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Response of Ukrainian artists to the war started by the Russian Federation. Part 3

Response of Ukrainian artists to the war started by the Russian Federation. Part 2

Since Russia annexed Crimea and the outbreak of the war in eastern Ukraine in 2014, the world has increasingly compared Putin to Adolf Hitler. Even EU leaders and diplomats do not mince words when making public comments. There are indeed...

Response of Ukrainian artists to the war started by the Russian Federation

Since the beginning of Russia’s war against Ukraine, Ukrainian artists have been creating illustrations, posters, and collages. Some artworks go viral on social media and are used by people from different countries to protest the aggression and lies of the...

208th anniversary of Taras Shevchenko’s birth

Kharkiv architecture

Kharkiv architecture is experimental by its nature, and imbued with symbols. Red bricks and two-storey houses of the 19th century, constructivist memorial sites, co-operative buildings (the name of a prestigious co-housing project of the Soviet era), and first cultural hubs...

What is the Dovzhenko Centre?

Until 2006, almost all films screened in Ukrainian theatres were exclusively dubbed in Russian, and few could have ever imagined that dubbing in Ukrainian was possible. And, while by 2014 few Ukrainian movies were successfully making film distribution deals, now...

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An Egg as an Art Object

Fighting for Donbas with Art

From the very beginning of the war in the east of Ukraine, artist Serhii Zakharov protested against the seizure of Donetsk by Russian militants. Because of his art installations, the artist was detained in a basement of the terrorists from...

The Bakhtov Couple. Preserving the Spirit of Olbia — an ancient archaeological site in Ukraine

More than twenty-five years ago, a family of artists, Volodymyr Bakhtov and Tetiana Bakhtova, moved from Luhansk to the village of Parutyne, near Olbia — a national historic archaeological preserve of an ancient Greek settlement. In their own backyard, they...

Who is Ivan Marchuk?

This is a story about one of Ukraine’s most famous contemporary artists — Ivan Marchuk, who has created thousands of works of art and invented his own technique — Pliontanism. Due to constant persecution from the KGB under the Soviet...