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Exhibition: Rijksmuseum Twenthe Atte Jongstra
Paths to paradise
13Sep 201322Mar 2015Man has always dreamed of Paradise, whether that is Walhalla, Heaven, Elysium or whatever you may decide to call it. Paradise is the ideal, eternal world. But how does it actually look like? And how...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Willem Velthoven
History of Ginger / Anymeta / C-wolk
- Template event about website knowledge14Jan 2022This is an example event. It is not in the Template CG so it will display without a banner/submenu and will find matching context outside existing CG's. The event is one of the examples in the...
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The artistic/autistic: The work of Bruce Nauman
Bruce Nauman once famously said: “If I was an artist, and I was in the studio, then whatever I was doing in the studio must be art.” Living a retreated life on his ranch in New Mexico, Nauman’s work...
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Margherita Soldati, Krisztina Czika
Coffin Selfie
2Nov 2019- Museum Night Amsterdam 20193Nov 2019What would it be like to lie in your own coffin? Normally, once it happens it will be too late to know. Come and try it out in our coffin photo booth and have a picture taken.
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Susanne Duijvestein
Design your own shroud
2Nov 2019- Museum Night Amsterdam 20193Nov 2019It used to be Dutch tradition to make your own shroud, wear it on your wedding night, and put it away until you died. This workshop will enable you to work on designing your shroud.
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Margherita Soldati, Krisztina Czika
Death Beauty Salon
2Nov 2019- Museum Night Amsterdam 20193Nov 2019Lie back and let artists Krisztina and Margherita make your death mask. Our Hall of Faces will eventually be filled with death masks.
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Gwen van der Zwan
Finally Free
2Nov 2019- Museum Night Amsterdam 20193Nov 2019Having already inflated a number of intestines with helium, Gwen van der Zwan manufactured an 8by2-meter zeppelin from slaughterhouse waste. Finally Free is about the posthumous freedom of the 350...
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Death one-on-one
2Nov 2019- Museum Night Amsterdam 20193Nov 2019Irina Birger will spend an entire evening having one-on-one conversations of approximately 15 minutes centered on death, in an especially created installation. You're welcome to share your stories
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Aug 2021 - Jan 2022
Marguerite d'Ervau
Exhibition and Workshops Assistant
After completing my MA in European studies, I joined Mediamatic as an exhibition and workshops assistant with the desire to curate impactful exhibitions, workshops and events. During my time at...
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Internship Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Internship: Pigeon Towers
Hands-on production and organisation
Are you interested in the design potential of living organisms? We are looking for people who get happy making an exhibition and making it run smoothly. Since June 2020 we are experimenting with...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Lisa Witte
Maintenance of Radiolaria
The series of pendant lamps by Bernotat&Co
Have you always wanted to know how cultural institutions look after their art objects? In this blog we take a look at the maintenance of the Radiolaria pendant lamps from design studio Bernotat&Co.
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark, Dijkspark Lisa Witte
Doubts about Casting Doubt
To what extent can you restore a work before you affect its authenticity?
Casting Doubt is an art project created by Masha Ru and Jasmin Moeller. The open-air project consists of a series of flowerbeds, each with a self-reflective question on the side, formed by pins. By...
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Traces of Death
in the work of Teresa Margolles
Re-appropriating, re-membering, and re-presenting the body and its remains is something that runs throughout all the work of Mexican artist Teresa Margolles. Her oeuvre is one of the best examples to...
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Organization:
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Dood
2Nov 2019- Museum Night Amsterdam 20193Nov 2019Will your death sound like the music of Einaudi, or more like Hazes? On November 2nd at Mediamatic come and interactively explore your identity and expression in relation to death. From abstract...
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
The Smell That Sells
- Odorama 35 - with Jorg Hempenius, Rick Schifferstein, and Niklaus Mettler22Nov 2019In the field of marketing, scents are a goldmine. With their ability to influence moods and choices, they can be very effective marketing tools. There is an increasingly professional level of...
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Dora Goldsmith
Dora Goldsmith is a PhD student of Egyptology at the Freie Universität Berlin. The topic of her PhD project is the sense of smell in ancient Egypt, the exact title of her research being The...
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Organization: Marie-Claire Springham
Burton Nitta
The London-based Anglo Japanese duo comprising o Michael Burton and Michiko Nitta describe themselves as “an interdisciplinary art and design studio collaborating with science and technology to...
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Onzichtbare Collectie
2018 - 2019
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Taco Dibbits
Director of the Rijksmuseum
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Wim Pijbes
Former art director of the Rijksmuseum
Willem Meint Jans "Wim" Pijbes is a Dutch art historian and emeritus General Director of the Rijksmuseum , Amsterdam . He is one of the minds behind the museum's complete refurbishment and...
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Exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Invisible Collection
Have you ever wondered what it’s like to not be able to look at art? With this auditory collection, we discover art with all our senses except sight. How do you experience art without looking at it?
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Magic Island (DE)+ Ohslo (NL)
- Subbacultcha show26Feb 2017Subbacultcha has gone ahead and booked their dream holiday: Magic Island is where it's at. Canadian-born Emma Czerny's given us Wasted Dawn & Intoxicated Sunset and her first full-length, Like Water