Platform for Ukrainian art and culture in the Netherlands
VATAHA Foundation initiates and supports projects to spread Ukrainian art and culture in The Netherlands. By connecting Ukrainian artists with Dutch cultural producers and international audiences, we build bridges between cultures and create opportunities for creative Ukrainians.
✳︎ Stories & events
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Two Weeks Left: We Carried the Soil with Us Closes 10 May
Ukrainian artists transform soil into a powerful archive in the exhibition ‘We Carried the Soil with Us’ through May 10.
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Vyshyvanka Day Stories 2026
Ahead of VATAHA’s annual Vyshyvanka Day celebrations at the Kunstmuseum Den Haag and FENIX museum in Rotterdam, we’re not just showing off our beautiful traditional embroidered blouses, but also telling the deeply personal stories behind them. Get excited to celebrate with us by reading through some of our volunteers’ testimonials
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Writing Against Erasure: Four Contemporary Ukrainian Poets of War
War alters language, memory, the meaning of home, and all those small moments of everyday life. This article traces specific works of four contemporary Ukrainian poets whose writing fights against erasure through attention to the fragments left behind, to altered perception, and to the endurance and exhaustion of continuing to…
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