Mediamatic’s practice has always been strongly inspired by its venue and environment. We understand our locations as a test-site for knowledge useful on a global scale. While our current venue, Biotoop Dijkspark on the Oosterdok in Amsterdam, is centrally accessible, it also forms a sequestered calm environment. Forming both a refuge and a hub, our program responds to urgent social and ecological topics. Our program for 2025-2026 aims to expand on this through the concept of the Open City Monastery.
The model of the monastery follows a set of tools and practices such as rituals, introspection and meditation, food and celebrations alongside hard work. This structure is not dissimilar in the way that Mediamatic has worked over the last years. We recognise ourselves in the model of a monastery: as a safe haven for knowledge development and transfer, interests in practices that require an investment of time and close attention, shared responsibilities all based on a strong DIY mentality. We have invested and innovated on practices in our labs that found their origin in the monastery such as brewing, fermentation and community-gardening. This way, we see a connection with the form of the monastery in the past where people withdrew to dedicate their lives to topics like research, brewing, nursing/healthcare and gardening. The monastery forms a microcosm of an interdependent community, connecting with the outside world in a way that inspires belonging and change.
General Information
Business Address
Stichting Mediamatic
Dijksgracht 6
1019 BS Amsterdam
Postal Address
Stichting Mediamatic
Postbus 17490
1001 JL Amsterdam
RSIN / Tax number: 0072.41.045
SBI code: 5814 - Organisator van culturele activiteiten en uitgeverij van tijdschriften
KvK-nummer: 41010819
BTW-nummer: NL007241045B01
IBAN NL49INGB0005049152
IBAN NL18 TRIO 0254326633
Supervisory Board:
Click here for an overview of the members of the supervisory board.
General Director:
Marcel Sturing (sinds 2024)
Policy:
You can find the policy for visitors and employees, including house rules and codes of conduct here.
Objective
The Mediamatic Foundation is a Dutch cultural institution based in Amsterdam. The objective is to promote new art forms in conjunction with developments in science and society. The means for this are research, (support for) development, presentation and reflection. Important topics at the moment (2024) are biology, sustainability, food, the senses, the human body, neurodiversity, water and multispecies.
2009-2012
2013-2016
2017-2020
2021-2024
Standards for good governance
Mediamatic is a foundation and uses the supervisory board model as its management model. This means that the responsibility for the success of the foundation is vested in the - in the case of Mediamatic - two-person board (the director-managers) and that the supervisory board supervises this, provides advice (requested and unsolicited) and acts as the employer of the board. Mediamatic follows the principles of the Governance Code Culture 2021 and has paid extra attention to this in 2024.
Report of activities performed
See website.
ANBI
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Info invoices
KvK-nummer: 41010819
BTW-nummer: NL007241045B01
IBAN NL49INGB0005049152
IBAN NL18 TRIO 0254326633
