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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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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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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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KORALI 10-year anniversary concert
Ukrainian a capella choir KORALI is proud to announce its upcoming 10-year anniversary concert hosted on June 29 2025 at 14:30 at Het Zeeheldentheater in The Hague. “It’s more like a birthday party,” KORALI director Nataliya Malhanova. “We are inviting our friends and family to celebrate this milestone together.”
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Nets of Remembrance 2025
During the third war anniversary weekend, ten Dutch cities participated in VATAHA’s Nets of Remembrance, which had a tremendous impact on those with broken hearts. We asked the organizers of eight participating cities to recall the atmosphere at their installation, and why it resonated so strongly within the Ukrainian community.
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aHOUSEforHOME: Inspiring the Next Generation
Inspired by the aHOUSEforHOME architecture workshops in last year, several of its participants have gone on to study art and architecture at Dutch universities. We caught up with two participants from last year’s program and how it gave them the confidence to pursue architecture both academically and professionally.
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International Women’s Day: Letterenfonds Winners
Who run the world? VATAHA’s girls! To celebrate International Women’s Day 2025, we spotlight our five Letterenfonds grant winners – all Ukrainian women who have wielded clay, photography, posters, translations and book printing to speak volumes of Ukrainian visual and literary arts.
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Three Years of Full Scale Invasion
For the third consecutive year, VATAHA commemorated the anniversary of the russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine in The Hague and Rotterdam. “Lost voices, Unbroken spirit: An Art Route”, presented a two-day cultural and memorial event that honored Ukrainian resilience through poetry, music, film and art exhibitions.
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VATAHA on NPO TV talkshow
Lights, camera, Oksana Savchuk in action. VATAHA stood in the spotlight on NPO, one of the largest television channels in the Netherlands, to highlight the strong ties between Ukrainian and Dutch culture on the eve of the three-year anniversary of russia’s full-scale invasion.
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Mariia Ponomarova: ‘Boycotting’ the IFFR 2025
Ukrainian film director Mariia Ponomarova is actively disengaging from the International Film Festival Rotterdam this year. Despite this edition’s impressive lineup of Ukrainian film screenings, the IFFR’s decision to continue to uplift russian cinema and its self-victimization narratives is reason enough for anyone to keep their distance.
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Daria Pugachova: Beauty and fear in performative art
A year after our initial interview, VATAHA catches up with multidisciplinary Ukrainian artist Daria Pugachova to discuss the links between her performances and war, beauty, identity, and an ever-changing audience.
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VATAHA’s 2-year anniversary!
Happy birthday VATAHA! To celebrate our two-year anniversary, we look back on some of VATAHA’s biggest milestones and most successful events, while spotlighting our talented core team.
