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workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop
Aquatic Speculations
- with Silke Riis14Mar 2026You are an archaeologist of the future, and on one of your excavations you stumble upon something odd hidden in the soil; During your sailing trip across what once used to be “The Netherlands”, you...
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Artistic Research Presentation Series
Unfolding Universes
Performance Game
Throughout 2026, visual artist and performance maker Rosa Vrij invites you into her artistic process through six presentations at Mediamatic. Every two months, she opens a window into her current...
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Guidelines Application Call 2026:
OPEN CALL: Haptic Lab
Collective Art in Public Spaces
Mediamatic is now accepting applications for the upcoming year, starting July 1st - September 30th, 2026. We invite you to be part of our Living Labs Residencies for 2026! Work in the Haptic Lab and...
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Community Event: Mediamatic Biotoop
The Green Train with European Sleeper
- Riding the night, planting the future22Oct 2025The Green Train is an interdisciplinary contemporary art program designed to deepen public awareness of, and engagement with, European landscapes. It highlights the environmental advantages of train...
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workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop
Aquatic Speculations
- with Silke Riis11Oct 2025You are an archaeologist of the future, and on one of your excavations you stumble upon something odd hidden in the soil; During your sailing trip across what once used to be “The Netherlands”, you...
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Walk-in Event: Mediamatic Biotoop
Kinky Confessions
- Yes I have sinned, please forgive me!10Oct 2025Confessions can be relieving, empowering, and cathartic, even creating a communal moment. Step aside from the constraints and expectations of modern society and join Dante Woods on a path of fetish...
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Haptic Lab:
Material Archive
A Material Archive is a physical and digital collection of material samples. It can be used as a tool to document, inspire, and share knowledge for design, research or academic purposes. This...
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Event: Mediamatic Biotoop
Open Monument Day at Mediamatic
- Learn about the history of the Sluisdeurenloods13Sep 2025Ever knew that the Oosterdok hides plenty of historical and cultural landmarks? Join Mediamatic on the 13th of September as part of Open Monument Day to learn about the history of the...
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Mediamatic + Tomoko Mukaiyama Foundation Mediamatic Biotoop
EAT
4Sep 2025- A Concert-Ritual-Breakfast14Sep 2025During EAT , we invite you to disrupt your morning ritual and try a new approach to spending time where every minute, and even second, counts. In a Concert-Ritual-Breakfast, musician Shannon Lee will...
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Event: Mediamatic Biotoop
Kinky Confessions
- Yes I have sinned, please forgive me!12Sep 2025Confessions can be relieving, empowering, and cathartic, even creating a communal moment. Step aside from the constraints and expectations of modern society and join Dante Woods on a path of fetish...
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workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop
Aquatic Speculations
- with Silke Riis26Jul 2025You are an archaeologist of the future, and on one of your excavations you stumble upon something odd hidden in the soil; During your sailing trip across what once used to be “The Netherlands”, you...
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Performance: Mediamatic Biotoop
Kinky Confessions
- Yes I have sinned, please forgive me!16أيار / مايو 2025Confessions can be relieving, empowering, and cathartic, even creating a communal moment. Step aside from the constraints and expectations of modern society and join Dante Woods on a path of fetish...
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Performance: Mediamatic Biotoop
Dusking
- Marjolijn van Heemstra16أيار / مايو 2025You don't have to wait for nightfall to experience the darkness. Just after sunset, the great transition begins: twilight. The golden hour turns into the blue hour, the light fades, and colours...
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Open City Monastery Mediamatic Biotoop
Rites of Play
Unveiling the Open City Monastery
What if a space existed to respond to human needs, not with forced positivity, but with the quiet acceptance of what is? A place where rest is a ritual, where food and shelter are offered freely, and...
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Deep Time Agency
Artistic research Collective
In 2020, visual artists Miriam Sentler (1994, DE/NL) and Wouter Osterholt (NL/DE, 1979, NL/DE) set up an interdisciplinary research initiative: Deep Time Agency.
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Policy Plan 2025-2028:
Open City Monastery
Transdisciplinary Design Research
Mediamatic is an organization focused on developing and presenting cross-disciplinary art, design and science practices. Sustainability and social urgency are our core concerns. Since 1983, we have...
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Aromathèque
Sensory art, Research and Design
Aromathèque is here to tickle your senses, flip your nose upside down, and make you rethink everything you smell, taste, touch, and inhale. From mayonnaise madness to alluring pheromones, every...
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a / Artist Blog Nora Nord
Beyond Neurotypical with Nora Nord:
A Summer Residency at Mediamatic
My practice is ever-changing and flowing between photography, filmmaking, podcasting and textiles, but at the core what I make is conversation. Mediamatic invited me on a a / Artist residency at the...
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workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop
Casting a Cucumber
- with Silke Riis15Sep 2024Join artist Silke for a workshop exploring the unique possibilities of combining clay with natural latex. Inspired by the speculative sea cucumbers in "Some breathe through their butts", Silke Riis...
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Blog Sophie Conroy
Welcome?
A blog series by Sophie Conroy #3
In the last and concluding post of the "Welcome?" series, Sophie Conroy explores ideas and possible solutions that can make cities more welcoming and inclusive for those living without a home.
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Blog Sophie Conroy
Welcome?
A blog series by Sophie Conroy #2
Sophie's six-month experiment of living without a permanent home in Eindhoven led her to find unconventional ways to meet her needs. Supermarkets served as living spaces, her university as a storage...
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workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop
Casting a Cucumber
- with Silke Riis6Jul 2024Join artist Silke for a workshop exploring the unique possibilities of combining clay with natural latex. Inspired by the speculative sea cucumbers in "Some breathe through their butts", Silke Riis...
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workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop
Casting a Cucumber
- with Silke Riis16Jun 2024Join artist Silke for a workshop exploring the unique possibilities of combining clay with natural latex. Inspired by the speculative sea cucumbers in "Some breathe through their butts", Silke Riis...
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presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop
Meet-a-Maker
- with Bronwen Jones20Jul 2024Come to Mediamatic to have a talk with an artist in our little greenhouses by the water! Learn more about their work or talk about your project with the artist who inspired you. Bronwen Jones is open...