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  • presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop

    Meet-a-Maker

    23
    Jan 2026
    19
    Feb 2026
    - with Lynn Shore

    Come to Mediamatic to have a talk with an artist in our restaurant by the water! Learn more about their work or talk about your project with the artist who inspires you. Lynn Shore is open to...

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  • presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop

    Meet-a-Maker

    6
    Mar 2026
    - with Laura A. Dima

    Come to Mediamatic to have a talk with an artist in our restaurant by the water! Learn more about their work or talk about your project with the artist who inspires you. Laura A. Dima is open to...

  • Private workshop Mediamatic Biotoop

    Foraging for Mental Health

    with Lynn Shore

    Are you looking to boost your mood by connecting with your environment? Lynn Shore will take you on a mindful guided session to explore ways to engage with everyday nature in order to support your...

  • exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop Maria Ilieva, Matilde Calamandrei, Laura Sanz Rosal

    Oosterdok Sensory Tower

    21
    أيار / مايو 2025
    21
    أيار / مايو 2026

    This exhibition invites you to journey through time, exploring the layered history of Mediamatic's waterfront location. Here, where the scent of the water blends with the lingering echoes of...

  • exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop Arne Hendriks

    Mycelium Pigeon Towers

    1
    Oct 2021
    1
    Oct 2031
    - by Arne Hendriks

    New  pigeon   towers emerge as old ones slowly collapse into fertile soil at the Biotoop. These structures are an ongoing experiment to build with living mycelium waste from oyster mushroom farms.

  • exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop Zeger Reyers

    Hard Water

    18
    Sep 2015
    - by Zeger Reyers

    Is it plates growing in between plants, or plants growing in between plates? Hard Water is an installation that consists of a thousand plates, soil and plants 'growing' on the exterior wall of...

  • exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop

    Hortus Dijkspark

    1
    أيار / مايو 2018
    1
    أيار / مايو 2028

    Rondom onze Biotoop groeit een grote verscheidenheid aan planten, van genezend tot giftig, van donkergroen tot paars. Je kunt Hortus Dijkspark op elk moment bezoeken. Klik hier om meer te weten te...

  • Opening Night: Mediamatic Biotoop

    Hydrocommons

    20
    Feb 2026
    - with Enora Cressan, Marjolijn Boterenbrood and Silke Riis

    Join us on Friday, February 20th, to mark a new chapter for Mediamatic! This evening, we explore the idea that we are not separate entities, but porous beings in the same water. When will we begin...

  • Mediamatic Biotoop

    Plant Properties

    Starting from Dijkspark, we are mapping plants in the city

    A big variety of plants is growing around our Biotoop, from healing to toxic, from dark green to purple. You can visit the Hortus Dijkspark at any moment. Come to learn more about the different...

  • Pigeon Tower Mediamatic Biotoop Andy Cartier, Arne Hendriks

    Cartier

    Sept '20 – Pigeon Tower 03

    The third tower was build inside the Clean Lab . Two previous attempts to build a sturdy, living tower had failed. Time to take a step back. We did not know whether our principles were correct.

  • Mediamatic Biotoop

    Open Costume Lab

    W e are hosting an Open Costume Lab where we invite fashion designers, artists and complete beginners, to make costumes of amazing species from our ecosystem. There is room for experimentation and...

  • Mediamatic Biotoop Linde van Beers, Ashley Scarborough

    Myco Brewery Growing Process

    How we grow beautiful mycelium products

    From early October we began to have consistent success with our mycelium growth on the spent grain from our myco brewery, so we thought the best way to celebrate this is to share our knowledge of the...

  • workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop

    Composing Fragrance

    12
    Apr 2026
    - with Frank Bloem

    In this workshop, artist, and perfumer Frank Bloem will introduce you to the world of perfume making. You will learn the basics of scent composing and at the end of the workshop, you will have...

  • Mediamatic Biotoop

    Summer Savory

    Satureja hortensis

    Find more about this plant on Wikipedia .

  • Mediamatic Biotoop Susanne Duijvestein

    From Pest to Soil

    Humusating a Muskrat

    Maybe you have heard about the Muskrat, an ‘invasive exotic’ that likes to chomp on 'our' Dutch dykes. It was on the 22nd of May that one found their final resting place in one of the grow beds at...

  • Mediamatic Biotoop

    Celeriac

    Apium graveolens rapaceum

    Find more about this plant on Wikipedia .

  • exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop Bernotat&Co

    Radiolaria

    1
    Oct 2014
    1
    Jul 2026
    - by Bernotat&Co Design Studio

    A series of eleven lamps made of 3D-knitted textile with glow-in-the-dark effect, inspired by microscopic organisms and the phenomenon of bioluminescence. When the light is switched off, the...

  • Private Workshop Mediamatic Biotoop

    Freestyle Kintsugi

    with Mariko Hori

    Humans are not able to control everything. In this workshop, the participants will experience the philosophy of kintsugi, which embraces the flawed or imperfect. They will practice to accept the way...

  • Pigeon Tower Mediamatic Biotoop Dominik Einfalt, Arne Hendriks

    Gentle

    Oct '20 – Pigeon Tower 04

    The blocks of mycelium from mushroom grower John Verbruggen that we used to build are wide and heavy, and so they give us more security when stacking than in previous towers. Because we wanted to...

  • Mediamatic Biotoop

    Radical Embroidery

    with Desirée Hammen

    Do you think embroidery is reserved to stitching flowers? Or that you can only embroider on fabric? In the last decades, embroidery has evolved from a traditionally feminine and domestic practice to...

  • workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop

    Aquatic Speculations

    14
    Mar 2026
    - with Silke Riis

    You 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...

  • Mediamatic Biotoop Bart Ellenbroek

    Building a geodesic dome

    My experiences during my third week at Mediamatic

    Exploring the possibilities of a geodesic dome built from mycelium.

  • Private workshop Mediamatic Biotoop

    Radical Embroidery

    with Desirée Hammen

    Do you think embroidery is reserved to stitching flowers? Or that you can only embroider on fabric? In the last decades, embroidery has evolved from a traditionally feminine and domestic practice to...

  • Aromathèque #12 Mediamatic Biotoop

    The Burden of Ancestors

    26
    Feb 2026
    - Re-ecologizing ourselves through ancestry

    What role do our ancestors continue to play in our daily lives? Do we carry the weight of generations on our shoulders, and how might we release ourselves from the pressure of ancestral beliefs

  • Mediamatic Biotoop

    Sneezewort

    Achillea ptarmica

    Find more about this plant on Wikipedia .

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