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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“Red Horse”	Sasha Kurmaz
Exploring the impact of the Russo-Ukrainian War through multiple collages that bring together photographs, found objects and personal notes
Museum and War	Sasha Dolhyi
A documentary trilogy looking at the indomitability and brittleness of museum workers as they contend with the challenges of war
Hard to Explain	Yevhenii Samborskyi
A series of canvases presenting superimposed everyday scenes that depict the confusion and Kafkaesque narrative complexity of war
A Series of Video Podcasts “Artist Talk”	Yevhen Honcharov
A series of video podcasts interviewing independent cultural figures from Dnipro about their work, the current situation and how they practice resistance in the cultural field
Rescued Archive of Ihor Dychenko	Tetiana Voloshyna
Cataloguing, digitizing, and securing the personal archive of a prominent Ukrainian collector, curator and art researcher
Art Front: A Gallery of Antiwar Paintings by Artists of Southern Ukraine	Tetyana Shevchuk
Curating paintings by Southern Ukrainian artists, creating a permanent collection exploring lives and identities disrupted by the invasion
Wartime Art Archive: Discourse	Olga Balashova
Research observing and recording manifestations of war in the practices of Ukrainian artists – a new visual map of society’s transformation
There Will Be No Lessons Today or Tomorrow	Sashko Brama
Telling the story of the graduating students of an 11th grade in Chernihiv, as the city was surrounded by the Russian army in 2022
A Million Stories	Artem Chapeye
Working toward a novel that will attempt to grapple with the magnitude of the war and the devastation that has followed in its wake
Folklore and War: Slobozhanskyi Dimension	Halyna Lukianets
Gathering folklore (songs, legends, etc.) in the villages of Slobozhanshchyna and reviving old traditions as an act of resistance
Documenting Ukrainian Wartime Humor: A Linguocultural Analysis	Alla Bondarenko
Systematising collected materials documenting the resilience of the Ukrainian people as expressed in humour – jokes, memes, poems and songs
There Is a Land Beyond Perekop	Anastasia Levkova
A novel about Crimea covering 1992-2014, focusing on Crimean Tatar families & their experiences, explores ethnic communities in Crimea & factors leading to annexation