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  • Afbeelding: Sluisdeurenloods, Mediamatic Biotoop Anisa Xhomaqi

    Susanne Duijvestein introducing the the…

  • Dood

  • Dood

    Program overview

    An interactive exploration of your identity and expression in relation to death. From abstract death portraits to death masks, from beauty to love, from guts to gills: this year our Museumnacht will...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop

    Ashes to ashes, dust to dust

    Resomating a Musk Rat

    What happens to our bodies after death? When choosing Resomation as a burial method, the answer is just as fascinating as it might give you the shivers. With resomation, the human body is dissolved...
  • Verhuur Mediamatic Biotoop

    Een mooi afscheid

    Het (on)conventionele afscheid

    Alle manieren van leven krijgen een plaats bij Mediamatic. De dood is inherent verbonden met de levenscyclus en zoals ook de natuur een plaats geeft aan sterven, geven wij u een unieke gelegenheid om...

  • Nature Morte

    Dood, Design and Duurzaamheid

    Onder curatorschap van progressieve begrafenisondernemer Susanne Duijvestein gaan we op zoek naar nieuwe invalshoeken en ontwerpen voor onze eigen onvermijdelijke vergankelijkheid. Lezingen en...

  • Overzicht Nature Morte evenementen

  • Mediamatic Biotoop

    Design your own Shroud

    with Susanne Duivensteijn

    Have you ever thought about what you want to be wearing when you die? In this workshop we will breathe new life into an old Dutch tradition. You will be guided in the process of making your own...
  • Proposal by: Susanne Duijvestein

    Nokanshi Dreams

    Project proposal

    Preparing a dead body for a funeral often takes place behind closed doors, outsourced to deathcare professionals. If it’s up to Susanne Duijvestein, funeral director and Nature Morte curator, we...

  • Doodskleed

    De geschiedenis en de heropleving

    Ooit nagedacht over wat je zult dragen als je dood bent? Vroeger was het in ons land gebruik om je doodshemd zelf te maken en te bewaren in je linnenkast, voor je weet maar nooit. Hoewel deze...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Susanne Duijvestein

    From Pest to Soil

    Humusating a Muskrat

    Maybe you have heard about the Muskrat, an ‘invasive exotic’ that likes to chomp on 'our' Dutch dykes. It was on the 22nd of May that one found their final resting place in one of the grow beds at...

  • Fake-Eco Evaluation: Still Life at Mediamatic

    Is death truly sustainable?

    Death is one last action - a body left to account for. Some of us have already given it a thought, but how hard have we thought about our upcoming deaths, really? Mediamatic´s Still Life: death

  • ...and beyond workshop

    Grafkist voor je geliefde

    De workshop van de mode-ontwerpers ...and beyond is gericht op het gezamelijk werken aan een lijkwade voor de overledene, waarop met lijntekeningen herinneringen en een laatste groet worden...

  • 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...

  • Together Forever

    When I was an apprentice, the directors told me a story that has shaped the way I view funerals and family requests to this day. Sometimes it happens that two people who are very close die at nearly...
  • Maurizio Montalti 5 dec 2011

    Bodies of Change

    Installation

    The growth of a new burial practice by employing fungi in performing the role of main “disassemblers” within the cyclical processes of growth and decomposition.
  • book: Simon Critchley 1 jan 1997

    Very Little...Almost Nothing

    Very Little...Almost Nothing plaatst de vraag naar de zin van het leven terug in het centrum van het intellectuele debat.

  • Bodies of Change Growth

    Week 1 of growth

    In the second installment of this series, we watch the strange growth that has shown up on the mycelium shroud and it's not exactly what we were expecting!
  • Proposal by: Rosalie Bak

    Until death makes us parts

    Exploring the phenomena from-life-to-death ~ through haptonomy

    This artistic public-research proposal brings together experts and 'the dying' in an intimate setting - where they can co-research, -experience and -imagine the phenomena from-life-to-death and...

  • Workshop Melanie Bonajo

    Grafkist voor je geliefde

    Voor Melanie Bonajo is het vormgeven van de grafkist een gezamelijk proces waarbij plaats is voor rituelen en voor verhalen over de overledene.
  • 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...

  • A community of the dead

    A conversation with Elizabeth Heyert

    Mary Caparitia Bush is ready to go to the party. She is wearing a stunning black sequin dress with a pattern of white leaves. Lace gloves and a pink hat with a flower complement the look. Mary’s hair...

  • Funeral Rites in Chinatown

    "The clear, melodic notes of a brass band marching along Chinatown's Stockton Avenue catch the attention of an Asian woman picking over produce at a sidewalk vegetable stand. As the band turns the...
  • Kompromat blog

    Secret agent Sokolova

    is temporary out of service

    The spy who came in from the cold is going back there. Her government is calling her. She may return soon. Or never. Kompromat is closed for the time being. Tomorrow never dies.
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Magdalena Thur

    The Resomation of Fungal tissue

    Could fungi provide the future fabric for death shrouds?

    Mediamatic's search for vegan fabric that could be used in Resomation, an environmentally friendly alternative burial method, led to testing fungal material.

  • List of Death Films

    Research for Death exhibition

    - The Loved One , (1965). A black comedy about a funeral business, directed by Tony Richardson - Kostnice (1970). A short documentary made by Jan Svankmeyer on the Sedlec Ossuary in the Czech...

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