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Aromathèque #12 Mediamatic Biotoop
The Burden of Ancestors
- Re-ecologizing ourselves through ancestry26Feb 2026What 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
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Aromathèque #11 Mediamatic Biotoop
Alcohol-Free Beer
29Jan 2026Does life still make sense when the spirits lose their spirit? For a long time we thought it wouldn’t. But reality proved different and although alcohol is still very popular, the alcohol free...
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Aromathèque #10 Mediamatic Biotoop
Fire in the Alps
- On Small and Big Fires, and the Winter Rituals of Bregenzerwald11Dec 2025In the depths of winter, the Alps have always glowed. Not with sunlight, but with fire: small flames flickering in the hearth, great orange towers rising on the mountainsides and a thousand quiet...
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Aromathèque #9 Mediamatic Biotoop
Foraging Spells
- Urban witchcraft for the eco-curious.13Nov 2025Do crows gossip about us when we walk by? Can a city dweller shapeshift? What’s the difference between a prayer and a spell, or between herbal medicine and a little blood magic? For a while we have...
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Aroma Lab presentation Mediamatic Biotoop
Cultural History of Pubic Hair
- Aromathèque #89Oct 2025Have you ever heard of the word Merkin. Well, we have. Merkins were used as decorative items or erotic devices by both men and women. The habit of using a merkin dates back to the year 1450. A...
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Mediamatic Show
Hier vind je een selectie van onze projecten van de afgelopen 4 jaar. En een kleine impressie van belangrijke en grote projecten van de afgelopen 40 jaar. Kijk hier voor alle jaaroverzichten.
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Exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop Pauline Rip
Elficological know‑how
22Jun 2023- A take on fictional knowledge by artist Pauline Rip30Sep 2023How can we reimagine the richness of our cultural relationships with plants and nature through the imaginary creatures they inhabit? To what extent can fictional knowledge and cultures explore the...
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If you can't beat it, eat it!
What we can learn from the fate of the passenger pigeon
Flocks clouded the sky and cast a dark shadow over the land, stealing hours of daylight and sometimes days on end. This is not an exaggerated Hitchcock scene from ‘The Birds’ but rather a common...
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Elficological know‑how
A take on fictional knowledge by Mediamatic artist in residence Pauline Rip
How can we reimagine the richness of our cultural relationships with plants and nature through the imaginary creatures they inhabit? To what extent can fictional knowledge and cultures explore the...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dasha Tsapenko, Ruslana Goncharuk, Marjo Van Schaik
Growing Gunya
17Dec 2022- Exhibition: Totemic Apparel for this Winter5Mar 2023Gunya is a Ukrainian traditional wool coat, originally worn by Hutsul shepherds in the Carpathian mountains. Providing physical protection from severe weather and animals, throughout the years it has...
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Story of Growing Gunya
History and process
What is a Gunya? What is the story behind the creation of these Garments?
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop
Freestyle Carpenting
- with Niels Albers25Mar 2023High 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...
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Proposal by: Miku Sato
Book and Fire
Project Proposal: Reading cookbooks and the back side of recipes: food culture, politics and feminism
Based on the research of the old cookbooks of the Soviet Union and Japan, the project depicts food culture , politics , feminism , and how they are interrelated. Recipes can be considered stories.
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Proposal by: Paolo Bosca
Food Utopias
Project Proposal: A different geography of taste
Food Utopias is a performative and theoretical research which investigates the power exercised by map on space, specifically in gastronomy. We use maps every day. The most common maps see the world...
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Proposal by: Ginevra Petrozzi
Requiem for my mother's Data
Project Proposal: Ritual for performing grief in the digital age
How do we experience the loss of our Data? How can we say goodbye to loved ones' stream of media, and devices that they leave behind? How we one disentangle ourselves from our data when we die? To...
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Exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop
Haeckel Hunt
1Oct 2022- Weekend of Science2Oct 2022More than a century ago, biologist Ernst Haeckel and lithographer Adolf Giltch scored a hit with illustrations of the beautiful structures and shapes of micro-organisms, which you normally cannot see...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop
Communist Carpenting
- Self-Design Enzo Mari Furniture with Enzo and Niels2Jul 2022High 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...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop
Freestyle Carpenting
- with Niels Albers26Nov 2022High 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...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop
Communist Carpenting
- with Niels Albers8Oct 2022High 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...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop
Communist Carpenting
- with Niels Albers23Jul 2022High 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...
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Mediamatic Biotoop
The Sin Eaters through the eyes of Hildegard Von…
By Alice Héron and Martin Butler
The Sin Eaters is a culinary experience created by chef and artist Alice Héron and the director Martin Butler. During 9 evenings in February 2022, participants were immersed in the incredible world...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop
Freestyle Carpenting
- Self-Design Enzo Mari Furniture with Enzo and Niels23Jul 2022High 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...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop
Self-Design Enzo Mari Furniture
- with Niels Albers4Jun 2022High 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...
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Groente? Bitter! Als kind at ik liever…
Een gesprek met onze voormalig head chef Gino Marengo
Met een jagende opa die het wild direct uit het bos plukte, kwam Gino al van jongs af aan in contact met dieren, verse ingrediënten en rijke gerechten. Hij at alles van hert en leguaaneieren tot...