In 2019 we worked with these people

Asefeh Tayebani makes objects that have been assigned a specific purpose, but present them as something else. Introducing materials as metaphors or objects as symbols, are one of her main interests.

Amber Veel is an artist working on skinning, tanning and taxidermy. Before she went to the Gerrit Rietveld Academy, she worked as a district nurse and was always fascinated about skin, as an entrance...

Anastasia Loginova was born in Cuba to Russian parents and raised in Cyprus. In her performances she likes to use her body as vessel to communicate with different beings and connect different worlds.

Annalisa Butticci is assistant professor of cultural anthropology at the Utrecht University and research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of  Religious and Ethnic Diversity.

Anni Nöps is an audiovisual artist and genre fluid DJ. Her sonic palette comprises hard-hitting percussions, floating melodies and tactile noise, forming dense and abrasive soundscapes.  She's also...

Arthur is an all-round field biologist. He’s been working for many years as curator and nature guide at Ecomare, the center for Wadden and North Sea on the island of Texel. Ecomare is a nature museum

Better known as Patrick Hameon, is an Australian/French/American electronic music producer and musician. He is one half of the electronic duo, Capre who are set to release their second E.P. later...

Billie creates beautiful purses from a special kind of leather, made from cows stomach.

Birthe Leemeijer (Amsterdam, 1972) lives and works in Haarlem, The Netherlands. During her study at the Rietveld Academy and Sandberg Institute, Birthe won the Rietveld Academy Prize in 1996 and the...

From his scientific background the artist Boris Raux kept an intense drive for research. During the past fifteen year, he produces what he calls, The Olfactory Chronicles.

Bryce Steba (1989) is a chef who’s love of Amsterdam is only rivalled by his love of food. His culinary career began aged sixteen when he became a part time dishwasher in a restaurant in Lelystad...

Caro Verbeek (1980) is an art historian, author and researcher with a focus on the lower senses (smell, taste, touch). She did an MA in Olfactory art and an MA in Tactile art at the University of...

Claudia De Vos is an artist and scent psychologist. Her expertise is to be found in the psychodynamics and the symbolism of natural scents, its active compounds and the (traditional) use of essential...

Conny Groenewegen zooms in on the issues associated with industrial production and labor processes.

Chris Baas a genre-bending DJ with a versatile taste. His sets are infused with percussive club music, psychedelic folk, and spacious dubs. He is part of the crew surrounding Pantropical, which is a ...

Fermentatie specialist, fooddesigner, landschapskok en pop-up chef.

Dr. Daniel Soliman is curator of the Egyptian department of the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden. He will be talking about the modern use of Egyptian mummies, predominantly in medicine.

David Deijmann is a historian and philosopher that uses food as a lens to the world and in that way is interested in food culture, food ethics and sustainability. David is currently working as a chef...

David Rademacher (1984) studeerde af als architect aan de ETH-Zürich in 2011.Tijdens zijn studie werkte hij voor Jo Coenen Architecten en Werkplaats Vincent de Rijk. In de periode 2011 – 2015 werkte...

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...

Emily Burdfield-Steel is an Assistant Professor at the University of Amsterdam (UvA). She studies the chemical ecology of insects, specifically, how they use scents and odours to attract and locate...

Ernst Haeckel is a big inspiration to us. He was an evolutionary biologist ("the German Darwin") who discovered, described and named thousands of new species, mapped a genealogical tree relating all...

Eveline Stilma's interesse voor planten is in haar jeugd begonnen. Zij heeft plantenteelt gestudeerd in Wageningen en is gepromoveerd op het ontwerp van biodiverse teeltsystemen. Tijdens haar...

Femke van Gemert is a textile artist who creates unique, handmade and sustainable art objects from discarded textiles, taking the form of textile wall panels, tapestries, installations and site

Studying ArtScience in The Hague. Loves to dance, eat and smell. Currently working on a project about combining smells and language.  

Francis Busigny is de initiatiefnemer van de Belgische stichting Metamorfose, een stichting die zich inzet om een wettelijk kader te scheppen voor het laten composteren van lijken: humusatie.

Italian designer and food researcher, currently based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Gwen van der Zwan is a Dutch writer, journalist, producer, photographer, and performer. As a journalist, she works for VICE, The Next Web, KRO-NCRV, Human, Skateism, and other platforms. Pluim will...

Heleen Blanken is a visual artist and lives and works in Amsterdam. She is working across the media cinematography, photography and installation art. She holds a Bachelor in Fine Art from the Gerrit...

Researcher for Olfactory History of Oosterdok

Irina Birger was born in Moscow and lived in Serbia as a teenager. She received a BA from the Bezalel Academy of Fine Art and Design in Jerusalem and an MFA from the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam...

Isabel Burr Raty is a Belgian-Chilean independent filmmaker and performance artist. In her films, she brings the imaginative realisms of the eco-survivors and their subversive sense of chronology...

Justus Tomlow is a driver, mechanic and self propelled man. After studying (the Art-i-Facts, or) Industrial Design Engineering at the University of Technology in Delft, he started working at the...

Dirk Vis is a writer, visual artist, editor of literary magazine De Gids and lecturer of Interactive Media at the Royal Academy of Art

Artist and musician, he is known for his dreamlike and colorful videos, shot entirely in a fish bowl.

British designer and mapper of urban smellscapes Kate McLean is Programme Director, Graphic Design at CCCU and PhD candidate at RCA. She researches fine-grained, human-centred olfactory perceptions...

Leoniek Bontje studied Fine Arts at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam and graduated in 2008. She showed her work in different places and galeries. She is a herb specialist. Together with...

Liza White is a product designer and "3D storyteller ." She uses traditional techniques and different materials to create a personal story. Her designs are characterized by stratification and evoke...

Lizzie Marx is a History of Art PhD Candidate at the University of Cambridge and the 2018–2019 Andrew W. Mellon Fellow at the Rijksmuseum, where she researches the visual representations of smell in...

Lulu is a Dutch DJ, who enjoys surprising her audience with her pick of electronic and wave records. Her sets are filled with acoustic music, Arabic vocals and mood swings. Besides solo, she plays...

Mandy den Elzen is a visual artist bridging the realms of nature, science and art. Particularly interested in tactile properties of organic structures, Mandy den Elzen brings to light aesthetic side...

Marcello Aspria studied Sociology and Gender, Sexuality and Society at the University of Amsterdam. For the best part of a decade he researched gender in perfumery, and wrote on smell culture for...

Margherita has a strong interest in tactility and tactile perception at the intersection of art and healthcare, supported by material research with a focus on the creation of patterns and textures.  ...

I am a graduate Product Designer with a passion for research and a  user-centred approach.  

"Eating design is to design from the verb 'to eat'.” Designers who work with the subject of food are often called 'food designers'. According to Marije Vogelzang, food is already perfectly designed...

With a background in Product Design, Martijn Baas has specialized in working with Mycelium, cultivating plants, Bonsai and a broad range of plant-shaping techniques. He uses his research and skills...

Martin Melchers werd in Amsterdam Oud-West geboren. Hij studeerde fysiotherapie, en werkte van 1972 tot 1985 als fysiotherapeut bij de GG&GD bij de gemeente Amsterdam en van 1985 tot 2004 als...

"The foundation of my curiosity in music lays in the high school years when awe-inspiring hip-hop productions from legends as DJ Premier, Jay Dee, and RZA would get me hooked, each with their own...

Michal Mitro aka plankton vs flying animal is a visual artist, composer and performer operating and collaborating on the edge of visual and sonic art, utilising space and time as the main medium of...

Miguel Matos likes to see himself as a fragrance curator, investigating the possibiilities of perfume as contemporary art

Mikkel is a highly acclaimed and influential Copenhagen based Executive Chef, cookbook author, food writer, stylist and food authority who helped define the New Nordic Cuisine movement, in the early...

My name is Monai Nailah McCullough, a horticulturalist from New York City with a passion for linking large urban cities to nature and the future of sustainable food systems. For me, living in NYC, I...

"The deconstruction of images in light, darkness and the mind has been an endless vessel of fascination for me since 2014." Through my installations and performances, I try to create space to have...

Nienke Hoogvliet is a designer who  founded her studio in 2013 and follows her heart ever since by focussing on materials that can contribute to a more holistic world. Her projects raise awareness of...

Niklaus Mettler is a perfumer and art director who works with scent in a variety of contexts. He has worked with artists from different fields and established his own line of perfumes. His brand ...

Piet Ruijter is the last fisherman of Amsterdam and used to supply fish to Mediamatic Eten. He contributed to the collection of fish in the installation The Morphology of Fish by Mandy den Elzen.

Philipp Kolmann is an Austrian designer based in the Netherlands. His work entwines numerous disciplines, including anthropology, microbiology, perfumery and botany. It  is his goal to extend the...

As a speaker during Odorama, Raymond Timmer will give an interview about the leather fetish and the role of scents within the fetish.

Rick (H.N.J.) Schifferstein is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering of Delft University of Technology.

Robin Beers is an architecture masterstudent at the ArtEZ Art Academy and designer in training at urban strategy and architecture office INBO. She designed a concept in 2019 for a hospice and wake...

Le Compostier (Rowin Snijder) designs and builds wooden worm composting containers that brighten up urban environments and enable city residents to compost their organic waste together. These Worm...

  Ruchama Noorda is an artist who uses diverse media and materials in performances and installations. In 2002 Noorda graduated at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague and she completed her MFA at...

Sabrina Franken is  Chief Operational Officer of Yarden, one of the biggest Dutch funeral companies. Yarden started investigating alkaline hydrolysis in 2011 as an alternative for burial and...

Sabrina Kamstra studied art history and is curator and head of Art Affairs at the AMC, Amsterdam UMC www.amc.nl/kunst. Previously she was curator at De Appel Foundation in Amsterdam, after which she...

I work with Mediamatic since February 2011. At the moment I'm self employed at zone5 . I’m nifty with media and I love to be the helping hand, whenever I'm needed. I love to explore interactivity in...

Sander Nederveen is a brewmaster at Oedipus, a new Amsterdam brewery. Oedipus prefers to brew beer to fit each person's preferences, and for each moment of the day. Focus lies on tasteful, dry beers...

Scent enthusiast Sanne Groeneveld (1977), joined the Odorama curatorial team as co-curator, next to Frank Bloem and Caro Verbeek. He is a fundraiser and musician with a background in art and a nose...

Saskia Frederiks is specialist in fermentation. She discovered water kefir once during an outdoor movie event in Vijfhuizen. Since that evening she's fascinated by all kinds of fermentation processes.

Spyros Drosopoulos is a fragrance engineer and is the creator of niche perfume line Baruti . Starting with a PhD in neuropsychology with specifications in sleep and memory, he was intrigued by how...

Susanne Duijvestein (1986) is trained as an organizational expert and after eleven years of cooperative banking and other positions at Slow Food and the Amsterdam Economic Board made a switch to the...

FoAM interdisciplinary researcher and generalist. Some interests: theoretical physics, palaeolithic & medieval history, augmented foraging, augmented ecology, fruit growing, guerilla grafting

Tomislav Feller (CRO) is a choreographer and performer based in Amsterdam. He graduated from the School for New Dance Development (SNDO) in 2010, and since then has been making collaborative and solo...

Italian chef Tommaso Buresti grew up in the kitchen of his father's restaurant. He has been cooking for as long as he can remember and loves to experiment with food.

Tony   is an instigator of sonic experiments. linguistic collisions, territorial noise, and polyrhythmic disembodiment are current points of interest stemming from a background in percussion and...

Vibeke Mascini is a writer and visual artist researching cases in which cultural systems falter and regularities shake. Looking into elements within the history of science, landscape and language

Wouter is an expert mycologist and owner of the Mycophilia. He also currently leads the Growing Mushrooms workshops at Mediamatic.

Zeger Reyers believes that humans have become secondary to their own manipulated environments and as such, there is now not a single cell left traversing its ‘natural' course. As such, Reyers has...

Het concept van de Alan Turingschool is geworteld in de wetenschap, waarbij de leerkracht een centrale rol speelt bij het begeleiden van het leren van leerlingen in hun eigen tempo. De leerkracht...

Het AMFI Amsterdam Fashion Institute leidt jonge mensen op die de ambitie hebben om hun creatieve, technische, communicatieve en commerciële vaardigheden te ontwikkelen en op die grondslag met succes...

APRA is an interdisciplinary, academic nonprofit association for researchers and university students based in Amsterdam

DAY is a unit of time. It is defined as 86 400 seconds. DAY has several different spans of time based on the rotation of the Earth around its axis. Within these spans DAY often inhabits and activates...

Dance Divine started with Diana Dobrescu’s love for musical digging, soon giving life to a hybrid musical project. The project, born in 2017, grows in different fields, keeping an eye on the...

Design Academy Eindhoven is an interdisciplinary educational institute for art, architecture and design in Eindhoven, Netherlands. The work of its faculty and alumni have brought it international...

Mediamatic ligt aan het water Oosterdok, al eeuwenlang de toegangspoort naar stad én wijde  wereld. Een plek van en voor ontdekkers.

The  Food Non Food department at Design academy Eindhoven a department led by Marije Vogelzang , focussing on food as a complete subject, and the interconnections to it's surroundings. Food is not...

fashion label of AMFI

With exhibitions, lectures, research, performances and publications, Marres, House for Contemporary Culture explores the visual arts in the widest possible sense. Visitors are invited to wander...

Mocca Amsterdam verbindt kinderen en cultuur door het organiseren van speciale programma's en onderwijsmodules voor kunstdocenten en door samenwerkingsprojecten met musea en culturele instellingen...

Mycophilia is a research and development company based in Amsterdam-Noord with a passion for mushroom cultivation and supplier of the mushrooms we eat at Mediamatic ETEN.

N8 is het laboratorium voor museale jongerenmarketing, gericht op zoveel mogelijk, het liefst alle jongerendoelgroepen van Amsterdam. Daar worden alle activiteiten onder geschaard met als brandpunt...

Nachtlab Agency is the Amsterdam / Ibiza based agency dedicated to creating exhilarating live experiences around the globe. Designers of stages, festival grounds, and shows for brands. With an...

National Science and Technology Center Amsterdam

PLANTMOM is run by Monai Nailah McCullough, an indoor plant expert from New York City passionate about sustainable and chemical free care alternatives.

Plastic Whale strijdt voor plasticvrije wateren. Zij stellen zich ten doel om bij te dragen aan oplossingen voor de plastic soep door maatschappelijk bewustzijn te creëren voor het probleem. Ze...

We are Oedipus, four friends who share pleasure and knowledge through beer. We spend more time together than with our moms. We started brewing because we wanted to create something exciting

Orion biedt kinderen en jongeren met speciale onderwijsbehoeften in Amsterdam goed (voortgezet) speciaal onderwijs met passende zorg of ambulante begeleiding waardoor zij de best mogelijke kans van...

De stichting werd opgericht door kunstenaar en sociaal ondernemer Marcel Pinas. Marcel is een van de meest vooraanstaande hedendaagse kunstenaars. 

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Founded in 1973, Timberland is a global outdoor lifestyle brand based in Stratham, New Hampshire, with international headquarters in Switzerland and Hong Kong. Best known for its original yellow boot...

"Als je wilt dat mensen afscheid van je nemen zoals je was. Dat mensen jouw leven herinneren, dat ze ondergedompeld worden in jouw wereld en grinniken over jouw eigenzinnigheid. Of van jouw dierbare.

Uitgevist is een culinair concept van drie mannen voor wie vegetarisch koken een tweede leven is. Robert Prins, Peter Hundepool en Sven Bergström beseffen dat het dierlijk leven in de zee uitgeput...

Wellantcollege is de grootste vmbo- en mbo-opleider van Europa in voeding, klimaat en welzijn van mens en dier.

WeMakeThe.City     is the largest   city festival in Europe,     taking place from 20 to 24 June.   we celebrate urban living   whilst addressing important urban issues in the metropolitan region    ...

Melanie Bonajo exams the paradoxes inherent in our future-based ideas of comfort. Through her photographs, performances, videos and installations Bonajo examines subjects related to progress that...

We believe that art inspires people. Young people go to galleries and museums less than before, although their interest in art has not become less. Research has shown that they do see the value of...

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.

Arthur Guilleminot is an ecodeviant artist and positive maverick that practices fertile and generative disobedience. Intersecting disciplines such as design, performance, fashion, and visual art, he...