{"id":7,"date":"2026-09-29T14:06:37","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T14:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dimitrimadimin.com\/index.php\/home\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T14:32:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T14:32:18","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dimitrimadimin.com\/","title":{"rendered":"Studio Dimitri Madimin \u2014 Visual Art, Film and Artistic Research"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<header class=\"hero\"><p class=\"eyebrow\">Visual art \u00b7 Film \u00b7 Artistic research<\/p><h1><span>Studio<\/span> Dimitri Madimin<\/h1><div class=\"hero-intro\"><p>Studio Dimitri Madimin is the platform for the artistic practice and collaborative projects of Dimitri C. Madimin, a Dutch-Surinamese visual artist, filmmaker and artistic researcher. Working across film, photography, sound, installation and performance, his practice examines postcolonial identity, migration, extractivism and the transmission of cultural memory.<\/p><a class=\"text-link\" href=\"\/?pagename=cv#biography\">Biography &amp; practice \u2192<\/a><\/div><figure><button class=\"image-button\" data-photo=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/studio-dimitri\/assets\/by-all-means-portfolio.jpg\" data-caption=\"By All Means Necessary, TENT Rotterdam, 2021. Installation view reproduced from the artist\u2019s portfolio.\" aria-label=\"Enlarge By All Means Necessary installation at TENT Rotterdam\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/studio-dimitri\/assets\/by-all-means-portfolio.jpg\" alt=\"By All Means Necessary installation at TENT Rotterdam\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/button><figcaption>By All Means Necessary, TENT Rotterdam, 2021. Installation view reproduced from the artist\u2019s portfolio.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/header>\n<section class=\"section split\" id=\"practice\"><div><p class=\"eyebrow\">The studio<\/p><h2>Artistic practice<\/h2><\/div><div class=\"prose\"><p class=\"lead\">Rooted in documentary practice and poetic speculation, Madimin\u2019s work draws on fragmented archives, oral storytelling, embodied memory and lived experience. His projects connect personal narratives to the historical, political and economic structures through which migration, labour and cultural identity are shaped.<\/p><p>Archival research, fieldwork and collaborative production are integral to this approach. Working with historians, performers, musicians and local knowledge keepers, Madimin examines how colonial trade systems, plantation economies and displacement continue to shape contemporary social relations. Listening, exchange and the reconstruction of overlooked histories form an essential part of the artistic process.<\/p><p>His research is grounded in relationships between Suriname and the Netherlands and develops through international collaborations. The Sugar Free projects and the Geneva residency, the Oaxaca programme Compelled to be Here, and commissions and presentations in Dutch museums and archives provide distinct settings for this sustained inquiry. Each project is developed in relation to its historical sources, local context and participating communities.<\/p><a class=\"text-link\" href=\"\/?pagename=cv\">Read the biography and chronology \u2192<\/a><\/div><\/section>\n<section class=\"section\" id=\"current\"><div class=\"section-heading\"><div><p class=\"eyebrow\">2026<\/p><h2>Current research<\/h2><\/div><\/div><div class=\"split\"><h3>De Koloniale Wereld<\/h3><div class=\"prose\"><p>Artistic research connecting Amsterdam, Java and Suriname through the history of Javanese indentured labour and the Nederlandsche Handel-Maatschappij. The installation is in development for the Amsterdam City Archives exhibition announced for March 2027.<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/historiek.net\/koloniale-geschiedenis-de-bazel\/186002\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Project coverage \u2197<\/a><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n<section class=\"section\" id=\"werk\"><div class=\"section-heading\"><div><p class=\"eyebrow\">Portfolio<\/p><h2>Selected works<\/h2><\/div><a href=\"\/?pagename=cv#timeline\">Full chronology, 2026\u20132010 \u2192<\/a><\/div><div class=\"works\"><article class=\"work\"><figure><button class=\"image-button\" data-photo=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/studio-dimitri\/assets\/compelled-oaxaca.jpg\" data-caption=\"Compelled to be Here, La Cl\u00ednica, Oaxaca, 2022. Exterior documentation reproduced from the artist\u2019s portfolio.\" aria-label=\"Enlarge Compelled to be Here\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/studio-dimitri\/assets\/compelled-oaxaca.jpg\" alt=\"Compelled to be Here\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/button><figcaption>Compelled to be Here, La Cl\u00ednica, Oaxaca, 2022. Exterior documentation reproduced from the artist\u2019s portfolio.<\/figcaption><\/figure><p class=\"eyebrow\">2022\u20132023 \u00b7 Exhibitions<\/p><h3>Compelled to be Here<\/h3><p>Research and public programme at La Cl\u00ednica, Oaxaca, developed with designer and curator Ramon Jimenez Cardenas. Exhibition, music and discussion situated research into colonial commodity routes within the specific context of southern Mexico.<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stimuleringsfonds.nl\/en\/awarded-grants\/internationalization-designsector-15-projects-selected\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Project record \u2197<\/a><\/p><\/article><article class=\"work\"><figure><button class=\"image-button\" data-photo=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/studio-dimitri\/assets\/by-all-means-portfolio.jpg\" data-caption=\"By All Means Necessary, TENT Rotterdam, 2021. Installation view reproduced from the artist\u2019s portfolio.\" aria-label=\"Enlarge By All Means Necessary\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/studio-dimitri\/assets\/by-all-means-portfolio.jpg\" alt=\"By All Means Necessary\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/button><figcaption>By All Means Necessary, TENT Rotterdam, 2021. Installation view reproduced from the artist\u2019s portfolio.<\/figcaption><\/figure><p class=\"eyebrow\">11 September\u201314 November 2021 \u00b7 Exhibitions<\/p><h3>By All Means Necessary<\/h3><p>Installation at TENT Rotterdam. Tracksuits printed with scenes from Renaissance painting place European representations of violence in dialogue with the treatment of hip-hop culture. Initiated by Dimitri Madimin and Philip Powel.<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/tentrotterdam.nl\/en\/in\/dimitri-madimin-by-all-means-necessary\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Project record \u2197<\/a><\/p><\/article><article class=\"work\"><figure><button class=\"image-button\" data-photo=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/studio-dimitri\/assets\/universal-law-matrix.jpg\" data-caption=\"Universal Law of the Matrix, Foam \u00d7 ADE, Westerpark, 2021. Maya Rochat\u2019s installation and Dimitri Madimin\u2019s soundscape setting; artist\u2019s portfolio.\" aria-label=\"Enlarge Universal Law of the Matrix\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/studio-dimitri\/assets\/universal-law-matrix.jpg\" alt=\"Universal Law of the Matrix\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/button><figcaption>Universal Law of the Matrix, Foam \u00d7 ADE, Westerpark, 2021. Maya Rochat\u2019s installation and Dimitri Madimin\u2019s soundscape setting; artist\u2019s portfolio.<\/figcaption><\/figure><p class=\"eyebrow\">October 2021 \u00b7 Sound<\/p><h3>Universal Law of the Matrix<\/h3><p>Live soundscape collaboration with Maya Rochat for the Foam \u00d7 ADE presentation at Westerpark, Amsterdam. The performance brought sound into dialogue with Rochat\u2019s projected imagery and live painting.<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mayarochat.com\/en\/exhibitions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Project record \u2197<\/a><\/p><\/article><article class=\"work\"><figure><button class=\"image-button\" data-photo=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/studio-dimitri\/assets\/stamps-2017.jpg\" data-caption=\"Stamps, 2017. Piezography on paper, 40 \u00d7 50 cm. Reproduction from the artist\u2019s portfolio.\" aria-label=\"Enlarge The Contract \/ Stamps\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/studio-dimitri\/assets\/stamps-2017.jpg\" alt=\"The Contract \/ Stamps\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/button><figcaption>Stamps, 2017. Piezography on paper, 40 \u00d7 50 cm. Reproduction from the artist\u2019s portfolio.<\/figcaption><\/figure><p class=\"eyebrow\">2017 \u00b7 Exhibitions<\/p><h3>The Contract \/ Stamps<\/h3><p>Performance and archival image work at De Bazel, Amsterdam. Stamps brings portraits of Javanese indentured workers into a contemporary artistic examination of colonial labour and commodity histories. Piezography on paper, 40 \u00d7 50 cm.<\/p><\/article><article class=\"work\"><figure><button class=\"image-button\" data-photo=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/studio-dimitri\/assets\/those-flags.jpg\" data-caption=\"Those Flags Offend Me, 2017. Recycled jute sacks. Documentation reproduced from the corresponding portfolio page.\" aria-label=\"Enlarge Those Flags Offend Me\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/studio-dimitri\/assets\/those-flags.jpg\" alt=\"Those Flags Offend Me\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/button><figcaption>Those Flags Offend Me, 2017. Recycled jute sacks. Documentation reproduced from the corresponding portfolio page.<\/figcaption><\/figure><p class=\"eyebrow\">2017 \u00b7 Exhibitions<\/p><h3>Those Flags Offend Me<\/h3><p>Soft sculptures made from recycled jute sacks, presented at Circuit, Lausanne, and Amsterdam City Archives. The work relates the circulation of material to the representational language of flags and banners.<\/p><\/article><article class=\"work\"><figure><button class=\"image-button\" data-photo=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/studio-dimitri\/assets\/sugar-free-2016.jpg\" data-caption=\"Sugar Free, Zen Marie and Dimitri Madimin, Place des Nations, Geneva, 2016. Photograph: Emmanuelle Bayart \/ waopa.ch.\" aria-label=\"Enlarge Sugar Free Accords\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/studio-dimitri\/assets\/sugar-free-2016.jpg\" alt=\"Sugar Free Accords\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/button><figcaption>Sugar Free, Zen Marie and Dimitri Madimin, Place des Nations, Geneva, 2016. Photograph: Emmanuelle Bayart \/ waopa.ch.<\/figcaption><\/figure><p class=\"eyebrow\">2016 \u00b7 Exhibitions<\/p><h3>Sugar Free Accords<\/h3><p>Performance and action with Zen Marie at Place des Nations, Geneva. A critical examination of the political language and ritual of international conventions.<\/p><\/article><\/div><\/section>\n<section class=\"section split\" id=\"film\"><div><p class=\"eyebrow\">Moving image &amp; sound<\/p><h2>Film and music<\/h2><\/div><div class=\"prose\"><p>Film, composition and music production form a sustained part of Madimin\u2019s practice. His work includes music videos, audiovisual installations, live soundscapes and releases through Ruyzdael Music, including his collaboration with Pablo van Wetten as Bordello Roses.<\/p><p>The chronology brings these works together with their credits and release records.<\/p><a class=\"btn\" href=\"\/?pagename=cv#timeline\">Explore films and recordings<\/a> <a class=\"text-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ruyzdaelmusic.bandcamp.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ruyzdael Music \u2197<\/a><\/div><\/section>\n<section class=\"section research split\" id=\"onderzoek\"><div><p class=\"eyebrow\">Research archive<\/p><h2>Java, Suriname<br>and the Netherlands<\/h2><\/div><div class=\"prose\"><p>Archival research into the 1926 voyages, Javanese indentured labour and the histories of Sanwiradji and the Madimin family. The research brings together migration records, contemporary newspapers and family testimony.<\/p><a class=\"btn\" href=\"\/?pagename=toegang\">Research archive<\/a><\/div><\/section>\n<section class=\"section split\" id=\"collaborations\"><div><p class=\"eyebrow\">Collaborative projects<\/p><h2>Working through the studio<\/h2><\/div><div class=\"prose\"><p>Studio Dimitri Madimin develops projects with artists, filmmakers, musicians, researchers and cultural institutions. These collaborations take the form of exhibitions, films, sound works, curatorial programmes and research commissions.<\/p><p class=\"collaboration-note\">Project records identify Madimin\u2019s contribution alongside the roles of collaborators and commissioning institutions. The studio provides a shared platform for this work while retaining the distinct authorship of each participant.<\/p><p>Selected collaborations include Ramon Jimenez Cardenas for <em>Compelled to be Here<\/em>; Maya Rochat for <em>Universal Law of the Matrix<\/em>; Philip Powel for <em>By All Means Necessary<\/em> and <em>Vinyl Confessions<\/em>; Pablo van Wetten as Bordello Roses; and Zen Marie through Sugar Free.<\/p><a href=\"\/?pagename=cv#timeline\">Browse projects and credits \u2192<\/a><\/div><\/section>\n<section class=\"section split\" id=\"instagram\"><div><p class=\"eyebrow\">Instagram<\/p><h2>Studio updates<\/h2><\/div><div class=\"prose\"><p>Work in progress, exhibition documentation and updates from the studio.<\/p><a class=\"btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/dimitrimadimin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Follow @dimitrimadimin \u2197<\/a><\/div><\/section><section class=\"section split\" id=\"contact\"><h2>Contact the studio<\/h2><div class=\"prose\"><p>For exhibitions, commissions, screenings, artistic research and institutional collaboration.<\/p><a class=\"contact-link\" href=\"mailto:dimitrimadimin@gmail.com\">dimitrimadimin@gmail.com<\/a><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/dimitrimadimin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram \u2197<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/nl.linkedin.com\/in\/madimin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LinkedIn \u2197<\/a><\/p><\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Visual art \u00b7 Film \u00b7 Artistic research Studio Dimitri Madimin Studio Dimitri Madimin is the platform for the artistic practice and collaborative projects of Dimitri C. 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