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  • Image: Thessaloniki, Greece Willem Velthoven

    Every 6 Minutes, installation view Thessaloniki

    "Every 6 minutes a woman dies of an illegal abortion" is an appalling statistic about the effects of prohibiting access to safe legal abortion. This simple installation was designed by Willem...
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  • The Links between Tattoo Culture and Autism

    Beautiful stimming; the experience of getting a tattoo and giving a tattoo as an autistic person

    Our latest interest within the A/artist Project is researching the link between the tattoo culture and autism. The idea came up when I mentioned in my interview at Mediamatic that I am enthusiastic...
  • Workshop: Tanja Baudoin, Michel Langendijk

    Workshop Coffin for your Beloved

    Work together with a contemporary artist

    A coffin with poetic ribbons, graffiti or textile? A robe or something more conceptual? As part of the Ik RIP exhibition on death and self-representation Mediamatic organized workshops for surviving...

  • Infographics: Are the budget cuts necessary or…

    The Dutch budget for arts & culture institutions is relatively small. The above average cuts will produce below average results.

    In 2011 the budget is € 490 million to support the cultural infrastructure. That sounds like a lot, but it is only a third of what we spend on holidays. It's 1,5% of the annual costs of the State...

  • Mediamatic Off-Line Vol. 10#3

    For a Better World - winter 2001

    Following on from Cesare Davolio's Annunciation (on the Red Brigade's kidnapping and eventual execution of the Italian politician Aldo Moro), this is the newest contribution to our irregular series...

  • Mediamatic Magazine 7#3/4

    winter 1994

    End of Advertising Issue This issue of Mediamatic is based on the assumption that advertising was one of the great arts of the twentieth century.

  • Nadine Jarvis: Challenging Post Mortem Traditions

    Designer Nadine Jarvis has produced some very thought provoking art work using cremated remains. But before you say, "Oh, I've seen those paintings and glass sculptures with the ashes mixed in"...
  • 2008 Michael Haas, Julian Adenauer, Martin Fussenegger

    Facadeprinter

    Paintballs splashing against the windows; a colorful sign of resistance.

    The viewer watches the artwork emerge dot by dot, both product and method are intertwined within the artwork.
  • 1 Jan 2003

    Joep van Lieshout

    artist and designer

    Joep van Lieshout was born in Ravenstein, The Netherlands in 1963. He studied at the Academy of Modern Art in Rotterdam, Ateliers '63 in Haarlem and Villa Arson in Nice. In 1995 he founded Atelier...

  • Open Field

    A cultural commons project in the spirit of gift economy

    Open Field is an open air summer gathering in the big green yard of the Walker Art Center
  • 1 Jan 2004

    Venice and

    The Silent Service

    Between November 24 and December 7 Venice and The Silent Service by Vanessa Beecroft were to be seen.
  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Mediamatic Magazine 9#1

    spring 1998

    The Secret Agent Issue When a government no longer knows how to solve a problem within the borders of legislation and the tolerance of public opinion, it calls on the secret agent.

  • About the Pis’ Project

    2014-2016

    The Pis’ Project connects urine in the arts with innovation within design, architecture and environment. After a successful two years we decided in 2017 to expand the project from urine to all human...
  • Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 7#3/4 Willem Velthoven 1 Jan 1994

    Editorial

    The Eighth Art

    This issue of Mediamatic is based on the assumption that advertising was one of the great arts of the twentieth century.

  • 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...

  • Jarr and his Finish Flag

    What have people been bringing to our resistance archive?

    In this ongoing series, Objects and their People, we'll be writing about our favourite resistance objects, anecdotes and people. Keep up with what is happening in the Pièce de Résistance exhibition...

  • Mediamatic Screen

    2003/2004

    In November 2003 Mediamatic started a new series of projections on Mediamatic Supermarkt.
  • 2020 Tobias Servaas, Queer Currents

    Queer Currents

    Mediamatic is the stage for three panel discussions and an exhibition of Queer Currents, a wave of queer expressions in preparation for the Gay Pride.

  • Miktor & Molf workshop

    Coffin for your beloved

    Together with the relatives Miktor & Molf work on a coffin that will be a homage to the deceased. As a starting point the family members bring along an archive of images of the loved one.

  • Bio-me

    designed with organisms

    Bio-me. 3-day of talks, masterclasses, tastings and presentations concerning all that is designed with living organisms.

  • Mediamatic Fabriek

    Our location from 2011 till 2014

    Mediamatic has moved on average every 3 years. Mediamatic is a gallery, project space, aquaponics farm and cafeteria. In December 2011 we moved part of our activities to the Van Gendthallen on...
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    Khatt Kufi Kaffiya, the printable symposium…

    Lectures are described in detail with timings and links to the speakers' biographies.

    The symposium program has been evolving and includes topics of every aspect of contemporary Arabic visual culture and identity, going beyond the stereotypes of what is associated with Arabic culture...

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