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  • Mediamatic Biotoop

    Finissage: Deconstructing Systems

    24
    Jul 2016
    - Celebrating the unmaking of a Car

    From July 15 till 24 artists Olivier Oosterbaan and Victor Engbers are completely taking apart a Fiat Panda in 10 days. By deconstructing a car in a public space rather than in a garage, they want to...
  • deconstructing
  • Car
  • Fine Art
  • Hardware
  • Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop

    Design your own Shroud

    26
    Jan 2020
    - with Margherita Soldati

    Have you ever thought about what you would wear at your funeral? This fall, we will breathe life into a Dutch tradition with a series of workshops. The workshop invites participants to actively think...
  • Exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop

    Raising Doubts

    5
    May 2015
    - by Masha Ru en Jasmin Moeller

    Are you fundamentally lonely? Do you break taboos? Join us and start Raising Doubts (Twijfel Zaaien) in Amsterdam's newest hotspot: Dijkspark. Thirty questions about life and art lead you along...
  • Exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop

    Rederij Lampedusa

    11
    Sep 2015
    - Refugee boat in recreational boating

    Amsterdam has a new shipping company; Rederij Lampedusa, located in the harbor of Mediamatic. The shipping company consists of a fleet of two North African boats, which were used by refugees to cross...
  • Exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop

    Contemplative Bath(tub)

    14
    Dec 2018
    - Sensuous exhibit by Giorgio Gasco

    With this installation Giorgio Gasco represents his internal conflict:  Should a designer always choose for a sustainable completion of the design to save the planet, or does he allow himself the...
  • Exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop

    Light Observatory #2

    1
    May 2020
    31
    Oct 2020
    - by Natali Blugerman and Santiago Brignardelli

    The mind creates an image, and therefore we experience. But in truth they are just an interpretation, defined by several axes that meet within the subject in a specific time and space and object. We...
  • Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop

    Finally Free

    2
    Nov 2019
    3
    Nov 2019
    - by Gwen van der Zwan

    After she had already produced the necessary helium-filled intestines, Gwen van der Zwan produced a zeppelin of 4.5 by 1.5 meters from slaughterhouse waste. Finally Free is about posthumous freedom...
  • Exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop

    The Skin is an Extension of the Brain

    3
    Nov 2018
    - Tactile installation by Margherita Soldati

    This exhibition  is a collection of tactile installations inside the Mediamatic building that alter standard architectural elements in order to stimulate the sense of touch and to reflect on the...
  • Exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop

    Tumulus

    Ruchama Noorda

    Tumulus is an enclosed garden installation that functions as a natural ruin, compost heap, cement & soil sculpture, seed bed, earth work, lo-tech fountain, drinking/ dyeing source, and dunghill.
  • Exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop

    Hacking Haeckel

    3
    Oct 2014

    Mediamatic presents work of Gerrit Rietveld Academie alumni Rudy Guedj, Martin Huger, Olya Troitskaya and Sophie Rogg.

  • The Current Market for Arabic Fonts

    Recent Developments and Consumer Needs

    The Arabic type market has changed dramatically in the last few years, and this has been mainly inspired by recent technology developments, globalization and the growth of the Arab graphic design...
  • Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop

    Opening: The Morphology of Fish

    2
    Nov 2019
    - by Mandy den Elzen

    In her new installation, Mandy den Elzen shows a collection of fish gills, displayed in our Aquaponics greenhouse. Her work unveils the aesthetic side to an organ, that is normally only seen for its...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop, Oosterdok

    Open Call Olfactory History of Oosterdok

    Next deadline beginning 2020

    In 2022, a large exhibition will take place in Amsterdam about the Olfactory History of Oosterdok, the eastern part of the old harbour of the city. Related to this exhibition, Mediamatic is issuing...
  • Exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop

    Diadromí

    17
    Oct 2019
    - by Heleen Blanken

    Diadromí, commissioned by Timberland for Mediamatic, represents different stages and interactions of the natural world, based on an ecosystem. A scheme that is characterized through its control by...
  • Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop

    Heterotopia, 1 year walking

    20
    Oct 2019
    - with Joseph Marzolla and Melanie Bonajo

    Artist Joseph Marzolla is currently working on his Heterotopia project for which he uses walking as an artistic practice, to finalise the writing of a book and the making of a film. He left his home...

  • Mushrooms are taking over the Dutch media

    “Scientists, designers and dreamers are working on a revolution”.

    For the last couple of months Motherboard, the technological arm of Vice have been on board to interview designers, scientists and mycelium experts about their work with fungi. The result is...
  • Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop

    Design your own Shroud

    10
    Nov 2019
    - with Nienke Hoogvliet

    Have you ever thought about what you would wear when you die? This fall, we will breathe new life into an old Dutch tradition with a series of workshops. The workshop invites participants to actively...
  • Exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop

    Kunstformen der Natur

    Ernst Haeckel's most beautiful bio-organisms in and around Mediamatic

    Ernst Haeckel was a 19th century evolutionary biologist, together with Adolf Giltsch he made fascinating lithographs of bio-organisms. Mediamatic collected all original lithographs and zooms in on...
  • Exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop

    'O' Tristana

    3
    Nov 2018
    - by Zeger Reyers

    Oysters are locked in their own enclosing and homemade houses. Once they settle, that's it, they never move again. A sad thing according to artist Zeger Reyers. For his exhibition 'O'

  • El HEMA in Den Haag

    Nieuwe tijdelijke winkel in het centrum van de stad

    El HEMA, een concept ontwikkeld door Mediamatic Amsterdam in 2007, werd een instant-hit. De El HEMA werd daarna geadopteerd door Kosmopolis. Na Rotterdam bezocht te hebben, is de El HEMA nu te vinden...

  • The Enchanted Canary*

    Contemporary Arabic Children's Books

    'If I do not mistake, you come from far. May I ask where you are going?' 'I will tell you,' answered Désiré, 'though most likely you will laugh at me. I dreamed that in the land...
  • Exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop

    The Morphology of Fish

    2
    Nov 2019
    - by Mandy den Elzen

    In her new installation, Mandy den Elzen shows a collection of fish gills, displayed in our Aquaponics greenhouse. Her work unveils the aesthetic side to an organ, that is normally only seen for its...

  • The Typographic Landscapes of the Arab World

    Research on Aesthetic Trends and Legibility

    Tarek Atrissi’s will present a research on aesthetic trends and design conventions in the Arab world, through the analysis of selected current practices in Arabic type design, corporate identities
  • Exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop

    Rocket Stove

    1
    Jan 2016
    - by Hein Kramer

    A highly efficient stove made almost entirely from reclaimed materials, Hein Kramer's rocket stove can easily reach 1000 degrees and is virtually non-polluting.
  • Exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop

    Hard Water

    18
    Sep 2015
    - Zeger Reyers

    1000 plates, soil and multiple grasses. Interested? You can see this remarkable work of living art growing down the exterior wall of Mediamatic over the next four years.

created Rutger de Jong modified Jans Possel

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