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Mariia Ponomarova: “Ukraine-Washing” in Western Filmmaking
In this interview, Ukrainian filmmaker Mariia Ponomarova discusses the harm Western filmmakers can do by extracting Ukrainian narratives in documentaries without meaningful collaboration with or benefit to Ukrainians.
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VATAHA Recommends: “Graan / Зерно”
Created and developed by Lisa Weeda, Graan/Зерно explores Ukraine’s history, trauma, and resilience through one of its most symbolic elements: wheat.
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KOZA: Where Ukrainian ancestors invite us to dance
KOZA is a Ukrainian folk music trio touring the Netherlands that disregards the traditional stage and audience setup. Anyone who joins is invited to sing and dance, invoke the spirit of your ancestors, and become part of the Ukrainian diasporic family.
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VATAHA Recommends: Old Masters from Kyiv in The Hague
VATAHA Recommends visiting Museum Bredius’ current exhibition of 17th century European paintings in The Hague. The unique part about it? Each masterpiece is paired with a similar painting from the Khanenko Museum in Kyiv, where the two museum founders first met and befriended each other in 1897.
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Lisa Weeda: All of My Projects Connect Back to Ukraine
“All of my projects seem to connect back to Ukraine, and that started with my family history.” Dutch-Ukrainian writer Lisa Weeda shares how her Ukrainian roots continue to shape her work, from Aleksandra to new projects, and reflects on working with VATAHA to bring Ukrainian stories closer to Dutch audiences.
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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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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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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.
