Grantees

The projects listed below have been supported by Documenting Ukraine. This is not a complete list; other grantees have opted not to publish information about their projects, and new projects are being added to the site on an ongoing basis.

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Textile Chronicles of War. A Digital Archive of Prints on Ukrainian T-Shirts during the Full-Scale Invasion	Zoya Zvynyatskivska
Preserving locally produced T-shirt prints that have become an important sociocultural phenomenon under martial law in Ukraine.
Preserving Embroidered Heritage in War-Affected Villages Facing Disappearance in the Northern Chernihiv Region	Yaroslava Shkurat
Safeguarding traditional embroidery from war-hit villages in the Semenivka district in Ukraine’s Chernihiv region.
How I O̶c̶c̶u̶p̶i̶e̶d Donbas	Anastasiia Kuzmenko
An artistic project and a non-fiction book processing the personal memories of the artist Alexander Len, who is currently fighting in the Russo-Ukrainian War.
When the Sky Came Crashing Down: Southern Ukraine in February 2022	Olena Syniavska
An archive of written testimonies from eyewitnesses of the first days of the war in the Odesa region, accompanied by photographs from their private archives.
Ukrainian Naïve Mosaics	Yevgen Nikiforov
Documenting and preserving so-called “naїve” mosaics created in the 20th century by “non-artists,” self-taught individuals whose works defy the artistic canon.
Beyond Fragile Memory: Documenting the Preservation of Leonid Burlaka’s Archive during Wartime	Viktoriia Myronenko
A documentary film focused on the preservation of a unique photo archive created by Ukrainian cinematographer Leonid Burlaka.
Nature Courses	Nina Dyrenko
A book juxtaposing a unique 1915 publication on Kyiv’s natural environment amid World War I with similar modern-day research on the Russo-Ukrainian War.
A Catalogue of Polovtsian Sculptures in Ukraine	Iryna Tymar
Creating a catalogue of Polovtsian sculptures in Ukraine, reconstructing their fate during the Russian invasion
Imagine Kharkiv	Vasylysa Shchogoleva
Book project bringing together three researchers in a cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural dialogue about urban activism in Kharkiv
Lost Villages: Memories and Stories	Tetiana Samsoniuk
Exhibition on the intersection of memory, war, and resilience, explored through family albums from destroyed front-line villages in Eastern Ukraine and videos by museum workers
Safeguarding the Cultural Heritage of Roma People During the War in Ukraine	Nataliia Tomenko
Project aimed at safeguarding the cultural heritage of Roma people in Ukraine during the war
Modest Architecture, Great Significance: The Mental Heritage of Kharkiv	Olesya Chagovets
A scientific and artistic exploration of Kharkiv’s “modest” buildings, resulting in a Digital Catalogue of Kharkiv’s Mental Heritage