Floodlight

Name: Floodlight
Start: 2026-03-28T17:00:00.000+01:00
End: 2026-03-28T21:00:00.000+01:00
Location: Mediamatic

Join us and experience how Marjolijn and Mark transform the historical architecture of the Sluisdeurenloods into an immersive underwater landscape, celebrating the deep connection between our residency practice and the living waters that surround Mediamatic.

Floodlight explores the future of Amsterdam's waters and brings together image, sound and spatial experience. Central to the installation are “overgrown” canvases that originated during MB's earlier projects. These canvases, bearing signs of life, are both medium and material: a surface for moving images. Together with the spatial sound experience, they create a speculative, immersive experience. The audience is taken on a journey into possible futures of a dynamic ecosystem that grows, changes and displaces.

RSVP here | Free admission - 27 March (Friday)

RSVP here | Free admission - 28 March (Saturday)

Floodlight makes the threat of rising sea levels tangible in an urban context. Through images and sound, the audience is invited to not only see the future, but also to feel it. The project builds on Boterenbrood's earlier installation Floodlines (presented at Into The Great Wide Open). The collaboration with Mark IJzerman further deepens the work.

About the artists

Mark Ijzerman

Interdisciplinary artist

Mark IJzerman is an interdisciplinary artist who investigates ecological themes through the use of technology. His work gives voice to the more-than-human world, exploring planetary processes such as eroding biodiversity and the impacts of warming waters. Through installations and audiovisual performances, IJzerman blends fieldwork, artistic research, and collaboration with experts from diverse fields, including biology, astronomy, and ecology. His practice incorporates living organisms, custom-built software, and film, creating dialogues that challenge the boundaries between technology and ecology. Influenced by speculative fiction, IJzerman examines the tensions between technological advancement and environmental degradation. His projects often feature interactive or live elements, where living ecosystems and digital media come together.

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portrait of Mark Ijzerman (credits: Robin Alysha Clemens) -

Marjolijn Boterenbrood

Multidisciplinary artist

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 reveal the hidden intrinsic aspects of the certain places that she visits. Through this, the places can be fully understood through the different dimensions that have been accentuated in Boterenbrood’s works.

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Portret Marjolijn Boterenbrood -

With: Marjolijn Boterenbrood