Mediamatic hosts artists, designers, and researchers who explore new forms of art, biology, and ecology within our Living Labs.
Our residency program connects artistic experimentation with scientific and social inquiry.
Below you can explore our current, upcoming, and past residents.
Upcoming Residents
Enora Cressan: 16 January – 19 March 2026
Silke Riis: 12 January – 28 March 2026
2026 Yearly Residents
(1 January 2026 – 31 December 2026):
Marjolijn Boterenbrood
Luca Conte
Frank Bloem
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Residency Blogs
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Silke Riis
Sculptor and installation artist
Silke Riis (b. 1998, Copenhagen) is a sculptor and installation artist who works with transformation and mortality at the core of her practice.
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Enora Cressan
Material researcher and designer
Enora's work is grounded in the exploration of residual, unstable, or devalued substances (she worked with dust, fish skin, rust, or plastic) as vectors of an ecology of attention . Through their...
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Marjolijn Boterenbrood
Multidisciplinary artist
Marjolijn Boterenbrood is a multidisciplinary artist whose works primarily revolve around the concepts of space and places through sensory impressions. Boterenbrood works through these subjects to...
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Salicornia Studio
Design Studio
Salicornia Studio, founded by designer Federico Rizzo in 2023, is a design hub focused on product innovation and material research.
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Ikram Hamdi Mansour
Eco-architect, researcher, cultural practitioner
Ikram Hamdi Mansour (DZ) is an eco-architect, independent researcher, and cultural practitioner based in Algiers, Algeria. Her focus centres on sensory awareness and nature connection practices to...
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Luca Conte
Artist, gastronome, storyteller
Transdisciplinary artist Luca Conte focuses on spatial ecological dynamics in social interactions. Conte employs food as a catalyst, subtly influencing commonplace situations by creating discreet...
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Livia Rita
World-builder, multisensory artist
Livia Rita is an alpine witch and soft nature creature, drifting between the Alps and London. Their work blurs fantasy and reality, summoning worlds where magic pulses and nature revolts. At once an...
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Al-Wah'at Collective الواحات
Artistic research collective
Formed by Ailo Ribas, Gabriella Demczuk, and Areej Ashhab in 2022, Al-Wah’at is an artist-research collective committed to growing communal practices of care and repair in ecologies labelled...
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Ginevra Petrozzi
Interdisciplinary designer & artist
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?
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Anđela Zora Brnas
eco-spatial pedagogue, willow wizard
Andela Zora Brnas (HR) is an interdisciplinary designer, researcher and workshop facilitator focused on re-imagining and co-creating spatial design as a living, nurturing, multispecies practice.
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Frank Bloem
Artist, Curator and Aroma Lab Supervisor
Frank Bloem is an artist who uses scent as his primary medium. He studied Fine Arts at the Rietveld academy. In the summer of 2016, Frank changed his focus from visual art to olfactory-based works.
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More Artists We Are Working With
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Artist Residencies 2025
Artists, designers and research
Here you can find a selection of artists and designers who have done or are currently doing a residency at Mediamatic in 2025. You'll also find the artists who lead our Labs here.
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Artist Residencies 2024
Artists, designers and research
A selection of artists and designer that have done a residency at Mediamatic. You'll also find the artists who coordinate our Labs here. Also, check out our Meet a Maker page to see when you can talk...