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 activates 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
March 2023 — Soft Edges, supported by AFK, at Stichting La Jetee, Amsterdam
Aug-Sept, 2022 — Soft Edges, supported by AFK, at Lycka, Amsterdam
August-October, 2022 — Stories of Matter at De Groene Passage, Rotterdam
October 2021 — Tete-a-Tete Triptych supported by Mondriaan Fonds at Herengracht 401, Amsterdam
September 2021 — Stories of Matter, supported by Mondriaan Fonds, AiR expo at Nieuw en Meer, Amsterdam
June 2018 — Nomadic Picnic supported by AFK at Neverneverland, Amsterdam
Group exhibitions
October 2023 — Big Art Bajes, diptych Do You Feel It, Amsterdam
November 2021 — HERE by Milkfish art platform, installation Stories of Matter, 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
Festivals and Fairs
16,18 November 2023 — Tete-a-Tete at Unfair Amsterdam
26 June 2022 — Tete-a-Tete at Festival Poetry Shaped Art, Eindhoven
5 September 2021 —Tete-a-Tete at Brief Encounters, by Lustwarande, Oude Warande, Tilburg
November 2019 — PiCMAT at My Ritual, at Tropen Museum, Amsterdam
September 2019 — PiCMAT paintings, Uitmarkt Festival, Framer Framed, Amsterdam
Performances
17 May 2022 — Tete-a-Tete at Activity Center for Asylum Seekers, Amstelveen
10 October 2021 — Tete-a-Tete at de Nieuw Liefde, Amsterdam
9 October 2021 — Tete-a-Tete at Outsider gallery, Amsterdam
25-27 August 2021 — Tete-a-Tete at Framer Framed, Amsterdam
21 July — Tete-a-Tete at Museum Plein, Amsterdam
29 July & 4 August — Tete-a-Tete at Nieuw en Meer, Amsterdam
10&11 July, 2021 — Tete-a-Tete at H401, 4 performances Amsterdam
14 February 2021 — Tete-a-Tete Online at de Nieuwe Liefde, Amsterdam
December 2020 — Tete-a-Tete at OBA Oosterdok, Amsterdam
May- Dec 2020 — Tete-a-Tete Online via ZOOM, worldwide
March, 2020 — In Response at Come Together, Frascati, Amsterdam
November 2019 — In Response at H401, Amsterdam
August 2019 — Nomadic Picnic at Mediamatic, Amsterdam
March, June 2019 — Nomadic Picnic at Punt WG, performance, Amsterdam
June & Dec 2018 — Nomadic Picnic, Van Eesteren Museum, Amsterdam
August 2018 — Nomadic Picnic at Mediamatic, Amsterdam
August 2018 — Nomadic Picnic at Vondel CS, Amsterdam
November 2017 — The Mountain at de Appel during Museum Night, Amsterdam
May 2017 — Blue Red Rocker, during Living Museum, Stedelijk, Amsterdam
May 2016 — Magnifying Magnified, Eye on Art with Gerrit Rietveld Academie at Eye Museum, Amsterdam
February 2015 — Fleeting Eternity, with Gerrit Rietveld Academie at Oude Kerk, Amsterdam
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.
