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  • Musical Performance: Mediamatic Biotoop

    Dystopia Wetlands

    1
    May 2026
    11
    Jun 2026
    - with Livia Rita & the Avantgardeners

    Crawl into the shifting world of Dystopia Wetlands, an immersive live performance where bodies blur and identities transform. Presented in the Sluisdeurenloods at Mediamatic, Livia Rita and the...
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  • Event: Mediamatic Biotoop

    HABITS

    15
    May 2026
    - 12 consecutive hours of rituals

    Forget tradition. Rituals are biological tools for survival. We are staying open for 12 consecutive hours to test if these bodily regulations can also heal a city. HABITS provides an Open Stage for...
  • Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop

    Becoming Creature

    30
    May 2026
    - with Livia Rita

    This workshop invites participants to collectively imagine, embody, and build new creature identities together. Through a movement-led process, we will explore transformation using sensory prompts...
  • Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop

    Becoming Creature

    21
    Apr 2026
    - with Livia Rita

    This workshop invites participants to collectively imagine, embody, and build new creature identities together. Through a movement-led process, we will explore transformation using sensory prompts...

  • Piss or get off the pot!

    New perspectives for the greenhouse: thinking about an Anthroponic system

    It's a rich solution, we produce it, sometimes it's inside us and sometimes it's not - and it connects us all, from the tiniest insect to the mastodontic blue whale. Is it blood? No, it's urine! Let'...
  • Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 9#1 Willem Velthoven 1 Jan 1998

    vol. 9#1 Secret Agent Issue

    editorial

    When a government no longer knows how to solve a problem within the borders of legislation and the tolerance of public opinion, it calls on the secret agent.
  • Exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop Maria Ilieva, Matilde Calamandrei, Laura Rosal

    Oosterdok Sensory Tower

    21
    May 2025
    21
    May 2026

    This exhibition invites you to journey through time, exploring the layered history of Mediamatic's waterfront location. Here, where the scent of the water blends with the lingering echoes of...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Abhay Villa 22 Mar 2021

    We are Growing Edible Flowers

    15 meters from farm to plate

    Mediamatic ETEN and the Aquaponics Farm together are aiding the growth of a project that started "rooting" its way into Mediamatic's collection a couple of years ago; and now with the arrival of this...

  • The Chewing Gum Man

    a.k.a. Ben Wilson.

    Depicted as an outsider, British artist forms art with materials found under your feet. Since 1998, he paints colourful miniatures on chewing gum. Which is stuck to the pavement. He tries to embrace...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Sieta Maria van Horck

    The Secret Life of Plants Blog #1

    Experiment Overview

    Natural surroundings have a big impact on the energy and well-being of organisms. They respond to physical movements within their environment. For instance, known structured patterns like sunlight...

  • The Urine Brick

    Building the future

    What is the link between pissing and building? The connection expands past port-a-loos. It's bricks. The answer is bricks.
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Mily Bogaarts

    Death is in the air, and you can smell it

    The demise of the pigeon towers

    While mushrooms emerge, grow, mature and decay, the towers shrink and bend under their own weight. And we keep building. Trying to reach and hold the height of the tower. We feel the need to repair...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Arne Hendriks

    Pigeon Cam

    On the 7th of June 2022, almost two years after we first started learning how to build pigeon towers with waste mycelium, we introduced the first four squab (young pigeons) into their new living...
  • Proposal by: Leo Kay

    The Acid House Of Ideas

    Project Proposal: Bread, microbial and plant agency, fermentation, human evolution and collective ritual.

    A month-long participatory exhibition centered around the building of a model house of ergot-inoculated rye bread; exploring the recent history of human alienation from the land; the creative...
  • Blog: Oosterdok Mariah Issa

    Aquatic Soundscapes

    "I want to listen in places that my body cannot access"

    Mediamatic has welcomed a new artist-in-residence, Minji Kim ! What inspires her work? How does the location of Mediamatic influence it? How does Minji wish for the Aquatic Soundscapes exhibition to...

  • Aquaponics at Mediamatic Fabriek

    Cultivating our own food

    Mediamatic Fabriek, Mediamatic’s new location, is situated in the Van Gendthallen, old ship building halls on the Oostenburgereiland east of the center of Amsterdam. They are huge, and are surrounded...
  • Exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop Zeger Reyers

    Hard Water

    18
    Sep 2015
    - by Zeger Reyers

    Is it plates growing in between plants, or plants growing in between plates? Hard Water is an installation that consists of a thousand plates, soil and plants 'growing' on the exterior wall of...

  • In gesprek met de zee

    Beeldend kunstenaar Peter Matthews toont hoe je kunt praten met de oceaan

    Ondergedompeld in de zee ontwerpt Matthews majestueuze zeegezichten. Door zijn werkt geeft de 'Mystical Waterman' een glimps van het bewustzijn van de oceaan.
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Josie Dibnah

    Embodying Landscapes

    In conversation with Philipp Kolmann

    Philipp Kolmann (artist, designer, cheese-maker, herdsman) is our current artist in residence, exploring ‘Embodied Landscapes’ as part of the AFK 3Package Deal. His work moves fluidly through diverse...

  • Ecologie is ingewikkeld en daarmee uit? Blogserie…

    #4 Denken, voelen en doen in de Garden-Based Approach

    In de serie ‘Ecologie is ingewikkeld en daarmee uit?’ schrijf ik blogs over uitdagende theorieën uit de ecofilosofie. Ik introduceer de ideeën, ter informatie of inspiratie. Daarna zullen er...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Willem Velthoven

    Keep Out!

    march 2020 Corona Closure | Help to Flatten the Curve!

    We are ok but our exhibits and our bar/restaurant are closed until further notice. This started on Sunday march 16, 2020. We'll stay closed for public at least till April 6 whilst following the Dutch...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop

    The Sin Eaters through the eyes of Hildegard Von…

    By Alice Héron and Martin Butler

    The Sin Eaters is a culinary experience created by chef and artist Alice Héron and the director Martin Butler. During 9 evenings in February 2022, participants were immersed in the incredible world...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop, Mediamatic Eten, Dijkspark Naomi Tidball

    Food is both fuel and identity

    A blog for Code Noir

    In light of our upcoming Code Noir event, it is important to reflect on globalisation's ability to reshape food. It offers a diversity within gastronomy, and it allows for a wider availability of...
  • Becoming magnesium Mediamatic Biotoop 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

    Nature needs Heroes

    Wereldwijde campagne voor een groenere toekomst

    Timberland gelooft dat een groenere toekomst een betere toekomst is. Het merk zet zich als onderdeel van haar streven naar een groenere toekomst in om 50 miljoen bomen te planten voor 2025. Het merk...

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