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Mediamatic Exhibitions

Art, design, technology, food, fashion, media

Mediamatic BANK an occasional house for art, design, fashion and technology.

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  • Exhibition: Amsterdam, Mediamatic Bank

    About Sur Place

    An ode to the fixed gear bike

    8 May 2010 22 Aug 2010

    Mayken Craenen – On the 8th of May, an exhibition on fixed gear culture will open at Mediamatic Bank. Fixed…

  • Amsterdam, Mediamatic Bank

    Opening Bardot Proviant Klub

    Saturday 16 January at Mediamatic, from 20:00 hrs

    16 Jan 2010

    20:00

    An exhibition with images stories and experiences from Greenland's nature and culture, made…

    3 comments

  • Amsterdam, Mediamatic Bank

    Official opening Amsterdam Biennale

    Pavilions of Kabul, Naples, Amsterdam, Munich, Melbourne, Belgrade, Tallinn & Brooklyn

    16 Oct 2009

    20:00

    On Friday the 16th of October at 20:00 hrs the Amsterdam Biennale officially took off at…

  • Lima, Centro Fundación Telefónica

    The Girlfriend Experience back online

    in Lima, Peru

    22 Jul 2009 25 Jul 2009

    the girlfriend experience was back online in peru the project where you can play online…

  • Amsterdam, Mediamatic Foundation

    WatSpinoza?

    Vragencampagne in Amsterdam, Mediamatic BANK en op www.watspinoza.nl

    8 May 2009 28 Jun 2009

    Met interactieve tentoonstelling WatSpinoza? wil Mediamatic de publieke discussie…

  • Amsterdam, Mediamatic Bank

    Kiki on Steroids!

    Play with your gender

    17 Oct 2008 4 Jan 2009

    Women who want to be men, men who want to be women and everything in between. Mediamatic's…

  • Amsterdam, Mediamatic Bank

    Opening Kiki on Steroids

    In the presence of the artists and with Lupe Special

    17 Oct 2008

    Friday October 17 Mediamatic celebrated the opening of the new exhibition Kiki on Steroids!,…

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  • Amsterdam, Mediamatic Bank

    Andrea Crews opening performance

    Dress up and walk the catwalk

    18 Jul 2008

    This night was a night of fashion, art, activism and performance with artists, stylists,…

  • Installation, Performance: Osnabrück, European Media Art Festival Osnabrück

    The Girlfriend Experience

    Back online at the EMAF

    23 Apr 2008 27 Apr 2008

    Martin Butler's The Girlfriend Experience was staged at the European Media Art Festival in…

  • Exhibition: Amsterdam, Mediamatic Post CS

    Spring Cleaning

    Iranian style

    12 Mar 2008 16 Mar 2008

    Sara Rajaei – "I realize that slowly I have become the representative of my country to all my friends…

  • Amsterdam, Mediamatic Post CS

    Full Belly

    Occupying culture, cheap labour, double identity and some delicious cooking

    27 Feb 2008 2 Mar 2008

    Gil & Moti – By means of dynamic interaction both indoors and outside in the public sphere and a growing…

  • Amsterdam, Mediamatic Post CS

    JAPAN new and old, in and out

    13 Feb 2008 17 Feb 2008

    kyoko inatome, Emiko Chujo – During the “Gastarbeider Dating” (Guestworker Dating) exhibition at Mediamatic, Kyoko…

  • Amsterdam, Mediamatic Post CS

    Russian Brides

    International Marriage Agency and Consulting Service

    30 Jan 2008 3 Feb 2008

    16:00

    Katja Sokolova, Irina Birger – Our International Marriage Agency and Consulting Service was open for women and men from Wed…

  • Amsterdam, Westergasfabriek

    Go play with your tag!

    Mediamatic showed great new RFID tools at PICNIC 07

    26 Sep 2007 28 Sep 2007

    09:00

    During PICNIC 07 you could play with several new cultural tools using RFID. Ten new RFID…

  • Call, Competition: Amsterdam, Mediamatic Post CS

    El Hema Design Competition

    Make your own EL HEMA

    20 Jul 2007 3 Nov 2007

    10:00

    The final date for entries to the designcompetion was the 25th of October 2007.

  • Installation, Party, Concert: Amsterdam, Mediamatic Post CS

    End of Season Event

    DNK & Mediamatic

    15 Jun 2007

    DNK and Mediamatic invited you to CELEBRATE the closing of the DNK season and the start of summer.

  • Presentation, Exhibition: Amsterdam, Mediamatic Post CS

    Alternatieve Interfaces

    Proefopstelling

    6 Jun 2007

    18:00

    Een avond met onderzoek naar alternatieve interfaces ontwikkeld door Rietveldstudenten…

  • Amsterdam, Mediamatic Post CS

    It's Happening Now!

    Between Houellebecq and Hooligans

    6 May 2007

    20:00

    It's Happening Now! was an unpredictable evening with more than 20 artists who still believe…

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  • Exhibition: Amsterdam, Mediamatic Post CS

    The Girlfriend Experience

    Multi-player game with avatars of flesh and blood

    26 Jan 2007 9 Mar 2007

    20:00

    Martin Butler presented four human avatars to play with. You could log in at home with your…

    1 comment

  • Party: Amsterdam, Mediamatic Post CS

    DIY Goodbye Party

    Afscheid van the Girlfriend Experience en Radio Rietveld SMCS

    9 Mar 2007

    18:00

    Deze vrijdag avond bestond uit Bong-Ra, David Linton (NY), Andre's Absinth bar, the Avatar…

  • Amsterdam, Mediamatic Post CS

    Pre-valentine flirting skills special

    Flirting with sock puppets

    9 Feb 2007

    20:00

    On this day we prepared those present for Valentine's day 2007. During the Pre-Valentine…

  • Amsterdam, Mediamatic Post CS

    Workshop Origami

    how to fold with Stephanie Pan

    14 Dec 2006

    18:00

    On this evening artist and origamist Stephanie Pan taught you how to create almost anything…

  • Workshop: Amsterdam, Mediamatic Post CS

    Make your own robot workshop

    Electronic know-how is not required!

    9 Dec 2006 10 Dec 2006

    15:00

    Mediamatic organized a one or two- day workshop on how to design and solder autonomous robots.

  • Lecture: Amsterdam, Mediamatic Post CS

    Blogjects Lecture

    by Julian Bleecker

    17 Nov 2006

    18:00

    The physical and the digital world are fusing, according to Julian Bleecker. The virtual…

  • Exhibition: Amsterdam, Mediamatic Post CS

    Scroll

    Tjebbe van Tijen

    15 Sep 2006 22 Oct 2006

    17:00

    40 years of visual narrative- an overview of the beautiful layered image rolls/ scrolls of…

  • Screening: Amsterdam, Mediamatic Post CS

    Cosplay Movie Night 2

    3 movies, 1 marathon.

    29 Aug 2006

    20:00

    On this night we had a selection of the most inspiring anime from Japan. Three films were…

  • Exhibition

    The Cosplay Show Portrait Gallery

    A few of the participants

    Willem Velthoven –

    15 portraits of dutch cosplayers. For the full set of 50 cosplayers that I portrayed at Animecon 2006, see: this Flickr set .

  • Exhibition: Amsterdam, Mediamatic Post CS

    No Disc

    Rafaël Rozendaal (Bigger 3)

    23 Jun 2006 2 Jul 2006

    13:00

    Rafaël Rozendaal was number three of the Bigger exhibition. With a ready made animation,…

  • Exhibition: Amsterdam, Mediamatic Post CS

    Otaku BBQ

    Bigger 2: Romanian fanboys & girls burning soy

    11 Jun 2006 2 Jul 2006

    18:00

    Tonight was about the BLOGWAR, toys made out of propaganda SOY, foodsupplements to STAY…

  • Exhibition: Amsterdam, Mediamatic Post CS

    Le Mépris

    (or) Contempt

    18 Mar 2006 30 Apr 2006

    An exhibition modelled after Jean-Luc Godards film from 1963. With work by Yoko Ono, Marlene…

  • Party, Screening, Concert: Amsterdam, Mediamatic Post CS

    practicum 06a concert 6

    the final day!

    3 Mar 2006

    Finissage Party - Practicum 06a Final Event. We looked back on five weeks of Practicum…

  • Concert, Exhibition: Amsterdam, Mediamatic Post CS

    practicum 06a concert 3

    N Collective series

    17 Feb 2006

    20:00

    During the third week of the N Collective doing their thing, visitors were able to see: …

  • Installation, Exhibition: Amsterdam, Mediamatic Post CS

    practicum 06a

    the perfect hangout space for musicians, artists and the public

    5 Feb 2006 10 Mar 2006

    During the six weeks that followed Mediamatic's exhibition space hosted the N Collective, an…

  • Amsterdam, Mediamatic Post CS

    Food Facility.

    take out, with a twist

    30 Oct 2005 11 Dec 2005

    Martí Guixé and Mediamatic invited you to the FOOD FACILITY, a conTEMPORARY eatery for…

  • Amsterdam, Mediamatic Post CS

    Museum n8 version 6.0

    A night at Mediamatic

    5 Nov 2005

    19:00

    42 Museums participated during the Museum N8, but you could've skipped them all and just…

  • Exhibition: Amsterdam, Mediamatic Post CS

    Mediamatic Exhibition: Self-portrait with builders

    Shunji Hori

    9 Sep 2005 9 Oct 2005

    In his six larger than life photographs Shunji Hori created a binary super reality that is…

  • Exhibition: Amsterdam, Mediamatic Post CS

    A Secret Service

    submit your password at

    15 Jul 2005 21 Aug 2005

    asecretservice.org A project by Sasker Scheerder and Olaf Matthes. Mediamatic and…

  • Amsterdam, 11

    Playing FLICKR 01

    grossing the diners out

    9 May 2005 16 May 2005

    20:30

    For one week in May, the diners in Restaurant 11 will be confronted with the photos the…

  • Exhibition: Amsterdam, Mediamatic Post CS

    Planning as a Criminal Act

    One Land Two Systems

    6 Feb 2005 20 Mar 2005

    Architecture and urban planning are often abused to maintain or aggravate unfair political,…

  • Mediamatic Screen

    2003/2004

    In November 2003 Mediamatic started a new series of projections on Mediamatic Supermarkt.

  • Review

    The nefesh in the talcum powder

    about Nezaket Ekici's performance in Mediamatic Supermarket

    Paul Groot –

    The history of artistic performances contains a long list of ingredients and props, but as far as I know talcum/baby powder has…

  • Exhibition: Amsterdam, Mediamatic Supermarkt

    ColaBar

    Mediamatic Exhibition 7

    11 Oct 2003 23 Nov 2003

    Maurer United Architects presented the Colabar Concept at Mediamatic Supermarkt from October…

  • Gourmet Cycling Lady

    Long live the burqua

    Paul Groot –

    About the longing for a Gourmet Cycling Lady clad in a Burqua. In five parts and a multicultural postscriptum.

  • Exhibition: Amsterdam, Mediamatic Supermarkt

    Chinatown ... park / pattern recognition / not meeting each other /full-moon

    Mediamatic Exhibition 4

    18 Jan 2003 2 Mar 2003

    From the 17th of January until the 2nd of March Mediamatic presented three installations and…

  • Jurthy en Debra

    als Driessens & Verstappens alternatief voor Ken

    Paul Groot –

    Even leek het alsof je niet aanwezig was op de plek waar je je toch werkelijk bevond.

  • Amsterdam, Mediamatic Foundation

    Mediamatic Screen

    2002 / 2003

    In November 2002 Mediamatic started a series of projections on Mediamatic Supermarket.

  • Strange Relationships

    Split (Fragment 1 -4)

    Daniel Kurjacovic –

    She is leaning on the window, motionless, her right hand flat against the glass, her head bent slightly downwards.

  • Exhibition: Amsterdam, Mediamatic Bank

    The Great Jerry Springer Rodeo

    Embrace The Madness

    13 Mar 2010 25 Apr 2010

    SjocoSjon and SFFRMKRS present a crazy circus at the Mediamatic Bank. Filled with…

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  • Exhibition: Amsterdam, Mediamatic Bank

    Bardot Proviant Klub

    Media, misunderstanding and Greenland

    16 Jan 2010 28 Feb 2010

    Greenland has a rich culture that is threatened to become extinct as a result of climate…

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  • Amsterdam, Mediamatic Bank

    Opening Beirut, Portland, Damascus pavilions

    Real-time collaborative writing party

    24 Oct 2009

    20:00

    Last Saturday three brand new pavilions opened their doors at the Amsterdam Biennale:…

  • Amsterdam, Mediamatic Bank

    Amsterdam Biennale 2009

    Because it wasn't here before...

    16 Oct 2009 3 Jan 2010

    The Amsterdam Biennale 2009 presented the contemporary art scene from all over the world.…

    1 comment

  • Performance, Exhibition: Amsterdam, Mediamatic Bank

    Re: Parallax

    Your 15 minutes of fame

    20 May 2009 28 Jun 2009

    Re:Parallax was one of the main parts of the interactive exhibition WatSpinoza? . It is a…

  • Exhibition: Amsterdam, Mediamatic Bank

    Ik R.I.P.

    About death and self-representation on the internet

    30 Jan 2009 12 Apr 2009

    What happens to your online profile after you die? Do you want it to remain online, so…

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  • Performance: Nova Gorica, City Gallery Nova Gorica

    The Girlfriend Experience

    Special performance at For God's Sake! festival in Slovenia

    5 Dec 2008 6 Dec 2008

    Martin Butler's The Girlfriend Experience was staged at For God's Sake! / Pixxelpoint…

  • Exhibition + Workshops: Amsterdam, Mediamatic Bank

    ikikik! (me me me!)

    Eco has never been so sexy

    18 Jul 2008 5 Oct 2008

    ikikik! (me me me!) was all about DIY Fashion and showing yourself on the internet. An…

  • FREE LODGING DURING AMSTERDAM ART 2008: Amsterdam, Mediamatic Post CS

    Sleep Inn

    Nocturnal care for art buyers and cleaners

    7 May 2008 12 May 2008

    Mediamatic offered the visitors of Art Amsterdam and the Temporary Museum Amsterdam a free…

  • Exhibition: Amsterdam, Mediamatic Post CS

    Gastarbeider Dating

    Curated by Irina Birger and Katja Sokolova

    30 Jan 2008 16 Mar 2008

    Looking for a new friendship, cultural dipping or creative impulse? Curious about other…

  • Amsterdam, Mediamatic Post CS

    Canadia: Land of Myths and Media

    Radio Broadcast Cabin in the Woods

    5 Mar 2008 9 Mar 2008

    brian mckenna, Denton Fredrickson, Robyn Moody – For 4 days long everyone was able to enjoy a live evolving audio collage consisting of…

  • Amsterdam, Mediamatic Post CS

    Room Temperature

    (or the Bulgarians are making a movie)

    20 Feb 2008 24 Feb 2008

    Zhana Ivanova and friends set out to make a film tribute to one of her favourite Bulgarian…

  • Amsterdam, Mediamatic Post CS

    Nostalgia and Chaos

    a search for beauty in times of social struggle

    6 Feb 2008 10 Feb 2008

    Aimee Zito Lema – Argentina: a tourist paradise? Buenos Aires, the city of tango and meat, and repressive…

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  • Presentation: Amsterdam, Mediamatic Post CS

    Psycho-Geography

    The Pocketguide

    19 Jan 2008

    18:00

    Ever wanted to read a book on psychogeography, but didnt get the chance because the book was…

  • Amsterdam, Westergasfabriek

    The Girlfriend Experience, Back Online

    Internet game with 4 flesh and blood avatars at Picnic 07

    26 Sep 2007 28 Sep 2007

    12:00

    Mediamatic and the Liminal Institute presented a reprise of Martin Butler's project 'The…

  • Exhibition: Amsterdam, Mediamatic Post CS

    El HEMA — Exhibition / Store

    Arabic - Dutch retail heaven

    24 Aug 2007 6 Jan 2008

    What would an Arabic Hema look like? Halal sausage? Arabic chocolate letters? Affordable…

    20 comments

  • Presentation, Exhibition: Amsterdam, Mediamatic Post CS

    You only live Twice

    The Rietveld Academie in Second Life

    10 Jun 2007

    21:00

    Graphic Design students went all second life with Conversations falling from the sky -…

  • Exhibition: Amsterdam, Mediamatic Post CS

    Vergessene Fahnen (Forgotten Flags)

    Exhibition concerning the need for pride and the fear of symbols

    30 Mar 2007 11 May 2007

    18:00

    Germans think that showing the national flag is sinister. World Cup football in 2006 brought…

  • Amsterdam, Mediamatic Post CS

    TV Dinner

    with Weißwurst, authentic Brezel, Senf and Bavarian Beer

    30 Mar 2007 11 May 2007

    18:00

    During the exhibition Vergessene Fahnen (Forgotten Flags) we served Weißwurst from…

  • Amsterdam, Mediamatic Post CS

    DIY Sushi

    dinner in the analog villa

    26 Jan 2007 9 Mar 2007

    20:00

    During The Girlfriend Experience everyone got the opportunity to DINE with the avatars.…

  • Amsterdam, Mediamatic Post CS

    Harp Karaoke

    and chicken schnitzel Night

    23 Feb 2007

    19:00

    Two things were on the programme this night: You could sing along with harpists…

  • Amsterdam, Mediamatic Post CS

    Make your own sock puppet

    a workshop for all the grown up children

    7 Feb 2007 9 Mar 2007

    18:00

    On this wonderful evening we gave the opportunity to make your own sock puppet and discover…

    1 comment

  • Lecture: Amsterdam, Mediamatic Post CS

    DIY Roboteering

    Lecture by Faubel and Schreiber

    9 Dec 2006

    19:00

    Two of the most innovative DIY robot builders, Christain Faubel and Ralf Schreiber talk…

  • Project, Exhibition: Amsterdam, Mediamatic Post CS

    Ikebana Competition

    In Mediamatic's Night Garden

    6 Jan 2007

    18:00

    On this beautiful, yet quite chilly night Mediamatic organized a Freestyle ikebana…

  • Exhibition: Amsterdam, Mediamatic Post CS

    Night Garden and Micro-Green Restaurant

    3 Nov 2006 7 Jan 2007

    18:00

    Night Garden, sub-technical indoor garden, links new technology, next nature, contemporary…

  • Lecture: Amsterdam, Mediamatic Post CS

    Stroll & Scroll

    as a Visual Narrative

    18 Oct 2006

    20:30

    As a part of the exhibition Scroll, Mediamatic presents a visual lecture by Tjebbe van…

  • Screening: Amsterdam, Mediamatic Post CS

    Cosplay Movie Night

    2 movies, 1 marathon.

    24 Aug 2006

    20:00

    This was a showcase of the most important Cosplay movies, held on multiple nights. Who (or…

  • Exhibition: Amsterdam, Mediamatic Post CS

    The Cosplay Show

    I am my Character

    15 Jul 2006 27 Aug 2006

    A 24/7 shopwindow exhibition in Mediamatic's groundfloor gallery of over 40 of the best…

  • Party: Amsterdam, Mediamatic Post CS

    White Nights

    insomnia party (Bigger 5)

    30 Jun 2006 2 Jul 2006

    21:00

    This event was inspired by the White Nights occurring in northern countries at the end of…

  • Exhibition: Amsterdam, Mediamatic Post CS

    Chair Missing

    original design by Vito Acconci & theft by Bogomir Doringer (Bigger 4)

    23 Jun 2006 2 Jul 2006

    20:00

    What happens when Serbian artist Bogomir Doringer exploits stereotypical Eastern European…

  • Exhibition: Amsterdam, Mediamatic Post CS

    Bigger 1

    Tunc Topcuoglu

    27 May 2006 2 Jul 2006

    20:00

    Throughout June 2006, five young artists played in and with Mediamatic's project space. …

  • Concert: Amsterdam, Mediamatic Post CS

    practicum 06a concert 5

    the fifth evening of kraakgeluiden

    27 Feb 2006

    Kraakgeluiden on Tour with Office-R, Bas van Koolwijk and Martijn Tellinga

  • Performance, Concert: Amsterdam, Mediamatic Post CS

    practicum 06a concert 4

    Warming up and cooling down

    24 Feb 2006

    20:00

    It was the fourth night of practicum 06a. Tonight was all about the Sonic Acts N event…

  • Concert: Amsterdam, Mediamatic Post CS

    practicum 06a concert 2

    Where art meets music

    10 Feb 2006

    Installation Gig Night During the exhibition Practicum 06a, the hangout space for artists…

  • Exhibition: Amsterdam, Mediamatic Post CS

    Amsterdam 2.0

    A constitution which allows 400 cities to inhabit the same territory

    22 Dec 2005 29 Jan 2006

    A project by Maurice Nio and Paul Perry. Participating Artists: Kasper Andreasen &…

  • Presentation: Amsterdam, Mediamatic Post CS

    N event 9

    After Dinner Event

    24 Nov 2005 26 Nov 2005

    After Dinner concert in Mediamatic's Food Facility. With the N collective makin' some fine…

  • Exhibition: Amsterdam, Mediamatic Post CS

    Mediamatic exhibition: 44/13

    Mateusz Herczka

    16 Sep 2005 9 Oct 2005

    20:00

    Herczka presented his monumental 12-meter wide videofilm, and in the proces of visually…

  • Amsterdam, 11

    Playing FLICKR v2.0

    Mediamatic Screen 23bis: Imaginative Keyword Conversations in Public Space

    19 Sep 2005 2 Oct 2005

    20:00

    Playing FLICKR is a public space installation by Mediamatic on the 11th floor of the PostCS…

  • Performance: Amsterdam, Mediamatic Post CS

    Flickr Dene Voss

    banality in a morphing decor

    18 Jun 2005

    23:00

    A 60 minute nocturnal performance by Martin Butler, read by Henk van Engelen, Katarina…

  • Amsterdam, Mediamatic Post CS

    Flickr Peep Show

    Mobile phone or internet social networks by means of visual communication linked through mob tags and or keywords... what?!

    1 May 2005 18 Jun 2005

    16:00

    The second Mediamatic exhibition on the ground floor of the Post CS building is about…

  • Performance, Exhibition: Amsterdam, 11

    Re–enact

    Performance Night, December 12, 2004

    12 Dec 2004

    A hopeless evening of action in which no less than twelve performance artists expressed…

  • Exhibition: Amsterdam, Mediamatic Supermarkt

    Autonomous Applications Believe

    Mediamatic Exhibition 9

    25 Mar 2004 13 Apr 2004

    The Autonomous Applications Believe exhibition showed work by Yariv Alter Fin and Nezaket Ekici.

  • Exhibition: Amsterdam, Mediamatic Post CS

    My%Desktop

    Mediamatic Exhibition 8

    14 Dec 2003 2 Jan 2004

    Between December 14 and January 25 the My%Desktop exhibition by JODI (Joan Heemskerk and…

  • Women on Waves Exhibition

    Mediamatic Exhibition 6

    From 13th July to 24th August inclusive, Mediamatic Supermarkt is presenting a unique exhibition by Women on Waves, with new…

  • Exhibition: Amsterdam, Mediamatic Supermarkt

    It takes a strong man to be a strong woman...

    Mediamatic Exhibition 5

    28 Mar 2003 11 May 2003

    'Endorphin Experience; Bifurcation and Beyond; It takes a strong man to be a strong…

  • Dream Diary

    in the Mediamatic Supermarkt

    Angelos Bratis –

    a performance by Natasha Asmanidou, Voin de Voin, Tania Theodorou, Karin and Angelos Bratis.

  • Salon: Amsterdam, Mediamatic Supermarkt

    Follicle / why does it feel so nice when things are unfinished?

    Mediamatic Exhibition 3

    23 Nov 2002 13 Mar 2003

    Exhibition showing two installations: Tickle Salon by Erwin Driessens & Maria…

  • Click, Bang

    Art is a shock

    Paul Groot –

    Interactivity was the most dangerous sign of the last decade.

  • Salon: Amsterdam, Mediamatic Supermarkt

    Vals kader // op zo'n moment (...) vraag je je af wat al die mensen in dat beeld te zoeken hebben ...

    Mediamatic Tentoonstelling 2

    14 Sep 2002 27 Oct 2002

    Tentoonstelling met foto's van Giselle de Oliveira Macedo en videowerk Nira Zait.

  • Exhibition: Amsterdam, Mediamatic Supermarkt

    Is reading becoming as classical as listening to jazz?

    Mediamatic Exhibition 1

    23 Jun 2002 18 Aug 2002

    The dreadful threat of folklore... The first exhibition in the Mediamatic Supermarkt was…