Unveiled Ukraine – Stories and Photographs from Ukraine

"Unveiled Ukraine" is a multi-layered artistic project that combines documentary and artistic photography, video, and personal stories of people from Crimea and Donbas who were forced to leave their homes following the onset of Russian aggression in 2014.

The project’s goal is to reveal the true face of war — to capture broken lives, ruined cities, and vanished worlds. Through visual imagery and documentary testimony, the author — Ukrainian sociologist and photographer Kateryna Mostova — engages the viewer in a dialogue about pain, loss, and the inhumane brutality that Russia brings to Ukraine. This is a project of memory, a project of truth that profoundly reflects the Ukrainian reality.

As part of the event, two discussions will take place, organized by the Ukrainian Association in Finland. Cf. Programme.

 

Friday 09.05.2025 (13:00-19:00)

14:30 Opening

14:40 Speech of the representative of the European Parliament – MEP Sirpa Pietikäinen

14:45 Speech of the representative of the Ukrainian Association in Finland – Chairman Vassili Goutsoul

14:50 Speech of the author - Kateryna Mostova

15:00 Exhibition "Unveiled Ukraine" - author's guided tour.

17:00-19:00 Lecture and Discussion in English. “Ukraine as Part of European Memory: War, Displacement, and Solidarity”. Organised by the Ukrainian Association in Finland.

Saturday 10.05.2025 (13:00-19:00)

13:00–15:00 Lecture and discussion in Ukrainian. “Ukraine’s Liberation Struggle in the 20th–21st Centuries: on a Path to Peace in Europe”. Organised by the Ukrainian Association in Finland.

15:00–18:00 Exhibition "Unveiled Ukraine" with the author's guided tour.

 

Sunday 11.05.2025 (13:00-19:00)

13:00-15:00 – Exhibition "Unveiled Ukraine" with the author's guided tour.

 

Exhibition is open from 9.5. to 11.5.2025 at 13:00-19:00 o'clock in learning space 2 - AURA, 2nd floor.

The exhibition is organized by Kateryna Mostova and Ukrainian Association in Finland.