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Tours: Mediamatic Biotoop
Open Daily Tours
16Mar 202618Dec 2026Welcome to Mediamatic! We aren't a traditional art center where you just look at things on a wall. We are a Biotope, a living environment where art, design, and science meet. Everything here is a...
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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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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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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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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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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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Performance: Mediamatic Biotoop
Kinky Confessions
- Yes I have sinned, please forgive me!16May 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 Heemstra16May 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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Message from the Supervisory Board
A new era for Mediamatic
Dear visitors, artists, friends, colleagues, stakeholders, critical observers, fans, sponsors, supporters and all others involved.
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WDCD Amsterdam Live 2024 X Mediamatic Mediamatic Biotoop
Crafting Tomorrow
- Weaving Tradition Through Innovation5Jul 2024In today's rapidly changing world, technological progress often overshadows traditional knowledge, and global interconnectedness prevails. Historically, artisans relied on local resources, but...
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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...
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Japanese Knotweed Season 2024: Mediamatic Biotoop
Gastronomical Summit
- Rethinking Japanese Knotweed Through Food31May 2024Every spring, Mediamatic organises a festival around Japanese knotweed. Knotweed is a fast-growing plant known in Europe for being considered a exotic invasive. This year's season explores the...
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13. Mediamatic Biotoop Erica Monde, Mila Benjamins
There’s Not Much We Can Do
12Apr 2024- Film by Erica Monde5May 2024When filmmaker Erica Monde was diagnosed with endometriosis, the growth of tissue similar to th e uterine lining outside the uterus , she was told by doctors that there was not much they could...
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Japanese Knotweed Festival '24
Japanese Knotweed Program
upcoming events
All exhibitions , workshops and events during the Japanese Knotweed season. Reserve your tickets here ! *We offer a discount to students, artists and Stadspas holders.
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Program April & May
Japanese Knotweed Season 2024
Every spring, Mediamatic organizes a festival around Japanese knotweed. Knotweed is a fast-growing plant known in Europe for its intrusive properties. What many do not know, however, is that this...
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Blog Leyang Fu
(Re)naming a Plant – the Magic in a Name
To many, calling a name equals casting a spell, as names are often assigned with magic or spiritual power. Such belief spreads widely geographically among different tribes. In modern days, we know...
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Living Tower Talk #5 Mediamatic Biotoop
De Stad als Dierentuin (The City as a Zoo)
- with Thijs de Zeeuw & Atze van der Goot23Feb 2024How can humans, animals and plants live together in the city and what role do art and design play in this? This time we will talk with Thijs de Zeeuw, known for designing the new lion enclosure in...
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Updates from the aquaponics
Bad news, good news: a critical examination of what happened in the greenhouse
The accident arises doubts on the ethic of this practice
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop
Intimacies in the Waiting Room
- A/artist Meeting with Yvonne Dröge Wendel, Vera Lelie and students from KABK's 'Iets Tekenen'18Dec 2023Waiting rooms are often a place of discomfort, annoyance and embarrassment. Yvonne Dröge Wendel’s cuddly objects turn your stay into a voyage of discovery. Meanwhile, Vera Lelie is surprised by the...
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Book: Annelies Wina Doom, Willem Velthoven, Jam van der Aa, Marcel Sturing
Zelftest
Cahier voor Museumnacht 2023