Ukraine House in Denmark

On December 5, Ukraine House in Denmark, together with the Danish Foreign Policy Society, organized a panel discussion on nuclear security and its implications in the face of the Russian war against Ukraine and the free world. Leading experts examined how Ukraine’s denuclearization, Russia’s nuclear coercion, and the occupation of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) have transformed nuclear risk from an abstract threat into a daily geopolitical reality with global consequences.

In her speech during the Open World Conference 2025, organized by the University of Copenhagen to discuss the contemporary relevance of Niels Bohr's historic letter to the United Nations about the principles of openness in global science in the 1950s, Nataliia Popovych gave a sobering account about why openness towards an unreformed empire both in the 20th and, even more so, in the 21st century is dangerous.

On November 18, an open-air exhibition by Ukrainian artist Mariia Kulykivska — a continuation of her long-term project “My Body is a Battlefield” — opened along the Copenhagen waterfront. The event was organized by the contemporary art platform Spilne Art in cooperation with the Ukraine House in Denmark.

Ukraine House in Denmark, in collaboration with Spilne Art, presents a new chapter of Ukrainian artist Mariia Kulykivska’s long-term project — My Body is a Battlefield. Copenhagen. The open-air installation at the waterfront, located near Ukraine House, will run from November 18 to December 26.

November 29, 2025 — February 1, 2026 Ukraine House in Denmark invites residents and guests of Copenhagen to experience the warmth and magic of Ukrainian Christmas at the exhibition “Coming Home for Christmas”.

København, 22. september 2025 – Ukraine House i Danmark afholdt i samarbejde med Udenrigspolitisk Selskab og Free Nations of Post-Russia Forum en paneldebat om afslutningen på russisk kolonialisme. Arrangementet samlede internationale eksperter, beslutningstagere og ledelsesrepræsentanter for civilsamfundet til en drøftelse af Ruslands imperiale tilbagegang og nødvendigheden af at forberede sig på dens konsekvenser. Debatten blev modereret af Nataliia Popovych, formand for Ukraine House i Danmark, og panelet bestod af Charlotte Flindt Pedersen (Udenrigspolitisk Selskab), Jacob Kaarsbo (analytiker i efterretnings- og sikkerhedspolitik), Juraj Mesík (Slovakisk Udenrigspolitisk Selskab), Yaroslav Yurchyshyn (medlem af det ukrainske parlament), Oleg Magaletskyi (Free Nations of Post-Russia Forum) og Mette Skak (forsker i russisk udenrigs- og sikkerhedspolitik).

København, Danmark – Den 5. september havde Ukraine House i Danmark den ære at være vært forMyroslav Marynovych, en vigtig dissident, medstifter af den Ukrainske Helsingforsgruppe, Gulag-overlever og prorektor ved det Ukrainske Katolske Universitet. Arrangementet kastede lys over modet hos Ukraines menneskerettighedsforkæmpere i 1960’erne og 70’erne – en generation, der modsatte sig den sovjetiske totalitære maskine, på et tidspunkt hvor næsten ingen troede, det var muligt.

Copenhagen, September 22, 2025 — Ukraine House in Denmark, together with the Danish Foreign Policy Society and the Free Nations of Post-Russia Forum, convened a high-level discussion on the end of Russian colonialism. The event brought together international experts, policymakers, and civil society leaders to examine Russia’s imperial decline and the urgent need to prepare for its consequences. Moderated by Nataliia Popovych, Chairperson of Ukraine House in Denmark, the panel featured Charlotte Flindt Pedersen (Danish Foreign Policy Society), Jacob Kaarsbo (Intelligence and Security Analyst), Juraj Mesík (Slovak Foreign Policy Association), Yaroslav Yurchyshyn (Member of the Ukrainian Parliament), Oleg Magaletskyi (Free Nations of Post-Russia Forum), and Mette Skak (Scholar on Russian foreign and security policy).

Copenhagen, Denmark – On 5 September, Ukraine House in Denmark was honored to host Myroslav Marynovych, a keystone dissident, co-founder of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group, Gulag survivor, and Vice-Rector of the Ukrainian Catholic University. The event shone a light on the courage of Ukraine’s human rights defenders in the 1960s and 70s, a generation that resisted the Soviet totalitarian machine when almost no one believed it was possible.

Copenhagen, Denmark — August 22, 2025. At Ukraine House in Denmark, soldiers, engineers, and policymakers gathered to share the lessons of a war where milltech drones and robots, and artificial intelligence have moved from theory to daily reality in Ukraine. Organized by the Defence Robotics, a charity foundation, the discussion brought together Oleksandr Yabchanka, Head of the Robotic Systems Service of the Da Vinci Wolves battalion, alongside innovators from companies Frontline and Tencore, two of Ukraine’s leading developers of ground robotic platforms.

Copenhagen, August 21, 2025 – Ukraine House in Denmark proudly opened “Uncurtained: Ukrainian Art in Danish Collections 1989–2023”, its 11th major exhibition and a landmark research project tracing 35 years of cultural exchange between Denmark and Ukraine. Curated by Kateryna Stukalova, the exhibition brings together over 100 works by 28 Ukrainian artists. In her opening remarks Nataliia Popovych, chairperson of Ukraine House in Denmark, emphasized: “Uncurtained is not just an exhibition — it is a journey through thirty-five years of trust, of Ukrainian art being seen, collected, and preserved in Denmark. Long before the world spoke of the ‘Danish model’ of support for Ukraine, Danish curators, collectors, and institutions chose to trust in Ukrainian creativity — to see our culture as sovereign and distinct. Opening on the eve of Ukraine’s Independence Day, this exhibition stands as a tribute not only to our artists, but to the very idea of independence — a daily choice to defend cultu

En musikalsk hyldest til Ukraines uafhængighedsdag — klange og melodier, der har formet nationen siden genoprettelsen af dens frihed og suverænitet i 1991. Programmet rummer værker af de anerkendte, nutidige ukrainske komponister Valentyn Sylvestrov, Victoria Poleva og Serhiy Zazhytko, side om side med en talentfuld ny generation: Roman Grygoriv, Serhiy Vilka, Andriy Merkhel og Yana Shlyabanska. Den ukrainske musik suppleres af værker af de danske komponister Per Nørgård og Carl Nielsen, som understreger de kulturelle bånd mellem Ukraine og Danmark. En del af koncerten er "A Musical Tribute to Ukrainian Independence" — et lyrisk potpourri af ikoniske ukrainske sange, der følger nationens kulturelle rejse fra begyndelsen af 1990’erne til i dag.

21. august – 23. november 2025 Kurateret af Kateryna Stukalova Ukraine House in Denmark er stolte af at kunne præsentere "Uncurtained: Ukrainsk kunst i danske samlinger 1989-2023", en skelsættende udstilling og et stort forskningsprojekt, der udforsker den rige, men ofte oversete, historie om dansk-ukrainske kulturelle relationer. Gennem ukrainske kunstværker erhvervet i private, offentlige og erhvervsmæssige danske samlinger i løbet af de sidste tre et halve årtier giver Uncurtained et unikt indblik i de kunstneriske og historiske bånd mellem de to nationer og beviser, at den nuværende stærke danske støtte til Ukraine ikke er en ny udvikling.

August 21 – November 23, 2025 Curated by Kateryna Stukalova Ukraine House in Denmark is proud to present “Uncurtained: Ukrainian Art in Danish Collections 1989–2023”, a landmark exhibition and major research project exploring the rich, yet often overlooked, history of Danish-Ukrainian cultural relations. Through the lens of Ukrainian artworks acquired by private, public, and corporate Danish collections over the past three and a half decades, Uncurtained offers a unique perspective on the artistic and historical ties between the two nations and proves that current strong Danish support for Ukraine is not a recent development.

Ukraine House in Denmark hosted Ukrainian civic strategist Yevhen Hlibovytskyi for a critical examination of how Ukraine is surviving the war—and what its experience reveals about the future of governance, democracy, and resilience in the 21st century. The event took place on June 24.

Thank you to everyone who visited Ukraine House in Denmark during this year’s 3daysofdesign festival in Copenhagen. Since joining the festival in 2023, Ukraine House has become both a cultural landmark and a vital platform for showcasing contemporary Ukrainian design. Our historic space in the heart of Copenhagen once again welcomed visitors from around the world, hosting exhibitions, conversations, and moments of solidarity during the festival’s three vibrant days — June 18 to 20.

From June 18 to 20, 2025, Ukraine House in Denmark will present “Material Resistance: Ukrainian Design in Action”, a collective exhibition showcasing innovative and resilient Ukrainian design as part of Copenhagen’s prestigious 3daysofdesign festival. The project is organized in partnership with the Library of Ukrainian Materials, the Ukrainian Association of Furniture Makers, and the design fair Material Matters (London).

As Russia wages war on the battlefield, it also wages a mental war of hate and disinformation. At Ukraine House in Denmark, a panel of leading experts came together to reveal how Kremlin-sponsored hate speech and disinformation are not only deepening Russia’s war against Ukraine—but may themselves constitute international crimes.The panel examined how language becomes weaponized: how it dehumanizes, distorts, and incites. This is not just about information manipulation—it is about cultivating moral indifference to atrocity.

On May 25, Ukraine House in Denmark hosted a special edition of its series “Taste of Ukraine”, dedicated to the Crimean Tatar people—their history, their struggle, and their resilient identity. The event took place in the shadow of May 18 which marks the deportation of Crimean Tatars by the Soviet regime in 1944, a historical trauma that continues to shape the destiny and identity of Ukraine’s indigenous people. More than a dinner, the evening became a space of communal remembrance, a moment to pause and confront the long history of oppression and reflect on the enduring fight for identity and belonging.

On April 30, Ukraine House in Denmark hosted a powerful evening of testimony, legal clarity, and urgent moral reckoning—highlighting one of the most horrifying aspects of Russia’s war against Ukraine: the systematic deportation and indoctrination of Ukrainian children.