The Jury for the INDEX Veteran Fellowship Announced

INDEX is happy to officially present the committee who will select the recipients of the Veteran Fellowship.
The jury includes artists and cultural professionals with expertise in themes such as war, postwar recovery, inclusion and the social and/or professional reintegration of veterans.

The fellows will be selected by:

— Yurii Vovkogon
Cultural manager, author of artistic installations, writer and veteran.
Vovkogon manages veteran and cultural projects at YMCA Lviv and is the project manager of the opera-myth Ukraine – Terra Incognita, dedicated to Ukraine’s defenders and personally to soldier and singer Vasyl Slipak. Before the full-scale invasion, he coordinated art projects at the Dzyga Art Association in Lviv.
His debut play, Maaa, It Hurts!, co-written with Hryhorii Semenchuk, was one of the top three winners of the July Honey competition.
After the 2014 Revolution of Dignity, he joined the army with the Right Sector Ukrainian Volunteer Corps. Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion in 2022, he fought with the Armed Forces of Ukraine and was wounded during the defense of Lysychansk.

— Aliona Karavai
Curator, essayist, cultural manager, editor.
Karavai worked at the IZOLYATSIA Center for Contemporary Art during its Donetsk period and co-curated several site-specific art projects in Ivano-Frankivsk.
Since 2022, she has organized emergency residencies within Ukraine, the evacuation of (private) collections and international exhibitions of Ukrainian contemporary art.
Winner of the 2023 Kairos Prize, a European award for cultural figures.
Since 2023, she has worked with a team on VILNO, a program supporting the reintegration of veterans from the art and education sectors.
She co-founded the Khata-Maisternia arts residency in the Carpathians, the arts media platform Post Impreza and the Assortment Room project space, where she curates programs and exhibitions that support the continuity of artistic practice for artists currently serving in the military.

— Liana Mytsko
Cultural scholar, founder and director of the Lviv Municipal Art Center and the Center for Urban Mobility, head of the Escape Line Cultural Agency NGO.
She curated the redesign and rethinking of a space at the Lviv Municipal Art Residency dedicated to the creative and psychological recovery of internally displaced people.
In 2025, she co-founded the Center for Urban Mobility, focusing on accessibility, inclusive urban construction and mobility during wartime.
She led the residency program Rear Affairs, in which artists created projects to support and rehabilitate veterans and war victims and their families.
Since 2023, she has mentored the Community Reconstruction project, helping develop cultural co-creation spaces in war-affected communities in Krasnyi Kut and Blyzniuky.
In 2018 and 2020, Mytsko was recognized as Best Cultural Manager by the Lviv City Council.

— Sasha Dovzhyk
Director of INDEX, writer, editor, curator and cultural researcher.
She curated special projects at the Ukrainian Institute in London and led the Ukrainian Laboratory writers’ residency. She is the editor-in-chief of London Ukrainian Review.
Since 2022, she has worked on international advocacy for Ukrainian resistance, publishing in The New York Times, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Guardian, CNN, New Lines, and elsewhere.
Dovzhyk holds a PhD in English and Comparative Literature from Birkbeck, University of London, where she also taught English literature. She taught Ukrainian literature at UCL’s School of Slavonic and East European Studies.
After nine years in London, she returned to Ukraine and now leads INDEX, a cultural and research institution in Lviv.

— Olesya Yaremchuk
Program Coordinator at INDEX, writer, journalist, editor.
Author of Our Others, a literary reportage book on national minorities in Ukraine, and co-author of a book on revolution and war in Ukraine. She also compiled Free Voices of Crimea, a book about Crimean journalists imprisoned by the Kremlin.
Member of the Coalition for a Pluralistic Public Discourse (Berlin). Former editor-in-chief of Choven Publishing House.
Since 2014, Yaremchuk has worked as an independent journalist for Den, Litakcent, Ukrainska Pravda, Tyzhden, The Ukrainians, Reporters, Eurozine, New Eastern Europe (Kraków), Ukrainian Journal (Prague), Deutsche Welle (Bonn), Hamburger Abendblatt (Hamburg), Vorwärts (Berlin) and Die Presse (Vienna).
She teaches literary reportage at Ukrainian Catholic University, the Media Development Foundation, the Sussilnist Foundation and Litosvita.
In 2024, she was shortlisted for the Women in Arts: The Resistance award by UN Women and the Ukrainian Institute, as well as several other literary prizes.

Applications for the Veteran Fellowship are open until 11 July 2025 via this Google Form: https://forms.gle/ke2f17bsnCXe9ZQj6

Selection results will be announced by 21 July 2025.

For additional questions, please contact: info@index-ukraine.org

This fellowship is made possible with the support of Scan Systems LLC and the Ukrainian Credit Union (UCU) in Canada.