In 2022 we worked with these people

Annemarie's current knotweed projects

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...

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...

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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.

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

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...

Malkit Shoshan is the founding director of the architectural think-tank FAST: Foundation for Achieving Seamless Territory . In 2021, Shoshan won The Silver Lion at the Venice Architecture Biennale...

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.  ...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

Suzanne Bernhardt is a visual artist that graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam, in 2016. Her works often relate to social sculpture and how the practice of arts creates new potential...

Liza White is a product designer and "3D storyteller ." She uses traditional techniques and different materials to create a personal story. Her designs are characterized by stratification and evoke...

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...

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...

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...

  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...

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...

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

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...

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

Alice Héron (France, 1993)  is a multidisciplinary artist and cheffe working in between Amsterdam and Berlin. Graduated from Design Lab at Rietveld Academie, she creates sensory food experiences

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...

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...

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

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.

My artistic work is driven by a curiosity for the intangible and the urge to embody the invisible in order to be able to communicate about it. My main media are smell and glass. Glass is a protective...

I am an ethnographer and have studied how the yeast of practices like brewing, baking and being allergic disrupts Western/Northern metaphysical assumptions about ‘the world’. 

Jennifer Kumer is a game thinker, consultant, and design researcher. Fusing design research with the techniques of game design, she explores new ways of designing for connectedness through socially...

Exhibition assistant and Penny For Your Thoughts artist. 

Roland van Dierendonck (NL, 1991) is an artist, biologist and PhD researcher at the Lab4Living, Sheffield Hallam University, translating human-microbe connections into sensory experiences using...

Maro Pebo is an artist whose work aims to release the indiscipline of living cells. Born in Mexico City. Ph.D. in Creative Media (City University of Hong Kong), MA in Critical and Gender Studies...

My name is Nina and I study Artscience at KABK. I like to work with digital media (website or video) while researching topics as post-humanism, comics, biochemistry or the relationship between human...

I am a media artist and designer from Mexico City, currently based in Germany. My artistic practice focuses mainly in the merge of life, science and technology. I have a bachelor degree in Graphic...

Mijn plan is om het onderwijs klimaatcrisis bestendig te maken! Hoe? Samen met jou!

Racha pushes design norms to challenge us to connect and collaborate as our most authentic selves. She experiments with physical and virtual spaces, material objects, and new media to develop...

I am a product designer based in Luxembourg. In my work, I like to question and make people question the ordinary, trigger their imagination and playfulness and make them smile for a moment. I like...

Krisztina Czika was born and raised in Hungary before she moved to the Netherlands to complete her studies at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy. During her studies she was researching materials and it soon...

Maaike Anne Stevens is a visual artist based in Amsterdam and London. She is a graduate of Goldsmiths College, London (MFA 2012), where she was included in the Catlin Guide 2013 ‘introducing the 40...

Arthur Guilleminot is an ecodeviant artist and positive maverick that practices fertile and generative disobedience. Intersecting disciplines such as design, performance, fashion, and visual art, he...

In mijn werk onderzoek ik hoe het verstrijken van de tijd impact heeft op de manier waarop wij ergens betekenis aan ontlenen. Dit doe ik met gebruik van plantaardig, veranderlijk materiaal, waarmee...

Sieta van Horck is a multidisciplinary artist working at the intersection of ecology, technology, spirituality and embodiment. In her installations, meditation lectures, gatherings and rituals she...

My practice focuses on expanding the boundaries of storytelling through the use of unconventional pairings of senses, such as smell and sound, to form experiences of narratives.

Diversity, equity, accessibility, and inclusion lay at the heart of all of Viviana's sociocultural creative projects. With her latest audiovisual installation on textile circularity, coproduced by...

Sharp & Sour is a multidisciplinary design studio focused on the futures of food. We help food companies and organizations navigate through uncertain times and new food scenarios. We focus on food...

Irina Birger was born in Moscow and lived in Serbia as a teenager. She received a BA from the Bezalel Academy of Fine Art and Design in Jerusalem and an MFA from the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam...

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...

A Belgian social designer based in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Isaac studied at art academies in Belgium, The Netherlands and Norway. But his interest in product design developed at the Willem de...

Mari Bastashevski is an artist, writer, and a lecturer at Kunstakademie in Trondheim, Norway and Wageningen University, Netherlands. Occasionally, she collaborates across disciplines, and performs...

Weimin Zhu is a jewelry and object designer from China. Her designs mainly focus on creating an intimate relationship between the objects in our daily lives and ourselves, especially our inner...

Emma Fukuwatari Huffman (she/her) is a designer practising and researching visible mending and caring. She believes mending is an act of both care and rebellion much needed in this day and age and...

I am an olfactory artist from The Hague. Coming from the Royal Academy of Arts with a background in Neuroscience and Biology, I focus my research on scent function and its reactionary effects. Using...

Martine has a great interest, great love for odours, smells form nature, anything smelly that appeals to her. She is helping run Open Aroma Lab for Kids.

Angela Kerr   is a freelance journalist and editor originally from Belfast, Northern Ireland.  

Aya Yoshida is a Japanese composer. Born in Kobe, Japan in 1992. She graduated from Toho Gakuen School of Music in Tokyo and completed her postgraduate studies in composition at The Royal Danish...

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

Emily Bates is an artist and photographer based in Amsterdam. Her work explores landscape narratives, rituals and nature’s rhythms.  

How do we experience the loss of our Data? How can we say goodbye to loved ones' stream of media, and devices that they leave behind? How we one disentangle ourselves from our data when we die?

Guy works in circular financing at Gemeente Amsterdam, and tinkers at AMS Institute. He is passionate about making cities sustainable.

Lena Kuzmich (they/no pronouns) is a non-binary and multidisciplinary artist from Vienna currently based in Amsterdam. Their work, a fluid remix of photographic and videographic fragments taken from...

Leo's work sits somewhere between participatory social art, workshop, happening and artistic research. His current practice uses fermentation as a metaphor and action, focusing primarily on...

Lianca van der Merwe  (aka Lala3xl) critically reflects on the dimensions of reality and experience.

Lucia Babina is an artivist focusing on research and reactivation of sustainable forms of cohabitation and coexistence.

Marc van Will Opleiding: drs. Geofysica / vanaf 1990 actief in co-creatie van creatieve werkvormen en projecten rond milieuthema's, groeneducatie, sociale transformatie (kookatelier De Smaak te...

I graduate from Gerrit Rietveld Academie in 2019 Fine Art department. I'm interested in exploring our presence via the senses, with questions on 'what make us human'.  

I am a Medical Doctor and Neuroscientist living in Italy and pursuing an ideal future: to connect people with nature through a deep exploration of human senses by showing how to use them to make more...

Miguel Matos likes to see himself as a fragrance curator, investigating the possibiilities of perfume as contemporary art

A visual artist from Japan. Miku Sato ’s work spans from video to installation and performance/workshop.

"Over the past few years, I have been writing essays and stories for art & design journals and magazines, exhibitions, independent publishers, and developing workshops and performance for art...

Nino Basilashvili makes art on the crossroad of data and emotion. Her vision of a future in which there is a symbiosis of nature, humans and technology is expressed in her work and attitude towards...

Paolo Bosca is a writer and researcher based in Turin. 

Qiaochu Guo (1995) is an artist currently based in Eindhoven, a humid hesitating limp creature. Their recent works explore the embodied tension of the power dynamics between their identity and the...

    Renata De Bonis (São Paulo,BR, 1984) is an artist and researcher living and working in Amsterdam.  

Mijn naam is Renée Pruim en dit jaar ben ik afgestudeerd aan de Academie Artemis als allround creative met de focus op trendforecast en innovatie. Ik ben altijd op zoek naar het verhaal en bedoeling...

In my academic research I recently collaborated with historians, philosophers and linguists to study dairy cow communication.  My fieldwork at farms revealed to me how cows are constantly taking...

I am Sophia Schullan—a multi-disciplinary conceptual designer based in Rotterdam. In my opinion design has the power to influence what we think, how we act, and by extension how we experience the...

Stephanie Pau researches methodologies and practices to widen participation in futures studies as an artist, a participatory speculative designer and an ex-solution architect at Studio ANDNAND .

Sujata Majumdar is a visual and transdisciplinary artist based in Amsterdam / London with a background in Physics, Photography, and ICT.  

Takoko's current knotweed project

Yi-Jing Chen  (1993) is a Taiwanese fashion researcher and designer based in Arnhem. Her current research is dedicated to interspecies collaborative design in fashion. Through her works, she designs...

Na mijn studie Acting op de HKU ben ik gaan werken als acteur en theatermaker. Ik heb voorstellingen gemaakt over facebook, dwalen en hoe feiten soms mooier zijn dat fictie. Ik heb op meerde...

Collective of creative project developers with art projects for social cohesion.

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

Asuka , a girl from Japan is a connector and a celebrator of relationship. 

I started playing bass when I was 14 and I've never let it go since.   Soon after that I was playing in several bands and started taking private lessons at the Jacobiberg.   After four years of...

Pauline's current knotweed project

Wits' work can be described as Gesamtkunst, a combination of media around a central story or concept.

''I look at the world with an immense fascination for medicine and nature. Thus, I am curious about processes and how things come into being. In my vision, the body and nature are intimately...

Dasha Tsapenko  is a bio-designer, who works with elements of art, fashion and material research. She investigates alternative production processes in (textile) design and is inspired by symbiotic...

Ruslana Goncharuk was born in Yavoriv, a village in western Ukraine, known for its weaving traditions, passed on from generation to generation. Ruslana learned this craft from her grandmother and...

After 20 years, Marjo van Schaik resumed her work as a designer and maker of fabrics and clothes. She was educated at the Modeacademie Bijenveld in Amsterdam in the 1980s and dropped out partly...

item- reportagemaker, transmediaprojecten, schrijver kunst-hoofd-cultuur

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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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.

Marna is a visual artist living and working in Amsterdam. Her work varies from street photograph, studio portraits, videos, drawing, painting and collages. 

Luciano is a conceptual artist with a minimalist visual language that stands in the tradition of artists from the traditional and neo avant-garde.

Martine Mussies is a PhD student at Utrecht University, she is also a musician and an artist. On her blog (http://martinemussies.nl/web/) she posts about her experiences with autism, representations...

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

Emilia Tapprest is a Finnish designer and filmmaker. She is part of the research duo  Liminal Vision  together with Victor Evink . 

Victor Evink is a Science & Technology Studies researcher and artistic maker who goes by the artistic pseudonym sxmbra.  He is part of the research duo Liminal Vision together with Emilia Tapprest . 

Robin Waart is an artist based in Amsterdam. After studying Classics in Amsterdam, he received his BA from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, and MA from the Royal Academy of Arts, The Hague.

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Jenny Konrad is a visual translator of information who researches and appropriates methods, medias, tools and materials to transform raw content into experiences that are digestible to constantly...

David Collins is an artist, graphic designer and educator currently teaching at Leeds Art University in the UK.  Find out more about David's work here .    

Marjanne van Helvert is a designer , researcher and writer based in Amsterdam.

Minjoo Choi is a conceptual artist who graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in 2022. 

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