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Volia Space — Ukraine House at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games

Volia Space was the Ukraine House at the XXXIII Summer Olympic Games. From 27 July to 10 August 2024 it operated in Paris, in the Le Trabendo club building in Parc de la Villette, under the national team's slogan “The Will to Win”, and served as the national centre and meeting place for Ukrainian athletes, coaches, officials, and Ukrainian and foreign media.

The main goal of the centre was to promote unity and Ukrainian culture during the Olympics. The programme included documentary screenings, among them “20 Days in Mariupol”, photo exhibitions, Ukrainian cuisine masterclasses and meetings with athletes of the national team.

This page is the archive of the pavilion's official website, which ran on this domain in 2024.

At a glance

Dates
27 July — 10 August 2024
Venue
Le Trabendo club, Parc de la Villette (Parc des Nations, one of 15 national houses)
Address
211 avenue Jean Jaurès, 75019 Paris
Slogan
“The Will to Win”, the slogan of Ukraine's Olympic team
Organiser
Ministry of Youth and Sports of Ukraine with partners

What is “Volia”?

Volia is a unique Ukrainian word that means both will and freedom at once.

Programme of the final week

The programme is reconstructed from archived copies of the site (Wayback Machine snapshots of 4, 6 and 10 August 2024). It changed during the Games; the version for 4–10 August is shown here.

  • 12:00Exhibition “Taras Shevchenko”
  • 13:00Mykhailo Romanchuk, Ukrainian swimmer. Talk
  • 13:30Maryna Bekh-Romanchuk (athletics). Talk
  • 14:00Exhibition “Brave to Carry the Light”
  • 14:15Exhibitions by Digital Gallery partners
  • 16:00Screening of “Stakhovsky, from tennis to war” (L’Équipe)

  • 12:00Presentation of the VOLIA project by Projector
  • 13:30“What We Are Fighting For”: exhibition on Ukraine’s regions and cities
  • 14:00Exhibitions by Digital Gallery partners

  • 12:00Film “Bon Appétit” about Ukrainian cuisine
  • 12:30Meeting with chef Yevhen Klopotenko: modern Ukrainian cuisine
  • 12:45Borscht masterclass by Yevhen Klopotenko, tasting
  • 13:30Meeting with chef Volodymyr Yaroslavskyi
  • 13:35Talk on meanings and traditions in Ukrainian cuisine
  • 13:50Ukrainian dishes masterclass by Volodymyr Yaroslavskyi, tasting
  • 14:45Film “Dough” on the meanings and traditions of bread-making

  • 12:00Film “20 Days in Mariupol”
  • 13:00Photo exhibition “Titans” by Yuriy Bilak
  • 14:00Documentary photo exhibition by Kostiantyn and Vlada Liberov
  • 15:00Film “Glory to the Heroes”

  • 12:00Film “Freedom on Fire”
  • 13:00Exhibition “What We Are Fighting For”
  • 13:30Exhibition “Taras Shevchenko”
  • 14:00Film “Glory to the Heroes”

  • 12:00Exhibitions by Digital Gallery partners
  • 13:30Exhibition “Taras Shevchenko”
  • 14:10Film “People of Steel”
  • 15:20Acoustic concert by Serhii Fomenko
  • 15:50Film “Culture vs War”
  • 17:15Film “Resistance and Unity”

  • 12:00Video flashback: Oleksandr Usyk
  • 12:25Exhibition “Taras Shevchenko”
  • 12:40Film “Us, Our Pets and the War”
  • 14:00Video flashback: Jamala
  • 14:20Film “Dough”
  • 15:00Video flashback: Olha Kharlan
  • 15:15Video flashback: Yaroslava Mahuchikh
  • 15:30Exhibitions by Digital Gallery partners
  • 16:00Video flashback: Oleksandr Khyzhniak

Address and entrance

Volia Space was located in the eastern part of Parc de la Villette, in the Le Trabendo club building: Parc de la Villette, 211 avenue Jean Jaurès, 75019 Paris, France.

Press coverage

A selection of Ukrainian and international media coverage of the Ukraine House in Paris.

After the Games

When the Olympics ended, the pavilion's official website was shut down. Since 2025 the uahouse2024.space domain has been maintained as an archive: the description, programme and press selection are preserved so that links from media that covered the Ukraine House lead to a live page.

The domain also hosts a small Ukrainian-language blog with practical articles about city life, home and business.

Go to the blog (Ukrainian)

Volia Space editorial team