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Jasmin Moeller
artist
Jasmin Moeller’s (1982, Germany) artisthood is characterized by a hybrid practice. She works as autonomous artist, consultant, researcher, and engages in social art-projects on international level.
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Masha Ru (RU)
artist
Masha Ru (1984, Russia) is an artist with background in natural science, living and working in Amsterdam.
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Ruud van der Peijl
Stylist/ Photographer
Ruud van der Peijl was born in The Hague in 1960 and lived till 17 september 2021. After training as a fashion designer at the Utrecht School of the Arts, he was one of the founders of Gletcher, the...
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Kamiel Rongen
Artist, musician and cook
Artist and musician, he is known for his dreamlike and colorful videos, shot entirely in a fish bowl.
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Špela Petrič (SI)
Dr. Špela Petrič is an artist and scientist from Ljubljana, Slovenia. She is currently doing her residency in Amsterdam, as part of the 3-package by Mediamatic, Waag Society and the Vrije...
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Zeger Reyers
Zeger Reyers believes that humans have become secondary to their own manipulated environments and as such, there is now not a single cell left traversing its ‘natural' course. As such, Reyers has...
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Artist working with identity, fandom and cars.
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Victor Engbers
Victor Engbers is kunstenaar en schrijver. Hij deed onder meer projecten voor Biennale Twente, Into the Great Wide Open, Amsterdam Light Festival.
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Thorwald Voss
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Hongjie Yang
Central to Hongjie Yang’s practice is a sculptural investigation into the metamorphosis of materials and the interrelation of the natural and the artificial. Yang’s recent work seeks to explore the...
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Nina van Bart
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Aduén Darriba Frederiks
Xn=rx(1-x)
Researcher and machine artist Error
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Marian Loth
Marian Loth is a PhD Candidate at TU Delft and she is currently researching ways to improve train toilets and make them more hygienic and attractive for everyone. She is also the creator of Lady p
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Caroline de Roy
Transparency and Mycelium
Artist Caroline de Roy explores the possibilities of mycelium with the aspects transparency and network-structures. At Mediamatic Fabriek she shows the results so far.
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Distillery of Lubberhuizen and Raaff
Henk Raaff; Spreker van de zuursalon eau-de-vie
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Geurt van Rennes
Zomerreeks Limburgse wijn Geurt van Rennes nieuw wijndomein Botseberg in Leut en wijngaard, Spreker van de vierde Zuursalon
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Caro Verbeek
Art historian and Odorama curator
Caro Verbeek (1980) is an art historian, author and researcher with a focus on the lower senses (smell, taste, touch). She did an MA in Olfactory art and an MA in Tactile art at the University of...
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Leslie Dronkers
cook, lemonademaker etc.
Good food and Basketball.
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Dr. Cretien van Campen
Dr. Cretien van Campen is a Dutch author, editor and scientific researcher in social science and fine arts. He is the author of The Proust Effect, a book on sensory memories. He is also the founder...
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Amy Toner
Amy Toner is a dance artist, choreographer, teacher, and facilitator. Her practice is committed to making the arts accessible to all, where she believes that anyone regardless of age, gender
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Koen Nutters
Musician
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Amber Veel
Amber Veel is an artist working on skinning, tanning and taxidermy. Before she went to the Gerrit Rietveld Academy, she worked as a district nurse and was always fascinated about skin, as an entrance...
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Dr. Laura Speed (UK)
Dr. Laura Speed is a psycholinguistics researcher at the Radboud University Nijmegen.
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Seamus Cater
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Dana El Masri
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Sarmite Polakova (LV)
Sarmite Polakova is an artist who talked about her project Pineskins at the Biotalk
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Ernst Jan Bos
Having achieved his MD from the University of Leiden in 2011, Ernst Jan Bos is now a PhD researcher and leading figure in the field of bio-printing at VU Medisch Centrum.
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Liza Witte
Liza White is a product designer and "3D storyteller ." She uses traditional techniques and different materials to create a personal story. Her designs are characterized by stratification and evoke...
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Tjeerd Veenhoven
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De Verdieping
TRANSNATURAL
13Mar 2010- symposium + workshops13Mar 2010Technologie gold als dè manier om te ontsnappen aan de beperkingen van de natuur. Maar technologie vormde voor diezelfde natuur ook een bedreiging. Stonden natuur en technologie aanvankelijk...
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Agi Haines (UK)
Visual Artist
Agi Haines’ work is focused on the design of the human body. How might people respond to the possibilities of our body as another everyday material and how far can we push our malleable bodies while...
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Nienke Hoogvliet
Nienke is a Designer from Delft. She tries to raise awareness for issues such as natural materials and sustainable production processes.
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Lia Giraud (FR)
Lia Giraud is a Paris-based photographer / video artist and researcher.
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Sietske Klooster
In my work I cross-pollinate my knowledge and experience in the field of dance and industrial design engineering. I organise the 'Melksalon' at Mediamatic.
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Sjaak Hoogendoorn
Sjaak Hoogendoorn is de boer achter Boerderij Achtervennen. Voor het project van Sietske Klooster, de MelkSalon, levert hij rauwe melk.
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Mart Kea
Mart Kea is boer in de Ronde Hoep. Voor het project van Sietske Klooster, de MelkSalon, levert hij rauwe melk.
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Henk den Hartog
Henk den Hartog is de boer achter Stadsboerderij Hartstocht. Voor het project van Sietske Klooster, de MelkSalon, levert hij rauwe melk.
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Boy Griffioen
Boy Griffioen is de boer achter Boerderij de Groene Griffioen. Voor het project van Sietske Klooster, de MelkSalon, levert hij rauwe melk.
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Suzanne Kat-Disseldorp
Suzanne Kat-Disseldorp beheert samen met haar familie Zorgboederij Ons Verlangen. Voor het project van Sietske Klooster, de MelkSalon, levert zij rauwe melk.
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Barbara Hart
After her graduation as food technologist, specialized in dairy technology, at Wageningen University, Barbara worked more than 10 years for large and small food producing companies. She worked as...
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Zorgboerderij Ons Verlangen
Zorgboerderij Ons verlangen is een biologische melkveebedrijf in Zunderdorp
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Boerderij Achtervennen
Boerderij Achtervennen is een biologisch melkveebedrijf in Ilpendam.
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De Groene Griffioen
De Groene Griffioen is een biologische educatie- en kaasboerderij in Weesp.
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Stadsboerderij Hartstocht
Stadsboerderij Hartstocht is een melkveehouderij bedrijf met dubbeldoel koeien
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Mathijs Lak
Mathijs Lak is manager bij Marqt Amsterdam
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Micha Lubbers
Micha Lubbers is bestuursvoorzitter van de Youth Food Movement en beleidsadviseur Natuur en Landbouw bij de Provincie Noord-Holland.
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Jan de Wit
Jan de Wit is onderzoeker/adviseur biologische en duurzame melkveehouderij bij het Louis Bolk Instituut
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Mischa Badasyan (RUS)
Performer artist.
Mischa is an artist based in Berlin. He is the author of the Piss Manifest, an art text that deals with mankind's different ways of approaching the toilet dimension.
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Joel Staffeleu
Sexologist
Healthcare psychologist, sexologist with experience in Psycho Sexual Therapy
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Kalyss Mercury (NO)
BDSM Mistress and neuroscience researcher
Internationally acclaimed Dominatrix, kink & alternative sexuality educator, fetish model and BDSM research pioneer.
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Kirsten Jaarsma
Having lost her own sense of smell, Kirsten Jaarsma is now President of the Anosmia Association of The Netherlands.
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Dorien Scheltens
Rotterdam-based photographer who captures what it means to be truly human.
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Sanne Boesveldt
Assistant Professor Sensory Science and Eating Behaviour, at Wageningen University.
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Lieneke Pisters
Lieneke Pisters expressing her taste experience in colours and paterns
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Angelina Deck
Angelina Deck is a performance artist and choreographer for multiple production houses
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Marike van der Werff
Marike van der Werff is owner of Fromagerie Kef in Amsterdam.
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Vogelbescherming Nederland Logo
Vogelbescherming Nederland logo
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Organization:
Stimuleringsfonds voor de Creatieve Industrie
Het Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie is op 1 januari 2013 van start gegaan. Het opereert binnen de context van het cultuurbeleid en richt zich op alle ontwerpende disciplines en op e-cultuur in...
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Gemeente Amsterdam
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Giulia Soldati
Designer and food researcher Mediamatic ETEN
Italian designer and food researcher, currently based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Vita Stasiukynaite (LT)
fashion designer
Vita Stasiukynaitė is a fashion designer who is currently based in Amsterdam, Netherlands. She recently completed her BA in Fashion at Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam.
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Bart van Kleef
Beer expert and historian Bart van Kleef currently works as Export Manager, Brand Manager and Account Manager at Bier&Co.
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Pim Bosch
Pim Bosch has been a Brewmaster at Brewery de Leckere for over 18 years.
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de Leckere
De Leckere is a brewery that only makes 100% organic beers. Their pilsner is an award winning beer.
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Sander Nederveen
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...
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Oedipus Brewing
Brewery
We are Oedipus, four friends who share pleasure and knowledge through beer. We spend more time together than with our moms. We started brewing because we wanted to create something exciting
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Rick Kempen
Rick Kempen is export director at Bier&Co and administrator for Untappd.
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Untappd
Untappd is a way to socially share and explore the world of beer.
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Edo van Bree
Edo van Bree calls himself 'Bierkoning' (BeerKing) on the website Ratebeer. With over 10.000 beers tasted he is an expert in beer tasting.
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RateBeer
RateBeer is an independent website for craft beer enthusiasts to share their opinions on the beers they have tasted.
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Katjelam
Katjelam is a fairly new brewery based in Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
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Mattias Terpstra
Mattias Terpstra is founder of Brewery Katjelam that is based in Nijmegen.
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De Onkruidenier
Collectief de Onkruidenier investigates historical, cultural and potential transformations of nature and its potential to evolve humans. They do fieldwork - often in collaboration with the public...
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Erik Bouman
Erik Bouman is founder of the brewery 'Klein Duimpje,' which is based in Hillegom.
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Brouwerij Klein Duimpje
Brouwerij Klein Duimpje is a brewery based in Hillegom. They have been brewing beer since 1994.
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Ton Zijp
Ton Zijp has been working in the beer industry for almost 20 years.
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Henriette Waal
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.
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Jan Lemmens
Steady force at De Bierkoning in Amsterdam and initiator of the Carnivale Brettanomyces (since 2012), a festival for beer nerds devoted entirely to the use of wild yeasts and bacteria in beer (www.
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De bierkoning
De Bierkoning verkocht in de afgelopen 28 jaar vele duizenden verschillende soorten bieren.
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Arif Kornweitz
Arif Kornweitz is a dj better known to be a part of dj collective Malawi. Under the name Cosime, he is co host of Wild Time at Mediamatic.
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Garmt Dijksterhuis
Psychological Scientist with a background in food-related perception and choice.
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Prof. Dr. E.P. Köster
Dr. Egon Peter Köster is an emeritus professor in Psychology, specialising in matters of olfactory.
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Margherita Soldati
Margherita has a strong interest in tactility and tactile perception at the intersection of art and healthcare, supported by material research with a focus on the creation of patterns and textures. ...
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Ramon Bril
(gets it done)
Mushroom hunting Life Scientist. Loves plants, especially orchids. Photographer. Two big toes.
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Christophe Lasseur (FR)
MELISSA Project Manager European Space Agency
At ESA Christophe is working as the coordinator of Melissa Project, a future life support system for long term manned space missions, a lunar base or a mission to Mars.
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Angelo Vermeulen
Portrait of Angelo Vermeulen
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Roel van den Hoek
Originally schooled as goldsmith at Rietveld Academy of Arts, Roel started to make his first batches of Kimchi out of interest and got the hang of it.
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Emilie van Spronsen
Emilie graduated in 2015 as an Industrial Design Engineer at TU Delft. She explores the existing interactions between people, products and materials. Image found on website
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Tetsuro Oike (JP)
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Arjen Mulder
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Charlie Clemoes
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New Europeans
New Europeans is a test zone for everyday life in Europe. We create alternative scenarios for the future of the continent, ask ourselves how we want to live together and discover the values we share...
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Foundland
www.foundland.info
Foundland collective initiates autonomous projects. Foundlanders Ghalia Elsrakbi and Lauren Alexander are researchers, writers, artists and designers. With our own projects and working process, we...
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Das Magazin
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Fenny van Wees
The family distillery Van Wees is a company where the art of distilling has been passed on from generation to generation. Even today Fenny still uses the old kettles. While distilling she uses all...
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A. van Wees Distilleerderij De Ooievaar
A. van Wees Distilleerderij De Ooievaar is the Amsterdam Jordaan-based supplier of our 'oude jenever' at Mediamatic Eten.
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Paul Seidler (DE)
Paul Seidler (1988) studies visual comunication at University of Arts in Berlin. From the start of his study in 2013 he worked at a range of research facilities inculding the Design Research Lab and...
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Cateringa & Kompanen
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Pieter Kaptein
biotechnician and Dutch fish sauce pioneer
from Holland Diamond Fish
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Geert Dekens
Dutch fish sauce pioneer
from Holland Diamond Fish
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Bianca Snoek
expert on Scandinavian foods
from Nordic Delikatesser
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Jeroen van Wieren
salinator and chef
Innitiator of Sansalentum de Zoutkamer, one out of only two speciality stores for salt worldwide.
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Biofaction
Biofaction is a research and science communication company based in Vienna, Austria.
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SYNENERGENE
SYNENERGENE is a four-years mobilization and mutual learning action plan (MMLAP) supported by the European Commission under the 7th Framework Programme. The project aims at initiating and fostering...
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Bettina Möllring (D)
Bettina Möllring is professor for industrial design at the Muthesius Art School in Berlin. The design of toilets and urinals plays a central role in her work, especially posing gender-related...
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What Design Can Do!
What Design Can Do celebrates the power of design and its problem-solving abilities. This two-day event in Amsterdam exposes design as a catalyst of change and renewal and a way of addressing the...
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Sjef Brok
Sjef Brok is director at Ediks and speaker at the Zuursalon: Trade your Mother.
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Meneer Wateetons
Meneer Wateetons is an experimental cook, making sausages, fermenting and smoking. He is the curator of Mediamatic Zuursalon and author of 'Over Rot', a book that is dedicated to the art of...
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Manfred Meeuwig
Manfred Meeuwig knows everything about vinegar, oils and mustards. Each year they import tens of thousands of litres of top quality extra virgin olive oil from Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece, France...
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Simone van Thull
Simone van Thull from Thull's Pickels & Stock knows everything about the versatility of vinegar. In her store at the Pretoriusstraat in Amsterdam you can find products such as pickles, water kefir...
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Thull’s
THULL’S maakt PICKLES. Maar ook fijne condimenten als CHILI JAM, MOSTERD en WIJNGELEI. De keuken van THULL’S gaat met name over inmaken, PICKLES van allerlei soorten groente. Maar ook over...
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Meeuwig & Zn.
Meeuwig & Zn. is a small Amsterdam firm established in 1995. The owners are Manfred Meeuwig and Sayone Daan. Manfred Meeuwig who founded the firm was originally a chef (at restaurants such...
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Spyros Drosopoulos
Spyros Drosopoulos is a fragrance engineer and is the creator of niche perfume line Baruti . Starting with a PhD in neuropsychology with specifications in sleep and memory, he was intrigued by how...
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Niklaus Mettler
Perfumer, Art director and Aroma Lab Team
Niklaus Mettler is a perfumer and art director who works with scent in a variety of contexts. He has worked with artists from different fields and established his own line of perfumes. His brand ...
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Sarah-Linda Forrer
Sarah-Linda is a material, textile and product designer based in Amsterdam.
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Patrizia Ruthensteiner (AT)
Patrizia Ruthensteiner (AT) is an interdisciplinary artist from Vienna oscillating between visual arts, performance, fashion and sound art.
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Dewi de Vree
Dewi de Vree (1983) is a multi-media artist from The Netherlands who deals with the sensual experience of physical experiments. With a background in the visual arts and her fascination for the...
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Mondriaan Foundation
The Mondriaan Foundation was created to stimulate visual arts and the cultural heritage from the Netherlands.