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  • A temple for the male muse

    7 questions for Olga Jitlina

    Olga Jitlina and Katja Sokolova are curators of the St. Petersburg pavilion that opens Saturday 5 December at the Amsterdam Biennale 2009 at Mediamatic, at 20:00 hrs. The woman has been a muse for...
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  • 2009
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  • Fine Art
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  • Is it a man or a woman?

    Pedro Meyer’s fascination for nudes, hermaphrodites and transvestites

    Brazilian artist Pedro Meyer doesn't just paint nude women. With his painting-installation “Transvestite Bathroom” he plays with the notions of seduction and strangeness. The Rio de Janeiro pavilion...

  • Truths and stereotypes

    Interview with Kaspar Wimberley and Susanne Kudielka from the Stuttgart pavilion at the Amsterdam Biennale 2009

    Saturday 5 December at 20:00 hrs the Stuttgart pavilion opens in the Amsterdam Biennale 2009. Stuttgart doesn't have a very good reputation. Curators Susanne and Kaspar explain why.
  • 2010

    Tearing down the wall

    Daniële Marx about the the physical and mental wall of Porto Alegre

    Curator Daniele Marx shows works from Brazilian artists in her pavilion in the Amsterdam Biennale, that opens the 14th of November.
  • Previously on view in the Amsterdam Biennale: Katja Sokolova, Olga Jitlina

    St. Petersburg Pavilion

    Thank Adam

    Open from 5 December 2009 - 3 January 2010 in the Amsterdam Biennale 2009 at Mediamatic. While visiting Ancient department of the Hermitage, we suddenly noticed that there was some strange energy...

  • Creators of social value

    Conversation with Erik Pold, travel-guide and curator of the Copenhagen pavilion

    Danish artist Erik Pold interviewed four people from the cultural underground in Copenhagen for his CPH TLK project. This Saturday the 21st of November at 20:00 hrs Erik's Copenhagen pavilion opens...
  • 2010

    Living on the edge

    Interview with Caroline Woolard, curator of the Brooklyn pavilions

    For her second pavilion in the Amsterdam Biennale, Caroline Woolard curated Temporary Services into the Brooklyn Pavilion. They organized a one-off newspaper, focusing on art labor and economics in...

  • The evolution of a brand

    Conversation with Sabine Delafon, curator of the Milan pavilion

    For the Amsterdam Biennale performance artist Sabine Delafon created a special exhibition with her Sabine Delafon Corporation. It opens on Saturday 21 November at Mediamatic from 20:00 hrs, along...

  • The pavilion as a sculpture

    Turkish artist Suat Öğüt speaks about Turkey and his striking Istanbul-pavilion

    Turkish-born artist Suat Öğüt wants to do it differently than the other curators. He makes a sculpture out of his cardboard cube that has also a practical function. The Istanbul pavilion opens...
  • Persbericht 8 december 2009

    Eerste ‘user generated’ biënnale nu compleet

    36 stedenpaviljoens in Amsterdam Biënnale 2009

    Amsterdam 8 december 2009 – Zaterdag 12 december gaan de laatste paviljoens open en is de Amsterdam Biënnale 2009 compleet. 200 kunstenaars uit de hele wereld werkten met Mediamatic aan de eerste...

  • 'Alles moet nog gedaan worden'

    Gesprek met Eliana Otta, vertegenwoordiger van Lima op de Amsterdam Biënnale 2009

    Het kunstleven in Lima is rijk en gevarieerd, maar desondanks hebben kunstenaars het erg moeilijk. 'Alles hangt af van individuele initiatieven.'

  • Mediamatic genomineerd voor Amsterdamprijs

    Uitreiking 26 augustus 2010

    Filmmaker Alex van Warmerdam, kamerkoor Cappella Amsterdam, choreografe Krisztina de Châtel, reclamemaker/fotograaf Erik Kessels, schrijfster Yasmine Allas, grafisch ontwerper/illustrator Piet Parra...
  • Previously on view in the Amsterdam Biennale: Hama Goro, Harald Schole

    Bamako Pavilion

    Hama Goro is director of the Centre Soleil d'Afrique and curator of the Bamako pavilion in the Amsterdam Biennale 2009 at Mediamatic. The Bamako pavilion is made by Hama Goro and Harald Schole and...

  • Mapping for Tourists

    MFT resulted in Noord, an exhibition and travel guide

    Noord is the result of a project initiated by Nat Muller and Mediamatic: Mapping for Tourists. 22 artists were invited to map Amsterdam-Noord, pars pro toto for The Netherlands. The artists lived and...
  • Previously on view in the Amsterdam Biennale: Kai-Ting Lin, XAN

    Taipei Pavilion

    Beauties behind the glass box, selling Bīnláng 檳榔 (Betel nuts)

    Together with four other cities, Taipei opened its pavilion on Saturday 14 November 2009 with the presentation of a Taiwanese tradition: the betel nut beauties. Until 3 January 2010 in the Amsterdam...

  • The secrets of the fixed gear bike

    Interview with Mike Giant

    American tattoo and graffiti artist Mike Giant explains what makes riding a fixed gear bike so special.

  • Amsterdam Biënnale 2009

    Opening Friday 16 October at 20.00 hrs

    The Amsterdam Biennale 2009 is the first ‘crowd sourced’, ‘user generated’ biennale in the world. More than 30 curators from the Mediamatic Travel network present contemporary art from their city.

  • De Tostifabriek ligt even stil

    Kunstproject op Oostenburg Amsterdam

    19 April 2013: De Tostifabriek is een levende kunstinstallatie en is onderdeel van de tentoonstelling Freezing Favela. De Fabriek, die geen echte fabriek is maar waar wel dingen gemaakt worden

  • Jerry Springer: fascinerend of weerzinwekkend?

    Interview met SjocoSjon, bedenker en curator van 'The Great Jerry Springer Rodeo'

    SjocoSjon vertelt over zijn fascinatie voor de schaamteloosheid van Jerry Springer, films van Paul Verhoeven en MTV-clips.
  • Previously on view in the Amsterdam Biennale:

    Tokyo Pavilion

    Scheduled to open 12 December 2009 in the Amsterdam Biennale 2009 at Mediamatic and on view until January 3, 2010. By artist Reona Ueda, and photographers Ikunori Yamamoto and Yusuke Murata.

  • ARTBOMB @ Mediamatic

    Duintjer CS building cloaked in neon clouds

    When the NY Times warned for a cultural meltdown in the Netherlands they were right. All over the country (and outside) cultural institutions caught colorfull smoke in protest against the cutbacks in...

  • Mushrooms are taking over the Dutch media

    “Scientists, designers and dreamers are working on a revolution”.

    For the last couple of months Motherboard, the technological arm of Vice have been on board to interview designers, scientists and mycelium experts about their work with fungi. The result is...

  • Interview Kael T Block

    On XX Boys and more

    Mediamatic's exhibition Kiki on Steroids! presents Kael T Block's project XX Boys, a collection of photographs of transboys. Rooted in his own experience as a transboy or 'FtM' (Female to Male), the...

  • Winnaars DOEN Pitch Kom je ook?5

    Op dinsdag 1 juni presenteerden zeven pitchers tijdens Kom je ook?5 hun plan voor de DOEN pitch. Archief Paradiso won de juryprijs. Nederland volgens ooggetuigen won, na een spannende nek aan nek...

  • Trade Art for Art and Food for Barbies

    This Sunday at Ruilen we have two very different swap events. In one area, there will be an Art for Art trade . The event will offer a less conventional way of dealing art, where collectors and...

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