MAMA “Mother Nature”

MoMA Tbilisi Presents: MAMA “Mother Nature” – A Multisensory Dialogue Between Art & Nature

Venue: Zurab Tsereteli Museum of Modern Art (MoMA Tbilisi)
Presented by: Heydar Aliyev Center, IDEA Public Association, and the Embassy of the Republic of Azerbaijan in Georgia

Author: Leyla Aliyeva
Curated by: Emin Mammadov

Coordinator: Narmina Khalilova

 

Zurab Tsereteli The Museum of Modern Art (Moma Tbilisi), in collaboration with the Heydar Aliyev Center, IDEA Public Association, and the Embassy of the Republic of Azerbaijan in Georgia, proudly presents MAMA “Mother Nature” — an immersive, interdisciplinary exhibition inspired by Leyla Aliyeva, Vice-President of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation and Founder of IDEA, at the intersection of ecology, identity, and collective memory.

 

Curated by Emin Mammadov, MAMA Mother Naturereimagines the Earth not as a passive backdrop, but as a living entity — a nurturing, powerful, and ancient presence that carries the memory of generations and the wisdom of renewal. Through installations, sculpture, video art, textile works, and performative pieces, the exhibition offers an intimate yet globally resonant meditation on healing, responsibility, and interconnection.

 

The exhibition has traveled across continents, following its debut at the Heydar Aliyev Center in Baku. It has since been showcased at the Bahrain Art Centre (Manama), MAXXI Corner (Rome), and most recently at the Azerbaijan Pavilion during the 2025 London Design Biennale at Somerset House. Each iteration builds upon its thematic depth, engaging local communities in a dialogue about sustainability, cultural legacy, and creative responsibility.

 

The presentation of MAMA Mother Nature in Tbilisi adds a vital chapter to its evolving journey, reinforcing Azerbaijan’s commitment to fostering cross-cultural exchange and advocating for planetary stewardship through art.

 

MAMA Mother Nature

An Exhibition on Ecology and the Future

Welcome to MAMA Mother Nature — a poetic, urgent, and sensory encounter with the living world.

This exhibition invites you to experience nature not as scenery or resource, but as a profound presence — a mother, a teacher, a keeper of memory and meaning. It is a space where feminine energy is not confined to gender, but celebrated as a symbol of renewal, intuition, resilience, and care.

“MAMA” speaks softly and powerfully. It is both a word and a call — to protect, to nurture, to remember. The artists gathered here listen to rivers, seeds, and ancestral voices. They respond through ritual and imagination, offering works that embody vulnerability and strength, destruction and hope.

 

“We are not separate from nature — we are born of it,” reflects Leyla Aliyeva. “To forget this is to lose our roots. To remember it, through art, is to plant the seeds of tomorrow. In a world marked by profound change, art becomes a compass, guiding us back to nature’s rhythms, to its fragile strength, to its feminine wisdom. Through beauty, we can begin to remember who we are.”

 

Artworks in this exhibition span across forms — from tactile textiles to moving images — yet they all converge in a shared vision: that healing the planet begins with rethinking our place within it.

 

“With MAMA, we envisioned a space where art breathes with the Earth,” adds Emin Mammadov. “It is an invitation to listen — to the whispers of seeds, the grief of forests, the resilience of water — and to realize that ecological consciousness is not separate from culture, but at its very heart.”

 

You are invited to slow down. To notice. To feel. To reflect on your own ties to the Earth, and to ask: What does it mean to live with respect, with wonder, with responsibility?

 

MAMA Mother Nature is not merely an exhibition. It is a space for regeneration — a whisper that grows into a voice. A voice that says: we are still listening. We are still here.