In 2021 we worked with these people

Arne Hendriks is an artist and researcher on human ecology. He believes we should be more generous towards ourselves in allowing radical new ideas and practices to re-define our relationship with the...

Born in Kobe, Japan, Mariko Hori studied architecture and is currently working as an artist between Amsterdam, Netherlands and Belgrade, Serbia . She has recently participated in Folkestone...

Masuma is a multi-disciplinary artist. Her art practice revolves around weaving cultural political and historical perspectives along with personal experiences and individual stories. Currently for...

Vivien Sansour is the founder of the Palestine Heirloom Seed Library. Trained in the field of Anthropology, Vivien worked with farmers worldwide on issues relating to agriculture and independence...

De Hekserij levert grondstoffen, materialen, gereedschappen en kennis, in kleine hoeveelheden en aan een breed publiek.

Bio-Kultura verkoopt drie kwalitatief hoogwaardige producten die geschikt zijn voor elke plant en elk type tuin. Hun biologische potgrond, tuinaarde en mestcompost zijn biologisch gecertificeerd. Ze...

The Palestine Heirloom Seed Library was founded in 2014 and works to find and preserve ancient seed varieties and traditional farming practices. It works to preserve the area’s rare and precious seed...

Verbruggen Paddestoelen B.V. is een echt familiebedrijf. De door Piet Verbruggen opgezette paddenstoelenkwekerij wordt inmiddels al weer vele jaren door zijn zoon John voortgezet.

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...

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...

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.

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 ...

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...

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

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...

Lucie Chateau is working towards her PhD at Tilburg University, with research focusing on how meme subcultures and their aesthetics have real-life political implications. She has completed two...

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.  ...

  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...

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

Simone Brus is naast voltijd bedrijfsleider bij Noppes, ook één keer per week een middag te vinden op de Biotoop. De plantenkennis die ze bij haar vader in de Volkstuin heeft opgedaan, breidde ze...

In 2019 studeerde ik af aan de Design Academy, department food non food. Tijdens mijn studie richtte ik mij vooral op onderzoek en de vertaling hiervan naar tekst en beeld. Het boek “De Zesvleugelige...

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...

With an academic background in New Media and Digital Culture, my research at Mediamatic as an intern took me down the path of looking at a changed world in the face of climate change. The way society...

Annemarie's current knotweed projects

Marina is  the founder of the cosmetic consultancy TUPI  Beleza , where she develops new products that respect nature and consumer -   from the first idea to the final product. She  likes to ...

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...

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

The Museum of Contemporary Art Busan is a Busan-based public art museum that focuses on contemporary art. As the name suggests, it aims to introduce a new trend in the arts, focusing on contemporary...

Artist and Designer Wael el Allouche (TN/NL) graduated from the design department of the Gerrit Rietveld Academy. He is interested in the way abstractions, such as Data and Algorithms, shape reality...

Martin Butler is an interdisciplinary artist, and stage director. He was trained in Drama at Manchester University UK, and then later choreography and performance at the SNDO, in Amsterdam, in the...

Magdalena   Akantisz, born in 1987, is an Austrian Designer focusing on graphics, experimental installations as well as olfactory & gustatory approaches to Design. 

My strong interest in the world of food originates from my fascination with its stimulation of the senses, to see, feel, touch, listen, smell, and of course taste. This fascination has provoked me to...

Farah Qureshi is a multi award winning, designer maker specialising in creating collections of fine jewellery in ethical materials; including Fairtrade Gold. Pieces made in this material are...

In order to concentrate on developing public space Urban Agriculture and prompted by a commission from Stroom Den Haag to develop an urban agriculture project for the Hague borough Schilderswijk

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.

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...

Jan van Schaik is speeltuin ontwerper, uitvaartmanden vlechter, fluiten snijder en landschap kunstenaar. Onder anderen bekend van de installaties in het Frankendael Park in Amsterdam en...

Hi! I am 20 years old and born in the Netherlands. I’m a Product design student at ArtEZ in Arnhem.

Rens is een ontwerper die zich focust op het proces van kleding maken en de ontwikkeling van ontwerpmethodes met een al bestaand item.

Dr. Brian Hare is a physicist who studies lightning at the University of Groningen.

The natural world has always deeply fascinated me – we are part of it and need to respect it. I express this through teaching, writing and being in green spaces. My professional background is in...

Philosopher, activist (with Extinction Rebellion), hairdresser, fashion artist, rollerskater and more.

A garden in the city centre created by volunteers in the Dijksgracht. It's situated between Mediamatic, Hannekes Boom and the Klimmuur. The Dijksgracht is totally renovated and this temporary...

Marjolijn Boterenbrood is a multidisciplinary artist whose works primarily revolve around the concepts of space and places through sensory impressions. Boterenbrood works through these subjects to...

Hildegard von Bingen (1098 – 17 September 1179), also known as Saint Hildegard and the Sibyl of the Rhine, was a German Benedictine abbess, writer, composer, philosopher, Christian mystic, visionary

Niels Albers is a Dutch artist and designer living and working in Amsterdam. In 2010 he received a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the Audio-Visual department of the Gerrit Rietveld Academy. After obtaining...

Ruim 30 jaar ben ik woonachtig in Lelystad en heb mijn eerdere banen altijd in de provincie Flevoland uitgevoerd. Ik draag graag mijn steentje bij aan de ontwikkeling van onze provincie. Ik ben nu...

Ine Poppe is a writer, teacher, journalist and artist. Ine is involved in several cross-media projects and part of the organisation of Beftival. 

My name is Olga. I design worlds - on paper, in performances and/or projects - which explore and question our feelings and imagination. With my background in the sociology of childhood and children’s...

Jin Lee (1990, KR) is an object designer currently living and working in the Netherlands who has recently graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. Jin Lee’s work sits between serious...

Annika Hagen or 'Kaatje' (b. 1997) is an artist who is based everywhere and nowhere. She wants her art to caress you, shock you, make you shiver or do all that at the same time. The College of Arts...

A festival featuring over 30 artists and scientists. Come discuss, feel and celebrate fe-male sexuality, gender and preference. Click   here  for the program.

This is an ongoing and growing overview starting with the DDW'21 project week.

Looking for new ways to express herself she came across good friend producer Aka Simon Little (STRFCKR/ Nevermindthestars). They hit it off straight away. Recording for a year straight, perfecting...

A music-entertainment Solo artist in style,     Shirley Hart gives the Amsterdam fashion and dance scene some fresh and filthy allure with her dj performance. In 2019 she’d played at MOJO DTRH Swamp...

Onze tatoeëerders zetten zich in om de klanten met een uitzonderlijke klantenservice en een onvergetelijke ervaring tijdens uw bezoek aan Gentle Ink Tattoo Shop te geven. Onze tattooshop onderscheidt...

We start at the beginning, and get inspired by nature. This is where garment making starts, and we work with what that will bring us. To be continued…

"Thinking is learning all over again to see, to be attentive, to focus consciousness; it is turning every idea and every image, in the manner of Proust, into a privileged moment."

GreenWar is a sustainable military development company. Making environmentally-friendly, carbon-neutral warfare possible. Selçuk will present a few of GreenWar's products.

Angelique is an experienced director with a demonstrated history of international curating. Skilled in art, design, digital culture, bio art & design and journalism. Strong professional with a Drs.

Studio Nina van Tuikwerd is an independent graphic design studio based in Amsterdam. Nina has a playful approach to design to show visual research and engagement to speculative thinking.

Iduna is currently studying at the design academy. One of her works made in the academy : a carton end paper wild boar were displayed in the "Inhuman Carnaval" exhibition at Dutch design week. 

Denise is currently studying at the design academy. One of her works made in the academy : a carton end textile elephant were displayed in the "Inhuman Carnaval" exhibition at Dutch design week.

Desirée Hammen graduated from Artez Institute of the Arts in Arnhem, 2003. She works as a fashion designer and artist in her hometown Eindhoven.

Caz Egelie creates installations, performances, two-dimensional works and videos. In their multi-disciplinary body of work the visual vocabulary of the works is combined with Caz' conceptual approach

Simon Marsiglia is an Amsterdam-based Swedish maker of contemporary adornments in all shapes and forms. He holds a BA from Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. It is impossible, no, irrelevant, to...

Rosan Selles is a designer based in Amsterdam. Having graduated in 2019 from Amsterdam Fashion Institute, she founded Studio Selles the following year. The studio values nature, craftsmanship

Susan Kooi graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam in 2012. Since then she has been active as a multidisciplinary visual artist based in Amsterdam. Alongside her individual artistic...

Anna Frijstein is a multidisciplinary artist working in the digital, social and visual realms. Her practice includes performance, social experiments, video, drawing, flirts with the digital, and...

Jorn Konijn   (18th July 1977, Hoorn, The Netherlands)   is an architect & design curator and writer based in Amsterdam. He curated several exhibitions, such as the official Dutch pavilion for the...

Benedikt Fischer studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, as well as spending a term as a visiting student at Konstfack in Stockholm, Sweden. His work has been exhibited extensively...

Paolo Cirio is an artist that works with legal, economic, and cultural systems of the information society. He shows his research and intervention-based works through artifacts, photos, installations

Bodil Ouédraogo's work is informed by the connections she finds after thoroughly examining different cultural aspects that at first glance seem to be far apart. How can a connection between diverse...

JimmyPaul looks to past, present and future pop-culture references to create one-of-a-kind low brow fashion pieces, resulting in high-art fashion statements with a high fructose fashion DNA.

Miles Worner (@the_way_of_the_duck)  is a designer and artist trained in the Leisure Department at the Design Academy Eindhoven, who graduated Cum Laude in 2021. Their current practice and philosophy...

Venla Elonsalo is  a fashion student at Aalto University Of Art, Design & Architecture in Helsinki. During her bachelor studies she expanded her knowledge of knitwear, woven fabrics, fabric printing...

Peter Roessingh is an evolutionary Biologist and Sensory Physiologist working at the University of Amsterdam. His main interests are chemical communication and the evolution of sensory receptors, in...

Jelle Zandveld is currently assistant professor at the University of Utrecht at the department of Biology. He is and has been involved in teaching different (interdisciplinary) courses on evolution...

Iris Toonen is a teacher and researcher at the Design Academy of Eindhoven. Her recent work has worked with  making/becoming ‘trash’ material, by treasure hunting for unexpected fabrics in the harbor...

During our gentle disco events we are dancing to music from DJ Huppeldepup. His all-time favorites run the gamut from innovative and alternative dance music and acid house to ambient music, post-punk

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

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Anne is an artist and artistic researcher.  In 2023 she created the show KIP, that plays at Mediamatic.

In 2022 Anouk Beckers has worked at Mediamatic to develop the Costume Lab and a program for the Inhuman Carnival research project. Anouk Beckers works as an independent fashion designer and...

Nadie Borggreve’s embroidery echoes and is deeply rooted in nature. Her creations have a pictorial aspect that transport the viewer into a multitude of settings. We walk through forests dressed in...

Kiki van Caspel graduated from the Design Academy Eindhoven in January 2018. Her vision is to create things in a personal way, and in a manner that will lift people's mood.  She aims to work...

Studio Nepco is an internationally operating, Amsterdam-based performance art collective specialised in fantastic costumes. They describe themselves as a cloud in which music and visual distortion...

Lennart Vader is a Dutch performance artist and designer working in theatre and performative projects with Studio Nepco

Jesse Asselman is a visual artist, painter and performer. With an inter-disciplinary background in theatre, art and medicine, they have a long held fascination for creative practices and processes.

Thomas Thwaites explores the psychological and social impacts of technology. His research and making process is often interwoven as a story,   told through live performance-lectures, published books

Katya Novitskova is an Estonian artist based in Amsterdam.  Her work focuses on issues of technology, evolutionary processes, digital imagery and corporate aesthetics. Novitskova is interested in...

Lea Jenny recently graduated from the Design Academy of Eindhoven. They have developed a multi-disciplinary approach with a sensibility for cultural phenomena involving different styles and...

Selma Carlsson was born in Stockholm, Sweden 1996. Currently she's studying Fashion Design at Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, graduating in 2022. As a designer, Selma works with ideas of...

Iris Klaver is a designer and a recent graduate from AMFI. During her studies she specialised in print & textile design. In using a combination of traditional crafts and digital innovations...

During my time at Mediamatic I worked mainly on the production of Inhuman Carnaval at Dutch Design Week, BEFtival and the exhibition Border Ecologies and the Gaza Strip .

After graduating from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie from the Photography Department and moving on from the Management Team at Cultureel Centrum 't Fijnhout, I ended up at Mediamatic as the Event and...

At the moment I am working on the Mediamatic Webshop. I've been working for Mediamatic since 2007. I was part of the development of the El Hema exhibition in 2007. Last year I worked on several small...

Hello everyone, my name is Abdul Hadi and I am 22 years old. I've been in the Netherlands for the past 3 years but I am from Pakistan originally and I am almost done with my bachelors at the...

My experience at Mediamatic has been a rollercoaster of sorts, but one that I would gladly get on all over again.

My name is Jeanne and I am currently half of the duo of restaurant manager and am producing Neofuturist Dinner at Mediamatic.  Initially trained as a designer at La Cambre in Brussels, I developed a...

During my one year working at Mediamatic, I was involved in a number of cultural projects like Beftival (Museumnacht 2021), Penny for your Thoughts , Radical Embroidery and Knit for Survival! . My...

My name is Caroline and from Copenhagen, Denmark.  I am currently completing my last year of photography communication bachelor degree, in Denmark and was a photography assistant at Mediamatic. So...

Hello there! My name is Bogdana and I'm a 22-year-old Finnish-Romanian. Currently, I'm entering my third and final year of my Communication Science Bachelor and I'll be working as a Communication...

 I have worked as an Aquaponics Assistant in Mediamatic's Greenhouse from April - September 2021 and moved from the greenhouse upstairs into the office to work as the workshop manager and producer...

Pleun van Dijk is a speculative artist/designer in the middle of the moving and changing world. By observing and analysing moments of transition within society she tries to generate new thoughts and...

'Nelke Mast (alias NELLY DANSEN) is a 23-year-old multidisciplinary artist currently studying for a Master of Artscience at KABK. Nelke’s practice is primarily characterised by researching erotic...

Eva Schippers [1980] graduated with her Master's in 2010 from the Dutch Art Institute [DAI], and her multidisciplinary practice revolves around the notion of EMERGENCY. Her work is recently shown at...

Sam Nemeth (Rotterdam, 1962) is a filmmaker, journalist, designer, and scientist who conducts research in the field of tangible interfaces: a tangible alternative to the mouse, keyboard, and computer...

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Bebe Melkor-Kadior is a pluridisciplinary performance artist and pro-choice afro feminist author. From fire breathing to sword swallowing and adult films performances, she works with her body as to...

An original generalist from the metropolis of Rotterdam with a deep love for words and threads. She likes to play with expectations and loves strong stories. Experienced in multi-platform projects...

Vicky De Visser achieved her BA in Art History (2012) at the Catholic University of Leuven, BA in Graphic design (2016), and a Master in Audiovisual Performance Art (2018) at Sint Lucas University...

Spill Gold is a female musical duo that plays with the contrast between darkness and light, playfulness and control and uses these to make the audience move like a body and to bring them into ecstasy...

Thijske Akerboom is an artist from Amsterdam. She works with latex in a wearable and sculptural context and has a fascination for bodies and shapes and how they relate or seem to contradict.

Irma is an interdisciplinary visual artist from Rotterdam with a background in Fine Art, Scenography and Body Work. She specializes in making plaster body masks of women. Through the material and...

Lana Prins explores, questions and visualizes topics such as love, lust, gender and the female body through her photography.

Daphne Gakes is an artist and a writer with her own book and show of the same name “Ik Daphne Gakes”. Gakes is very influential in what she does and has her own podcast as well called “Between the...

Amber Rahantoknam, also known as AMBIGOU,   is a multi-disciplinary maker mixing text and image through illustration and poetry. 

Bert Sliggers was curator of Teylers Museum for much of his life and thus responsible for a large number of exhibitions and accompanying books. As guest curator he is now associated with the Museum...

Victor Engbers was born in 1970 in the south of the Netherlands and studied law before he became a journalist. Only at 40 did he decided to become an artist. His work is about changing perspectives

Clarissa Smith is Professor in Media at Northumbria University in Newcastle, UK. Her research has focused on sexual media and representations and she is particularly interested in the ways in which...

Julia Schmitz (1993) is a filmmaker with a great fascination for the process of imaging and the construction of stories. In her associative films, she often explores complex subjects, such as sexual...

Yacinth Pos is a designer and cook with a practice focused on the social, political and cultural field through a research driven approach. She explores social narratives within multiple media and...

Laura van Zuylen (1988) has been working as a film journalist for, among others, De Filmkrant for almost fifteen years. Her pieces have a feminist slant and she is specifically interested in gender.

Hester Scheurwater (1971) studied monumental art at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in The Hague. Under the guise of self-portraits, she investigates and critiques the role of a woman as a sex object.

Anna Gimbrère is a Dutch science journalist and presenter. She studied theoretical physics at the University of Amsterdam. After her studies, she became a science journalist and served as an editor...

Jinnie Ahn is a visual creator who is currently studying transformation design; Her project is loosely invested in expanding her emotional journey as a human being in an unfamiliar atmosphere. She...

Julia Leis Lap is a multidisciplinary designer with Spanish and Dutch roots, currently based in Rotterdam. With a background in illustration, she integrates absurdism in her practice to create eye

Eline Salden is a visual artist based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Currently studying Transformation Design, her work focuses on coming of age moments, such as intimacy, pressure from outside...

As a young artist I am on an journey where I look for moments that make me feel free. Making art and observing my surroundings is a big part of continuously rediscovering this state of elevation. The...

Susanne is.a conceptual creative, and currently studying Advertising at the Willem de Kooning Academy.  

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...

Shari Klein is a voice artist, intimacy coach and founder of the Pleasure Society. 

PISSWIFE is a collective of artists, queers & feminists based in Amsterdam. They make zines, totes, prints and artworks and organise workshops, talks, parties and exhibitions. 

Mavi Veloso is a performer, singer, actress, dancer and visual artist

Noemi Calzavara is a freelance dancer artist. 

I work at night, I'm a producer at Ultrasexi. I'm passionate about Nightlife as a creative platform, laboratory for ideas & dreams, A place where diffrent expertise meet to have fun and (unconscious...

Barbara van Ittersum (1965) studied painting, graphic and audiovisual design before she decided to specialize herself in photography at the University for the Arts in Utrecht (HKU).  She has been...

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...

Dr. Simon Niedenthal is an Associate Professor of Interaction Design at Malmö University, Sweden. He is currently engaged in 'Nosewise,’ a research project which aims to investigate the potential of...

David Kerssens Goedhart is an artist, photographer and recent graduate of the Audio-Visual department from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy. He believes that communicating simple observations can lead to...

Annelies Wina Doom is a belgian conceptual installation artist curator photographer wanderer performer player dreamer wildly associative thinker Luna Blue White her cats & other stunning creatures...

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