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mediamatic eten Justin Knelange
From Grandma's Kitchen to new Culinary Horizons
In conversation with our new head chef Panos Fakos
As a small boy, Panos was introduced to the world of spices and cooking by his loving grandmother. Food has always played a big role in his upbringing where his mother and her sister paved the path...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Takako Hamano, Uno Fujisawa
EatArt Experience
29Apr 2023- Experiencing Japanese knotweed with the five senses30Apr 2023Experience the Japanese knotweed with your five senses in an intimate session of eating, smelling, feeling, and hearing the elements of the Japanese knotweed.
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Festival: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Under the Counter Burek Shop
14Apr 2023- with Krater15Apr 2023While governments fight the war on knotweed with prevention and eradication strategies, The Under the Counter Burek Shop promotes the culinary use of this abundant plant instead. Since it is illegal...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Freedom Meal
- love your guest5May 2023Artists Aslı Hatipoğlu (Thailand/Turkey), Alaa Abu Asad (Palestine/Netherlands) and Uno Fujisawa (Japan/Netherlands) have put together a special Freedom Meal at Mediamatic. Join us and be part of...
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Exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Invasive Energy Harvesting: EROI Drink
14Apr 2023- Exhibition by Yoshinari Nishiki25Jun 2023EROI Drink ( エロいドリンク ) is an energy drink made from invasive Japanese Knotweed harvested within the Netherlands. By focusing on unpolluted strains obtained through water companies and a nature...
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The green gold
Celebrating our Wasabi's 2nd birthday
After some cold and rainy months in aquaponics, we were overjoyed to see the first aquaponics plant in bloom. This early bloomer has got to be a bit of a diva, as most plants are not showing any...
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Proposal by: Maria Jimena Ricatti
Post-pandemic tasting experience
Project Proposal: Exploring sensory diversity and holistic wellbeing
As a result of COVID-19 pandemic, millions of people experienced some degree of smell or taste impairment in the short and long term. However, there are also people who deal with these kinds of...
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Groente? Bitter! Als kind at ik liever…
Een gesprek met onze voormalig head chef Gino Marengo
Met een jagende opa die het wild direct uit het bos plukte, kwam Gino al van jongs af aan in contact met dieren, verse ingrediënten en rijke gerechten. Hij at alles van hert en leguaaneieren tot...
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Margherita Soldati, Krisztina Czika
Coffin Selfie
2Nov 2019- Museum Night Amsterdam 20193Nov 2019What would it be like to lie in your own coffin? Normally, once it happens it will be too late to know. Come and try it out in our coffin photo booth and have a picture taken.
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Susanne Duijvestein
Design your own shroud
2Nov 2019- Museum Night Amsterdam 20193Nov 2019It used to be Dutch tradition to make your own shroud, wear it on your wedding night, and put it away until you died. This workshop will enable you to work on designing your shroud.
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Margherita Soldati, Krisztina Czika
Death Beauty Salon
2Nov 2019- Museum Night Amsterdam 20193Nov 2019Lie back and let artists Krisztina and Margherita make your death mask. Our Hall of Faces will eventually be filled with death masks.
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Gwen van der Zwan
Finally Free
2Nov 2019- Museum Night Amsterdam 20193Nov 2019Having already inflated a number of intestines with helium, Gwen van der Zwan manufactured an 8by2-meter zeppelin from slaughterhouse waste. Finally Free is about the posthumous freedom of the 350...
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Death one-on-one
2Nov 2019- Museum Night Amsterdam 20193Nov 2019Irina Birger will spend an entire evening having one-on-one conversations of approximately 15 minutes centered on death, in an especially created installation. You're welcome to share your stories
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Mediamatic Eten
Lunch Try Out
Dishes composed by our restaurant team
Our restaurant team has created a plant based menu with home-made pitas, pancakes and a fresh made soup of the day.
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Kombucha collection
with Saskia Frederiks
The world of fermentation is endless. You can play with structures, flavours and smells. Learn all about fermenting in our upcoming workshops.
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Jeanne Rousselot
Restaurant Manager / Neofuturist Dinner Assistant
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...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Plant Properties
Starting from Dijkspark, we are mapping plants in the city
A big variety of plants is growing around our Biotoop, from healing to toxic, from dark green to purple. You can visit the Hortus Dijkspark at any moment. Come to learn more about the different...
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One recipe, two hands, three generations
A conversation with Elena Braida
For her graduation piece at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Elena Braida created Cucina, è bello! a workshop cooking experience. Through making gnocchi from her grandmothers’ homemade recipe, she asks...
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Suzana Orsolic
Neo Futurist Dinner Assistant
I am a Copywriter, PR Consultant, Digital Project Manager and aspiring Food Product Developer from Vienna, Austria.
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Bas Visser
Bas Visser is the beer sommelier at Oedipus Brewing in Amsterdam.
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Nele Odeur
Scent & Spice
Since my early childhood, I have followed my nose, probably predestined by the surname Odeur [the French name for scent] given by my father, and the pronounced olfactory organ I got from my mother.
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Fermentation
with Saskia Frederiks
The world of fermentation is endless. You can play with structures, flavours and smells. Learn all about fermenting in our upcoming workshops.
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Clara Casal Georgiou, Nadja Nolte
How-to Tofu
Make your own Tofu from a batch of Soybeans
Why not savour the amazing qualities of soybeans by making tofu at home! Did you know that soybeans are largely indigestible? This is due to the presence of an enzyme inhibitor called protease...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
ijKruid
Starting from Dijkspark, we're mapping the plants in the city
A big variety of plants is growing around our Biotoop, from healing to toxic, from dark green to purple. You can visit the Dijkspark at any moment.