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Ukrainian Diaspora at UMPRUM in Prague (last edited: 2025)

Kateřina Klímová, Monika Drlíková, Lada Hubatová-Vacková

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The Russian invasion of Ukraine and the subsequent armed conflict forced many Ukrainians, including young students, to flee and settle temporarily or permanently abroad. Many of these refugees now live and work in the Czech Republic, which was a haven for Ukrainian anti-Bolshevik exiles a century ago in the interwar period, thanks to the welcoming policies of T. G. Masaryk, then president of the First Czechoslovak Republic. The Ukrainian Diaspora at UMPRUM in Prague project focuses on the students at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design (UMPRUM), who have recently relocated to Prague and work in various artistic fields: fine arts, applied arts, graphic and product design, and architecture. This showcase contains introductory texts and student profiles accompanied by interviews and audiovisual presentation of their artworks. The project aims to capture the authentic testimonies of young art students who have experienced trauma due to occupation, colonization and the injustices caused by the current state of war. They have experienced uprootedness and individual destabilization and have seen important concepts being manipulated by Russia, a fact they approach with varying intensity and defiance.
typeresearch exposition
date10/01/2025
last modified12/09/2025
statusin progress
share statuspublic
affiliationAcademy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague (UMPRUM)
copyrightLada Hubatová-Vacková, Kateřina Klímová, Veronika Soukupová, Monika Drlíková
licenseCC BY-NC-ND
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/3325826/3325827


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