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  • The Mediamatic Sluisdeurenloods

    A cultural landmark

    The Sluisdeurenloods or 'Canal Lock Gate Warehouse' was originally built at the end of the 19th century, before being dismantled, moved, and reconstructed at Dijkspark in 1957. The building is now...

  • 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...
  • Private Workshop Mediamatic Biotoop

    Freestyle Carpenting

    with Niels Albers

    High quality furniture that can be made by anyone, with simple tools and without special training – this was the idea behind Enzo Mari’s design approach. As a tribute to the work of the communist...
  • 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...

  • Amsterdam-Noord

  • Visual Identity

    Georgia

    Here you'll find the Mediamatic Huisstijlhandboek (styleguide) with some good examples, and insightful remarks. Based the works of Abel van Gijlswijk, Mediamatic's star designer. Few key points to...
  • 172 m2 / 80 - 150 people

    Sluisdeurenloods

    Spacious venue in a 19th century Monument

    The Sluisdeurenloods (Canal Lock Gate Warehouse) is the biggest space at Mediamatic Biotoop and has an interesting history . It is ideal for bigger events, such as meetings, presentations and even...
  • project: Huibert Teekens

    177 X Amsterdam

    Ontdek de wereld in Amsterdam

    Volgens cijfers van de gemeente is Amsterdam de stad met de meeste nationaliteiten ter wereld (!). De stad telt 177 nationaliteiten en is daarmee de meest diverse stad ter wereld, gevolgd door...

  • Mapping for Tourists

    MFT resulted in Noord, an exhibition and travel guide

    Noord is the result of a project initiated by Nat Muller and Mediamatic: Mapping for Tourists. 22 artists were invited to map Amsterdam-Noord, pars pro toto for The Netherlands. The artists lived and...
  • Press release

    Hema threatens with legal action

    because of the El Hema exhibition

    EXTRA: Mediamatic will meet with the Hema B.V.'s Director of Marketing on Friday the 27th of July. In a letter postdated the 23rd of July 2007, the Hema has changed their tone of voice ('The Hema...

  • شمال عاديٌّ جدًّا

    تمهيد للشّمال

    أول دليل سياحي لهولندا باللغة العربية، يُعنى بشمال أمستردام. أُنجز في صيف 2010 مع مجموعة من المحررين و22 فنانًا من مصر والشرق الأوسط وهولندا. لماذا الفنانون بالتحديد؟ هذا أمر منطقي: لأن من دون فنانين...
  • Kunstfort bij Vijfhuizen, Simone van Fulpen 27 Jun 2016

    BEDAZZLE verwart en verblindt

    Camouflage en Razzle Dazzle

    Zondag 3 juli is de opening van BEDAZZLE op het Kunstfort

  • On the Urban Typography workshop

    fabbing communication

    Urban Typography: what does your city say to you and what do you say to your city? This workshop encouraged participants to express themselves through words and text in their urban environments...

  • Mediamatic Travel

    Networked travel agency

    What better way to discover a city than through its contemporary art treasures? Mediamatic Travel is a network of locals waiting to show you around the backside of their cities. From contemporary...

  • الفن الشعبي

    استلهم كلاس أولدنبورغ (Claes Oldenburg) كمًا هائلا من أعماله من بلاستيك الأيسكريم في عام 2001م والذي كان يستعمل كإعلانات للدعاية في محلات شوارع كولونيا. وعندما كلف من طرف محل تجاري في كولونيا لإنشاء...

  • Mediamatic has moved to DijksPark in 2014!

    to Dijksgracht 6, Amsterdam

    As of December 1st, Mediamatic moved to their new location on Dijksgracht 6. On this beautiful spot near the waterside (within walking distance from Central Station!) we will continue and intensify...
  • Mediamatic Magazine vol. 8#2/3 Errki Huhtamo 1 Jan 1995

    Armchair Traveller on the Ford of Jordan

    The Home, the Stereoscope and the Virtual Voyager

    The general panorama of the world. It introduces to us scenes known only from the imperfect relations of travellers. By our fireside we have the advantage of examining them, without being exposed to...

  • Ganzeer

    Halfway there: project proposal Noord. July, 2010.

    Noordelijke Character(istics): A neighborhood is defined by its inhabitants. Ganzeer puts a face to the 'hood.

  • Thank you

    Everyone who helped put Noord on the map

    Our project team, the artists and designers, sponsors, friends, Noorderlingen and other informers.

  • "Resilience, reality and surviving"

    Amir Qudaih about our upcoming exhibition Border Ecologies and the Gaza Strip

    “You don't really have too many people from Gaza outside here because we don't really make it out. Gaza is a very small place, it's literally three miles wide, 17 miles long. You can run it and it's...
  • Project

    Shrinking Cities

    Cities are shrinking all over the world!

    Shrinking cities are a cultural challenge to us. In the Shrinking Cities project, architects, academics and artists investigate recent developments in Detroit, Ivanovo, Manchester / Liverpool and...

  • Adynda - or size does matter

    A review of the project by Young-hae Chang Heavy Industries

    A drive through the city center of Amsterdam, in which the passengers -a man and a woman- but especially the man - ponder upon the size and color of his reproductive organs. The size isn't right and...
  • book: Christopher Alexander 1 Jan 1977

    A Pattern Language

  • Infographics: Are the budget cuts necessary or…

    The Dutch budget for arts & culture institutions is relatively small. The above average cuts will produce below average results.

    In 2011 the budget is € 490 million to support the cultural infrastructure. That sounds like a lot, but it is only a third of what we spend on holidays. It's 1,5% of the annual costs of the State...

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