erika Godlová on September 8, 2023 in the Libresso Café in Prešov. The photo was taken during the above mentioned event.
category: fine arts
tags: secular digital artistic in persona photography Klara Kohoutová general audience internal
