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 and Dana Neilson (Canada–Finland)
Residency curator: Vita Kotyk (Ukraine)
Project manager: Sviatoslav Mykhailov (Ukraine)
Project coordinator: Jaana Denisova-Laulajainen (Finland)
Permanent Home of Displacement is supported by the European Union through the House of Europe programme and Goethe-Institut Finnland.
