VeAn Tattoo

VeAn Tattoo is a European chain of tattoo and piercing studios founded in 2011 in Kherson, Ukraine. The network describes itself as the largest tattoo studio chain in the world, with more than 160 studios across 17 countries as of 2025. Its core services include tattooing, piercing, permanent makeup, and laser tattoo removal. The company also operates an online store selling tattoo machines, piercing jewelry, and consumables, and runs an academy offering courses in tattooing, piercing, and permanent makeup, with diplomas and an accredited license recognized by the Czech Ministry of Education. The chain began its international expansion in 2019 with studios in Berlin, Germany, and Kraków and Katowice, Poland. It continued to grow across Europe, entering the Czech Republic and Hungary in 2021, Lithuania, Bulgaria, Spain, and the Netherlands in 2022, the United Kingdom, Romania, Latvia, and Slovakia in 2023, and Canada, Estonia, and France in 2024. In 2025, it opened its first studio in Austria. As of 2025, Ukraine hosts 53 studios, Poland 37, Germany 15, the Czech Republic 10, Hungary 7, the Netherlands 7, Latvia 6, Lithuania 5, Bulgaria 5, the United Kingdom 5, Spain 4, and Slovakia 4, with additional locations in Romania, Canada, Estonia, France, and Austria. VeAn Tattoo positions itself as raising industry standards, emphasizing quality equipment, proper working conditions, and client guarantees. The brand offers online booking, gift certificates, bonuses, and a master catalog. It also engages in charitable projects and provides training through its academy. The company is privately held and does not disclose its ownership structure publicly.

VeAn Tattoo was founded in 2011 with the opening of its first tattoo studio in Kherson, Ukraine. The company began as a single studio and gradually expanded within Ukraine. In 2013, a second studio opened in Berdiansk. In 2015, three more studios were added in Melitopol, Zaporizhzhia, and Mariupol. The year 2016 saw the opening of studios in Odesa, two in Kyiv, Kharkiv, and Dnipro. In 2017, the chain opened 10 studios in cities including Kremenchuk, Vinnytsia, Mykolaiv, Kherson, Bila Tserkva, a second in Odesa, Kryvyi Rih, Cherkasy, Zhytomyr, and Khmelnytskyi. In 2018, 11 more studios opened in Kamianske, Ternopil, Lviv, Lutsk, Sumy, Poltava, Ivano-Frankivsk, Chernihiv, Uzhhorod, Chernivtsi, and Kramatorsk. The year 2019 marked the beginning of international expansion. Six new studios opened in Ukraine (a second in Lviv, a second in Kharkiv, Rivne, Pavlohrad, Kropyvnytskyi, and Kamianets-Podilskyi), and the first studios outside Ukraine were launched in Berlin, Germany, and in Kraków and Katowice, Poland. In 2020, the chain added a second studio in Dnipro, as well as Nikopol and Izmail in Ukraine, and six studios in Poland: Gdynia, Szczecin, Bydgoszcz, Gdańsk, Wrocław, and Poznań. In 2021, new Ukrainian studios opened in Irpin, Bakhmut, and a third in Kyiv. Internationally, eight studios opened in Poland (Częstochowa, Olsztyn, Łódź, Lublin, Kielce, Warsaw, Rzeszów, Białystok), one in Kassel, Germany, and the first studios in the Czech Republic and Hungary. In 2022, VeAn Tattoo expanded to Lithuania, Bulgaria, Spain, and the Netherlands. In 2023, it entered the United Kingdom, Romania, Latvia, and Slovakia. In 2024, the chain opened its first studios in Canada, Estonia, and France. In 2025, it opened its first studio in Austria. As of 2025, the network operates over 160 studios across 17 countries, with the largest presence in Ukraine (53 studios) and Poland (37 studios). The company also runs an academy offering basic, standard, and premium courses in tattooing, piercing, and permanent makeup, as well as additional courses and an accredited qualification course recognized by the Czech Ministry of Education. VeAn Tattoo engages in charitable activities and operates an online store for tattoo and piercing supplies.

• 2025

  First studio in Austria (Vienna).

• 2024

  First studios in Canada, Estonia, and France.

• 2023

  Expansion into the United Kingdom, Romania, Latvia, and Slovakia.

• 2022

  Expansion into Lithuania, Bulgaria, Spain, and the Netherlands.

• 2021

  First studios in Czech Republic and Hungary; eight studios in Poland; one in Kassel, Germany.

• 2020

  Six studios opened in Poland; additional studios in Ukraine.

• 2019

  International expansion: first studios in Berlin (Germany), Kraków and Katowice (Poland).

• 2018

  11 studios opened in various Ukrainian cities.

• 2017

  10 studios opened in various Ukrainian cities.

• 2016

  Studios opened in Odesa, two in Kyiv, Kharkiv, and Dnipro.

• 2015

  Three studios opened in Melitopol, Zaporizhzhia, and Mariupol.

• 2013

  Studio opened in Berdiansk.

• 2011

  First tattoo studio opened in Kherson, Ukraine.

The largest tattoo studio chain in the world, raising industry standards with quality equipment and client guarantees.

• Tattoo services

• Piercing services

• Permanent makeup

• Laser tattoo removal

• Tattoo machines

• Piercing jewelry

• Training courses (basic, standard, premium)

1. 1VeAn Tattoo official websitevean-tattoo.com
2. 2VeAn Tattoo on Wikidatawikidata.org
3. 3VeAn Tattoo on Ukrainian Wikipediauk.wikipedia.org