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
Patches: Humor, Design, Convictions	Anton Hauk
Researching the social and cultural significance of unofficial military insignia in Ukraine, analyzing humor, convictions, and aesthetics
Short Stories Collection “Hotel Tranquility,” Based on the Topic of the Russian War in Ukraine and Real Events	Roman Malynovskyi
Publishing a collection of 15 short stories that relate narratives drawn from real experiences related to the author by friends and eyewitnesses
Staying Within the War, a Topology of Experience	Iryna Kostyshyna
A series of essays engaging with the conceptual underpinnings of the war within a postcolonial intellectual framework.
Symbolic Space of Russian Military Aggression against Ukraine: From Symbols and Emblems to Symbolic and Ritual Practices	Yevhen Rachkov
Applying Barthesian and Baudrillardian theories of communication and symbol exchange to the slogans and emblems of the 2022 War.
Testimony of Times	Yelizaveta Smith
Two filmmakers are documenting the war at a series of key moments for Ukraine’s cities, from refugees arriving in Lviv to the mass graves of Chernihiv
The Language of Walls: Informal Communication in Public Spaces During Times of Crisis	Anton Hauk
Analyzing informal communication through graphic manifestations in public spaces, including graffiti, inscriptions, stickers, stencils, and other visual forms
Too Far to Be Known, Too Corporeal to Be Intangible	Olexii Kuchanskyi
Regular essays in English aiming to document challenges facing Ukrainian society as the war continues, focusing on bodies, images, & technosocial renderings of corporeality
Ukrainian Visual Arts in the Time of War: Paintings and Posters in 2022–2024	Tetiana Kovalenko
Analysis of Ukrainian war paintings and posters exhibited in Ukraine or abroad and those widely shared on the web
Visuality of Violence during the Russo-Ukrainian War	Lesia Kulchynska
Project on the function of digital media environments during the war and their impact on the operation of war-related imagery
War Signboards	Andriy Rachinskiy
A scholar and collector of old signboards from Kharkiv returns to the city to document their transformation and degradation
Wartime TV	Viktoria Bavykina
A project analyzing Ukrainian TV's evolution and war narratives since the invasion, highlighting television's impact on public opinion.
“Wall Evidence”: Open Archive of Russian Graffiti in Ukraine	Anastasiia Olexii
Curating and growing an archive of images documenting the technical, propagandist and absurd graffiti left by Russian soldiers in liberated areas

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