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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.”
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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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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…
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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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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.
