We generate
affirmative energy
through solo drawings
soft sculptures made in duo
and collective embodied experiences
DAY Collective is an artist duo consisting of Dorota Radzimirska and Yulia Ratman, based in Amsterdam. Their artistic research involves participatory performances and installations from soft sculptures and intuitive drawings. It manifests the power of consciousness and aims to cultivate spirit. In the participatory performances they apply embodied interactions with people and the environment; these are intimate wordless experiences. Everyone is welcome to join them. In the installations, people are invited to interact with soft sculptures, sit, lie or hug them, and contemplate the drawings. Both in performances as well as in installations, the narrative evolves during the process, from within. It intends to activate the senses, intuition, and imagination. In this way, a new connection with yourself, others, and the environment can be awakened.
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Grants
2024 - AFK, project grant: On the Way to Wonder
2024 - Stichting Stokroos: With Love
2023 - 750 Amsterdam: Groe&Bloei group project
2023 - Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds: With Love
2022 - AFK, project grant: Soft Edges
2021 - Mondriaan Fonds, project grant: Tete-a-Tete Triptych
2020-2019 - Mondriaan Fonds: Young Talent Stories of Matter
2019 - AFK, project grant: Nomadic Picnic
2019 - 4 en 5 mei National Fonds: Nomadic Picnic
2018 - AFK, Stichting DOEN, Postcode Loterij Fonds: PiCMAT
Solo exhibitions
Sept 2024 — On The Way To Wonder, supported by AFK at Pleinkamer, Amsterdam
March 2023 — Soft Edges, supported by AFK, at Stichting La Jetee, Amsterdam
2022 — Soft Edges, supported by AFK, at Lycka, Amsterdam
2022 — Stories of Matter at De Groene Passage, Rotterdam
2021 — Tete-a-Tete Triptych supported by Mondriaan Fonds at Herengracht 401, Amsterdam
2021 — Stories of Matter, supported by Mondriaan Fonds, AiR expo at Nieuw en Meer, Amsterdam
2018 — Nomadic Picnic supported by AFK at Neverneverland, Amsterdam
Group exhibitions
Sept 2024 —On The Way to Wonder installation at Big Art, Amsterdam
July, 2024 — Do You Feel It? diptych at Nieuwelingen, Van Eesteren Museum, Amsterdam
June, 2024 — Tete-a-Tete at Babylon, NDSM Fuse, Amsterdam
October 2023 — Big Art Bajes, diptych Do You Feel It, Amsterdam
November 2021 — Stories of Matter installation at HERE by Milkfish art platform, Amsterdam
July 2021 — Art Rotterdam, Artist Start, by Mondriaan Fonds, Stories of Matter, Tete-a-Tete & performance, Rotterdam
2019-2020 — “Fire” at Dutch Design Hotel Artemis, PiCMAT paintings, Amsterdam
August 2019 — Werkplaats Molenwijk, Framer Framed, PiCMAT social ritual & PiCMAT paintings, Amsterdam
2018 - 2019 — “Rijke Eenvoud”, Van Eesteren museum, PiCMAT social ritual & exhibition, Amsterdam
September 2018 — Metamorphosis, Percolate art gallery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Performances / Festivals / Fairs / Symposia / Art events
2024 — Tete-a-Tete at Stille Wateren, Amsterdam
2024 — Tete-a-Tete at Regenerate, Delft, Netherlands
2024 — Tete-a-Tete at Healing Garden Festival, Bant
2023 — Tete-a-Tete at Unfair, Amsterdam
2023 — Tete-a-Tete at Symposium “Systems at Play” Brussels, Belgium
2022 — Tete-a-Tete at Festival Poetry Shaped Art, Eindhoven
2022 — Tete-a-Tete at Activity Center for Asylum Seekers, Amstelveen
2021 — Tete-a-Tete at Brief Encounters, by Lustwarande, Tilburg
2021 — Tete-a-Tete at de Nieuw Liefde, Amsterdam
2021 — Tete-a-Tete at Outsider gallery, Amsterdam
2021 — Tete-a-Tete at Framer Framed, Amsterdam
2021 — Tete-a-Tete at Museum Plein, Amsterdam
2021 — Tete-a-Tete at Nieuw en Meer, Amsterdam
2021 — Tete-a-Tete at H401, Amsterdam
2021 — Tete-a-Tete Online at de Nieuwe Liefde, Amsterdam
2020 — Tete-a-Tete at OBA Oosterdok, Amsterdam
2020 — Tete-a-Tete Online via ZOOM, worldwide
2020 — In Response at Come Together, Frascati, Amsterdam
2019 — PiCMAT at My Ritual, at Tropen Museum, Amsterdam
2019 — PiCMAT paintings, Uitmarkt festival, Framer Framed, Amst.
2019 — In Response at H401, Amsterdam
2019 — Nomadic Picnic at Mediamatic, Amsterdam
2019 — Nomadic Picnic at Punt WG, Amsterdam
2018 — Nomadic Picnic, Van Eesteren Museum, Amsterdam
2018 — Nomadic Picnic at Mediamatic, Amsterdam
2018 — Nomadic Picnic at Vondel CS, Amsterdam
2018 — The Mountain at de Appel, Museum Night, Amst.
2017 — The Mountain at de Appel during Museum Night, Amsterdam
2017 — Blue Red Rocker, during Living Museum, Stedelijk, Amsterdam
2016 — Magnifying Magnified, Eye on Art at Eye Museum, Amsterdam
2015 — Fleeting Eternity, at Oude Kerk, Amsterdam
Residencies
2021 — Nieuw en Meer, Ams, NL
2020 — AGA Lab, Amsterdam, NL
2020 — Cassis AIR, France
2019 — Au Brana, France
2016 — Cascoland, Amsterdam, NL
Education
Both:
2012-2016 — BA, Moving Image (VAV), Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Dorota:
2010-2005 — MA of Science, Socio-Cultural Animation & Multicultural Education, Pedagogy Faculty, Warsaw University, Poland
Yulia:
2010-2011 — Graphic Design and Illustration,
Hertfordshire University, Hatfield, UK
2007-2010 — Graphic Design and Illustration,
British Higher School of Art and Design, Moscow
Collaborations
Monthly since July 2022 — Full moon Ritual together with Pien Vrijhof
Weekly since November 2022 — Performances for children with Kleintjekunst
BIO
Dorota Radzimirska (born in 1985 in Poland) and Yulia Ratman (born in 1988 in USSR) graduated from Gerrit Rietveld Academy (VAV - Fine Arts) in 2016. For both, it was a second education. Dorota has an MA in Socio-Cultural Studies (Multicultural Education), from Warsaw University, Poland (2010) and Yulia has a BA in Graphic Design and Illustration University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, UK (2011). The mutual interest in creating conditions for new relations, and embodied forms of knowledge, together with a conscious approach to using materials led them to establish DAY Collective.
