Recently NAMU held a discussion “Cultural Reception of Crimea: Decolonial Aspect”, dedicated to the Remembrance Day of the Victims of the Deportation of the Crimean Tatars. During the meeting, the issue of overcoming the colonialism of Crimea through the prism of art was raised; discussed the difficulties and challenges faced by cultural institutions in the process of researching Crimean Tatar culture; analyzed the influence of historical and political contexts on the creativity of Crimean artists, as well as considered the peculiarities of the representation of Crimean Tatars in the art of the 19th and 20th centuries.
Deputy director of NAMU Oksana Barshynova, general director of Mystetskyi Arsenal Olesia Ostrovska-Liuta, author of the book “Pearls in the Steppe. Conversations about the past of the Ukrainian South” Oleksii Mustafin, historian and researcher Martin-Oleksandr Kyslyi, journalist and psychologist Mavilie Khalil, leading researcher of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra National Reserve Denys Yashnov. Director General of NAMU Yuliya Lytvynets and permanent representative of the President of Ukraine in the AR of Crimea Tamila Tasheva addressed the audience with a welcome speech.
We thank all the organizers, speakers and participants who joined the discussion.
📸Photo: Yevhen Hensiurovskyi