Solomiya is an artist-run independent magazine exploring and showcasing the Ukrainian cultural and artistic scene.

The first monothematic issue of Solomiya — The Environmental Issue — brings together a collection of artists and researchers reflecting and advocating on behalf of Ukraine’s more-than-human communities and ecologies. In collaboration with the Ukrainian Environmental Humanities Network (UEHN) — an international collective of curators, artists, and scholars — we’ve created an issue that celebrates the richness and complexity of Ukrainian landscapes that is currently being threatened by the war Relationships with Nature Are More Constant Than Relationships with PeoplePeat Ontologies and Radiations of War. This issue offers a diverse range of perspectives, amplifying voices that challenge the colonial, imperial, and extractive narratives Drawwaterflowers 2Two Ornithologists and a Million Birds: The Environmental Humanities in Ukraine that have long shaped external perceptions of Ukraine’s environment.

Through written essays and visual works, the contributors take us on a journey across the country: from the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone in Polissya Woe to Those People Who Are Illiterate and Do Not Understand Anything to the submerged ruins of the Kakhovka Dam Nature Does Not Wait for Our Decisions: Rewilding, War Wilding, and Other Possibilities for Nature Recovery in Kherson, from the vibrant wetlands of Odesa Between Sea And Skyto the unique but threatened steppe A Landscape, Simplified. Shrinking rivers Darnytsia, displaced scientific collections Eyelashes and Sand Crystals, traditional ecological knowledge, nuclear legacies Decay of Matter, and the scars of industrial agriculture are just a few of the urgent themes explored in this issue.