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workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Open Aroma Lab - Summer Edition
13Aug 202015Aug 2020Come by every Thursday or Saturday for a blending session to create a bottle of your perfume. You will be guided in the making of your own scent and will leave the session with a basic idea of scent...
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workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Open Aroma Lab
30Jul 20201Aug 2020Come by every Thursday or Saturday for a blending session to create a bottle of your perfume. You will be guided in the making of your own scent and will leave the session with a basic idea of scent...
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workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Open Aroma Lab
23Jul 202025Jul 2020Come by every Thursday or Saturday for a blending session to create a bottle of your perfume. You will be guided in the making of your own scent and will leave the session with a basic idea of scent...
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presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Odor Ludens
27Aug 2020In Odor Ludens we explore the fragrance of toys through the perspectives of various artists: Curator Frank Bloem , healthcare designer Alissa Rees , scent historian Caro Verbeek , landscape...
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Divine Fumes & Mystical Plants
Devotion Smelled Sweet
Perfumes, incense and fragrant oils were commonly connected with the divine — gods, sacred spaces and spiritual entities. Aromatic plants like copal and palo santo (holy tree), have their primary...
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presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
The 4th Annual Experimental Scent Summit
9Jul 2020The fourth annual edition of the Experimental Scent Summit will take place starting from Thursday, July 9. The four-day online event is the annual presentation of the ongoing collaboration between...
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Josely Carvalho
Contemporary scent artist
Josely Carvalho is a multidisciplinary artist and poet. She was born in São Paulo, lives in New York since late 1970’s and maintains a studio in Rio de Janeiro since 2002. In the last four decades
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workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Open Aroma Lab
16Jul 2020Come by every Thursday between 16:00 and 20:00 for a blending session to create a bottle of your perfume. You will be guided in the making of your own scent and will leave the session with a basic...
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workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Open Aroma Lab
9Jul 2020Come by every Thursday between 16:00 and 20:00 for a blending session to create a bottle of your perfume. You will be guided in the making of your own scent and will leave the session with a basic...
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Pierre Valkering
Theologian, Author and Roman Catholic priest
Pierre Theodorus Valkering (1960) is a theologian, author and Roman Catholic priest. He studied in Amsterdam, Nijmegen and Rome. He graduated 1988. He became a pastoral worker for the R.C. Church...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Building Aquaponic Systems
with Saro van Cleynenbreugel
Aquaponics is a sustainable food production system that combines the cultivation of vegetables and fish. It is one of the best ways to produce food in the city, because it hardly takes up any space.
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Designing Incense
with Niklaus Mettler
Incense is an ancient form of perfumery and has in many cultures different shapes, purposes and functions. It is used as a time measurement, as an insect repellent or it serves as a portal to connect...
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Dutch Courage and the Amsterdam Spirit
Botanicals in Jenever
Inspired by all the quarantinis (that is a quarantine martini) recipes plastered across social media in the past few months, it bodes to dive into the history of Jenever as Amsterdam’s--and the...
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Bas Visser
Bas Visser is the beer sommelier at Oedipus Brewing in Amsterdam.
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presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Parfums Funèbres
25Jun 2020Death smells, and fragrances have always played an essential role in rituals surrounding the death. By means of historical, contemporary, and religious examples, we want to explore the relation...
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Mediamatic 2020
Here you will find an overview of our highlights, go here to see the full overview of our 2020 program or who we worked with this year . 2020 was an interesting year. The sudden, and first ever
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Frank Bloem
Artist, Curator and Aroma Lab Supervisor
Frank Bloem is an artist who uses scent as his primary medium. He studied Fine Arts at the Rietveld academy. In the summer of 2016, Frank changed his focus from visual art to olfactory-based works.
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Soap Alchemy
with Liza Witte
Soap used to be made by combining animal fat and wood ash. Our resident expert Liza Witte will guide you through the process of creating your own plant-based soap. You will learn how to formulate...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Open Aroma Lab
Work in our Lab, get access to 270 scent materials
Our Aroma Lab opens for scent-making experimentation with our extensive scent library. The session is mostly self-guided, but you will have the support of our perfumers in the making of your own...
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Private Workshop Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Distilling a Scent Bouquet
with Frank Bloem
During this workshop, you will be introduced to scent extraction and the distillation process. Distillation is the process of extracting essential oils from plant based materials. Using your own or...
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Private Workshop Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Designing Incense
with Niklaus Mettler
Incense is an ancient form of perfumery and has in many cultures different shapes, purposes and functions. It is used as a time measurement, as an insect repellent or it serves as a portal to connect...
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Private Workshop Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Composing Fragrance
with Frank Bloem
In this workshop, artist, and perfumer Frank Bloem will introduce you to the world of perfume making. You will learn the basics of scent composing and at the end of the workshop, you will have...
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Jo-Lene Ong 1 أيار / مايو 2020
Mariko Hori’s Under The Harbour
An artist conversation with OHO curator, Jo-Lene Ong
Mariko is one of the artists selected from our 2019 open call . She is currently preparing for her upcoming exhibition with us of her new work, ' Under The Harbour' that involves underwater smells
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workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Designing Incense
12Dec 2020Incense is an ancient form of perfumery and has in many cultures different shapes, purposes and functions. It is used as a time measurement, as an insect repellent or it serves as a portal to connect...