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  • Opening Night: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark

    Rites of Play

    Unveiling the Open City Monastery

    What if a space existed to respond to human needs, not with forced positivity, but with the quiet acceptance of what is? A place where rest is a ritual, where food and shelter are offered freely, and...

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  • Performance: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark

    Multispecies Tasting

    16
    May 2025
    - Salicornia Studio

    Inspired from the endangered southern Italian mediterranean coasts, this is a table which stands as a cut out of an habitat, an edible landscape to be explored through a special cutlery.

  • Performance: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark

    Dusking

    16
    May 2025
    - Marjolijn van Heemstra

    You don't have to wait for nightfall to experience the darkness. Just after sunset, the great transition begins: twilight. The golden hour turns into the blue hour, the light fades, and colours...

  • Exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Sophie Conroy

    Where we Sleep

    16
    May 2025
    16
    Aug 2025
    - Sophie Conroy

    Where We Sleep is an exhibition transforming Mediamatic’s greenhouses into intimate, temporary sleeping spaces, inspired by the places where Sophie Conroy slept while she lived without a...

  • Tasting Stand: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark

    Fermentation Bar

    16
    May 2025
    - TestTafel

    TestTafel is Mediamatic's new pop up restaurant partner! Eager to collaborate with us in the future, they'll be participating in our opening evening. 

  • A performative book presentation about giving and taking space: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark

    house

    16
    May 2025
    - Rosa Vrij

    house , a publication, represents the culmination of Rosa Vrij's artistic and personal research over many years, focusing on the themes of giving and taking space , bundled in a publication . The...

  • Scent Design: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark

    Just InSense

    16
    May 2025
    - Frank Bloem

    Imagine the quiet scent of a monastery library, old parchment mingled with the spicy aroma of dried herbs and resins. Mediamatic will open its doors on the evening of Friday, May 16th, introducing...

  • Exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Renske Tiemersma

    Ruimte voor Kijken

    28
    Apr 2025
    28
    Jun 2025
    - Renske Tiemersma

    Every day, we either observe others or are observed by them. Unwritten rules, shaped by societal norms and personal boundaries, determine when and for how long we engage in the act of looking.

  • Performance: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark

    Kinky Confessions

    16
    May 2025
    - Yes I have sinned, please forgive me!

    Confessions can be relieving, empowering, and cathartic, even creating a communal moment. Step aside from the constraints and expectations of modern society and join Dante Woods on a path of fetish...

  • Exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Teun Vonk

    Meditation Circus

    11
    May 2025
    11
    Jun 2025
    - Teun Vonk / Tony Spark

    Teun Vonk creates art installations that focus on individual physical experiences, as a reminder to the participant of what the body is and what it is capable of. The Meditation Circus...

  • Performance: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark

    Lewd Banquet

    16
    May 2025
    - Kexin Hao

    She chews, crunches, slurps, screams, sings, whispers, and moans…. Through an erotic, sensual, and visceral listening experience of compost plated on a  banquet table, Kexin unfolds intimate...

  • Blog Leyang Fu

    (Re)naming a Plant – the Magic in a Name

    To many, calling a name equals casting a spell, as names are often assigned with magic or spiritual power. Such belief spreads widely geographically among different tribes. In modern days, we know...

  • Updates from the aquaponics

    Bad news, good news: a critical examination of what happened in the greenhouse

    The accident arises doubts on the ethic of this practice

  • Policy Plan 2025-2028:

    Open City Monastery

    Transdisciplinary Design Research

    Mediamatic is an organization focused on developing and presenting cross-disciplinary art, design and science practices. Sustainability and social urgency are our core concerns. Since 1983, we have...

  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark

    Meet-a-Maker: Vera Lelie

    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. Vera Lelie is open...

  • Japanese Knotweed Festival '23

    Exhibitions

  • Message from the Supervisory Board

    A new era for Mediamatic

    Dear visitors, artists, friends, colleagues, stakeholders, critical observers, fans, sponsors, supporters and all others involved.

  • Becoming magnesium Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Fredrik Link

    Becoming magnesium

    Through scrunching & draping tinfoil: can I transform into magnesium?

    Through researching costume ideas for the Inhuman Carnaval, I came across the mineral magnesium. The rock and metal like texture reminded me of the scrunched up tin foil around the sandwiches my mum...

  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Abhay Villa 28 Jun 2021

    Shitty Water + Wasabi - Snails = Money

    At the Mediamatic Greenhouse, we try to maximise the productivity of the little space we have by growing rare, collectable and valuable crops. All whilst strongly advocating for the advantages of...

  • The green gold

    Celebrating our Wasabi's 2nd birthday

    After some cold and rainy months in aquaponics, we were overjoyed to see the first aquaponics plant in bloom. This early bloomer has got to be a bit of a diva, as most plants are not showing any...

  • Closing the Tap

    Turning to the canal to reduce our tapwater consumption

    The goal is simple. We want to stop using clean tapwater to irrigate the plants at Dijkspark and instead use a watersource that may be considered unconventional: the canal. The common perception of...

  • Festival: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark

    Japanese Knotweed Festival

    Under European regulations, invasive exotic species are allowed to be radically eradicated. The City of Amsterdam, for example, is allocating 8 million euros to aggressively destroy Japanese knotweed.

  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Mily Bogaarts 3 Mar 2021

    From Packaging to Beaver Skin

    How to build a mycelium pigeon tower roof #1

    The pigeon and the mycelium are in joint agreement. Pigeons don’t nest on soggy surfaces and mycelium prefers high humidity, but don’t like the wet. It is critical: The tower needs a roof. But what...

  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Magdalena Thur

    The Resomation of Fungal tissue

    Could fungi provide the future fabric for death shrouds?

    Mediamatic's search for vegan fabric that could be used in Resomation, an environmentally friendly alternative burial method, led to testing fungal material.

  • Proposal by: Natascha Nanji

    Welcome to Studio Swan

    Project proposal: An interpersonal, speculative fiction proposition

    Welcome to Studio Swan is a speculative proposition that asks what conditions would be appropriate for us to temporarily become with plant or animal? And why would this be something desirable or...

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