Visual Art/Discover Ukraine Online

Ukrainian art at your fingertips: online platforms



About the projects

Odesa Conceptual Art Archive Odesa Conceptual Art Archive

The Action, Word, Line archival collection contains documentation of the work and life of underground artists in Odesa who turned to conceptual practice in the 1980s.

internodes internodes

A web-based platform that brings together Ukrainian multidisciplinary artists, filmmakers, writers, and curators to reflect on how kinship is being defined and redefined in the face of war, displacement, and ecocide.

Secondary Archive Secondary Archive

Platform for women artists from Central and Eastern Europe.

After Silence After Silence

Public organization After Silence works in the field of memorial culture, public history and social anthropology to develop a critical understanding of Ukraine's past and present. The team digitizes and catalogs private archives pertaining to the era of Nazi and Soviet mass violence in the 1930s-1950s.

Ukraine War Archive Ukraine War Archive

Ukraine War Archive (UWA) is a non-profit collaborative digital preservation platform that creates a unified register of materials related to the Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Online collection of Museum of Odesa Modern Art Online collection of Museum of Odesa Modern Art

The main place in MOMA's Collection is dedicated to works and archival documents that reflect the development of contemporary art in the city since the 1950s. To date, the museum team has digitized the entire Fund of Modern Art (over 1700 items) and the Archive (over 2800 photos, audio, video, and text documents).

Ukraine! Unmuted Ukraine! Unmuted

A collection of the 5th UKRAINIAN CROSS-SECTION triennial of contemporary Ukrainian art.

Ukrainian Warchive Ukrainian Warchive

Ukrainian Warchive is an online archive of photographs documenting Russia's war against Ukraine. The aim of the project is to preserve the photographic heritage and memory of the war for future generations.

Ukraine and Decolonial Thought: A Virtual Exhibition + Resources for Teaching Ukraine and Decolonial Thought: A Virtual Exhibition + Resources for Teaching

A website designed to showcase the syllabus, collaborative artworks, and curated lists created for the “Ukraine and Decolonial Thought” Common Course class held at Bard College in the Fall of 2023.

Soniakh Digest Soniakh Digest

Soniakh is a platform amplifying voices and visions from Ukraine and those of Ukraine’s allies and neighbors—by artists, activists, and scholars—in response to Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine, and its worldwide propaganda machine.

ArtsLooker ArtsLooker

An online media about contemporary art and culture that takes a closer look at Ukrainian art and beyond.

Wartime Art Archive Wartime Art Archive

The Wartime Art Archive is a curatorial observation initiated by the team of the NGO Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA NGO) following the Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Researchers track the practice of Ukrainian artists during the state of war through social networks. The goal of the archive is to record the mass of artistic reactions to events with a structured chronological and thematic presentation on the website.

Post Impreza Post Impreza

Media/archive on the art and cultural life of the city of Ivano-Frankivsk and its region.

UKRAINIAN PHOTOGRAPHIES UKRAINIAN PHOTOGRAPHIES

The online platform ‘UKRAINIAN. PHOTOGRAPHIES’ is a living archive that exhibits work by Ukrainian photographers and commentary on Ukrainian photographic practices, assembled from the diverse perspectives of a range of European thinkers and cultural figures.

Open Archive of Ukrainian Media Art Open Archive of Ukrainian Media Art

Free database for artworks by Ukrainian artists of various genres concerning media (video art, net art, video activism, sound art etc.) and for documentation of Ukrainian media art.

Open Archive Open Archive

The online platform openarchive.com.ua openarchive.com.ua reveals methodology of its authors’ curatorial approach as well as presents its intermediary result – the artists’ profiles made up of СVs, selected artworks, texts etc.

Ukrainian Unofficial Ukrainian Unofficial

The archive shows the dualistic nature of the development of Ukrainian art in the mid-1950s — early 1990s, getting rid of the information vacuum in national art criticism and creating a database that would become a valuable source for researchers of Ukrainian art.

Ukraine Ablaze Ukraine Ablaze

Ukraine Ablaze is an artistic initiative aimed at archiving and disseminating Ukrainian art dedicated to understanding the war in Ukraine from 2014 to the present moment of an ongoing full-scale Russian invasion in 2022. The project functions as an online platform representing artists' works and their profiles, with the possibility of public distribution of the artworks.

Past / Future / Art Past / Future / Art

Past / Future / Art is a cultural memory platform that carries out commemorative, research, and art projects and establishes discussion programs to engage broader audiences to work through the past.

Cover image: Temporary homes by Dariia Svertilova