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  • Afbeelding: Justin Knelange

    Lucie Havel

  • Japanese knotweed
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  • Aromathèque

    Sensory art, Research and Design

    Aromathèque  is here to tickle your senses, flip your nose upside down, and make you rethink everything you smell, taste, touch, and inhale. From mayonnaise madness to alluring pheromones, every...
  • Japanse Duizendknoop Festival '23

    Exposities

  • Understanding Japanese knotweed

    In conversation with Virgile Durando

    Virgile Durando is a product/material designer and researcher from France. He is our current artist in residency, presently working on collecting and developing knowledge regarding the re
  • Tours: Mediamatic Biotoop

    Open Daily Tours

    16
    mrt 2026
    18
    dec 2026

    Welkom bij Mediamatic! We zijn geen traditioneel kunstcentrum waar je alleen naar kunst aan de muur kijkt. We zijn een biotoop, een levende omgeving waar kunst, design en wetenschap samenkomen. Alles...

  • 373 words to insult a plant

    In conversation with Alaa Abu Asad

    Killing without thought. Just one of the phrases that is used to discuss the Japanese Knotweed. A plant that does not even deserve to be thought about. It only deserves to be killed. Artist...
  • Japanse Duizendknoop Festival '23

    Programma - lief je gast

    Alle  exposities ,  workshops en events die gedurende het festival plaatsvinden.
  • 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...
  • Artistic Research Presentation Series

    Unfolding Universes

    Performance Game

    Throughout 2026, visual artist and performance maker Rosa Vrij invites you into her artistic process through six presentations at Mediamatic. Every two months, she opens a window into her current...
  • Festival: Mediamatic Biotoop

    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, De Ceuvel and the Ukrainian Institute in The Netherlands

    OPEN CALL: Zoöpolis

    Zoöp Connections – Networks for the Living

    Mediamatic, De Ceuvel and the Ukrainian Institute are now accepting applications for the period between September 24th - October 23rd, 2026. Residency for makers transitioning beyond the human
  • Japanse Duizendknoop Festival

    Mensen

  • Proposal by: Sophia Schullan

    Form Follows Fun

    Project Proposal: Form Follows Fun – Finding Fun In Everyday Life

    ‘Form Follows Fun’ would be a talk hosted in the Mediamatic facilities. Its goal is not only to spread fun and entertainment but more importantly to give others the tools to create fun and...
  • Beleidsplan 2025-2028:

    Open City Monastery

    Transdisciplinair ontwerponderzoek

    Mediamatic is een organisatie die zich richt op het ontwikkelen en presenteren van cross-disciplinaire kunst-, design- en wetenschapspraktijken. Duurzaamheid en maatschappelijke urgentie zijn onze...
  • a / Artist Blog Nora Nord

    Beyond Neurotypical with Nora Nord:

    A Summer Residency at Mediamatic

    My practice is ever-changing and flowing between photography, filmmaking, podcasting and textiles, but at the core what I make is conversation. Mediamatic invited me on a a / Artist residency at the...
  • Japanse Duizendknoop Festival '24

    Japanese Knotweed Program

    Aankomende evenementen

    Alle exposities , workshops en events die gedurende het seizoen plaatsvinden. Koop hier je tickets ! *We bieden kortingstickets aan voor kunstenaars, studenten en stadspashouders.
  • Mediamatic, Livia Rita & Avantgardeners Open Call 2026:

    OPEN CALL: Dystopia Wetlands CLOSED

    Mediamatic, Livia Rita and Avantgardeners Collective are now accepting applications for performers to take part in an upcoming exhibition, opening on 1 May 2026.  We invite you to be part of this...

  • Words, randomness and rules

    A/artist roundtable with Arjan van Amsterdam

    Arjan van Amsterdam is an artist and graphic designer based in Amsterdam. During this round table discussion, he introduced us to his work, from his application to the Gerrit Rietveld Academy up...
  • Guidelines Application Call 2026:

    CLOSED: Open Call: Haptic Lab

    Collective Art in Public Spaces

    Mediamatic is now accepting applications for the upcoming year, starting July 1st - September 30th, 2026. We invite you to be part of our Living Labs Residencies for 2026! Work in the Haptic Lab and...
  • mediamatic eten Justin Knelange

    From Grandma's Kitchen to new Culinary Horizons

    In conversation with our new head chef Panos Fakos

    As a small boy, Panos was introduced to the world of spices and cooking by his loving grandmother. Food has always played a big role in his upbringing where his mother and her sister paved the path...

  • Robin Waart is an artist who makes books who…

    A/artist roundtable with Robin Waart

    Robin Waart is an Amsterdam–based artist. During our discussion round he let us browse through six of his printed projects. They are collections of movie stills and book pages that deal with themes...
  • Proposal by: Ginevra Petrozzi

    Requiem for my mother's Data

    Project Proposal: Ritual for performing grief in the digital age

    How do we experience the loss of our Data? How can we say goodbye to loved ones' stream of media, and devices that they leave behind? How we one disentangle ourselves from our data when we die? To...
  • Japanse Duizendknoop Festival '23

    Oogst de plant voorzichtig!

    Zo voorkom je onbedoelde verspreiding

    Ontdek hoe je de Japanse duizendknoop kunt gebruiken, of bestrijden. Leer hier hoe je deze eetbare en medicinale plant, die boordevol kwaliteiten en voordelen zit kunt oogsten zonder dat ie wortel...
  • 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...
  • Proposal by: Naomi Jansen

    Karkínos

    Project Proposal: Visual Artistic Research on Cancer

    Karkínos is a visual artistic research in which cancer encounters different facets of the earth. In Karkínos, cancer is interconnected with, for example, the astrological world, the animal kingdom...

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