UFDA's Articles: Insights into Ukraine's Art and Culture 79

In the new episode of the UFDA Podcast, host Anna Avetova talks with Kyiv‑based artist Alina Zamanova about choosing art almost by accident, learning oil painting from YouTube, and how the full‑scale invasion split her life and practice into a sharp "before" and "after."

Yevgen Nikiforov shares his experience working with international media, collaborating with UFDA, the ethical challenges of photographing during wartime, and the role of digital documentation as a form of resistance and responsibility.

In an open and honest conversation, Masha Reva speaks about creating her new work presented at M17, and about art as a way to process personal trauma, accept oneself, and begin a new chapter in life.

The Ukrainian Fund of Digitized Art continues to grow! Recently, our team digitized 16 works by Ukrainian artist Yuliia Holub.

We are pleased to announce that Mariia Matiienko has joined the Ukrainian Fund of Digitized Art!

The guest of the UFDA Podcast is Sasha Maslov, a Ukrainian-American photographer and documentary artist. We talk about his journey from Kharkiv to New York, the American dream of the 2000s, his work in photojournalism, and the search for his own voice in global media.

In a new episode of the UFDA podcast, artist Lesia Khomenko speaks about living between New York and Kyiv, creating a monumental work for Kyiv’s central railway station, and preparing a mid-career exhibition at PinchukArtCentre that gathers twenty years of her practice.

In a new UFDA podcast episode, Ukrainian collectors and cultural workers Borys Hrynyov and Maryna Koneva talk about what it means to build a living art collection during a full‑scale war — and why they see their work as a long‑term responsibility rather than a private hobby.