OPEN CALL: PERMANENT HOME OF DISPLACEMENT

Deadline for applications: 25/05/2025

Garage 33. Gallery-Shelter (Kyiv, Ukraine), in partnership with Ukraine Solidarity Residencies Programme and HIAP – Helsinki International Artist Programme (Helsinki, Finland), announces an Open Call for Crimean Tatars artists or those of Crimean Tatar descent residing in the territory of Ukraine to participate in an international residency dedicated to the theme of forced displacement. The residency will focus on the culture and identity of the Indigenous Crimean Tatar people and is titled “Permanent Home of Displacement“.

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

The goal of “Permanent Home of Displacement” is to create a safe and resonant space for reflecting on, articulating, and representing Crimean Tatar identity in the context of prolonged exile, colonial violence, and the current war. The program aims to support artists in reclaiming individual and collective memory, fostering the regeneration of cultural subjectivity through art. The residency serves as a platform for intercultural dialogue, intellectual exchange, and artistic solidarity, amplifying the voices of the Crimean Tatar community within the global art field while raising questions of decolonization, embodied experience, resistance, and dignity.

We are looking for 5 artists of Crimean Tatar descent who work (or wish to work) with the themes of identity, exile, embodiment, borders, decolonization, memory, and resistance.

We offer:

• An artist fee of €850;
• Coverage of travel, accommodation, and production material costs;
• A one-month residency in Kyiv, with access to archives at the National Museum of the History of Ukraine in the Second World War, meetings with experts from the Crimean Platform, and lectures by researchers of the Crimean Tatar national community;
• A one-week mobile residency in Finland, including meetings with the Indigenous Sámi artists, visits to Helsinki-based art institutions, networking, and curatorial support;
• Participation in two exhibitions: Kyiv (Garage33.Gallery-Shelter) and Helsinki (Gallery Augusta at HIAP – Helsinki International Artist Programme);
• A feature in a digital catalogue and media coverage.

Further information: https://www.garage33.net/permanent-home-of-displacement