History of the 20th Century in European Media Summary Full research A Study of Narratives on Defining Historical Events for Ukraine’s Role in Global Processes Research topics The Holodomor; World War II; The Ukrainian avant-garde and the Executed Renaissance; Democratization in the post-Soviet region and in the countries of the Eastern bloc; The Chornobyl disaster.…
Lyatoshynsky, Kühr Full video of the concert of the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra A key event of the Ukrainian Institute within the framework of the Bilateral Year of Culture of Ukraine-Austria was the concert of the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra “Schubert, Lyatoshynsky, Kühr”, held on May 29 2019 in Vienna and featuring Ukrainian violinist Andriy…
Ukrainian Doc Preview 2020: new opportunities for documentary filmmakers The Ukrainian Institute and DocudaysUA festival will partner to conduct The Ukrainian Doc Preview 2020, a showcase designed for the promotion of the Ukrainian film industry. The programme will take place the second time in 2020 during the industrial platform of the Docudays festival. The Ukrainian…
Closing Concert of the Bilateral Cultural Year Austria-Ukraine 2019 On 20 December 2019, the concert on the occasion of the finale of Cultural Year Austria-Ukraine 2019 will take place at the National Philharmonic of Ukraine with the performance of the Austrian and Ukrainian soloists. Ukraine and Austria conclude the bilateral cultural year 2019 with a…
10 film projects from Ukraine introduced at the world’s biggest documentary festival IDFA Ukrainian producers and film directors were pitching their movies at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, which took place from 20 November to 1 December 2019.The participation of the Ukrainian delegation was organised jointly by Docudays UA, Ukrainian state film agency, and…
On 5-20 December 2019, the Austrian Film Institute will hold the screening of Kira Muratova’s films under the bilateral Year of Culture Ukraine-Austria 2019.The retrospective is organised by the Ukrainian Institute and Dovzhenko Centre jointly with the Austrian partners. When Kira Muratova died last year, her chosen native land Ukraine lost the country’s undisputed master…
Volkstheater in Vienna hosted teenagers from Donbas and ethnic songs with Zhadan’s poems Two-day festival “Ukrainian November” held on the stage of Volx / Margareten, one of the scenes of the VolkstheaterOn November 15-16, Austrian and Ukrainian audiences visited the Ukrainian documentary play “The City with Me” by director Georg Genoux and the concert with…
Belvedere speaks Ukrainian from now on Since November 1, an audioguide in Ukrainian language has become available in the Belvedere museum, Vienna. The project “Ukrainian Audio Guides in the World Leading Museums” is a part of the long-term initiative of the Ukrainian Institute to introduce Ukrainian-language audio guides in leading museums of the world. The…
Call for professional theatres to participate in the 7th International Festival of Ukrainian Theatre “East-West” The festival will take place from 19 to 27 April 2020 in Krakow, Poland. Open call for professional theatres to participate in the 7th International Festival of Ukrainian Theatre “East-West” (Międzynarodowy Festiwal Teatru Ukraińskiego Wschód-Zachód), which will be held from…
The famous “Fall On Pluto” will be staged in Cologne for the first time, with the support of the Ukrainian Institute. From 9 to 12 October 2019, an independent theatre project “Fall On Pluto” by screenwriter and director Sasha Brahma will take place at the urban festival URBÄNG in Germany.Pluto is the most distant planet in…
Mariologia — a dialogue with sacred texts and cultural memory The Ukrainian ensemble Alter Ratio performed in a Viennese church of the late 19th century. On November 5, Kyiv’s vocal contemporary ensemble Alter Ratio performed its Mariologia concertUkrainian composers Sviatoslav Lunyov, Maksym Kolomiets, Oleksiy Retynsky, and Maksym Shalygin re-thought medieval religious texts dedicated to the…
Ukrainian Baroque in Vienna As a part of the bilateral Year of Culture Ukraine-Austria On November 2, the orchestra “Open Opera Ukraine” performed its first overseas concert under the direction of Austrian-Ukrainian conductor Ilia Korol“Ukraine and Austria: Baroque Meetings” concert performed by Open Opera Ukraine combined vocal and instrumental works of the two countries to…