[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.27.0″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”-10px||||false|false” custom_padding=”0px|||||” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” background_enable_image=”off” min_height=”248.9px” custom_margin=”||-12px||false|false” custom_padding=”||0px|||” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_text_color=”#6B6B6B” text_font_size=”12px” custom_margin=”-17px||0px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]<\/p>\n
Source: Vladyslav Riaboshtan | Photo: Vladyslav Riaboshtan<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_text_color=”#242424″ text_font_size=”17px” header_font_size=”56px” header_letter_spacing=”2px” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n Kyiv once again in the dark \/ The first UAHP participant \/ We need support \/ 600,000 people have already left Kyiv<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider _builder_version=”4.17.1″ _module_preset=”default” height=”8px” custom_margin_tablet=”” custom_margin_phone=”” custom_margin_last_edited=”on|desktop” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][\/et_pb_divider][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_text_color=”#6B6B6B” text_font_size=”12px” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n #war<\/a> #UAHP #MarharytaZhurunova<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_3,1_3,1_3″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]<\/p>\n It\u2019s almost unbearable. Like in a bad movie, you see what it means when the wrong man gains unchecked power. Simplistic, backward-looking policies recklessly shatter one certainty after another. What unsettles me most personally is the abrupt, almost seamless transition into a mafia-like world order driven by violence. Everything happened so quickly. Sometimes I have to rub my eyes to remind myself that there is still a lot of good in the world. <\/span>What gave me hope was the memorable speech by Mark Carney, the Prime Minister of Canada, at the World Economic Forum in Davos. <\/span><\/p>\n We must not lose courage, not give in to despair, and continue working to set something new, something good against what is bad. Those were his words to us. For us ordinary mortals, there is nothing left but to hope that they will be heard and that we can all cultivate peace, courage, and patience right in our immediate surroundings. I thank you all from the bottom of my heart for making something truly good possible\u2014for making UAHP possible. For standing by the people, by the artists. <\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/artcrossingborders.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1-2_jpg.jpg” title_text=”1-2_jpg” show_in_lightbox=”on” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”0px||0px||false|false” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_line_height=”1em” custom_margin=”0px||22px||false|false” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n Name: 2 | Disappearing Landscapes<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”0px||5px||false|false” custom_padding=”14px||||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.22.2″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]<\/p>\n Unfortunately, the past few weeks have been particularly difficult for Ukrainians. Following the Russian air strikes on January 21, more than one million households in Kyiv are without electricity and, according to >>ZDF Heute,<\/a> more than 4,000 apartment buildings are without heating. <\/span>It\u2019s hard to imagine. According to the >>Kyiv Independent,<\/a> 600,000 of the remaining 3.6 million residents have already left the city. <\/span>. <\/span>People are once again sitting in the dark and freezing\u2014as they did at the beginning of 2022\u2014only this time far worse. And no change is yet in sight, as the damage is so extensive that timely repairs are not possible. <\/span><\/p>\n And yet, despite frustration and the darkness weighing on their minds, Ukrainians are not giving up. In a recent survey, a majority still support not surrendering and not yielding to Russia. I continue to receive grateful feedback and letters from participants in our UAHP program. As promised last time, today I will tell you about another artist: Marharyta Zhurunova. <\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”0px||5px||false|false” custom_padding=”14px||||false|false” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” header_font_size=”24px” sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/artcrossingborders.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Photo_Edit_2026-02-15T18_49_01_313Z_jpeg.jpg” title_text=”Photo_Edit_2026-02-15T18_49_01_313Z_jpeg” show_in_lightbox=”on” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”0px||0px||false|false” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_line_height=”1em” custom_margin=”0px||22px||false|false” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n Quelle: REUTERS<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]<\/p>\n Marharyta comes from Vinnytsia, Ukraine. She works with printmaking\u2014especially monotype\u2014drawing, and installation, often precisely at the intersection between graphic art and space. Her work explores the sacred and the non-human-made, but also emotional wounds: how to make them visible, how to endure them, and how to transform them. <\/span><\/p>\n Since 2015, she has also been working in co-authorship with Bohdan Lokatyr on environmental, land art, and site-specific projects. She studied at the Ukrainian Academy of Printing (Book and Easel Graphics, Master\u2019s degree), attended the International Summer Academy in Salzburg, among others, and in recent years her work has been shown across Europe: in Kyiv, Vienna (ERSTE Foundation), Spain, Italy, and Iceland. From 2019 to 2021 she received presidential scholarships, and in 2019 she was also awarded a presidential grant\u2014recognition that is not granted by chance. <\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/artcrossingborders.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/5_jpg.jpg” title_text=”5_jpg” show_in_lightbox=”on” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”0px||0px||true|false” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_line_height=”1em” custom_margin=”0px||22px||false|false” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n Name: 5 | Disappearing Landscapes<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.22.2″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]<\/p>\n At the beginning of the full-scale invasion, Marharyta writes, many of her illusions about the \u201cpower of art to change the world\u201d were shattered. She thought of K\u00e4the Kollwitz, of Goya, of Guernica, of Otto Dix, and asked herself: How can anyone still want war after seeing such images? And yet she had to witness even educated Russians cheering the war. Her relationship with art was not shaken by this, but only deepened: \u201cIt became a tool for survival\u2014a nearly ritualized way of understanding and healing myself.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n When Marharyta applied to UAHP, she was\u2014as she openly says\u2014in an extremely fragile phase. She had just started taking antidepressants, but her therapist made it clear to her that without long-term therapy, the medication would not help. The problem was: she could not afford therapy. Then she found our open call. \u201cIt came at exactly the right moment,\u201d she writes, \u201calmost too good to be true.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/artcrossingborders.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1_jpg.jpg” title_text=”1_jpg” show_in_lightbox=”on” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”0px||0px||false|false” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_line_height=”1em” custom_margin=”0px||22px||false|false” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n Name: 1 | Disappearing Landscapes<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.22.2″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]<\/p>\n And Marharyta was the very first UAHP participant. When she found out, she replied: \u201cIt is an honor. I will do my part to ensure that this important initiative continues.\u201d Since then, she has been attending her sessions regularly. In September, she wrote a sentence that stayed with us: \u201cThe sessions have an incredibly positive impact on my mental health. Thank you.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n Currently, Marharyta is working on a project titled <\/span>\u201cDisappearing Landscapes.\u201d<\/strong> \u2013 \u201cdisappearing landscapes.\u201d Landscapes have accompanied her since childhood: from watercolors to oil painting to land art. But many places that live on in her memory are no longer accessible today\u2014because of the war, or simply because time shifts everything. They exist only as \u201cghostly memories.\u201d And she poses a question that perhaps concerns us all: <\/span>Do these places still belong to me \u2013 and do I still belong to them?<\/em><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/artcrossingborders.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2_jpg.jpg” title_text=”2_jpg” show_in_lightbox=”on” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”0px||0px||true|false” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_line_height=”1em” custom_margin=”0px||22px||false|false” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n Name: 2 | Disappearing Landscapes<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]<\/p>\n If you are interested in getting in direct contact or in acquiring works, I would be happy to put you in touch.<\/p>\n More of Marharyta\u2019s work:<\/span> [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”0px||5px||false|false” custom_padding=”14px||||false|false” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” header_font_size=”25px” sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.22.2″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]<\/p>\n Five artists have been in therapy for several months. Hundreds more remain on the waiting list. This program is of great value. In one of the darkest times, it supports young, vulnerable people who, through their example, their fate, their work, and their personal processing of it, serve as role models for others. They are the future of this country. With the strength they regain through the program, they can once again become a source of identification and vision for Ukraine\u2014but also for us Europeans. 100 EUR per month covers the cost of one therapy place for one artist. Please get in touch if you would like to sponsor a place or if you know someone willing to support this initiative. <\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ fullwidth=”on” _builder_version=”4.15.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_module=”549″ saved_tabs=”all” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_fullwidth_header title=”Donate now ” button_one_text=”DONATE NOW” button_one_url=”https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/donate\/?hosted_button_id=BVX5MPKX337EY” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” content_font=”Roboto|300|||||||” custom_button_one=”on” button_one_font=”||||||||” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]<\/p>\n Only with your donation can we realize projects. Art Crossing Borders e.V. works non-profit and without pursuing its own commercial interests. Any amount will only benefit the association’s goals. 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