This text analyses the impact of Russia's war against Ukraine on Ukrainian art and features interviews with five Ukrainian artists: Alevtina Kakhidze, Maria Kulikovska, Lia Dostlieva, Andrii Dostliev, and Piotr Armianovski. The artists speak about their experiences of displacement and migration following the annexation of Crimea and the occupation of parts of Donbas in 2014 as well as their premonitions of the full-scale Russian invasion that was to come.