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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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Zeeland Together With Ukraine: Four Years at War
On February 27th 2026, over 150 people gathered in Middleburg for Zeeland Together With Ukraine: Four Years at War, a memorial marking four years since the beginning of russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
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Four Years of Full Scale Invasion
On February 25th 2026, VATAHA organized a memorial ceremony at the St Laurence Church in Rotterdam to commemorate the four-year anniversary of the full-scale russian invasion of Ukraine. What began as a solemn, reflective event turned into a hopeful evening celebrating Ukrainian talents in folkmusic, dance and song.
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aHOUSEforHOME Autumn School Recap
How do young people navigate displacement, belonging, memory, and home? This autumn, fifteen Ukrainian teenagers explored this question through a one-week architecture course in The Hague as part of the annual aHOUSEforHOME workshop series.
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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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Culture as a Bridge
VATAHA’s workshop at the III Forum of the Ukrainian Community in the Netherlands developed a roadmap for presenting Ukraine’s identity through language, culture, history, and creativity. Download our roadmap in Ukrainian here!
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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.
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War Stories. Ukraine Up Close
The exhibition War Stories: Ukraine Up Close at the Nationaal Militair Museum in Soest chronicles Ukraine’s struggle through photographs, video portraits and artifacts, including our co-founder Uliana Bun’s own godfather’s bullet-hit jacket from the 2014 Maidan.
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Contradictive Reality. Exhibition of Young Ukrainian Photographers in the Fotomuseum in The Hague
On June 15 at Fotomuseum in The Hague opened a special teenage photo exhibition titled Contradictive Normality inspired by Boris Mikhailov’s exhibition “BORIS MIKHAILOV. UKRAINIAN DIARY”. In an exclusive interview we talked with the curator of the project Teen art Club, Nicole Katenkari.
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Exhibition by Anna Kakhiani
How often do phrases such as “don’t cry” or “keep smiling” go out of place or are opposite, making us feel better? As a starting point of Anna Kahiani’s artistic research, she refers to speech patterns and recognizable phrases in situations that require empathy based on recurring situations that happen…
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Ukraine at the 54th Poetry International Festival Rotterdam
This week, from June 6 to 9, the largest poetry festival in the country took place in the Netherlands – the 54th Poetry International Festival Rotterdam. Oksana Stomina, a Ukrainian poet from Mariupol, was invited to the festival.
