In 2018 we worked with these people

Ad van Nuenen is een craft bierliefhebber die altijd op zoek is naar nieuwe bieren en sinds 2012 een actief hobbybrouwer. Hij is zowel bestuurslid als mede-oprichter van Amsterdamse Brouwvereniging...

Plays the bass in the album Hôrôn de Seydou Boro. This is in collaboration with de compagnie Seydou Boro.

Aleesa Cohene’s work with video, sculpture, and scent reconfigures and reframes cinematic material to investigate the clichés, codes, and stereotypes that make up dominant cultural narratives.

Renowned perfumer Alessandro Gualtieri was born and raised in Italy. His drive towards perfumery started when he stumbled upon a lab in Germany where the fragrances he encountered  inspired him to...

Alexander is an artist, designer, builder and kompaan at Cateringa & Kompanen. He is w orking with food related themes and materials, mixed the primary and the intellectual needs of life.

Fascinated by the possibility of plant amplification and their capacity to produce actual sound artist and musician Alexandra Duvekot (1984) started researching the sound of plants early September...

Amy Toner is een danseres, choreograaf, leraar, en facilitator. Ze gelooft dat iedereen, ongeacht leeftijd, geslacht, etniciteit of handicap toegang moet hebben tot kunst. Ze heeft een passie voor...

Anastasia Loginova was born in Cuba to Russian parents and raised in Cyprus. In her performances she likes to use her body as vessel to communicate with different beings and connect different worlds.

Anna D’Errico is neuroscientist at the Goethe University of Frankfurt, and independent performer. As performer and dancer she studied several techniques and she practices theatre-dance since 2004...

Crew-member of the best inter-dimensional airline; DimensionAir.

Crew-member of the best inter-dimensional airline; DimensionAir.

Arad was born in Israel where he studied dance at the" Maslool Bikurey Hai'tim Art Center" in Tel Aviv. He completed his Bachelor of dance at ArtEZ dance academy in Arnhem (NL), where he graduated in...

Anna Tilroe is kunstkritikus en -curator. Zij publiceerde jarenlang in de  Volkskrant, NRC-Handelsblad en De Groene Amsterdammer en in tal  van nationale en internationale (kunst)tijdschriften. Zij...

Arnoud Sisselaar is a dream coach and the keeper of a dream diary for almost thirty years. He researched the phenomenon of dreams in Greek antiquity during his study Ancient Studies at VU university.

Bastiaan Medendorp is the brains behind the marketing and business tactics of Iscent. He directs the creativity of Jorg Hempenius into concrete results for their to client, to influence customers...

Everything about the sense of smell fascinated Bernardo as long as he can remember. How something as abstract as smell has the power to evoke specific moments of our lives, sparkle memories of places...

Bogomir Doringer was born in Belgrade. At the moment living in Amsterdam.

Caro Verbeek is een kunsthistoricus, auteur en onderzoeker, met een focus op de ‘lagere’ zintuigen (ruiken, proeven, voelen). Ze heeft een Master in Olfactorische kunst en een Master in Tastbare...

Crew-member of the best inter-dimensional airline; DimensionAir.

Cecilia Bembibre is a doctoral researcher at the Institute for Sustainable Heritage, University College London. 

Fermentatie specialist, fooddesigner, landschapskok en pop-up chef.

Crew-member of the best inter-dimensional airline; DimensionAir.

Claus Noppeney has a background in business studies & cultural production. His interest in smell started in the context a design research project on perfumery at Bern University of the Arts. He works...

Conny Groenewegen zooms in on the issues associated with industrial production and labor processes.

Dr Crispian Neill is a Wellcome Trust Research Fellow at the University of Leeds and the founder member of the Sensory Modernisms Research Group at the University. Dr Neill is currently investigating...

Van Weelden was vanaf 1991 redacteur van het kunsttijdschrift  Mediamatic . Sinds 1999 maakt hij deel uit van de redactie van het literaire tijdschrift   De Gids . Van Weelden is prominent lid van de...

Plays Percussion in the Compagnie Seydou Boro . At a very young age he learned to play percussion from his father and grew to be a composer and percussionist expert.    

Drissa Sissoko plays the Ngoni in the album Hôrôn de Seydou Boro. This is in collaboration with de compagnie Seydou Boro.   Ngoni is a string-instrument from West-Afrika. 

Rotterdam-based DJ that has been closing and opening the night for djs like ROD, Deetron and Palms Trax. Silently producing music under his ‘Circular Vector Patterns’ and ‘Eli Dorsman’ monnikers, in...

Crew-member of the best inter-dimensional airline for earth; DimensionAir. 

Giorgio Gasco recently obtained the master degree in Contextual design at Design Academy of Eindhoven where he developed a versatile approach between art and design. 

Crew-member of the best inter-dimensional airline; DimensionAir.

Italian designer and food researcher, currently based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Classical baritone from Utrecht Conservatorium

Guusje Bonnema is universitair hoofddocent bij de vakgroep Plantenveredeling van Wageningen University & Research. 

Han van der Vegt (1961) is een dichter en vertaler. Hij is gespecialiseerd in lange verhalende gedichten.

Ibo Bakker is een tekenaar, schilder en schrijver van (kinder)boeken. Ook is hij actief als muzikant, acteur en componist en is hij deel van het Gurdjieff Quartet.

Isabel Burr Raty is a Belgian-Chilean independent filmmaker and performance artist. In her films, she brings the imaginative realisms of the eco-survivors and their subversive sense of chronology...

Crew-member of the best inter-dimensional airline; DimensionAir.

Plays the guitar in the album Hôrôn de Seydou Boro. This is in collaboration with de compagnie Seydou Boro.

De 25-jarige componist Jan-Peter de Graaff schreef een opera vol muzikaal vuurwerk; toegankelijk én eigentijds, uitgevoerd door een virtuoos ensemble van jonge musici en zangers.

Jasmin Moeller’s (1982, Germany) artisthood is characterized by a hybrid practice. She works as autonomous artist, consultant, researcher, and engages in social art-projects on international level.

Crew-member of the best inter-dimensional airline; DimensionAir.

Crew-member of the best inter-dimensional airline for earth; DimensionAir. 

Johan Bucher is analist op de afdeling Planten Veredeling in de groep van top onderzoekster Guusje Bonnema. Hij helpt bij het ondersteunen van MSc en PhD studenten bij het onderzoek naar het...

Jorg Hempenius, also named the Scentman, founder of Iscent.

Jorrit Kiewik (1992) groeide op op een melkveehouderij in Enschede. Tijdens zijn opleiding Agrarisch Ondernemerschap aan de Aeres Hogeschool Dronten werd hij continu geconfronteerd met de...

Jules Beekwilder is senior onderzoeker bij de BU Bioscience van Wageningen University & Research. 

Crew-member of the best inter-dimensional airline; DimensionAir. 

Justus Tomlow is a driver, mechanic and self propelled man. After studying (the Art-i-Facts, or) Industrial Design Engineering at the University of Technology in Delft, he started working at the...

British designer and mapper of urban smellscapes Kate McLean is Programme Director, Graphic Design at CCCU and PhD candidate at RCA. She researches fine-grained, human-centred olfactory perceptions...

With all the tools of the trade, Kendra has produced commercials, movies, art, as well as her own book as a product manager, marketer and, storyteller. Having been involved with the Institute of Art...

At our celebration for the Russian New Year she was the Chef-Cook who made a traditional Russian cabbage soup, named Shchi. During the celebration Anastasia Loginova read Russian Tolstoy to the...

Klara Ravat (Berlin, Germany)   is an olfactory artist an experimental filmmaker. 

Krispijn van den Dries is a biodynamic farmer, activist and entrepreneur.

Kuang-Yi Ku was born and raised in Taipei, Taiwan. He is currently based in Eindhoven, Netherlands, and studying in Design Academy Eindhoven. His work often deals with human body, sexuality, human

dr. Laura Speed is a cognitive scientist in the Centre for Language Studies at Radboud University, Nijmegen. Her research explores how language is connected to the senses.

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...

Lotte Geeven is a multimedia artist whose works revolve around human connections to the sublime and intangible aspects of our natural surroundings, such as that of the sea and the earth. Therefore

Lukas Taks (1988) is a Kompaan at Cateringa & Kompanen. 

Olfactory Artist Maki Ueda considers smell to be “new media". As an artist, she is interested in the possibility for fewer visuals that can create stronger olfactory experiences. She often uses...

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.  ...

Margriet Craens works in Eindhoven as a multi-disciplinary artist and writer, experimenting with art, design, food, and culture. Craens is one of the founders of the 70% BAR and The Fat Pony, where...

Crew-member of the best inter-dimensional airline; DimensionAir.

Marie Ehrndal is a UX and Play Designer working with design and development in the Nosewise project, a research collaboration between Stockholm and Malmö University.

Crew-member of the best inter-dimensional airline; DimensionAir.

"Eating design is to design from the verb 'to eat'.” Designers who work with the subject of food are often called 'food designers'. According to Marije Vogelzang, food is already perfectly designed...

Marrit Kuyng Ok Schakel is an organic farmer, anthropologist and chairman of the Slow Food Youth Network Amsterdam. She grew up in a small village in Friesland and has learned many things from...

Maxwell Williams is involved with International Art and Olfaction since 2014. Currently, he is a member of the Board of Directors of the IAO.  He wrote the perfumed audioplay LUXURE/OCCIRE, which...

Crew-member of the best inter-dimensional airline; DimensionAir. 

"The deconstruction of images in light, darkness and the mind has been an endless vessel of fascination for me since 2014." Through my installations and performances, I try to create space to have...

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 ...

Nizar Rohana is a Palestinian ud player based in the Netherlands distinguished for combining virtuosity within fresh contemporary compositions, while maintaining the ud’s authentic language. He was...

  Oliver Haller is the head of the costume department at Dutch National Ballet (Het Nationale Ballet) since 2003. Haller  (born 1967, Flensburg, Germany) studied costume and fashion design at the...

Crew-member of the best inter-dimensional airline; DimensionAir.

Pei-Ying Lin (TW), born in 1986, is an artist and designer with an MA in Design Interactions, Royal College of Art, and a BSc in Life Science, minor in Computer Science and Cultural Studies from...

By exploiting the subjective, associative impact of smells, in combination with visual images, Peter De Cupere generates a kind of meta-sensory experience that goes beyond purely seeing or smelling.

Peter Vandermeersch is historicus en journalist. Sinds 1 september 2010 is hij hoofdredacteur van het NRC Handelsblad en nrc.next. Daarvoor was hij hoofdredacteur van De Standaard.

Crew-member of the best inter-dimensional airline; DimensionAir.

Ricardo Moya has worked in the perfume industry for more than 20 years. He graduated from the Perfume Institute of Versailles (ISIPCA) and is now a Senior Perfumer at IFF Hilversum. For Mediamatic...

Rick Dolphijn is a philosopher, artist and professor at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. He took part in the international conference  Art and Speculative Futures , co-organized by the UOC in...

Rolinde Hoorntje is writer and journalist. She writes about electronic music for NRC Handelsblad and Resident Advisor. Recently, her first novel 'De Club' was published by Prometheus, Previously she...

Dr. Ruud Verkerk (1964) is universitair hoofddocent en onderzoeker aan Wageningen University & Research. Als levensmiddelentechnoloog onderzoekt hij kwaliteit van levensmiddelen in een...

Sander Nederveen is a brewmaster at Oedipus, a new Amsterdam brewery. Oedipus prefers to brew beer to fit each person's preferences, and for each moment of the day. Focus lies on tasteful, dry beers...

Scent enthusiast Sanne Groeneveld (1977), joined the Odorama curatorial team as co-curator, next to Frank Bloem and Caro Verbeek. He is a fundraiser and musician with a background in art and a nose...

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...

Sasker is the founder of Manenwolf's Foodlab and smokehouse. He knows all about food preparation processes.

A producer and curator for visual art and film based in Los Angeles, Saskia Wilson-Brown co-directed the seminal Silver Lake Film Festival and ran international filmmaker outreach and development Al...

Seydou Boro is choreographer, dancer, actor, musician, singer, songwriter, an artist with multiple talents; his musical universe has its roots in Mandingo music, folk and blues. He is the centre...

Dr. Simon Niedenthal is an Associate Professor of Interaction Design at Malmö University, Sweden. He is currently engaged in 'Nosewise,’ a research project which aims to investigate the potential of...

Sophia Bulgakova was born in Odessa, Ukraine in 1997. She was studying sculpture in Kyiv and then getting a foundation diploma in Photography and Time-Based Media in University of the Arts, London in...

Crew-member of the best inter-dimensional airline; DimensionAir.

Stefan Martin Schneider (AT), musician, sound designer, performer and vegan cook studied political science and anthropology in Vienna. Since 2008 he is based in Amsterdam working mainly with...

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...

Crew-member of the best inter-dimensional airline; DimensionAir. 

Thijs is a perfumer with a background in interdisciplinary art, performance and theatre at the Interfaculty ArtScience as the KABK ( Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten) and at Conservatory...

Food is my passion. I especially like to cook for nice people and with nice people. The tastes from my kitchen never intimidate, they seduce in an adventurous manner.

Tomislav Feller (CRO) is a choreographer and performer based in Amsterdam. He graduated from the School for New Dance Development (SNDO) in 2010, and since then has been making collaborative and solo...

Valentijn Byvanck is director of Marres , Centre for Contemporary Culture in Maastricht, the Netherlands . At Marres he initiated and curated numerous exhibitions, such as The Unwritten (2014), the...

Wolter Jonkman is een bierliefhebber in de ruimste zin van het woord en sinds enkele jaren actief als hobbybrouwer.

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

As a multidisciplinary artist having based in New York and Amsterdam, Yeb works around the migratory relationships of interconnecting subjects, such a culture and nature, or time and places. She...

Yon Eta has a maximalist approach regarding sound while consciously striving to limit the options in the production process of his music. 

Zeger Reyers is van mening dat de mens ondergeschikt is geworden aan zijn eigen gemanipuleerde omgeving en dat er nu geen enkele cel meer over is die zijn 'natuurlijke' koers volgt. Reyers is daarmee...

The  Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE ) is a five-day   electronic music   conference and festival held annually in mid-October. The event is organized by The Amsterdam Dance Event Foundation   and offers...

Attic Lab is an independent scent studio based in Arnhem Netherlands that is managed by Renske van Vroonhoven. Its focus is to create an open culture around scent and find innovative ways of working...

The Bierkaai is a hobby brewing association, founded in 2015. The Bierkaai is not just for hobby brewers, but also for prospective brewers, beer lovers and other beer enthusiast.

Compagnie Seydou Boro is a group of musicians from Burkina Faso, who make Mandingo music. They just released their first album Hôrôn. A concert of the compagnie Seydou Boro is never just listening to...

DAY is a unit of time. It is defined as 86 400 seconds. DAY has several different spans of time based on the rotation of the Earth around its axis. Within these spans DAY often inhabits and activates...

Collectief de Onkruidenier onderzoekt historische, culturele en potentiële transformaties van de natuur en haar mogelijkheden de mens te evolueren. Zij doen – vaak in gezamenlijkheid met publiek –...

Design Academy Eindhoven is an interdisciplinary educational institute for art, architecture and design in Eindhoven, Netherlands. The work of its faculty and alumni have brought it international...

During Art Olfaction Amsterdam at Mediamatic Dublab will broadcast a weekly radio show about  scent culture and olfactory art . Dablab is non-profit internet radio station founded in Los Angeles in...

EAT ART collective,  formerly known as Cateringa & Kompanen  is an openhearted collective of makers with a specific interest in food. We find food to be an artistic material like copper, clay or pain.

Mediamatic ligt aan het water Oosterdok, al eeuwenlang de toegangspoort naar stad én wijde  wereld. Een plek van en voor ontdekkers.

FLAM, Forum of Live Art, is a festival for performance art in Amsterdam. FLAM operates like a group exhibition of artworks from different disciplines that have in common the urge to be presented live.

FoodCoopNoord is een vereniging in Amsterdam Noord. Elke week kunnen leden verse, biologische, seizoensgebonden en lokale producten bestellen, direct van de boer. 

The  Food Non Food department at Design academy Eindhoven a department led by Marije Vogelzang , focussing on food as a complete subject, and the interconnections to it's surroundings. Food is not...

Onze tatoeëerders zetten zich in om de klanten met een uitzonderlijke klantenservice en een onvergetelijke ervaring tijdens uw bezoek aan Gentle Ink Tattoo Shop te geven. Onze tattooshop onderscheidt...

Bij het Grachtenfestival begint alles met muziek. Jonge musici van over de hele wereld verrassen je met hun eigen muzikale verhaal. Met heel Amsterdam als prachtig decor.

Haagse Hapjes is a collaboration between Rosa Hagen and Lotte Holtappels, two Dutch designers with a passion for food.

Founded in September 2012 in Los Angeles bij Saskia Wilson-Brown , The Institute for Art and Olfaction is a 501(c)3 non-profit devoted to advancing public, artistic and experimental engagement with...

Directed by Emio Greco en Pieter C. Scholten, ICK is an acclaimed dance platform that produces international dance performances, collaborates with guest artists and initiates various education...

  International Flavors & Fragrances Inc. (NYSE:IFF) (Euronext Paris: IFF) is a leading innovator of sensorial experiences that move the world. At the heart of our company, we are fueled by a sense...

Iscent does next level scentmarketing. Creative Scentman Jorg Hempenius and neuro-marketing specialist Bastiaan Medendorp develop scents that deliver stories through smell. 

From architecture and interiors to graphic, industrial, fashion, set, costume, and experiential design, the LA Design Festival showcases the best of the local design scene as well as some exciting...

Familial Pop-Jazz band from the Netherlands. Gilles Meester - Guitar, Vocals Frank Meester - Guitar, Bass, Double Bass, Vocals Midas Meester - Drums, Vocals

The  NewLands Festival  – formerly known as Morgenland Festival Amsterdam – fuses the most beautiful sounds from East and West by featuring ensembles that are especially brought together for the...

We are Oedipus, four friends who share pleasure and knowledge through beer. We spend more time together than with our moms. We started brewing because we wanted to create something exciting

PLANTMOM is run by Monai Nailah McCullough, an indoor plant expert from New York City passionate about sustainable and chemical free care alternatives.

After several years of solitary, professional experience (Bruno Pieters, Hennes & Mauritz, Elle, Hugo Boss) fashion designers Philipp Schueller (Royal College of Art, London) and Rens de Waal...

 Slow Food Youth Network (SFYN) gives international attention to making responsible choices for the environment.

Het Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie is op 1 januari 2013 van start gegaan. Het opereert binnen de context van het cultuurbeleid en richt zich op alle ontwerpende disciplines en op e-cultuur in...

Wageningen University & Research is het samenwerkingsverband tussen Wageningen University en Stichting Wageningen Research.

WOW is a combination of an art hostel and fifty studios for graduates from Amsterdam's art institutes and runs a dynamic cultural programme. WOW is a place where tourists open to cultural exchange...

WeMakeThe.City     is the largest   city festival in Europe,     taking place from 20 to 24 June.   we celebrate urban living   whilst addressing important urban issues in the metropolitan region    ...

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.

Italian chef Tommaso Buresti grew up in the kitchen of his father's restaurant. He has been cooking for as long as he can remember and loves to experiment with food.

Arne Hendriks is kunstenaar en doet onderzoek naar human ecology. Hij gelooft dat we vrijgeviger naar onszelf zouden moeten zijn in het toestaan van radicale ideeën en gebruiken om onze relatie met...

Werk van beeldend kunstenaar Marjolijn Boterenbrood is altijd gebaseerd op onderzoek naar een plek: een park, een vallei, een stadsdeel of een eiland. Zij ziet haar werk als een proces van verzamelen