“Art Under Fire”: Ukraine Brings Cinema, Poetry, and Cultural Resistance to Luxembourg

LUkraine asbl has announced the fourth edition of UA Days in Luxembourg 2026, which will take place in Luxembourg from 3 to 13 June.

This year’s programme is built around the theme “Art under Fire” and is dedicated to artistic expression created, preserved, and sustained in times of war. Through film screenings, exhibitions, public discussions, and music performances, the festival presents Ukrainian culture as an active and evolving part of contemporary Europe.

The festival will open with a special programme at Ciné Utopia, featuring the vernissage of the Aza Nizi Maza art exhibition alongside a documentary screening. The opening film, Underground Garden, focuses on the Kharkiv-based children’s art studio Aza Nizi Maza, which continues its work despite ongoing shelling and persistent security threats.

A subsequent screening of U Are the Universe, directed by Pavlo Ostrikov, will take place at Kinepolis Kirchberg. The film, developed over a decade of war and completed during the full-scale invasion, explores themes of isolation, human connection, and resilience under extreme uncertainty.

The programme will also include an Art & Poetry Talk in Time of War at Cercle Cité, featuring Radek Lipka, Iryna Tsilyk, Irena Karpa, Marion Guth, and Marta Czyż. The discussion will focus on the role of art in wartime and its capacity to preserve memory and respond to violence.

For the fourth consecutive year, we are introducing Europeans to our authentic culture. Interest in it has grown incredibly, although, unfortunately, due to tragic circumstances.

Inna Yaremenko

Vice President of LUkraine

Music will be represented through the concert “Resilience: Ukrainian Classics,” featuring pianist Marta Kuziy and works by Mykola Lysenko, Viktor Kosenko, Levko Revutsky, and Nestor Nyzhankivsky.

The festival will conclude with “Tavria: Steppe, Sun & Jazz” at Rotondes, an open-format event inspired by the culture of southern Ukraine. The programme will combine music, culinary elements, a video presentation, and a live jazz performance by Fuz4tet.

We want to show that Ukrainian culture is not just surviving during the war—it has become a powerful tool of resistance, struggle, and unity.

Inna Yaremenko

Vice President of LUkraine

UA Days festival is supported by the Luxembourg Ministry of Culture, the European Commission, the City of Luxembourg, and many other institutions.

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Cannes Film Festival Hosts Exhibition Honoring Journalists Killed Covering Russia’s War in Ukraine

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Meanwhile, an unofficial artistic project unfolding across Venice during the Venice Biennale is highlighting the human cost of Russia’s war against Ukraine by focusing on cultural figures whose lives and creative work were cut short by Russian aggression.

The initiative, titled Invisible Pavilion, runs in parallel with the 61st edition of the Biennale, taking place from May 6 to November 22, 2026. Rather than being hosted in a single exhibition venue, it is dispersed across the city through posters installed in public spaces.

Each poster is designed to resemble a typical cultural announcement—promoting book launches, film screenings, or poetry events—but is stamped with the word “CANCELLED.” All of them carry the same explanation, noting that the featured author was killed by Russia.

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