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Ukrainian International Ballet: Carrying Ukraine in every dance step
Born from the recently disbanded United Ukrainian Ballet, the newly founded Ukrainian International Ballet features heritage and innovation, bringing together artists to keep Ukrainian culture visible and evolving on global stages.
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VATAHA Recommends: Icons of Hope and Survival
Religious art has served as a source of faith and comfort for centuries, and certainly no less during the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. VATAHA Recommends visiting the traveling art exhibition Icons of Hope and Survival in Rotterdam, where warfront munition crates are transformed into beautiful portraits of hope.
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Shared Home.Shared Fight: The Opening
Shared Home.Shared Fight is a Dutch-Ukrainian exhibition exploring what it means to protect a home during war, urging collective solidarity and action through powerful interdisciplinary artistic collaborations.
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Shared Home.Shared Fight
VATAHA’s upcoming exhibition Shared Home.Shared Fight was born out of questions that the russian full-scale war of aggression raised in Europe, specifically Ukraine and the Netherlands: what does a home to protect mean for each of us?
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Why Shared Home.Shared Fight rescheduled its opening
Learn about why VATAHA refuses to open its Shared Home.Shared Fight exhibition on the same day as a parallel russian-curated exhibition, but also why we refuse to cancel entirely.
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Run For Ukraine Stories 2024
“I am running for the city of Lviv. Rockets fly over my grandparents’ house almost every day. This is the city where I spent my vacations, the city of my relatives and friends. It hurts me to see it being destroyed.” – Danylo, 12 years old
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Marfa Vasilieva: Carpet of Love and Sorrow
The Carpet of Love and Sorrow is Ukrainian artist Marfa Vasilieva’s social art project, which invites Ukrainians to braid black and red cloths into a Dam Square-sized carpet to manifest their national loss. “I see it as my Guernica. A living, expanding protest against nazism, imperialism, and silence.”
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Christian van der Kooy: 1 month in Kharkiv
Dutch photographer and curator Christian van der Kooy reflects on a month in war-torn Kharkiv, capturing cultural life, artistic resistance, and the urgent need to tell Ukraine’s evolving story through art.
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Daria Lysenko: I Heard That You Are in the Netherlands
Daria Lysenko has published her latest collection of poems titled ‘I Heard You Are In The Netherlands’. In this interview, we discuss how her literary finesse and raw, real emotions have given life to the first Ukrainian poetry book by a contemporary poet to be translated into Dutch.
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Vyshyvanka Day 2025
For the fourth consecutive year, VATAHA celebrated Vyshyvanka Day: a moment to wear your embroidered heritage with pride and learn about Ukrainian folk art and other European embroidery traditions.
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My OWN Vyshyvanka: The finished works
Check out the final blouses from VATAHA’s six-month My OWN Vyshyvanka workshop. Each blouse was lovingly stitched in the Ukrainian folkart tradition, and each with their unique story.
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Stitched in Memory: The Vyshyvanka I Took Across Borders
Ukrainian vyshyvanka can be taken for granted by those who wear them frequently in their homeland. But to writer and communications student Sofiia Maior, her vyshyvanka is more than just a traditionally embroidered shirt. It stitched together fragments she didn’t know were loose, and stitched memory of home close to…
