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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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Dоnеччиna: VATAHA’s zine-making workshop in Rotterdam
On 21 February in Rotterdam, VATAHA hosted a zine workshop honoring Ukraine through collective creation. Focusing on Donechchyna and “routes,” participants explored memory, displacement, and care, building shared space beyond headlines.
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VATAHA Founders at Café Kyiv 2026
VATAHA co-founders Oksana Savchuk and Uliana Bun report from their visit to Café Kyiv on February 24. Hosted in Berlin, Café Kyiv is an initiative from the prestigious Konrad Adenauer Foundation and is one of the largest conferences on Ukrainian culture and politics in Europe.
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Ukrainian films to watch this season
This season, Ukrainian films invite you to slow down and look closer. These stories are not just about war, but about people, love, memory, and resilience. Through documentary and fiction, Ukrainian cinema offers a powerful way to connect and reflect while supporting voices that insist on telling their own stories.
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The Ukrainian Origins Behind Iconic Artists
What do talented 20th-century artists like Kazimir Malevich, Andy Warhol, William Kurelek, Louise Nevelson and Peter Hujar have in common? Ukrainian heritage! Though many were born far from their ethnic homeland, their artist practices were influenced by their Ukrainian roots.
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The Medal Design of Run For Ukraine 2025
At the finish line of Run For Ukraine last weekend, every one of the nearly 1000 participants received a medal, regardless of their distance or pace. VATAHA’s graphic designer Maria Petrochoko tells us about the theme of this year’s medal and the main message behind it.
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Podcast: Last minute reasons to Run for Ukraine
In VATAHA’s very first podcast, the website team sits down to talk about all things Run for Ukraine: why you don’t need to be Ukrainian to attend – or even run at all.
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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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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.”
