In 2024 & 2025 & 2026 we worked with these people

I'm an award winning designer, learner and cultural enterpreneur. I co-founded Mediamatic in 1983. I worked as director of mediamatic till summer 2024 together with my co-founder Jans Possel. I am...

Arne Hendriks is an artist and researcher on human ecology. He believes we should be more generous towards ourselves in allowing radical new ideas and practices to re-define our relationship with the...

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.

The natural world has always deeply fascinated me – we are part of it and need to respect it. I express this through teaching, writing and being in green spaces. My professional background is in...

I work with Mediamatic since February 2011. At the moment I'm self employed at zone5 . I’m nifty with media and I love to be the helping hand, whenever I'm needed. I love to explore interactivity in...

A garden in the city centre created by volunteers in the Dijksgracht. It's situated between Mediamatic, Hannekes Boom and the Klimmuur. The Dijksgracht is totally renovated and this temporary...

Verbruggen Paddestoelen B.V. is een echt familiebedrijf. De door Piet Verbruggen opgezette paddenstoelenkwekerij wordt inmiddels al weer vele jaren door zijn zoon John voortgezet.

Martine has a great interest, great love for odours, smells form nature, anything smelly that appeals to her. She is helping run Open Aroma Lab for Kids.

Artist Alaa Abu Asad does ongoing research on unwanted species, mainly known as invasive species. The research traces the violent, xenophobic speech used to describe the Japanese knotweed and its...

Aslı is a textile culinary artist who's interdisciplinary social practice focuses on curating participatory dinners and installations that shed light on how culinary history and agricultural politics...

Annelies Wina Doom is a belgian conceptual installation artist curator photographer wanderer performer player dreamer wildly associative thinker Luna Blue White her cats & other stunning creatures...

Uno  Fujisawa , born in Japan in 1982 and currently based in Amsterdam, is not only an artist but also a chef. Her artistic endeavours are rooted in a profound exploration of the seemingly simple...

Silke Riis (b. 1998, Copenhagen) is a sculptor and installation artist who works with transformation and mortality at the core of her practice.

Pet van de Luijtgaarden studied communication sciences and informational law before studying photography at KABK in The Hague and pivoting an artistic career. Pet is famous for his many extensive...

Ignacy Radtke (Iggy) is a visual artist based in Amsterdam. Perceptive of modern infrastructures and environments, he connects human's sensorial and emotional activities with a reality that is often...

Yvonne Dröge Wendel is concerned with the relationship between people and objects, and the quest for challenging new ways of relating to things. 

Jam van der Aa is opgegroeid zonder radio en televisie en wilde als kind graag piloot worden, maar bleek kleurenblind. Als beeldend kunstenaar is dat niet heel handig en als schrijver maakt het...

Weimin Zhu is a jewelry and object designer from China. Her designs mainly focus on creating an intimate relationship between the objects in our daily lives and ourselves, especially our inner...

My name is Mas. I've lived in the center of Amsterdam all of my life. I love to see the countless ways in which life finds its way in the city. Plants arrest my attention whenever they do something I...

  Janneke de Lange is a designer who graduated from Design Academy Eindhoven. Her work " FRUITURE  NURSERY" will be displayed at Mediamatic during Japanese Knotweed Festival 2024. 

Siobhán McGibbon is a Visual Artist, Researcher and World-builder with a transdisciplinary practice. Her expression mutates, merging sculpture, animation, drawing, permaculture and participatory...

Hello! I'm Matilde, a specialist in Herbal Sciences. As I embark on this journey, my aim is to explore new relationships with plants that go beyond the opportunistic growing for consumption, with the...

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...

Functies: Partizan Publik, Stichter en Directeur Office for Social Engineering, Stichter en Lid Unreal Estate Agency, Vertegenwoordiger Nevenfuncties: Ambassade van Groot-Brabant te Amsterdam, Chef...

Jasper Riehm, a former Michelin-starred chef turned urban green artist, now excels in blending culinary arts with urban ecology in Amsterdam. As a member of Cityplot, he leads foraging tours and...

Sander Nederveen is a brewmaster at Oedipus, a new Amsterdam brewery. Oedipus prefers to brew beer to fit each person's preferences, and for each moment of the day. Focus lies on tasteful, dry beers...

Waal completed her education at the Design Academy Eindhoven in the department 'Man and Public Space." She now works as an artist, designer and brewer.

Hiroki Yasuda ’s culinary journey began in Nagoya Japan w h ere he was born and raised. From a young age, he discove re d his passion for both savoring and creating exquisite dishes.  

Joël Broekaert is, among other things,  a culinary  journalist and restaurant critic on   food and nutrition .  

What do I do?

Artist and communication trainer. My expertise lies in techniques such as Radical Honesty, Carl Rogers, and theater exercises. Alongside my other activities, I conduct workshops on meditation and...

Bronwen Jones (UK) is an artist and textile repairer. In her practice she is interested in the relationship between bodies and textiles — the stories they contain and the traces they leave in one...

Clemens Tomlow is an alumni from Design Academy Eindhoven. Interested in the world of textiles and storytelling, he mainly works as an artist / costume designer but sees himself as an...

Fedora Boonaert has been immersed in culture since childhood. This passion led her to pursue art history studies in Ghent. Fedora's thirst for exploration led her to the Netherlands, where she...

Leyla de Muynck is a performance artist with a background in modern dance, graduating in 2014 from the Modern Theater Dance program at the AHK in Amsterdam. She creates visual work using her body as...

Teun Castelein (1980) is an artist known for a wide range of entrepreneurial adventures. He calls himself a 'one-man conglomerate' operating from the city of Amsterdam with the ambition of overtaking...

Erica   Monde is a filmmaker, anthropologist and artist from Northern California currently based in Scotland. Her work focuses on the relationships between the body and the environment, queer...

Annemarie's current knotweed projects

Eva van Dée, a specialist in fermentation with a background in industrial design, explores various approaches to fermentation. During her residency at Mediamatic, she aims to refine her recipes and...

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Mariko Hori is an multidisciplinary artist creating quiet, site-sensitive installations that bridge nature and society. Her work explores the hidden existence of space - where scent, memory, and...

During our gentle disco events we are dancing to music from DJ Huppeldepup. His all-time favorites run the gamut from innovative and alternative dance music and acid house to ambient music, post-punk

Arthur Guilleminot is an ecodeviant artist and positive maverick that practices fertile and generative disobedience. Intersecting disciplines such as design, performance, fashion, and visual art, he...

Sytske Frederika van Koeveringe (1988) is beeldend kunstenaar en schrijver. Ze debuteerde met de roman Het is maandag vandaag (2017), gevolgd door Dag nacht licht toch (2020), dat genomineerd werd...

I am most at peace outdoors, clambering about in trees or rummaging in the soil. For me, foraging developed as an inevitable consequence of spending so much time with plants. The more untamed the...

Jemima de Jonge (*2001) grew up in Rotterdam. She graduated with distinction in June 2023 at the KABK (Royal Academy of Visual Arts) in The Hague.

Vera Lelie (BEPA) is a fashion designer and recent graduate of the Gerrit Rietveld Academy. 

Simone Hooymans (*1974), is a visual artist from the Netherlands who lives and works in Norway. Through drawing and animation, she creates elusive yet disturbing landscapes. 

Thijmen Peters is a communication designer whose projects start from a curiosity in everyday phenomena as waiting or swiping. Often perceived as ordinary and influenced by changing technologies these...

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Lodewijk Reijs is (interim) cultural manager, strategist and advisor. Before starting his freelance practice, Lodewijk worked for the Dutch Ministry of Culture and the European Cultural Foundation.

I have completed an International Bachelor in Arts and Culture Studies at Erasmus University Rotterdam and am eager to continue my studies with a Master's in Arts and Culture. I am passionate about...

Hi! My name is Anna Lina, and I am a freelance writer focused on the intersection of art and ecology. At Mediamatic, I coordinated the a/Artist project between 2022 and 2024.  Starting as a programme...

Hi there! It's Alya, full-time cinephile, part-time communications manager. Believes that "life is absolute cinema" and enjoys warm weathers and cats way too much. Here at Mediamatic I am responsible...

Hello! I’m Puk — a Future Planet Studies student with enthusiasm for the natural world. I’m currently one of the interns at MediaMatic. During my studies, I discovered a deep fascination for how...

Hi, I’m Dewi. A recent graduate in Image and Media Technology and artist, fascinated by how systems work, from machines and code to everyday habits that shape our lives. My work focuses on kinetic...

I’m a multidisciplinary creative from Ireland, now based in Amsterdam, with a background in Zoology and a lifelong love of visual storytelling, design, and music. I hold a first-class Master’s in...