Grantees

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.

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Project	Grantee
There Will Be No Lessons Today or Tomorrow	Sashko Brama
Telling the story of the graduating students of an 11th grade in Chernihiv, as the city was surrounded by the Russian army in 2022
A Million Stories	Artem Chapeye
Working toward a novel that will attempt to grapple with the magnitude of the war and the devastation that has followed in its wake
Folklore and War: Slobozhanskyi Dimension	Halyna Lukianets
Gathering folklore (songs, legends, etc.) in the villages of Slobozhanshchyna and reviving old traditions as an act of resistance
Documenting Ukrainian Wartime Humor: A Linguocultural Analysis	Alla Bondarenko
Systematising collected materials documenting the resilience of the Ukrainian people as expressed in humour – jokes, memes, poems and songs
There Is a Land Beyond Perekop	Anastasia Levkova
A novel about Crimea covering 1992-2014, focusing on Crimean Tatar families & their experiences, explores ethnic communities in Crimea & factors leading to annexation
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
Evacuating and Archiving Contemporary Art in Ukraine: Documenting the Cultural Process in Ukraine during the War	Alona Karavai
Working to evacuate Ukrainian artwork to secure bunkers and working with requests and curatorial concepts to bring work to museums abroad and to international festivals
Museum at War: Preservation of History and its Artefacts by Human Hands During the War	Sasha Dolhyi
A documentary film focusing on the Bohdan and Varvara Khanenko National Art Museum and workers who stayed behind to save collections from destruction
Wild Fields of Ukraine	Sasha Dovzhyk
Creative nonfiction essays explore the past and present of the partially occupied Southern Ukrainian Steppe where a battle for Europe is being fought
Zatyshok against the War: Stories of Things, Pets and Plants that Ukrainians Loved but Were Forced to Leave	Petro Yatsenko
A Book exploring ‘zatyshok’ – the Ukrainian sense of coziness and the role it has played in the war.
Searching for Pokémon: Documentary Film	Mykhailo Volkov
Following photographer Alexander Chekmenev’s search for a girl he photographed two decades ago to give her a promised print and to hear her story
It's Not a Full Picture	Maryna Stepanska
A documentary film featuring the stories of nine Ukrainian filmmakers as they react to the life-changing advent of war in different ways