Current Events 9 Sep 2025
Events
Permanent Home of Displacement
Welcome to the opening of the exhibition on Friday October 3rd 17:00–20:00!
Dates: October 4th, 2025 – October 26th 2025
Opening hours: Tuesday to Sunday, 12:00–17:00 (extended hours TBA)
Location: HIAP Gallery Augusta, Suomenlinna (Building nr. 33 on Suomenlinna map)
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 constant mobility carrying with them a fractured sense of home. The exhibition explores the personal experiences of losing one’s land, culture, language, and roots. 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?
The exhibition presents a polyphonic portrait of contemporary Crimean Tatar culture in exile, shaped by bodily, spatial, and political vulnerability. The project views the state of permanent displacement both as a historical trauma and as a potential space for new solidarities, communities, and visual languages that emerge through rupture. It openly acknowledges that in the face of war and colonial violence, even the search for a home becomes an act of resistance—and a creative gesture.
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)
Public Programme:
On exile, identity, and the notion of home
Saturday 4.10.2025 17.00-18.30
venue: HIAP Gallery Augusta
Conversation between artist and curator Mariia Tseloeva and exhibition co-curator Maria Kulikivska. The dialogue will offer an opportunity to reflect on how personal experiences of displacement, loss of home, and the search for self are transformed into artistic practices. At the center of the discussion are questions of memory, women’s voices, and corporeality, as well as how art can become a space of resistance and recovery — a way to gather fragments of identity and to build a symbolic home within a community.
Colonisation, everyday resistances and art
Sunday 5.10 2025 17.00-18.30
venue: Museum of Impossible Forms
Panel discussion (facilitator Sepideh Rahaa, panelists Emine Ziyatdin, Sevilâ Nariman-qizi, and Moe Mustafa)
The panel discussion will address the important position of art and artists in today’s world where colonisation and its violence continue causing global issues drastically affecting all living beings. In what forms and ways artists can respond and deal with the current situations? Together with the invited guests we will touch contexts of anti-colonialism, everyday resistances, and collective memory.
Permanent Home of Displacement is supported by the European Union through the House of Europe programme and Goethe-Institut Finnland.