WE BUILD CROSSMEDIA WORLDS THROUGH ARTISTIC COLLABORATION—CARRYING CULTURAL MEMORY FORWARD AND OPENING SPACES FOR COLLECTIVE IMAGINATION ACROSS BORDERS.

Through bold collaborations, poetic technologies, and transmedia narratives, we envision stories that resonate across disciplines, generations, and borders.

In a time shaped by ecological, social, and digital upheaval, Truth.io crafts immersive, interdisciplinary works that bridge the ancestral and the avant-garde. We believe artistic expression must not only reflect reality, but radically reimagine it—revealing untold histories and empowering diverse voices to shape future inspiration.

Truth.io is a non-profit foundation based in Amsterdam, active since 2016. It produces pioneering projects at the intersection of music theatre, cinema, interactive storytelling, and performative installation. Our works engage audiences across Europe and beyond, activating next dialogues between creators, communities, and institutions.

Each project is a constellation of global and local partnerships—uniting established and emerging artists in deeply collaborative, site-sensitive formats. From sold-out performances at the Holland Festival, De Singel, and Gorki Theater, to immersive digital experiences with Nowness, WePresent and National Opera & Ballet, Truth.io creates platforms where art becomes a catalyst for meaning, resilience, and cultural continuity.

As of 2025, under new board leadership and expanded ethical commitment, we operate in compliance with the Cultural Governance Code, Fair Practice Code, and Code of Diversity & Inclusion from the Netherlands and within the broader European cultural framework.

Led by artistic director Ruben Van Leer, and guided by a board consisting of Arzum Ünal, Jan Docter, and Nicholas White (Chairperson), the foundation is supported by a team of international producers, legal advisors, cultural researchers, and impact strategists. Truth.io is registered as an NGO (Chamber of Commerce NL #65444965).


Our approach:

  • Creation – Develop and produce artistic cross-media projects with international reach

  • Artistic Research – Facilitate inclusive, project-based exploration into new cultural forms

  • Networking – Bridging emerging and acclaimed independent artists, forward-thinking institutions, and diverse audiences across geographies

  • Distribution – Innovate sustainable and accessible models to share artistic transmedia works

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Press:

 

The Huffington Post

“The gorgeous film project Symmetry, combines the best parts of opera and dance with the titillating rigor of digital art and physics to create a visual narrative that explores the philosophical elements of the giant particle accelerator.”

 

WIRED

“There's a post-apocalyptic vibe in the video imagines members of band Yeasayer as scientists struggling to find a cure for an unnamed global affliction. In addition to the Naturalis tower, the band filmed in molecular biologist Hans Tanke’s lab at Leiden University.”

Volkskrant

“Six dancers fly in geometrical formations across the large stage, pumping in a circle, pulsing across diagonals, breathing deeply, elongating their bodies, stretching their limbs far out or spreading out, as if they’d want to whip the energy in laser beams through the light.”

 

Hyperallergic

“The operatic and choral music by Joep Franssens and Henry Vega gives Symmetry its grand weight, while the setting of the LHC, the ALICE heavy-ion detector, and the laboratories of CERN ground the narrative in these mechanical tools we have constructed to reach into the limits of understanding.”

VICE

“The performance featured an orchestra playing Moore's music, while a VR performer, Esther Mugambi, explored 3D generative point-clouds of the sacred sites, which were projected on a screen for the audience to follow live.”

 

Glamcult

“Opening up the festival this year is an introduction to the man himself’s digital ritual, ‘I Know…’ performance which has been created alongside Ruben Van Leer and the public. After reflecting on these ‘Fragmented times’ Bill T. Jones searches for the ‘we’ within the world.”

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“Using the power of their imagination, artists can critically VISUALISE the ethical dilemmas that are now hidden from view in the theory of natural scientists.”

— Robert Zwijnenberg, professor Art & Science Interactions at Leiden University