How Russia’s Invasion Of Ukraine Brought Ukrainian Culture Into The Global Spotlight
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Lesia Khomenko, “Imaginary Distance”, 2025. PinchukArtCentre. © Photo: Ela Bialkowska, OKNO Studio Ela Bialkowska, OKNO Studio Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 launched more than a military conflict; it thrust Ukraine’s rich and vibrant culture into focus. Across galleries, festivals, and theaters from Kyiv to London, from Paris to New York, Ukrainian artists are reclaiming their narratives—asserting their country’s place in the world not as a victim of history, but as a force shaping it. In New York City—a place where people from all over the world have sought a place and a voice—that creative renewal is on full display. This fall saw the city filled with Ukrainian performances, exhibitions, and film screenings. In November, Metrograph—a highbrow arthouse cinema in New York—hosted the series “Soul and Soil: Ukrainian Poetic Cinema,” showcasing avant-garde masterpieces by Ukrainian filmmakers from the 1960s and 70s —classics created with a freewheeling, experimental approach and the resilient Ukrainian spirit. During October, the Ukraine-focused non-profit Razom organized the third annual Ukrainian Culture Festival. The event hosted more than 30 elaborate daily events at venues such as the New York Public Library, Quad and Regal Cinemas, Teatro Latea, Bowery Poetry Club, and Science for Fiction. Besides arts and culture, the program featured guest speakers, discussions, and interactive experiences, re-shaping Ukraine’s cultural image by showing its place within the melting pot of artistic expression in the Big Apple. A Cultural Renaissance. This year, the play Cassandra—a Ukrainian classic, written by modernist playwright and poet Lesia Ukrainka in 1908—debuted at the Teatro Latea on the Lower East Side. Directed by Artemis Wheelock, the story takes place at the close of the Trojan War and follows the prophetess Cassandra, whose accurate predictions no one believes. “What draws me to Cassandra is how painfully familiar her isolation feels,” explained Wheelock.…
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