Who are we?


We are an independent not-for-profit arts organisation, bringing Ukrainian artistic and cultural presence into the heart of European cultural life.

Ukrainian culture is not seen as an integral part of European culture, while every day our common heritage is being destroyed. Our foundation aims to remove this blind spot while solidifying Ukrainian presence within the European cultural context to create a living dialogue.


Why now?


FarNear exists to bring back lost and forgotten parts of European culture from Ukraine, uncovering shared roots and offering new perspectives. It aims to integrate Ukrainian culture into a broader European cultural context, connecting artists and culture-makers that enrich both sides. At the same time, it brings forward what is contemporary today and what has the potential to become canonical tomorrow.


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“Ukraine is not measured in territories, ruined cities, or numbers tallied, but in emotionally resonant stories that mobilise and bind people together culturally, while existing through time and generations.”



















Exhibitions (archive)
“We Carried the Soil with Us” curated by Dasha Lohvynova with artists: Katia Motylova-Babinska, Stefaniia Bodnia, Karolina Uskakovych and Anna Khvyl, TROEF Leiden.
Exhibition on show: 20.03.2026 to 10.05.2026

Concerts ongoing
SplenDOOR to Ukraine, a series of concerts of Ukrainian classical music accompanied by Ihor Sukhorukov’s lectures about the Ukrainian cultural context, Splendor Amsterdam, ongoing...

























Last Updated September 2026

Forever and a Day, curated by Christian van der Kooy, Melkweg Expo, Amsterdam, 18 January - 25 February 2024. Photos by Francoise Bolechowski.







Mission

FarNear Foundation (Stichting FarNear) wants to provide opportunities for culture-makers: artists, cinema directors, composers, musicians, poets, critics, thinkers, researchers, scholars, and others, who can open new perspectives on Ukrainian culture. Building an understanding through cooperation and dialogue between cultural actors from Ukraine, the Netherlands and EU, we explore what culture entails - not just what it represents. 

Through projects in areas included, but not limited to: visual art, classical and experimental music, cinema, art catalogue and essay publishing, the foundation aims to create reflective and emotionally resonant experiences that foster contextualization, cross-cultural connections and understanding. The foundation strives to create a space which opens and facilitates engagement with Ukrainian culture in all its complexity, while building lasting collaborations and relationships between Ukrainian and European cultural industries. 

Our mission to ensure the solid presence of Ukraine in Europe’s shared artistic and intellectual field stems from the understanding that culture is not a fixed identity, heritage or echo chamber to be solely consumed, but a living process that shapes civil society, challenges persisting storylines, and imagines the future.

NL: Stichting FarNear pleit voor hedendaagse kunst en cultuur in een wereld die steeds minder oog lijkt te hebben voor de breedte en diepte van de menselijke ervaring. Wij zijn er voor degenen die geloven dat we samen een vooruitstrevende kijk op onze leefwereld kunnen ontwikkelen door middel van klassieke muziek, beeldende kunst en discours, waarbij we ons richten op gedeelde waarden, creativiteit en verbondenheid.

FarNear brengt verloren en vergeten aspecten van de Europese cultuur uit Oekraïne onder de aandacht, legt gedeelde wortels bloot en biedt nieuwe inzichten. Ons doel is om de Oekraïense cultuur te verweven met de bredere Nederlandse en Europese culturele context; door kunstenaars en cultuurmakers met elkaar in contact te brengen op een manier die beide kanten verrijkt. Tegelijkertijd belichten we wat vandaag de dag actueel is en resoneert, en wat in de toekomst een blijvende plek in de cultuurgeschiedenis kan verwerven.

Onze visuele identiteit vormt een essentieel onderdeel van dit verhaal. Ze weerspiegelt waar FarNear in haar missie voor staat. Wij zijn de ontwerpers van 3z uit Kharkiv & Berlijn zeer dankbaar voor de ontwikkeling en vormgeving van het gezicht van FarNear.
 

Vision
 

We envision a future in which Ukrainian culture holds a strategic and lasting presence within the cultural fabric of the Netherlands and the European Union. Ukrainian culture-makers become a vital and integral part of European cultural heritage and contemporary intellectual discourses and are able to self-reflect on existing cultural biases and assumptions on other European cultures as well. 

Our foundation stands at the intersection of fragmented contexts - from within Ukraine and beyond - working to create coherent, collaborative, and equal cultural practices. We see ourselves as a catalyst for this shift by creating connections between Ukraine’s culture and the European arts ecosystem. We facilitate projects, to pave the way for solid visibility and structural inclusion and appreciation of Ukrainian voices, maintaining their perspectives on a wide range of themes.



Classical NOW! Unbroken: Voices from Ukraine, Lux Aeterna Revoice with Alter Ratio, Paleiskerk The Hague, 2025. Photo by Christian van der Kooy.

























Stichting FarNear is a registered foundation (”stichting”) with a charitable status (”culturele ANBI”) in The Netherlands / RSIN: 869217823 / KvK: 99990903 / Nassaukade 15 2, 1052 CG, Amsterdam / info@farnear.nl