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Performance Mediamatic Biotoop
Waterwork
4Sep 2026- Marjolijn Boterenbrood in collaboration with Mei-Yi Lee5Sep 2026Waterwork explores the possibilities of water’s voice. Imagine the sound of water itself surrounding us in future times—a presence carrying movement, memory, and traces of life. RSVP here...
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop
Meet-a-Maker
- with Anđela Zora Brnas18Sep 2026Come to Mediamatic to have a talk with our artists-in-residence! Learn more about their work or talk about your project with the artists who inspired you. Anđela Zora Brna is open to creative...
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop
Meet-a-Maker
- with Luca Gerry Conte18Sep 2026Come to Mediamatic to have a talk with an artist! Learn more about their work or talk about your project with the artist who inspired you. Luca Gerry Conte is open to creative consultation and...
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Workshop weekend Mediamatic Biotoop
Museo Aero Solar Workshop Weekend
17Jul 2026- Part of Synergy Summer19Jul 2026Join a hands- on workshop to help build Museo Aero Solar, a collective inflatable sculpture made entirely from discarded plastic bags. Information (free entrance!)
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop
Meet-a-Maker
- with Anđela Zora Brnas23Jul 2026Come to Mediamatic to have a talk with our artists-in-residence! Learn more about their work or talk about your project with the artists who inspired you. Anđela Zora Brna is open to creative...
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Event: Mediamatic Biotoop
HABITS
- 12 consecutive hours of rituals15May 2026HABITS provides an Open Stage for the rituals that find no host. Rituals are biological tools for survival. We are staying open for 12 consecutive hours to test if these bodily regulations can also...
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Musical Performance: Mediamatic Biotoop
Dystopia Wetlands
1May 2026- with Livia Rita & the Avantgardeners7May 2026Crawl into the shifting world of Dystopia Wetlands, an immersive live performance where bodies blur and identities transform. Presented in the Sluisdeurenloods at Mediamatic, Livia Rita and the...
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Symposium: Mediamatic Biotoop
Anatomy of a Material
- What might a mythology of plastic look like?17Apr 2026Join us on Friday, April 17th, for a symposium on affective obsolescence: the gradual erosion of our emotional and sensory connection to the materials that shape everyday life. We now encounter...
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop
Floodlight
27Mar 2026- Marjolijn Boterenbrood in collaboration with Mark IJzerman28Mar 2026Join us and experience how Boterenbrood and IJzerman transform the Sluisdeurenloods into an immersive underwater landscape, celebrating the connection between our residency practice and the living...
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Opening Night: Mediamatic Biotoop
Hydrocommons
- with Enora Cressan, Marjolijn Boterenbrood and Silke Riis20Feb 2026Join 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...
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The Confluence of European Water Bodies: Mediamatic Biotoop
The Diplomatic Suitcase
- Opening Night19Sep 2025Water flows through every aspect of our lives. It is a force that is at once essential and powerful, yet deeply endangered. In our world, water is often silent in the face of political and legal...
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Exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop
The Diplomatic Suitcase
19Sep 2025- The Confluence of European Water Bodies21Oct 2025Water flows through every aspect of life — essential, powerful, and deeply endangered. Yet, in Europe and beyond, water often remains voiceless in political and legal decisions. This exhibition...
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Letizia Artioli
Lullaby for Floods
- Opening Night5Sep 2025The Lullaby for Floods installation will be the creation of a sonic environment and an in-between space connecting us to the Earthly turbulences in the new climate regime: it exchanges our inner...
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Zoop
Jolanda Verspagen
Speaker for the Living
Jolanda Verspagen is a phytoplankton ecologist, currently working as an assistant professor at the University of Amsterdam, she is our Speaker for the Living.
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Jan Jongert
Architect and Designer
Jan Jongert is a principal at Superuse Studios in Rotterdam (formerly 2012 architecten)
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Exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop Maria Ilieva, Matilde Calamandrei, Laura Rosal
Oosterdok Sensory Tower
21May 202521May 2026This 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...
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Exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop Minji Kim
Aquatic Soundscapes
1Mar 2025- Minji Kim1Apr 2025We know our actions ripple through the water. But how do they sound to those who live beneath the surface? What can these unheard frequencies teach us about our impact and our connection to the...
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Blog: Oosterdok Mariah Issa
Aquatic Soundscapes
"I want to listen in places that my body cannot access"
Mediamatic has welcomed a new artist-in-residence, Minji Kim ! What inspires her work? How does the location of Mediamatic influence it? How does Minji wish for the Aquatic Soundscapes exhibition to...
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1. Mediamatic Biotoop Janneke de Lange
Fruiture Nursery
26Apr 2024- by Janneke de Lange14Jul 2024Designer Janneke de Lange envisions a future scenario in which she can grow her own tropical fruit trees in a mobile plant greenhouse, a 'Wardian case'. Because the Dutch climate is not...
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Determining the optimal nitrogen level for the…
Nitrogen is a key component in chlorophyll, so it plays a crucial role inside the plant: but what happens when it's too much?
Various researches have shown the correlation between pests infestation and nitrogen leaf content - which depends on the amount of fertilizer you add. What is, then, the fertilizer amount we can...
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Piss or get off the pot!
New perspectives for the greenhouse: thinking about an Anthroponic system
It's a rich solution, we produce it, sometimes it's inside us and sometimes it's not - and it connects us all, from the tiniest insect to the mastodontic blue whale. Is it blood? No, it's urine! Let'...
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Mediamatic Biotoop
Meet-a-Maker: Arthur Guilleminot
Come 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. Arthur Guilleminot ...
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Mediamatic Biotoop
Harvesting rainwater
Research and design for a rainwater system
Following the research on irrigating with canal water, a more general question appeared: How to build an ecological water management system for the exterior garden and interior greenhouse aquaponics?
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People
Get to know the team that is working on Grain of Salt.