Daily Practice is a non profit art and practice space. From June 1 2019 until May 31 2023 it was situated at de Volmarijnstraat 57a in Rotterdam West. The back of the space was intended for work. The front was used as exhibition and meditation space. Without a fixed plan it soon became an exercise in which boundaries are allowed to blur: between workspace and presentation space, between private and public; also in friendly & art-related encounters, between art forms and meditation forms. A “form” in which to experiment with silence, attention and meditation; as a connector, a facilitator, as an artist, as a supervisor. Daily Practice has developed from a specific space to a form of thinking. Or indeed, to a practice. It has become an art form that pays attention to the interactions between art and life. From June 1 2023 Daily Practice continues, with the same intention, in my living room in Rotterdam West.

Daily Practice is interested in the attempt. In processes and questions which have to do with the daily practice of art and of life. Processes dealing with the making of work, questions of living a life. Questions every human being faces, for example regarding family, fear, trust, money, health, competition, friendship. Daily Practice is also interested in technics and insights of meditation. This can take the appearance of sitting on a cushion in silence, but is understood as an active approach to experience life and to deal with impermanence.

Needless to say that it is not required for the exhibiting artists to be interested in meditation. It is just that the aspect of meditation raises questions in how to translate daily life into an art practice and vice versa. And to find out how fluid or how solid the walls are. I continue to wonder how art and life relate to each other. How does life shape an art practice, and how does art influence life? How close can they get, where do they meet, touch or overlap each other. To this end, I observe, I do research, works arise, I organize exhibitions, meet other artists and facilitate and guide silence meditations. I have no answers. There are public moments, there are private moments. I bring my own life and practice to the space; the invited guests – artists, writers, meditators and so on bring their own lives and practices to the space. There is dialogue, there is movement. I hope to be generous and to connect.

At the center of Daily Practice/my practice are silence meditations in the space and online.

Suzanne Weenink, June 2025