Art

Decolonising culture: Ukrainian artists, banned and stolen by Russia

For centuries, Ukraine was effectively a colony of Russia, with Ukrainian culture constrained and forced to develop under deeply complex and often dramatic conditions. Ukrainian artists faced relentless repression, bans, and persecution from their self-proclaimed “big brother”, leaving them with...

The history of Ukrainian documentary cinema

The Revolution of Dignity is widely considered the starting point of the revival, or “new wave”, of Ukrainian documentary filmmaking. The need to film events on the Maidan, particularly the crimes of the security forces of the then-president, and...

What is the repatriation of cultural property? Experiences after World War II and during the Russo-Ukrainian war

The term “repatriation” is heard more and more as discussions around returning Ukraine’s cultural heritage gather steam. Some are looking to other nations’ colonial and postwar pasts as a guide for how these return processes might unfold.
This material seeks...

Culture during the War. The West: Korsaks’ Museum and Territory of Terror

Due to the full-scale war, Ukrainian museums with priceless exhibits were threatened with destruction. Some of them are under occupation and have already been looted by the Russians; some have suffered from shelling, and museum workers are forced to leave...

Kherson Art or inspired by Polina Raiko

Outside the metropolis, contemporary art is more of an exception than a norm. However, the artists behind the Polina Raiko Charitable Fund and the Kherson Museum of Contemporary Art are challenging this notion. In a regular Kherson apartment, Viacheslav Mashnytskyi...

Response of Ukrainian artists to the war started by the Russian Federation. Part 7

“If you had studied properly, you wouldn’t have gone to Chornobyl” – what else can we say to the Russian army? It looks like they have never bothered to learn history (not to mention physics, specifically the topic of radiation).

Response of Ukrainian artists to the war started by the Russian Federation. Part 6

Cities

Ukrainian cities are standing and holding up, although Russia has been dropping missiles at them and shelling them for more than a month, and its media brazenly lie that Russia does not bombard civilian objects.

Response of Ukrainian artists to the war started by the Russian Federation. Part 5

The Armed Forces of Ukraine are human titans who are defending Ukraine from enemies so well that the whole world admires them. They are unbreakable, courageous and human. Thanks to them, the Russian Federation has failed to occupy our cities,...