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presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Isaac Monté , In4Art
Prosthetic X
29Nis 2022- by Isaac Monté and In4Art12Ağs 2022“True beauty comes from within”, a statement that transcends the test of time and often grows stronger as we age. In parallel to this growing sense of beauty is the universal need to nurture...
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Chiesetta della Misericordia Willem Velthoven
When the body says Yes
23Nis 2022- The Dutch contribution to the Venice Biennale 2022 is a very cosy space.27Kas 2022Melanie Bonajo: "It is essentially a cuddle space which centralizes the clitoris as the epicentre of social design and a place for worship". This was the motto of the amazing environment that Bonajo...
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Artist Residencies
Artists, designers and research
A selection of artists and designer that have done a residency at Mediamatic. You'll also find the artists who coordinate our Labs here. Also, check out our Meet a Maker page to see when you can talk...
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Proposal by: Margherita Soldati
A human microplastography
Project proposal: Finding microplastics in the human body
How do microplastic particles alter the human landscape by travelling through it? An abstract raised-relief 3dimensional map showing the traces and impact microplastic has on the human scape
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exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Ruchama Noorda
Tumulus Venushill
6Kas 2021- Beftival Museumnacht 20216Kas 2021Tumulus is an enclosed garden installation that functions as a natural ruin, compost heap, soil sculpture, seedbed, earthwork, dyeing source, and dunghill. Over the course of several seasons from...
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Bebe Melkor-Kadior
Bebe Melkor-Kadior is a pluridisciplinary performance artist and pro-choice afro feminist author. From fire breathing to sword swallowing and adult films performances, she works with her body as to...
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Bef-tival Explained
beffen: verb, to lick pussy
Going down on, eating pussy, carpet munching, muff diving, cunnilingus; these are some of the ways we refer to the act of female oral sex. But something seems to be missing from our sexual vocabulary.
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Laura van Zuylen
Laura van Zuylen (1988) has been working as a film journalist for, among others, De Filmkrant for almost fifteen years. Her pieces have a feminist slant and she is specifically interested in gender.
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This Pussy Has Claws
Vagina Dentata Myths of Empowerment and Horror
Who would have thought that apart from lips, vaginas and mouths share even more? Vagina dentata, Latin for toothed vagina, bears the idea that a vagina with teeth or claws can devour a man. She can...
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Sam Nemeth
Artist and scientist
Sam Nemeth (Rotterdam, 1962) is a filmmaker, journalist, designer, and scientist who conducts research in the field of tangible interfaces: a tangible alternative to the mouse, keyboard, and computer...
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Julia Schmitz
Filmmaker
Julia Schmitz (1993) is a filmmaker with a great fascination for the process of imaging and the construction of stories. In her associative films, she often explores complex subjects, such as sexual...
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Lizette van Hecke
Storyteller
An original generalist from the metropolis of Rotterdam with a deep love for words and threads. She likes to play with expectations and loves strong stories. Experienced in multi-platform projects...
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Gian van Grunsven
Journalist and maker
Gian has been conducting artistic-journalistic research into sexuality in all its facets for seven years. This previously resulted in the successful show ' SEXIETY' in collaboration with Gehring&...
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Clarissa Smith
Professor
Clarissa Smith is Professor in Media at Northumbria University in Newcastle, UK. Her research has focused on sexual media and representations and she is particularly interested in the ways in which...
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Bert Sliggers
Art historian and curator
Bert Sliggers was curator of Teylers Museum for much of his life and thus responsible for a large number of exhibitions and accompanying books. As guest curator he is now associated with the Museum...
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Amber Rahantoknam
Multidisciplinary Artist
Amber Rahantoknam, also known as AMBIGOU, is a multi-disciplinary maker mixing text and image through illustration and poetry.
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presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Frank Bloem, Lydia Schouten, Olga Middendorp, Nelke Mast, PISSWIFE
Feminism
- Odorama 46 with Pisswife, Olga Middendorp, Nelke Mast, Lydia Schouten and Frank Bloem18Kas 2021Let's dive into the relationship between smell and female empowerment. BEFtival curator Olga Middendorp and multi-disciplinary artist Nelke Mast wonder why vagina smell is still a taboo. Performance...
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Annika Hagen
Artist
Annika Hagen or 'Kaatje' (b. 1997) is an artist who is based everywhere and nowhere. She wants her art to caress you, shock you, make you shiver or do all that at the same time. The College of Arts...
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Lana Prins
Photographer
Lana Prins explores, questions and visualizes topics such as love, lust, gender and the female body through her photography.
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presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Beftival
6Kas 2021- Museumnacht Amsterdam 202113Kas 2021The act of licking pussy is still surrounded by shame and red ears, but not everywhere! Partly influenced by social media, society seems to become more predatory, but at the same time, female...
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Elmer Kesseler
Guest Chef Mediamatic ETEN
Elmer Kesseler is joining Mediamatic ETEN as a guest chef in summer 2021.
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Dutch Pavilion Venice Willem Velthoven
Work, Body Leisure
26Mayıs 2018- Nederlandse bijdrage de 16e architectuurbiennale Venetië25Kas 2018Designed by Raphael Coutin and Marina Otero Verzier the Dutch pavilion formed a maze of interlaced spaces and concepts the human condition in society. Willem Velthoven reports.
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Participants of "Seafoam"
What ingredients will our aphrodisiac involve?
When asked the question “What is love?”, staffs of Mediamatic gave answers that ranged wildly across dimensions: care; respect; connection; mutual trust; sharing; warmth; shared loneliness; happiness...
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Sewers, Technology and the Senses
With the sewage network, our poo and pee disappeared from our sensory perception - just as the technology that made this possible. Inside walls and underneath the surface, this vast infrastructure co