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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Documentation Museumnacht
Documentation of Museumnacht 4 november 2023
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15. Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Pet vd Luijtgaarden
11 Selected Collections
4Nov 2023- Installation by Pet van de Luijtgaarden5May 2024Pet collects collections, to the point of compulsion. All these collections are carefully sorted and grouped. Pet displays eleven of these collections in our small waterfront greenhouses, so each...
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Performance: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Minjoo Choi
My Shadow is part of my body
4Nov 2023- Performance by Minjoo Choi11Nov 2023Minjoo throws clay, she hurls clay against the walls, she flings clay against the windows, and the clay falls, the clay dries, the clay is picked up again and kneaded until it can be thrown once more.
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Exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Jemima de Jonge
A Body of Water, Table-Scene
4Nov 2023- Video Installation by Jemima de Jonge31Mar 2024When does a sense of safety and security turn into claustrophobia and fear? When does it float back? When does it become humorous or grim?
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Annelies Wina Doom, Sandra Ruiz Castroviejo, Willem Velthoven 5 Nov 2022
Pigeon Photo Booth
During Museum Night the 'pigeonafying' process was documented in the pigeon photo booth. After becoming a full-fledged pigeon people came for a portrait, where they were photographed in their...
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Performance: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Get to know your inner pigeon
5Nov 2022- What’s your inner pigeon?5Nov 2022We are all unique, yet also have a lot of common ground which creates a lot of potential to learn from each other. Not just among us humans, but there is also a lot for us to learn from the animal...
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Exhibition: Rijksmuseum Twenthe Atte Jongstra
Paths to paradise
13Sep 201322Mar 2015Man has always dreamed of Paradise, whether that is Walhalla, Heaven, Elysium or whatever you may decide to call it. Paradise is the ideal, eternal world. But how does it actually look like? And how...
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The Idea Becomes the Machine that Makes the Book
A/artist roundtable with Annelies Wina Doom
During our latest A/Artist discussion round, artist Annelies Wina Doom took us on a journey through her art work "Please do not touch, even clean hands can cause damage", from its conception to its...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Willem Velthoven
History of Ginger / Anymeta / C-wolk
- Template event about website knowledge14Jan 2022This is an example event. It is not in the Template CG so it will display without a banner/submenu and will find matching context outside existing CG's. The event is one of the examples in the...
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The artistic/autistic: The work of Bruce Nauman
Bruce Nauman once famously said: “If I was an artist, and I was in the studio, then whatever I was doing in the studio must be art.” Living a retreated life on his ranch in New Mexico, Nauman’s work...
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Margherita Soldati, Krisztina Czika
Coffin Selfie
2Nov 2019- Museum Night Amsterdam 20193Nov 2019What would it be like to lie in your own coffin? Normally, once it happens it will be too late to know. Come and try it out in our coffin photo booth and have a picture taken.
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Susanne Duijvestein
Design your own shroud
2Nov 2019- Museum Night Amsterdam 20193Nov 2019It used to be Dutch tradition to make your own shroud, wear it on your wedding night, and put it away until you died. This workshop will enable you to work on designing your shroud.
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Margherita Soldati, Krisztina Czika
Death Beauty Salon
2Nov 2019- Museum Night Amsterdam 20193Nov 2019Lie back and let artists Krisztina and Margherita make your death mask. Our Hall of Faces will eventually be filled with death masks.
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Gwen van der Zwan
Finally Free
2Nov 2019- Museum Night Amsterdam 20193Nov 2019Having already inflated a number of intestines with helium, Gwen van der Zwan manufactured an 8by2-meter zeppelin from slaughterhouse waste. Finally Free is about the posthumous freedom of the 350...
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Death one-on-one
2Nov 2019- Museum Night Amsterdam 20193Nov 2019Irina Birger will spend an entire evening having one-on-one conversations of approximately 15 minutes centered on death, in an especially created installation. You're welcome to share your stories
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Aug 2021 - Jan 2022
Marguerite d'Ervau
Exhibition and Workshops Assistant
After completing my MA in European studies, I joined Mediamatic as an exhibition and workshops assistant with the desire to curate impactful exhibitions, workshops and events. During my time at...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Lisa Witte
Maintenance of Radiolaria
The series of pendant lamps by Bernotat&Co
Have you always wanted to know how cultural institutions look after their art objects? In this blog we take a look at the maintenance of the Radiolaria pendant lamps from design studio Bernotat&Co.
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark, Dijkspark Lisa Witte
Doubts about Casting Doubt
To what extent can you restore a work before you affect its authenticity?
Casting Doubt is an art project created by Masha Ru and Jasmin Moeller. The open-air project consists of a series of flowerbeds, each with a self-reflective question on the side, formed by pins. By...
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Traces of Death
in the work of Teresa Margolles
Re-appropriating, re-membering, and re-presenting the body and its remains is something that runs throughout all the work of Mexican artist Teresa Margolles. Her oeuvre is one of the best examples to...
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Organization:
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Dood
2Nov 2019- Museum Night Amsterdam 20193Nov 2019Will your death sound like the music of Einaudi, or more like Hazes? On November 2nd at Mediamatic come and interactively explore your identity and expression in relation to death. From abstract...
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
The Smell That Sells
- Odorama 35 - with Jorg Hempenius, Rick Schifferstein, and Niklaus Mettler22Nov 2019In the field of marketing, scents are a goldmine. With their ability to influence moods and choices, they can be very effective marketing tools. There is an increasingly professional level of...
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Dora Goldsmith
Dora Goldsmith is a PhD student of Egyptology at the Freie Universität Berlin. The topic of her PhD project is the sense of smell in ancient Egypt, the exact title of her research being The...
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Organization: Marie-Claire Springham
Burton Nitta
The London-based Anglo Japanese duo comprising o Michael Burton and Michiko Nitta describe themselves as “an interdisciplinary art and design studio collaborating with science and technology to...