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  • Birds, guns and shadows from afterlife

    A visit to the 3rd moscow biennial

    Forget the crisis, the cold and the autumn depression. In Moscow, contemporary art is booming. In the first 2 days, only the main venue of the Moscow biennial had over 10000 visitors. Kompromat was...
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  • Let's all go Dutch

    Eat bacon pancakes with sugar syrup, talk politics at parties and always start your conversations with a question. What does it mean to be Dutch, exactly? Is it possible to become, or stop being...

  • Van Moskou tot Magadan

    Met Jelle Brandt Corstius door Rusland

    Wie zijn de Russen zijn en wat drijft ze? Journalist en schrijver Jelle Brandt Corstius maakt een ontdekkigstocht door het hele land op zoek naar een antwoord. Een docuserie van 7 afleveringen, v/a...

  • Aliens in Leidsche Rijn

    a first hand experience in second hand art

    What are 5 ambitious young intellectuals from different parts of the world doing together in a new Vinex neighborhood in the Utrecht area of Holland? Answer: making an art show. After 8 months of...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop, Mediamatic Eten, Dijkspark Naomi Tidball

    Food is both fuel and identity

    A blog for Code Noir

    In light of our upcoming Code Noir event, it is important to reflect on globalisation's ability to reshape food. It offers a diversity within gastronomy, and it allows for a wider availability of...

  • A community of the dead

    A conversation with Elizabeth Heyert

    Mary Caparitia Bush is ready to go to the party. She is wearing a stunning black sequin dress with a pattern of white leaves. Lace gloves and a pink hat with a flower complement the look. Mary’s hair...

  • Nuit Blanche Amsterdam

    Een nachtelijke ontdekkingsreis

    Stichting Vuig is een jaar geleden in het leven geroepen door Josine Neyman en Kristel Mutsters "om grote en mooie dingen te kunnen creëren". Ze wilden een groter publiek in contact brengen met...

  • Mediamatic ontvangt opnieuw subsidie!

    Het Stimuleringsfonds voor Architectuur (SfA) presenteerde donderdag 10 mei 2012 de uitslag van de meerjarige subsidievoorzieningen, met goed nieuws voor Mediamatic. We kunnen hierdoor een belangrijk...

  • The Travelers by Elizabeth Heyert

    The fotoseries The Travelers by Elizabeth Heyert consists of portraits taken after death in Harlem New York. Photographed against a black background, using the techniques of making formal portraits...
  • Previously on view in the Amsterdam Biennale: Katja Sokolova, Olga Jitlina

    St. Petersburg Pavilion

    Thank Adam

    Open from 5 December 2009 - 3 January 2010 in the Amsterdam Biennale 2009 at Mediamatic. While visiting Ancient department of the Hermitage, we suddenly noticed that there was some strange energy...

  • Mediamatic’s Ghanaian Teddy Bear coffin

    A documentation of our coffin order at eShopAfrica.com!

    For the Ik R.I.P. exhibition, Mediamatic decided to order a custom-crafted coffin in Ghana. Our graphic designer Anuschka Linse came up with a beautiful sketch of her ideal coffin, in the shape of a...

  • Dead links

    Despite what the title of this article suggests, these links do go somewhere!

    Here you find a collection of links to websites that somehow are related to the topic of death. Leave a comment if you have other good suggestions.

  • Memento mori profiel

    Van online profiel naar herdenkingsplek

    Met het maken van een online profiel op Mediamatic.net, Hyves of Facebook proberen veel mensen expressie te geven aan hun individuele identiteit. Er kan allerlei persoonlijke informatie worden...

  • 666: welcome recognition

    Dutch arts council (Raad voor Cultuur) recommends substantial raise in Mediamatics public funding for 2009—2012

    We were very happy and proud to read the advice about our plans for the coming 4 years. The Arts council of the Netherlands praises our current practice and recommends that the ministry of culture...

  • spectres?

    Mediated mourning rituals and the cultural acceptance of death

    The following is an excerpt from my MA thesis entitled 'Praise the media!' in which I look at examples of mourning rituals, namely the LCD embedded gravestone, through the looking glass of media...
  • Kompromat Blog Katja Sokolova

    11 trains, 4 towns and 3 days

    Manifesta 7 Professional preview , July 17-19

    Instead of a political hot spot, the one and only European nomadic biennial takes place in a tourist paradise of Trentino/South Tyrol this time. Many Dutch people went there to escape from the rain...

  • Workshop Melanie Bonajo

    Coffin for your beloved

    For Melanie Bonajo designing the coffin is a communal process with much room for rituals and stories about the deceased.

  • ‪دهاليز آيْ‬

    ‎في دهاليز «آي» على ترسانة NDSM يُنَظَّم شهريًّا سوق كبير يحتوي على أكثر من ثلاثمائة كشك. وهو المكان الذي يجب أن يكون يتوجه إليه محبو الخمر.

  • An interview with Kareem Lotfy

    Cairo, the tale of love and hate.

    Over a big plate of sushi, some green tea and lots of wasabi, we discussed Kareem's experience of Amsterdam, living in Cairo and feeling like a tourist.

  • New Moon on Monday

    DNK @ Smart Project Space – 7 april 2008

    It’s a quiet Monday night, a perfect night for the 2 Russian secret agents to go on their first assignment. Tonight our friends from DNK organize their first gig in their new-found home. From...

  • Sarah van Sonsbeeck

    Halfway there: project proposal Noord. July, 2010.

    Sarah van Sonsbeeck is an Amsterdam based artist interested in immaterial architecture, and the use and ownership of space. She is a former resident of the Rijksakademie for visual art in Amsterdam

  • Creators of social value

    Conversation with Erik Pold, travel-guide and curator of the Copenhagen pavilion

    Danish artist Erik Pold interviewed four people from the cultural underground in Copenhagen for his CPH TLK project. This Saturday the 21st of November at 20:00 hrs Erik's Copenhagen pavilion opens...

  • Pis’

    In art history

    From ancient to contemporary art, urine in art depicts both the micro-narratives of personal stories and the meta-narratives of the ever evolving world. The depiction and relation to urine and...
  • Paul Groot 6 أيار / مايو 2007

    It's Happening Now

    inderdaad een gebeuren tussen Houellebecq en Hooligans

    Het verslag van een insider Nergens ooit zoveel geregel en gedoe gezien als bij de toegang tot "It's happening now", zondagavond 6 mei voor het POST CS gebouw en bij Club 11.

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