Best of 2014

This exhibition shows the trend to hide, alter or mask the face. A trend visible in art, fashion and the media since the turn of the century. The works on show ranges from avant-garde masks to pieces...

It's time for the first Ignite of the year, and the first Ignite on our new location. The 12 speakers of January's Ignite will give a 5-minute talk about digital fashion, colours of mycelium

The internet is broken. Who we call, where we are, what we send each other; all this information is logged and stored for large-scale data analysis. This workshop is about opting out of this social...

We welcome three interesting speakers on net-skepticism. Jeremy Bailey does performative research into the patents big companies like Apple and Google have on bodily gestures (swiping, looking up...

The Myco Design Lab started off with an extensive workshop providing the first instructions to the open call participants to start working with mycelium. The workshop took place in the Mediamatic...

As a part of ‘lightness’, Nienke Sybrandy is going to blow soap bubbles all week long. Everyday this open soap bubble lab focusses on a different kind of soap bubbles. Make your own soap bubbles. Big

People starve themselves for different reasons: political activism, religion, weight loss, eating disorders, long life, research or just curiosity. This week Arne Hendriks invites you to fast...

The Junior Company is a collective of young dance talents from the Dutch National Ballet. During 'Dance Laboratory' 4 different choreographers are invited to create one unique piece per day, inspired...

This month's Biotalk is all about using water and its ecology as resource. Is wastewater a filthy business? Bernelle Verster shows the opposite and explains how wastewater turn into valuable (bio...

A blissful week has come to an end. On Sunday July 6th the sugarlandscape by Pip&Pop will reach is final stage. To celebrate this moment, we invite you to the festive opening and finnisage. In which...

Enter the bizarre, twisted world of musician, record producer, artist and cultural provocateur, Jimmy Cauty. The Aftermath Dislocation Principle is a vast 1:87 scale model landscape, which is...

The Whiteness 2 exhibition will be a drone test field and playground every weekend of summer 2014. Come and fly, build fix and learn about multicopter drones in our 1000sqm exhibition space. Bring...

Phil Ross (US) is one of the leading bio-artists of this moment. Especially for Bio-me , Phil is coming over to share his extensive knowledge and experience on working, designing and making art with...

More than a century ago, biologist Ernst Haeckel scored a hit with his amazing illustrations of unseen organisms. We collected all 100 lithographs and blew them up to 5 times life size for our...

Innovative Citizen is a festival about new urban skills with numerous workshops, performances, installations, lectures, parties and concerts. The Mediamatic mushroom team is traveling to Dortmund to...

Cheese, kimchi, bread, beer, yoghurt, sausage, tempeh, trassi, sauerkraut... All these amazing products owe their unique taste to living and growing micro-organisms. Disgusting? We don't think so!

Is it possible to 3D print with life? Together with designer Eric Klarenbeek we will explore the possibilities for printing with living materials, organic substrates and mycelium. Start your...

"Drink wine after beer and you'll feel queer!" We all know this expression, but is it true? At Bierberaad we investigate where radical beer brewing and wine yeasting intersect. With scientist-gone

On Sunday November 23rd we opened up the Kunstformen Der Natur exhibition for one final day. Not only was this your last chance to visit the extraordinary exhibition but we also invited Constance...