Imagine
Five weeks of imagination practice
Drawing, collage and sculpture — online
Five weeks of imagination practice
Drawing, collage and sculpture — online
Hi, I'm Yulia.
Six years of academic training taught me to draw from life — to depict things as they are. But I was always more interested in what happens when the reference is gone: the images I remember distort, change colour, bleed into each other and become something that never existed.
I draw, embroider, sculpt and make collages. Not because I can't pick one medium, but because each material thinks in its own way. The same image in a drawing, a collage and a sculpture can become three different creatures. Switching between materials, we see one idea from different angles.
In this workshop I'm inviting you to try this together. To take what's already in your head, and see what it becomes once it passes through your hands.
Five weeks of practice: we take images from your memory and your everyday life and pass them through drawing, collage and sculpture.
Format
A 2-hour workshop on Zoom → written feedback → ongoing support in a Telegram chat. Pure practice — no lectures, just exercises and hands-on work.
Practice
Drawing from memory, collage, building objects out of plasticine and whatever's at hand. Each session is a route through different mediums — and in those transitions, something appears that you couldn't have planned.
Outcome
A series of works rooted in your personal history, an understanding of how your own imagination works, and momentum to keep going on your own.
Mood
Curiosity, playfulness, joy.
We'll talk about what feels beautiful to us and why, and which visual images have shaped us.
We'll recall places and things we want to make with our hands.
We'll come back to what we loved making as children — before the word “correct” showed up.
We'll talk about what feels beautiful to us and why, and which visual images have shaped us.
We'll recall places and things we want to make with our hands.
We'll come back to what we loved making as children — before the word “correct” showed up.
If your day is spent inside your head — code, text, spreadsheets, calls — and by evening you feel like you haven't touched anything with your hands, here you can give your head a break and find the joy of making again.
If “I can't draw” — great. You don't need to draw beautifully. It's more interesting to see what appears once you stop controlling the result.
If you do draw, but you're stuck — dependent on references, scared of the blank page, feeling like everything's been done. Here you'll start from what's already in your memory, and find material that doesn't run out.
No grades, no critique, no required showings.
You decide what to show and when.
This is a space for experiments, not an exam.
No grades, no critique, no required showings.
You decide what to show and when.
This is a space for experiments, not an exam.
Start: June 14
Duration: 5 weeks
Sundays, 11:00 CET — 2 hours on Zoom
Materials: paper, pencils, paints, fineliners, scissors, glue
Group: 10 spots
Week 1
June 14
We dig through our own photo archives, draw objects from memory — and see how memory distorts form. We unpack the different kinds of distortion and learn to steer them.
Week 2
June 21
We translate sensation into form: sound, smell and touch become drawing. We work with textures, cut up our own work and reassemble it as collage.
Week 3
June 28
We move one object through three mediums: drawing → cut-out silhouette → three-dimensional form. We swap silhouettes — each person builds an object from someone else's shape.
Week 4
July 5
We portray ourselves as mass and line. From memory, from sensation, through deformation.
Week 5
July 12
We find what's been recurring in our work and gather it into a final series. A group show: everyone presents their work and their process.
Each participant has their own digital board. Over five weeks, your visual archive grows on it.
Workshop
Once a week, 2 hours on Zoom. Pure practice: we draw, cut, build objects. The last 20 minutes — sharing work and open conversation.
Feedback
Live during sessions, and written notes between them.
Chat
A shared Telegram for questions, discoveries, and contact between sessions.
Group
Ten people. The group format often turns out to be more valuable than one-on-one: you see how others solve the same task differently, you brush up against another way of thinking — and it expands your own. No pressure, no competition.
Recordings
All sessions are recorded. But this is practice, not a lecture — being there matters.
An artist based in Berlin. Drawing, painting, sculpture. She explores how visual memory of places and things shapes identity — and how time and emotion turn a memory into an image of its own. She's interested in how a person takes root in their everyday surroundings: the moment when familiar space becomes part of personal history and cultural memory.
Graduated from the Grekov Odesa Art College. Has worked in sand animation and trained in Berlin artists' studios. Builds film sets, runs workshops and gives private lessons.
Has exhibited in Berlin and Odesa, including at Wolf & Galentz Galerie, Salon am Moritzplatz and Monopol. Received the Neustart Kultur grant in 2022.
Workshop
€170 · €150 until June 8
Workshop + Tutorials
€250 · €230 until June 8
Payment can be split in two.
Euros, crypto, PayPal, rubles, hryvnia accepted.
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Every image on this page is Yulia's — you'll learn how to make your own.
See you soon!
Come imagine with us 🌪️