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  • Love and hate, holiness and cruelty

    Diana Marrone talks about Naples

    Diana Marrone is of the curators in the Amsterdam Biennale and a guide for Naples (Italy) on the Mediamatic Travel website . She tells about the love-hate relationship she has with her city. Read...
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  • 37 Pavilions

    First ‘user generated’ biennale

    Here we have collected the proposals for the city pavilions in the Amsterdam Biennale 2009 that were sent to us by the curators. We also show what each pavilion looks like after it was built. Find...

  • Mediamatic Travel

    Networked travel agency

    What better way to discover a city than through its contemporary art treasures? Mediamatic Travel is a network of locals waiting to show you around the backside of their cities. From contemporary...

  • An interview with Kareem Lotfy

    Cairo, the tale of love and hate.

    Over a big plate of sushi, some green tea and lots of wasabi, we discussed Kareem's experience of Amsterdam, living in Cairo and feeling like a tourist.

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  • More about the artists in the Naples pavilion

    Provided by curator Diana Marrone

    Curator Diana Marrone presents the work of Danilo Capasso, Alessandro Cimmino, Roberto Paci Dalo, Marco Zezza and N.E.S.T in the Naples pavilion at the Amsterdam Biennale 2009.
  • Previously on view in the Amsterdam Biennale: Aicha EL BELOUI

    Casablanca Pavilion

    Open from 14 November, 2009 until 3 January, 2010 in the Amsterdam Biennale at Mediamatic: the Casablanca pavilion, curated by Aicha el Beloui.
  • Previously on view in the Amsterdam Biennale: Pedro Meyer

    Rio de Janeiro Pavilion

    Transvestite Bathroom (girl from Rio)

    Curator Pedro Meyer presents the Rio de Janeiro pavilion at the Amsterdam Biennale 2009 at Mediamatic. His pavilion opened on the 12th of December during the Standing Room Only Party. On view until 3...

  • The Mediamatic Sluisdeurenloods

    A cultural landmark

    The Sluisdeurenloods or 'Canal Lock Gate Warehouse' was originally built at the end of the 19th century, before being dismantled, moved, and reconstructed at Dijkspark in 1957. The building is now...

  • Amsterdam Biennale

    2009 - 2010

    Over thirty international guides from the Mediamatic network were invited to curate AND design their city's pavilions and represent their local cultural scene. From 16 October 2009 until 3 January...

  • Ganzeer

    Halfway there: project proposal Noord. July, 2010.

    Noordelijke Character(istics): A neighborhood is defined by its inhabitants. Ganzeer puts a face to the 'hood.

  • "Resilience, reality and surviving"

    Amir Qudaih about our upcoming exhibition Border Ecologies and the Gaza Strip

    “You don't really have too many people from Gaza outside here because we don't really make it out. Gaza is a very small place, it's literally three miles wide, 17 miles long. You can run it and it's...
  • Previously on view in the Amsterdam Biennale: Caroline Woolard

    Brooklyn Pavilion, NY

    October 17 - November 2009

    From October 17 until the end of November, curator Caroline Woolard presents the first Brooklyn Pavilion with 'Security Lifestyle' by Adriana Young. More information is here: www.betterthanliving.com...
  • Lima, Peru Jeroen Van der Zalm

    Whatever happens in Lima...(b)

    Lima, Perú. Come and see what really goes on here. Machu Picchu can wait!

    Lima is a hilarious city. It is definitely a bizarre place full of contradictions and surprises. Over 9 million people live together on a strip of coastland in one of the driest deserts of the world:...
  • Project: Huibert Teekens

    177 X Amsterdam

    Ontdek de wereld in Amsterdam

    Volgens cijfers van de gemeente is Amsterdam de stad met de meeste nationaliteiten ter wereld (!). De stad telt 177 nationaliteiten en is daarmee de meest diverse stad ter wereld, gevolgd door...
  • Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 8#2/3 Mike Davis 1 Jan 1995

    Beyond Blade Runner: Urban Control (2)

    The Ecology of Fear

    The Half-Moons of Repression

  • Rising in the East

    Rising in the East: Contemporary Asian New Towns examines not only the urban designs, the architectural and urban character of these New Towns, but also the intricate political, economic, and social...

  • Amersfoort aan zee ?

    Het Delta programma werkt aan een droge toekomst

    De Deltacommissie onder leiding van Prof. Dr. C.P. Veerman heeft in september 2008 aan de overheid een rapport aangeboden met een integrale visie op de uitdagingen waar Nederland in de toekomst voor...
  • Previously on view in the Amsterdam Biennale: Kaspar Wimberley, Susanne Kudielka

    Stuttgart Pavilion

    Hiding the meat from God

    Maultaschen mutations from Stuttgart Scheduled to open 5 December 2009 in the Amsterdam Biennale 2009 at Mediamatic.

  • Nuit Blanche Amsterdam

    Een nachtelijke ontdekkingsreis

    Stichting Vuig is een jaar geleden in het leven geroepen door Josine Neyman en Kristel Mutsters "om grote en mooie dingen te kunnen creëren". Ze wilden een groter publiek in contact brengen met...
  • Pop-Up Cafe

    The Last Sweat Party in the Pop-Up basement

    The Pop-Up Café is a temporary exhibition that will take place from June 6 until August 2 at Meneer de Wit Gallery in Amsterdam. Created by Eline Mul and Karolien Buurman, it's a place that looks and...

  • An interview with Engy Aly

    "There are much, much more Arabs and Muslims than I have ever seen in my life outside of an Arabic country."

    July 2010. Engy has been living and working in Amsterdam-Noord for a few weeks. She was kind enough to share her first impressions, and tell us a little bit about her background.
  • Previously on view in the Amsterdam Biennale: Robert Kluijver

    Kabul Pavilion

    Coping with the Green Zone - from within and without

    Since 2001, key areas in the center of Kabul have progressively been cordoned off from normal access by Afghans to form a kind of Green Zone, where foreign nationals and high-level Afghan returnees...

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