Success Against All Odds

The only Ukrainian on the British rating list of Top 100 Living Geniuses, artist Ivan Marchuk, could not stay abroad and opened an exhibit in his home village of Moskalivka

Sublime and Earthly Things

Cai Guo-Qiang, the Chinese artist known worldwide for his visual effects at the opening and closing ceremonies of the Olympic Games in Beijing, descended 1,040 meters into a Donetsk mine this spring. His ‘coverage’ is presented in an art project displayed in the workshops of a one-time Donetsk plant, producing insulation materials, now known as the Isolation. Art Initiative Platform from 27 August through 13 November.

Financing Ukrainian Cinema: To Have One’s Cake and Eat It Too?

In early September 2011, the State Cinema Agency announced what projects were officially included in the 2011–2012 Program for Producing and Distributing National Films. Who will benefit and how?

Open The Doors

Tom DiChillo talks about his documentary When You’re Strange

Friends With Trucks

Anton Slepakov speaks about the band's shell, fast food restaurants filled to capacity and government subsidies on beer and strings

On the Remains Of Culture

Otar Iosseliani speaks about political cinema, the criteria of authenticity and “friendship of peoples”

"The Loving Hearts"

Ukrainian audiences know only a few amateur and underground theaters but they are mostly popular with young people. The Ukrainian Week presents their shows for the upcoming season

Words In Motion

Meridian Czernowitz 2011 proves that while poetry knows no boundaries, poets do

Literature’s Long Journeys

Ukrainian writers have come down with a bout of travelmania

Harmony of Art and Money

Pennie Ojeda: “USA spends approximately $3 billion a year on the development of not-for-profit culture”

Ulianenko Uncensored

August 17 was the first anniversary of the death of Oles Ulianenko, the only officially banned writer in independent Ukraine

Khrushchev’s Cartoonist

He distributed anti-Soviet leaflets, burned the Soviet flag, and set up public organizations. Today Pavlo Otchenashenko is active in Odesa’s Ukrainian movement

The Clarinet And the Pipe

A history of genius who refused freedom.

European Melodies: a Look at Managing Classical Music

Can we bring the management of Ukrainian classical music and opera to a European level?

Heart in His Hand

Krzysztof Zanussi on the self-restriction of successful democracies, the imperfection of tolerance, and art as a quest for mystery

Keyboard Player Turned Pianist

Dmytro Shurov speaks about his desire to be a Ukrainian Elton John, musicians' shining eyes and bench-sitting as a national pastime

The Embassy of Culture

The management of the Goethe-Institut and German Ambassador Hans-Jurgen Heimsoeth meet for an exclusive interview for The Ukrainian Week to talk about what the organization does in former Soviet countries and share their plans for Ukraine

The Enigma of Jerzy Nowosielski

His icons kept Polish painter Jerzy (Yuriy) Nowosielski spiritually connected to Ukraine

Observations of the King of Mystification

Writer Yuriy Vynnychuk talks about the search for new symbols, the literary famine and writers caught up in politics

Captivated By Visions

A wave of visual experiments is sweeping across Ukraine as video art blossoms and the cinema avant-garde of the 1920s and the 1930s is back in fashion

Widely Known in Narrow Circles

In Germany, like in Ukraine, Ukrainian literature is learning the ropes of gaining an audience

In the Middle of Nowhere

Painter Volodymyr Makarenko talks about freedom of art, non-conformity in the reality of the soviet system and his inspiration

Shadows of the unforgettable

Among the nice-looking new buildings in the village of Chortoryia (Bukovyna) stands an old hut where Ivan Mykolaychuk was born and lived…

The Cinema Poet

Ivan Mykolaychuk was an actor of a magical kind. He embodied specific aesthetics and ethics which directed us into the depth of culture and towards self-awareness as members of unique body and soul of the nation.

Gold for Vroda

Cannes Film Festival winner Maryna Vroda speaks about contrasts, life without cinema and having choices

Not for profit or Art for art's sake

Ukraine hosts its first fund-raising auction to promote contemporary art