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Team

Olesya Drashkaba Co-founder of the project, artist, curator
I am in love with Ukrainian art and I want the world to love it like I do. Beauty and freedom are two components that we want to share and inspire people with. Although we are making this project now, when there is a war and our artists are creating surrounded by explosions and sirens, I am sure this project is about the future. About the world of freedom and beauty, which will surely come into the world after the victory of Light over Darkness. And it is very important that in this struggle all the people of Ukraine including its artists fight on the side of the Light
Nataliya Popovych Investor and co-founder of the project
Russia’s purpose in this centuries-long war is to break the resilience of Ukrainians and force them to surrender, destroy their national identity and statehood. But no one can enslave the people born to be free. Time and again the Ukrainian artists, standing on the shoulders of the generations of their predecessors - Ukraine’s persecuted intelligentsia, the Executed Renaissance and the Ukrainian intellectuals and artists before them - create under the most difficult of circumstances. They say - we are here and we will always be here. We cry and we mourn, we fight and we dream. As a nation and as a country. Ukrainian art is the nation’s vaccine against the russian brutality as well as our language to engage and inspire millions of people around the world to contribute to the fight for freedom. Every poster is a reminder that in Ukraine people die for precious values, but art makes them immortal and contributes to the emergence of new even more resilient generations of people of free will.
Kateryna Melnyk Director and project manager
Full-scale invasion started in 2022, but in reality this war has been going on for centuries and this fight is above all for Ukrainian culture and identity. It’s impossible to overestimate the capacity of Ukrainian artists to resist, both in the past and the present in spite of what life has delivered them, they continue to create incredibly value cultural output. I am very happy to be a part of a project that what will inspire the whole world in a struggle for goodness and which will represent the strength and beauty of Ukrainian art

Artists

Eugenia Polosina
When it seems that nothing can be done, try to start doing something.
Eugenia Polosina
Tatiana Yakunova
Tatiana Yakunova
Olesya Drashkaba
This war is so terrible that I want to “heal” all the wounds it brought to my country with my works. To sew something, embroid something, paint over bombs or even intensify the curses that Ukrainian women shout after occupiers. Also I love to chant our people and hug them all. I want to tell how much I love them and how grateful I am for their courage, which allows me to stay in Ukraine today and draw.
Olesya Drashkaba
Masha Foya
Every time I hear about new crimes against my people, a part of me disappears. Every time I think that the Russian occupiers cannot do more shameful things, but then the morning comes and I learn about even more disgusting things.
Masha Foya
Solomiia Gorobiuk
I have a research interest in finding leverages by with which art can influence and change people's lives
Solomiia Gorobiuk
Sveta Grib
I dedicate my artwork to the Ukrainian military — this is the only thing that saves me now.
Sveta Grib
Mykola Honcharov
The moment is the end, but the next moment is the beginning.
Mykola Honcharov
Viktor Hrudakov
When the war in Ukraine broke out, I realized that illustration is my weapon, my voice, my tool.
Viktor Hrudakov
Oleh Hryshchenko
History is also my big passion, so most of my art projects are permeated with allusions or reflections on historical topics.
Oleh Hryshchenko
Sashko Komiakhov
To win, do things that you are best at. Help people that surround you – it will support you psychologically. Check what help is needed and where. Fighting the tide is life!
Sashko Komiakhov
Anastasia Krasilnikova
I cannot perceive drawing as meditative or in any way relaxing. Rather it is an everyday challenge.
Anastasia Krasilnikova
Katya Lisova
At the moment the only thing I could do is to be an artist — it's the only way to express myself and convey the idea that our cultural memory is the most valuable thing we have.
Katya Lisova
Grasya Oliyko
Since the beginning of the war I was sure my work wouldn’t be in demand in Ukraine. How can we talk about books when the cities and towns are occupied and Russian rockets are flying? And I couldn’t draw on the theme of war: how to draw grief, pain, despair and what for? But then I tried and I realized and I felt a bit better, because I shared my pain through the drawing. And then many foreigners began to comment and be compassionate to Ukrainians and wish the Victory to Ukraine. I want the world to know what real Russia is, because only Ukrainians can tell you that. We have to win together to live in safety
Grasya Oliyko
Maksym Palenko
I don’t really like when people call us the cultural front, because the front it’s there, where our Warriors and Volunteers are working, and we are just one of the smallest section, which I hope is carrying out it’s tiny function
Maksym Palenko
Anastasia Pustovarova
Here is my way of praying, grieving and hoping. And I would like to get closer to the awareness of the things that contradict logic and human nature, seem so far from reality, but at the same time it happen every day on my land
Anastasia Pustovarova
Oleksii Revika
It is important for me not to stay away, not to be indifferent at a time when every step brings us closer to victory!
Oleksii Revika
Anna Sarvira
I like that I am not bored when I’m drawing. I can make good projects, I can do bad ones, but I always have place for experimentation, I mess around in my illustrations, poke around, try something everytime and I find it’s interesting
Anna Sarvira
Nataliia Shulga
If I had to draw an illustration about this year of Ukrainians, it would probably be a tightrope walker, an incredibly strong motivated and stubborn tightrope walker.
Nataliia Shulga
BRATY Vasyl and Ivan Kostenko
In parallel with our work in design, we continue to expand the boundaries of graphic art, experimenting and participating in various projects. We have a number of solo exhibitions and participation in international projects in Ukraine, France, Italy, Germany, Poland and Georgia.
BRATY Vasyl and Ivan Kostenko
Albina Yaloza
Now we are all united by one grief, in which we are constantly, we are all united by one desire, which becomes stronger every day. All of the people who surround me work for our victory, so it will happen definitely.
Albina Yaloza
Andriy Yermolenko
Ukrainian art has always been our weapon. It is valuable yet underestimated. The world already knows about brave Ukrainian soldiers, and we must make Ukrainian culture recognizable, too.
Andriy Yermolenko
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