Projects Funded

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.

Project	Grantee
Documenting Ukrainian Fashion during the Cold War	Olha Korniienko
Tracing the foundations of postwar Ukrainian identity and culture through the lens of fashion to create an online archive of Ukrainian fashion history
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
Epitome(working title)	Vic Bakin
Epitome evolves to capture the fragility of war-torn Ukraine, blending a personal diary with reflections on violence and displacement
Evacuating and Archiving Contemporary Art in Ukraine: Documenting the Cultural Process in Ukraine during the War	Alona Karavai
Working to evacuate Ukrainian artwork to secure bunkers and working with requests and curatorial concepts to bring work to museums abroad and to international festivals
Experiencing the War: Religious Dimension	Uliana Sevastianiv
Collecting and publishing interviews with Ukrainian religious figures on their experiences during the Russian-Ukrainian war
Explaining Ukraine in English	Volodymyr Yermolenko
A Ukrainian philosopher works to explain the country and its predicament to the English speaking world with a popular podcast and twitter account
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
Food and Nutrition During the War in Ukraine	Olena Braichenko
Using in-depth interviews, this research project will look at issues surrounding food and culinary practices and how they have changed in wartime
Forced to Start All Over Again: Places, Memories and Communities 50 Years after Kanivska HPP Construction and Displacement	Olena Denysenko
Documenting and interpreting stories of displaced families over 50 years in Ukraine, exploring place attachment and identity
Fragile Memory: Photographic Archive of the Ukrainian Cinematographer Leonid Burlaka	Viktoriia Myronenko
Researching the photo archive of cinematographer Leonid Burlaka whose work documents various spheres of life in Ukraine from the ‘60s to the ‘90s
Hard to Explain	Yevhenii Samborskyi
A series of canvases presenting superimposed everyday scenes that depict the confusion and Kafkaesque narrative complexity of war
Internally Displaced in Ukraine, from 2014 to 2022: Patterns of (Mutual?) Exclusion and Inclusion	Yulia Abibok
Studying the tensions and stereotypes faced by IDPs in Ukraine, aiming to find ways to reduce conflict and improve integration

Civil Society
Daily Life
Destruction & Reconstruction
Displacement
Environment
Health
Heritage
Human Rights
Identity & Culture
Information & Disinformation
Language & Symbols
Memory
Military
Occupation & Atrocity
Public Opinion
Religion
Resilience & Solidarity
Rural
Science & Education
Trauma & Rehabilitation
Urban
Vulnerable Groups
Women