Garage33.Gallery-Shelter (Kyiv, Ukraine), in partnership with the Ukraine Solidarity Residencies Programme and HIAP – Helsinki International Artist Programme (Helsinki, Finland), are proud to collaborate on the project “Permanent Home of Displacement!

Permanent Home of Displacement is an interdisciplinary art project bringing together the voices of five Crimean Tatar artists currently living in exile, in a state of permanent mobility and fragmented sense of home. The exhibition explores how the personal experience of losing one’s land, culture, language, and roots can be transformed into a new form of artistic expression. What is “home” for those who were forced to leave theirs behind? How can fragments of a lost identity be reassembled to create a symbolic space for restoration and resistance?

Throughout August 2025 the artists have participated in the eponymous residency in Kyiv, exploring Crimean Tatar heritage, studying archives at the National Museum of the History of Ukraine in the Second World War, the National Art Museum of Ukraine, and the PinchukArtCentre Research Platform. They attended lectures and workshops on decolonial practices, embodied knowledge, and memory work, while creating new artworks that intertwine personal memories, the collective memory of Crimea, and the ongoing context of war and occupation.

The project entails a month long residency in Kyiv, the inaugural exhibition showcasing the results of the residency at Garage33 Gallery-Shelter, a one week residency in Helsinki October 2025 and the second iteration of the exhibition at HIAP Gallery Augusta October 4th-26th 2025.

 

Participating artists: Yusuf Abibulaiev, Renata Asanova, Emine Ziyatdin, Sevilâ Nariman-qizi, Elmira Shemsedinova

Curators:Maria Kulykivska [Kulikovska] (Ukraine) and Dana Neilson (Canada–Finland)

Residency curator: Vita Kotyk (Ukraine)

Project manager: Sviatoslav Mykhailov (Ukraine)

Project coordinator: Jaana Denisova-Laulajainen (Finland)

Project partners: Crimea Platform Office, Ukrainian-Danish Youth House, National Museum of the History of Ukraine in the Second World War, PinchukArtCentre Research Platform, National Art Museum of Ukraine.

 

Permanent Home of Displacement is supported by the European Union through the House of Europe programme and Goethe-Institut Finnland.