Cultural Collaboration Russia

In the past few years, DutchCulture has gained a great deal of knowledge and experience in the area of cultural collaboration with Russia. In 2013, we coordinated the cultural programme for the Netherlands-Russia Year, a programme that included over 600 big and small events in both countries.

After the Netherlands-Russia Year, we have continued to play a stimulating and coordinating role for cultural exchange with Russia. At the beginning of 2015, we started the New Cultural Horizons programme, which explores new possibilities and ways of working together with Russia.

International ranking
On the Top 50 Countries list in DutchCulture | Buitengaats (Offshore), our database of international cultural activities coming from the Netherlands, Russia held 20th place until the year 2013, with an average of 140 activities per year.

Due to all of the activities in the Netherlands-Russia Year, Russia rose to 7th place in 2013. In 2014, Russia stood at 12th place, partly due to activities generated by new forms of collaboration that have sprung from the Netherlands-Russia Year.

New Dynamics
The make-up of cultural collaboration with Russia is undergoing a change. The number of lectures, workshops, symposiums and master classes increased tremendously in 2014. This development is part of a broader trend that we see in terms of collaborating with Russia: exchanging knowledge and strengthening the network are increasingly growing more important.
 

Although relations with Russia since 2013 have become more complicated in practically every respect, cultural collaboration between Russian and Dutch makers and organisations is becoming ever more entrenched, thanks to practices that focus on the exchange of knowledge.