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  • Ad Willemen

    Ad Willemen (né à Tilburg, Pays-Bas en 1941– decede 2013) est un artiste figuratif à plusieurs facettes. Il a étudié à l'Académie ‘voor Beeldende en Bouwende Kunsten' à Tilburg ainsi qu'à l'Académie...
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  • Project geselecteerd om te pitchen tijdens Kom je Ook Ida van der Lee

    Allerzielen Alom

    de doden niet verzwijgen maar vieren om wie ze waren en wat ze te vertellen hebben

    De dood is in onze samenleving verweesd geraakt. De verhalen en herinneringenvan de doden gaan verloren omdat in onze cultuur eigentijdse rituelen ontbreken. Met Allerzielen Alom herneemt kunstenaar...
  • 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...

  • Mediamatic Post CS

    Office and exhibition space 2004 - 2008

    Mediamatic moved into Post CS in 2004. We moved out in July 2008.
  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...
  • Paul Groot 1 Jan 2004

    De Morgen

    Lars Eijssen's De Morgen (the Morning) as a variation of Nick Cave and Kylie Minogue's music video.

  • Sur Place

    Exhibition on Urban Bike Culture

    Bring your bike for a ride through Mediamatic Bank and discover the rich culture that grew around a simple vehicle: the fixed gear bike. Sportsmen, riders, messengers, collectors, artists and other...

  • Mediamatic Screen

    2003/2004

    In November 2003 Mediamatic started a new series of projections on Mediamatic Supermarkt.

  • Dead links

    Despite what the title of this article suggests, these links do go somewhere!

    Here you find a collection of links to websites that somehow are related to the topic of death. Leave a comment if you have other good suggestions.

  • Let's all go Dutch

    Eat bacon pancakes with sugar syrup, talk politics at parties and always start your conversations with a question. What does it mean to be Dutch, exactly? Is it possible to become, or stop being...

  • Gilbert & George's bodily pictures

    Spunk, blood, piss, shit, spit

    A piece about two artists who challenged taboos and social “diktats” by magnifying the sometimes disgusting materiality of the body

  • Memento mori profiel

    Van online profiel naar herdenkingsplek

    Met het maken van een online profiel op Mediamatic.net, Hyves of Facebook proberen veel mensen expressie te geven aan hun individuele identiteit. Er kan allerlei persoonlijke informatie worden...

  • Etalagemoorden

    Over gladde koppen en het feit dat de guillotine nog in werking lijkt te zijn.

    Mistroostig word ik van de talloze onthoofde paspoppen in mijn blikveld. Ik begrijp het niet, waarom al die doden in etalages? Is DEATH SELLS de nieuwste leus? Sigaretten verkopen beter sinds erop...
  • Previously on view in the Amsterdam Biennale: Hugo Herrera Tobón, Natalia Domínguez Rangel

    Bogotá Pavilion

    The Bogota pavilion by curators Hugo Herrera Tobon and Natalia Domínguez Rangel opens 5 December 2009 in the Amsterdam Biennale 2009 at Mediamatic and on view until January 3, 2010. With artists...

  • Commentary Kiki on Steroids! exhibition

    Originally collected on post-its

    Below some comments left behind by the visitors of the Kiki on Steroids! exhibition.

  • Hermann Nitsch @ Incubate Tilburg

    De Day After

    De geur van het bloed dringt zich nog steeds aan me op. Gisteren was ik bij de performance van Hermann Nitsch op het Incubate Festival in Tilburg. Het was een ervaring die me nog lang bij zal blijven.

  • TODAYSART 2011

    Festival beyond art

    TODAYSART is a festival in The Hague organized by The Generator, which profiles itself in Art, Music and Technology.
  • Press release June 19th, 2008

    We are liquidating our library

    in protest of the cultural funding stalemate

    Mediamatic will give away all its books. Our library will cease to exist in protest of the impasse between the Raad van Cultuur and Minister Plasterk on cultural subsidies. We call on the public to...

  • Spinoza te gast bij Ik R.I.P.

    Filosoferen over de dood

    De Ik R.I.P. expositie laat zien hoe verschillende kunstenaars zich hebben laten inspireren door de dood. Focus van de tentoonstelling is de relatie tussen de dood, identiteit en zelfexpressie.

  • spectres?

    Mediated mourning rituals and the cultural acceptance of death

    The following is an excerpt from my MA thesis entitled 'Praise the media!' in which I look at examples of mourning rituals, namely the LCD embedded gravestone, through the looking glass of media...

  • Mediamatic Travel

    Networked travel agency

    What better way to discover a city than through its contemporary art treasures? Mediamatic Travel is a network of locals waiting to show you around the backside of their cities. From contemporary...

  • Workshop Melanie Bonajo

    Coffin for your beloved

    For Melanie Bonajo designing the coffin is a communal process with much room for rituals and stories about the deceased.

  • ...and beyond workshop

    The workshop of fashion designers ...and beyond is aimed at working together on a shroud for the deceased. On this shroud drawings will be applied with stitches, as a final farewell and in memory of...

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