Temporarily closed: visit us online!

MU is closed till at least 15 March due to the latest COVID-19 measures. Starting to miss us? No worries! There will be plenty to see and discover online. Weekly we will launch an interview on the Evolutionaries Vimeo channel....

10 years of BAD award: meet the winners

This year, the Bio Art & Design (BAD) Award celebrates its tenth anniversary. Specially for this unique edition, filmmaker Isolde Hallensleben interviewed the three winners of 2020 and one winner of each previous years. All are showing new work during...

Wanted! Colleague to manage the financial administration

MU IS LOOKING FOR A COLLEAGUE TO MANAGE THE FINANCIAL ADMINISTRATION Approx. 8 hours a week / preferably you can start right awayDownload de vacature in PDF (in Dutch only)MU is op...

Share your MU experiences with us

Remember your last visit(s) to MU. Do you feel like you've learned something from it? Did you bring home valuable insights or ideas? We are currently carrying out an impact research, together with Julie from the master's programme Industrial Design...

Film tip: In Posse by Charlotte Jarvis

Is it possible to make viable semen from 'female' cells? Former BAD Award winner Charlotte Jarvis is on a mission to find out. In her ongoing project In Posse - a Latin term with a literal meaning of ‘before...

Good news! Evolutionaries has been extended till 9 May

We have good and we have BAD news.. The good news is that Evolutionaries has been extended till 9 May. The not so good news is that your visit has to wait till at least after 2 March. Luckily, there will...

MU X Self Design

Together with Noam Youngrak Son, Emma Verhoeven and Marlot Meyer, we look back on The Self Design Academy. Via Zoom these talented, young artists reflected on their personal definition of self design and the way this came to life in...

Alternative Tours | MU Play & Learn

If you can't come to MU, MU will come to you! MU Play & Learn offers a number of alternative tours and online workshops, for students to experience our (previous) exhibitions. You choose the path that suits your school best.The...

2020: it's (almost) a wrap!

As the final weeks of 2020 and the first weeks of Evolutionaries pass by behind closed doors, MU, despite everything, is looking back at a year in which the exhibitions and projects we had planned so unsuspectingly in 2019 gained...

Winners BAD Award 2020

This year, the Bio Art & Design (BAD) Award celebrates its tenth anniversary with the group exhibition Evolutionaries. Specially for this unique edition, filmmaker Isolde Hallensleben, together with Wouter Sessink & Willem Sluyterman van Loo, interviewed both the three...

MU X DE GIDS

In collaboration with literary magazine De Gids, MU presents three videos in which artist & performer Yuri Veerman and writers Nadia de Vries and Pelumi Adejumo reflect on different works of The Self Design Academy, with texts specially written...

MU COVID-19 Measures and Guidelines

We will do everything we can to ensure the safety of your visit. Continue to read the MU COVID-19 Visitor conditions, Sanitation guidelines and Health precautions below, or click here for a PDF. (Last update: 19 October). From...

VoorElkaartje: buy a MU entrance ticket for someone who doesn't have the resources to do so

For many people a visit to a museum is self-evident; yet, a large group of residents of Eindhoven can’t afford to come by. That’s why Quiet Community presents VoorElkaartje (the ‘For Each Other Ticket’): by bying a 5,-...

Real Feelings: Technology and Our Emotions

Emotions are the core of human experience. The international group exhibition Real Feelings, a co-production of HeK (Haus of Electronic Arts) and MU Hybrid Art House, explores the rapidly changing relationship between technology and emotions. The works of the 20...

Save the date! 18 September opens The Self Design Academy at MU

On 18 September opens the expo The Self Design Academy at MU Hybrid Art House!Our self is elusive, to say the least. It roams in memories and dreams, it briefly shows up on x-rays and personality tests, reflects in other...

Zombies sentinels and productive fur

On 2 July, Bio-artists Sissel Marie Tonn, Dasha Tsapenko and Nadine Botha were announced the winners of the Bio Art & Design Award 2020 (BAD Award).An international jury chaired by William Myers selected these artists and designers from 12 teams...

MU In Real Life Thursdays: Worlding Miraculous Futures

MU In Real Live ThursdaysTentatively leaving the lockdown behind, MU Hybrid Art House treats you to a summer of cultural encounters on regular Thursday evenings. Join us for a series of surprising performances, films, music, theatre, workshops and whatever this...

Worlding World interviews

For the Worlding Worlds exhibition, MU asked the participating artists to talk about the importance of worlding for their work. Here are the first two edited interviews:Ainslee Alem Robson discusses her VR installation Ferenjand Andrew Thomas...

Worlding Worlds opens IRL on 1 June | MAKE A RESERVATION!

We're happy to announce that the exhibition Worlding Worlds will finally open In Real Life on 1 June. For the safety of our visitors and employees, MU can only be visited by reservation. Read on for more information and to contact...

MU COVID-Measures and Guidelines

On 1 June, MU opens its doors again. We will do everything we can to ensure the safety of your visit. Continue to read the MU COVID-19 Visitor conditions, Sanitation guidelines and Health precautions below, or ...

We=Link: Ten Easy Pieces

Responding to the uncertainties and social dislocation that are being uncovered by the corona crisis, the Chronus Art Center in Shanghai organises the online exhibition We=Link: Ten Easy Pieces. Works commissioned for the exhibition by artists aaajiao, Tega Brain &...

Polarities Special | Saturday February 29 with Simon/e van Saarloos

Entrance is freeRegister with Eventbrite hereAFTERNOON PROGRAM16.00 - 16.30    Jonathan Ho & Joris Koene about their BAD Award winning project Sex Shells: Genderfluidity in the modern age16.30 - 17.15    Charlotte Jarvis & prof Susana Chuva de...

Polarities Special | Friday February 28 with Arne Hendriks

MU's winter exhibition Polarities | Psychology and Politics of Being Ecological, almost comes to an end. Inthe last weekend, on Friday February 28 and Saturday February 29 between 4 and 10  PM, MU offers a full closing program of talks,...

Feast of Thesmophoria: A manifesto dinner

Kick off of the re-enactment of the old Greek womXn only Thesmophoria festival guided by bio-artist Charlotte Jarvis, who is on mission to create female sperm and destroy patriarchy in it's wake. During the kick off the project will be introduced,...

The registration for BAD Award 2020 is open!

Are you an artist or designer with an interest in life sciences? We are happy to invite you to propose a project for the Bio Art & Design Award 2020!The Bio Art & Design Award (BAD Award) is...

New exhibition focusses on the the extremities of our time

Join us for the opening of the exhibition Polarities - Psychology and Politics of Being Ecological including the projects of this years winners of the BAD Award! With Polarities MU stays with the Anthropocene trouble by tapping in on...

Back at 29 November

We are breaking and building the coming weeks. Back on 29 November with ‘Polarities - Psychology and Politics of Being Ecological’: an exhibition with Bio and Art Design with the three winners of the BAD Award!...

See you 19 October!

Goodbye Computer Grrrls! MU opens its doors again on October 19 with the radically performative and exploratory exhibition The Object is Absent, the talent presentation The Scene is Here from the Creative Industries Fund NL and the other talk...

Re-Create Out Loud is back!

Host, guests, audience, table, cameras, discussions, intermezzo – the average talk show is just soooo predictable… But not at MU! Collaborating with What If Lab and Isolde Hallensleben, MU developed their traditional talk programme at the end of a...

COMPUTER GRRRLS SEPTEMBER SPECIALS!

In September, the MU program bursts with workshops, presentations and talks by women! Join us for one, two, or all days:19-9 THURSDAY SPECIAL | Computer Grrrls: an evening about the internet and cyber feminism across generations. Mother...

MeetMe@MU #5

The teacher tour is in Dutch only. If you are interested in visiting MU with your class, contact educatie@mu.nl....

Immersive Journalism

In their research on Immersive Journalism designers Jim Brady and Ward Goes look at the use of VR technologies in both current day and future journalism. Immersive journalism is a type of journalism that relies on ‘experiece’ rather than ‘report’....

MY STORY: A Fiverr Film by Joris Verleg

Heb je nog nooit van Fiverr.com gehoord? Dan ben je vast geen freelancer. Fiverr is een soort digitale crowdsource fabriek - een online platform waarop freelancers uit heel de wereld hun diensten aanbieden. Media kunstenaar Joris Verleg gebruikte dit als...

The registration for BAD Award 2019 is open!

Are you an artist or designer with an interest in life sciences? We are happy to invite you to propose a project for the Bio Art & Design Award 2019!The Bio Art & Design Award (BAD Award) is a unique...

Work by amongst others Heather Dewey-Hagborg banned from Guangzhou Triennial 2018

The 6th edition of Guangzhou Triennial, As We May Think: Feedforward, will open on 21 December at the Guangdong Museum of Art. Its title refers to an essay written by the American engineer Vannevar Bush in 1945. In the text,...

Meet Me @ MU

The teacher tour is in Dutch only. If you are interested in visiting MU with your class, contact educatie@mu.nl. Photo by Nadia ten Wolde...

Activities at MU during Dutch Design Week

This year again, MU organises plenty of activities during the Dutch Design week. Join the conversation about design during the Create Out Loud talkshows, get busy at the interactive workshops, meet other makers at INBETWEEN #5: KONT Portfolio Slow Date...

BARxMU Two New Mixtape Releases

We're excited to announce two new BARxMU mixtape releases. The first is a legendary recording of a kitchen table conversation of filmmaker Zack Taylor with the inventor of the cassette, Lou Ottens. The second tape is a recording of...

Agora Club

In need of a braingasm with Peaches or Bruce Sterling? A brainwrestle with Rachel Armstrong and Moon Ribas? Chat with ME or MU and...

OPEN CALL MU INBETWEEN #5

Would you like to shine during the biggest design event in North Europe? Seize this opportunity to takeover the MU stage during Dutch Design Week 2018 (20 - 28 October). The exact date will still be determined. For this evening...

Like and/or Lick?!

Are you suffering from an overwhelming email inbox? Do you never get any post on your doormat IRL? If you dream of a clean email inbox, and receiving old-fashioned post, choose 'lick' instead of 'like'.Approximately six times a year we...

Winners Bio Art & Design Award 2018

Bio artists make a connection between art and science in highly promising projectsOn Friday 25 May, bio artists Amanda Baum and Rose Leahy (duo), Yiyun Chen and Ani Liu were declared the winners of the Bio Art & Design Award...

Beeld en Geluid voor makers: input nodig!

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Rabobank Clubkas Campaign

MU takes part in the Rabobank Clubkas Campaign of 2018. This campaign gives members of Rabobank Eindhoven-Veldhoven an opportunity to vote for their favourite club. From 5 to 30 April members can access a special website where they can vote...

MU x Motion Paintings

In recent weeks, the guys from Motion Paintings have been working in all weather conditions to give the walkway at Strijp S a new look.A colorful painting has been made on both sides, illuminated with colored lights. These lights cause...

The One Minutes

Every month, the One Minutes Foundation puts out a new series of '60-second films' produced by a selection of artists. Every series has its own theme. This month's theme is 'Dreaming the Dark: hands that see, eyes that touch' and...

MUseumkaart valid at MU

From 2 January 2018, you get free entrance to MU with a Museumkaart. Good news for Museumkaart members, you can visit MU as much as you like (except for openings and events). Read more info about Museumkaart....

Follow LAUREN, the human smart home assistant

LAUREN is a human smart home assistant. Artist Lauren McCarthy will visit your home, deploy a series of smart devices and watch over you remotely 24/7. Lauren will control your home for you, attempting to be better than an AI,...

OPEN CALL | Bio Art & Design award 2018

We invite designers and artists interested in the Life Sciences to propose projects for collaborative work across disciplines. The Bio Art & Design Award (previously called the DA4GA) is a € 25.000 award for successful applicants to fully realize a...

Win LAUREN, the human smart home assistant!

LAUREN is a human smart home assistant. Artist Lauren McCarthy will visit your home, deploy a series of smart devices and watch over you remotely 24/7. Lauren will control your home for you, attempting to be better than an AI,...

Kunstroute65 - Veldhoven Creatief

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Fluid Matter: Bio Art & Design in de Oude Hortus

A selection of works from the exhibition Fluid Matter: Liquid and Life in Motion is on show from 16 June at Universiteitsmuseum Utrecht. A dance of humans and viruses to the tune of evolution, a compass needle made of iron extracted...

Winners Bio Art & Design Award 2017

The bio artists Xandra van der Eijk (‘Seasynthesis’), Cheng Guo (‘Anon. - An intervention in the Anthropocene’) and Jiwon Woo (‘Mother's Hand Taste – Son-mat’) were announced winners of the 2107 Bio Art & Design Award (BAD Award) on Friday 19 May....

MU is partner of We Are Public

MU & We Are Public are looking for 2000 culture lovers! Do you feel that culture deserves a larger audience and more means to make good things happen? Join us and bring We Are Public to Brabant! For only €15...

Avans CMD productions for MU Play&Learn

On Monday April 10th we had the viewing of the productions the 1 year students of Avans CMD 's-Hertogenbosch made for MU Play&Learn (for their project Motion Design).Out of all the productions we chose our favorite: the production made by...

Dutch Technology Week 2017

Join us for the 6th edition of Dutch Technology Week (DTW) from May 15th to May 20th for inspiring and innovative technology stories. As event partner MU organizes two workshops with our GoTo drawing robot on the 17th en 20th...

Door into the Dark

The current exhibition Door into the Dark is completely sold out. Door into the Dark by Anagram was produced by MU in close collaboration with STRP Biënnale 2017.The interest has exceeded all of our expectations, it is definitely a great...

Meet Anagram during Conference for the Curious at STRP BIENNIAL 2017

How can you create a story that appeals to multiple senses? Which media and platforms can we use and how can they complement each other? Would you like to know more about Door into the Dark? Meet Anagram (Amy Rose and...

MU is closed from February 27 until March 15, 2017

MU is closed from February 27 until March 15, 2017 for the installation of our new exhibition Door into the Dark.The new show 'Door into the Dark' opens on Thursday March 16 at 8pm. Want to join us? Get your...

CURSUS 3D-ONTWERPEN

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TISSUES AS FLUIDS

Oron Catts will give a lecture about tissue engineering. The lecture is part of the public program underpinning the bioart and –design exhibition Fluid Matter, Liquid and Life in Motion, that presents an exploration of fluidity inside and between bodies,...

Closed on December 25, 26 and January 1

Adapted opening hours during the holidays:Christmas December 25 & 26: closedNew Year’s Day January 1: closedRegular opening hours:Monday to Friday 10 am - 6 pmSaturday 11 am - 5 pmSunday 1 am - 5 pmPhoto: Hanneke Wetzer...

Open Call: Bio Art & Design Award 2017

Artists and designers interested in the life sciences are invited to propose new projects for the Bio Art & Design Award 2017. The Bio Art & Design Award is a competition for artists and designers who move the boundaries of...

GoTo Kickstarter for The Creative Code

GoTo is a drawing robot for kids from 9 to 99 years of age with which they can create their own interactive art pieces. Drawing tools such as pencils, markers and brushes can be attached to GoTo’s arm, and an...

OPEN CALL: Fluid Matters

Open call: MU Artspace invites you to submit your idea for a new work, or description of your existing work of art or design that you think fits this concept. Some support for production is available for new work. MU...

We Are Public Brabant at MU

We Are Public, the new cultural membership, is coming to Brabant! In four meetings they will be going to inform cultural organizations in Brabant about this membership. The fourth meeting for Eindhoven & Helmond wil be at MU on Thuesday May...

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Collective (Ir)Rationalities - results

People who like to emphasize their independence often discredit the flock behaviour of their fellow men. They loathe the crowd’s compliance, its thoughtlessness and lack of initiative. But is their dislike justified? During Dutch Design Week 2015, Studio KNOL put...

Interview met Olia Lialina

Annet Dekker, co-curator of the exhibition Olia Lialina - 20 years of My Boyfriend Came Back From The War, interviewed Olia about her work and the exhibition.Read the full interview here...

Creative Coding

Within education, there is an increasing interest in programming. Programming by itself doesn't always capture the imagination of children. ,The Creative Code' is a creative learning program developed by MU and several partners, in which students (and teachers) become aware...

OPEN CALL!

APPLY NOW for Bio Art & Design Award 2016! Winners are granted €25.000, to fully realize a new work of art or design that pushes the boundaries of research application and creative expression. Winning proposals are developed in collaboration with a...

Body of Matter in De Kennis van Nu at NPO 2

Thursday, December 3rd, Body of Matter and the BAD Awards will be an item in the program De Kennis van Nu Nieuws on NPO 2. De Kennis van Nu is the science program of the NTR with Elisabeth van Nimwegen...

Can organs be objects of design?

Regine Debatty from we-make-money-not-art in conversation with Isaac Monté, one of the three winners of the BAD Award, about The Art of Deception, from November 27th on show at MU!Read the interview here...

Cassils performance Inextinguishable Fire in London

On Sunday, November 8th Cassils its performance inextinguishable Fire performed at the Spill Festival in London. Obviously it was here at MU. The Guardian also and they wrote about it a nice review that you can review here.Wired...

The Reversed Schoolbus at Strijp-S!

This afternoon, October 23, The Reversed Schoolbus for seniors will be at Strijp-S again, at the Torenallee, right on the doorstep at MU! The bus is here from 13:30, wondering what's on the program? Check the full program ...

Closed this weekend

Because of the ongoing production of the exhibition Collective [Ir] Rationality we are closed this weekend (Saturday October 10 and Sunday, October 11). From Monday, October 12, you can check out the exhibition for a DDW sneak preview! ...

Blog winners BAD Award

The winners of this year's Bio Art & Design Award (BAD Award) are currently working towards producing their projectproposals for a new bio art exhibition, on show end of November this year at MU. From now on, you can have...

a critique of the human

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Closed on Saturday May 30

Due to the large event The Flying Dutch, coming Saturday May 30th, we are closed for business that day.  ...

Fluid Gender Identity Drives a Revolution in Design (Gabriel Maher)

Today in the New York Times: an article on gender identity in design with Gabriel Maher (Eindhoven). Maher participated in exhibition Gender Blender, about femininity, masculinity, and everything in between, last year. Just like Cassils, who are back with...

Finale BAD Award

Friday May 22nd this year's Bio Art and Design Award (BAD Award) winners will be announced! The BAD Award (called Designers & Artists 4 Genomics Award till 2013) is a unique competition that aims at stimulating young artists and...

Announcing winners BAD Award 2015

These 3 projects, each worth 25.000 euros, have been selected as winners of the Bio Art & Design Award 2015 by an international jury on Friday May 22nd. A Dutch bioscientist is involved in the execution of each BAD Award...

FlipLab at LongLiveArts conferentie

The upcoming international conference Long Live Arts offers an important, inspirational and dynamic platform, to present the state of the art in cultural projects for older people and instigate long-term networks between the sectors of arts and culture, health care,...

Een moment, a text by Irma Driessen (Dutch only)

Irma Driessen wrote a beautiful text after visiting exhibition 'Soft Focus, A Solo by Rafaël Rozendaal'. Unfortunately, the text is only available in Dutch.  ...

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Disaster Playground selected for SXSW Film Festival!

Remember Disaster Playground: A Pre-Enactment by Nelly Ben Hayoun, at MU last year? The documentary has been completed and is selected for SXSW Film Festival! Watch the trailer here: vimeo.com/107466074 ...

FATraiser - pledge you fats

During the FATraiser held on Saturday February 1st Mike Thompson and Arne Hendriks invited you, the public, to pledge your fats, becoming a shareholder in the worlds first, community built FATBERG. Missed it? You can download the...

Matter of Art? by Esther Porcelijn

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OPEN CALL | Bio Art & Design Award 2015

APPLY NOW for Bio Art & Design Award 2015!  Winners are granted €25.000, to fully realize a new work of art or design that pushes the boundaries of research application and creative expression.  Winning proposals are developed in collaboration with...

Adjusting the contours of nature | An essay by Regine Debatty

Regine Debatty (www.we-make-money-not-art.com) wrote an essay on the occasion of exhibition Matter Of Life, titled 'Adjusting the contours of nature'. You can read it here.  Recently she also blogged about FATBERG, a work by Arne Hendriks and Mike...

KNEELING | 5 years of making carpets

Tonight, the first book of We Make Carpets will be presented during the festive book launch, but starting now, the book is already on sale in our webshop! Specially for the exhibition Kneeling | Five years of We Make Carpets, We...

Honorary mention for Quayola

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Making a Mark during Fontys PURPLE

MU invited the young designers Marsha Simon en Eva van der Moer to make an anrtistic intervention with 4500 freshmen of Fonrys academy, to open their introduction week PURPLE 2014 at the Ketelhuisplein. ...

Maya Hayuk mural

In 2010, Maya Hayuk had her first big Dutch solo show at MU, and now she is back in the Netherlands. For the tenth edition of Incubate, she will create a huge mural in the Hall of Fame...

Brave New Now e-book

We're happy to announce a new e-book! In Brave New Now you find a collection of specially commissioned short stories set in a fictional future city. The idea of this city was born in MU during the project Under Tomorrows Sky...

GenderBlender Magazine!

GenderBlender Magazine is online now!   Last Friday during the crowded GenderBlender opening, we launched the magazine that was specially made for the GenderBlender exhibition. In collaboration with the flamboyant Et Alors? we created this beautiful edition. Did you miss the...

We're MUving!

Here we go! On 1 August, MU is moving permanently to its new location inside the Gerard building in the Strijp S area. Naturally, the move comes with a new set of address details: MU | Strijp S Torenallee...

OPEN CALL: Trans | Post

This is an open call for all who identify as transgender, intersex, innersex, genderqueer, nonconforming or gender gifted to submit handmade postcards for the show GenderBlender at the artspace MU, Eindhoven in the Netherlands starting June 6 till August 17....

MU Play&Learn at BKKC Connects and Paradigma

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Interview Angelique Spaninks on POSTmatter

Francesca Gavin interviewed Angelique Spaninks, our director, for the online magazine POSTmatter. Read about her visions about techonolgy, collaborations and the future of art and design. http://postmatter.com/currents/angelique-spaninks/#/ ...

The Canadian curator and writer Michelle Kasprzak from the Art+Tech Blog Akimbo, also describes Nelly Ben Hayoun as the Willy Wonka of design and science. Michelle highlights not only the film project 'The International Space Orchestra', but also her latest...

REMINDER! Call for proposals: deadline 2 febr 2014

Bio Art & Design Award 2014   Always wanted to be at the forefront of riveting art or design that is trans-disciplinary and pushes the boundaries of technological and artistic possibilities? Then submit your application for the Bio Art & Design Award...

Bio Art & Design Award open call

EUR 75,000 prize money available for three teams of artists/designers and scientists.   The successful Design & Art For Genomics Award (DA4GA), the unique competition that encourages young artists internationally to discover and further develop the world of bio art and bio...

Free Shuttle bus during DDW

Throughout the Dutch Design Week the free shuttle bus rides again! The shuttlebus runs between: 1. MU | Strijp S 2. Klokgebouw / Strijp S 3. MU | De Witte Dame / DAE 4. Designhuis / Stadhuisplein During the entire DDW the bus...

Willi Dorner's performance "bodies in urban spaces" has been touring worldwide since 2007. After shows in more than 60 cities, including Eindhoven (MU | Strijp S) they now want to round off the project with a photo book. And you can...

MU and Cie Willi Dorner are looking for dancers

SECOND AUDITION FOR BODIES IS URBAN SPACES BY CIE. WILLI DORNER Cie. Willi Dorner and artspace MU are looking for dancers for the three day workshop and performances ‘Bodies in Urban Spaces’. The performance. The outdoor performance ‘Bodies in Urban Spaces’...

MU15 and second MU at Strijp-S

Great news: MU turns 15 and opens a second space at Strijp-S. Thousand square meters on the ground floor of building Gerard gives the next years room to MU's successful mix of international contemporary art, design, new media and urban art....

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review 'Computer love' Metropolis M

'In MU kijkt Ryoji Ikeda achter het computerscherm, naar de wereld die ons leven bestuurt. Voor het eerst is het werk data.scan [nº1-9] van Ryoji Ikeda in Europa te zien. De audiovisuele installatie, die deel uitmaakt van de in 2006...

#A.I.L - artists in laboratories, episode 21: Liam Young

Regine Debatty (We make money not art) in conversation with speculative architect Liam Young, focusing on Under Tomorrows Sky, a project that was born last Summer, at MU in Eindhoven, where Liam was joined by a group of scientists,...

The Tiny Tim belongs to the 33 best designed books of 2012!

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Design Debates no 4. (of 11) - Health: the next level

Adriaan Wormgoor is an independent interaction designer from Rotterdam. His work clearly reflects his love for physical interaction. In collaboration with a study group at the Erasmus MC he developed a game in which the player can steer his movements...

An Open Source Sky

Two years ago MU commissioned Liam Young (Tomorrows Thoughts Today) to develop Electronic Countermeasures (GLOW 2011). Metahaven talked to him about the project.   Read the interview: An Open Source Sky - Metahaven in Conversation with Liam Young   Tomorrows Thoughts Today...

MU Fliplab: upside-down world

Kick-off Friday, February 1, 20.00 h at MU   The idea of the ‘upside-down university’ was the starting point for MU Fliplab, the new educational programme currently being developed by MU. Here, seniors learn from juniors, teachers from students, about, for example,...

Design Debates no 3. (of 11) - Plagiarism vs. Inspiration

30th January 15:00-16:30 Designhuis Eindhoven, Stadhuisplein 3, Eindhoven A plenary discussion with Tim Vermeulen, Christine Lacroix, Gie van den Broek and Bob Copray   "What you really worry about in the design of furniture or in architecture are the bad copies, when your...

The promise of Strijp-S

Dutch audio report by NOS-reporter Karin Alberts, who visits Strijp-S. Angelique Spaninks, MU, shows her around....

Dutch Design Week 2012: Bart Hess

At the 2012 Dutch Design Week, Bart Hess presented an exhibition titled Work With Me People, which involved the audience in producing futuristic furs.   video: Bart Hess at Dutch Design Week   In de Dutch Design Week Tabloid verscheen een artikel van...

Design Debates with a.o. Liam Young

 Design Debates - How Much Design Can We Digest? 25th October 16:00-17:30 Designhuis Eindhoven A plenary discussion with Tracy Metz, William Meyers, Liam Young and David Heldt. Sustainability, an emerging energy crisis or a better- distributed economy: wicked...

Shaking Science Week

During the last week of November MU will celebrate ‘Shaking Science‘-month. Visiters will be immersed in a world of science, new technology and nature through the use of BioArt, etc.   "BioArt not stirred" The Shaking Science week will kick off with a...

Expo: BioArt Not Stirred

Shaking Science is the event where you can talk with the life sciences. Everything under the motto: science meets society, society meets science.   From November 26 until November 30 MU will show the exhibition "BioArt not stirred" with work of Jalila Essaidi...

Hello Culture!

Sunday September 2 22 cultural organisations in Eindhoven will open their doors for everybody for free. MU too. more...

Follow Under Tomorrow's Sky

On the website www.undertomorrowssky.com Liam Young curator of the next MU exhibition keeps you posted on all the input he gets from participating thinkers, writers and artists. the exhibition opens on friday August 10....

Livestream Think Tank

Follow Under Tomorrow's Sky this weekend at MU. Saturday June 16 from 8 pm and Sunday June 17 form 11 am on www.undertomorrowssky.com More on Under Tomorrow's Sky here....

MU open next monday

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New director STRP festival

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Book Tim Enthoven rewarded

'Binnenkamers' a book by Tim Enthoven is rewarded with the best book design 2012 in Belgium in the category Comics & Graphic Novels. For his solo show he'll make a new publication. Source: Eindhovens Dagblad...

Live performance in Milan

In Milan Lucas Maassen will present his Lucas Maassen & Sons Furniture Factory for a live audience for the first time. For this project he puts his three under-age sons to work. If you are in the neighbourhood on...

Mini Melvin online

HeyHeyHey recently developed a travel version of the legendary Melvin the Mixed Media Machine. This spectacular Rube Goldberg, with Twitter and Facebook account, already charmed some 14000 people at MU during the Dutch Design Week 2010 and then, registered on...

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MU goes Milaan

From April 7 to 22 MU will be present in Milan at Ventura Lambrate simultaneously with the 51st Salone Internazionale del Mobile (Design Week). Do visit us if you are in the neigbourhood, you'll find us via this Dezeen...

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WEI FIN

Friday March 16 WEI will celebrate its last party. After the opening of SEEK MERRY HELL we'll join them and salute them. More info...

We need your SPAM!!!

Current artists in residence at the MU house, Varvara Guljajeva and Mar Canet Sola, are working on a new project called SPAMpoetry. Through their Flickr page you get an insight in their process. You can contribute to their project...

Win, Win, Win

For the opening event of both Art Rotterdam as Object Rotterdam MU has given away 14 free entry tickets....

Tomorrow Thoughts Today wins an award

London-based think tank Tomorrows Thoughts Today won an Internet of Things award for Best Networked Art with their interactive installation Electronic Countermeasures. TTT developed the project with Superflux and Eleanor Saitta. The project premiered...

Object Rotterdam and Re:Rotterdam

At Object Rotterdam MU presents D/Struct. made by Lucas Maassen and Raw Color for the After the Bit Rush exhibition. Temporary Trees by Raw Color and studio MKGK will also be on...

Video-essay Timeless

Timeless, a video essay / design fiction produced by KS12, a creative studio run by Gabriel Shalom and Patrizia Kommerell.   Timeless was commissioned by MU and was shot on location during STRP Festival 2011 and the Playful Post Digital...

Essay by Russell Davies

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Symposium Playful Post Digital Culture online

On November 25, 2011 MU together with STRP Festival and TU/e Industrial Design organised the Playful Post Digital Culture symposium with keynotes by Bruce Sterling, Russel Davies, Dries Verbruggen, Mary Flanagan and Prof. Ben Schouten. Did you miss it or...

Post Digital Design Tools

Workshop Thursday December 8, 10 pm -6 am location: MU fee: 10 euro   The third Tools Series by Baltan Laboratories takes place at MU. As part of the exhibition After the Bit Rush Lucas Maassen and Unfold will give a workshop in which post-digital...

Record number of visitors

During the 10th Dutch Design week up to 26.600 people visited the MU exhibtion After The Bit Rush. An unprecedented number and an absolute milestone in the history of MU’s entire existence. We are very proud.   Check out the...

Symposium Playful Post Digital Culture

Friday November 25, 11 am – 6 pm   In cooperation with STRP Festival and the TU/E Department of Industrial Design, and in the context of the exhibition After The Bit Rush, MU organizes a symposium in the Klokgebouw at Strijp S. Keynote...

Make a Forest at Strijp-S

The United Nations proclaimed 2011 as the international year of the Forest. This inspired cultural entrepreneurs Anne van der Zwaag and Joanna van der Zanden to initiate the project Make a Forest. The project is based on the...

Wild-S Forest

Add a temporary artificial tree to the Wild-S forest.   Wild-S is a temporary forest with its own pavillion, built by MU in collaboration with the Rotterdam-based artist collective Observatorium during the summer and fall of 2011. Wild-S is a place to play...

Opening After the Bit Rush

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Melvin the Machine on Vimeo

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MU & More - lecture Lucas Feireiss

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Melvin the Machine on MU TV

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Erik Davis talk

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The Great Babylon Circus

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MU & More

Most activities are in English, make sure to check it out.                    ...

A to Z of The New Psychedelica

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MU presents: 'Values' @ Trajector Art Fair

April 30 & May 1, 2011 MU presents 'Values' a solo presentation by Jasper van Es at the Trajector Art Fair in Brussels.   Art and the artworld evolve around values. In all senses of the word: esthetic, ethic and financial....

The New Psychedelica video item

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The New Psychedelica afterparty

Friday, April 8. Line up: The Oscillation (live), Strange Boutique, Rodaidh McDonald, David Maclean.   Starting 23h, location: Stroomhuis. Tickets 3 euro for sale on Thursday and Friday night at MU (from 20h).   The Oscillation. /// London http://www.myspace.com/theoscillations   Rodaidh McDonald /// London...

MU&more program March, April & May

Harlan Levey talks Moussism Thursday 24 March Starting at 8pm, entrance is free. Location: The studio in the Van Abbe Museum In the studio of Van Abbe Museum the American curator and writer Harlan Levey will tell us all about the...

MU&more agenda

  Thursday, February 10 From 20:00 Digital Arts platform and festival Playgrounds, mixed media film producer Postal Panic and the componist Bram Meindersma, all like to work with Fons Schiedon. And Fons with them. Why and how? They will...

MU&more

This QR-code refers directly to the online mobile MU&more page. Before you know it you'll be looking at the new MU evening program on your mobile phone.   And there is more to come. Soon you will find the new and complete...

MU & More

Join us for a New Years toast during the first MU & more night on Thursday January 13, starting at 20h. Presenting for the first time in The Netherlands: .GIF show by www.todayandtomorrow.net and a MU 2011 preview....

Swoon print for sale for Haïti

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FluxFlowerPhotoshoot

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Funware conference

On saturday november 27 MU and Baltan Laboratories in collaboration with STRP Festival organise a Funware conference. Register for this conference via Baltan Laboratories. Entrance is 10 euro including lunch.   Provocative views on humor, software, playing and art will be...

New Talent Portfolio Night - BLEND & Streetlab

Tuesday 16 November  from 8pm till 10pm Free Entrance after subscribing via rsvp@blend.nl/ mu@mu.nl The first New Talent Portfolio Night, a hard-boiled concept from Pakhuis de Zwijger in Amsterdam is traveling to Eindhoven. On Tuesday evening the 16th...

Walk & Talk Show 'Pols Hoogte' during DDW

Next to an enlightening vision on Melvin the Machine by one of it's professors, we will dig deeper into what makes cities become cultural magnets. Eindhoven has recently developed a new strategy with which it will have to become one...

CultureBash

In collaboration with Area51 Skatepark, MU organized the CultureBash. International street artists Wayne Horse, East Eric, Dave the Chimp and Nomad were invited by MU to come to Eindhoven for a workshop with the kids at the skatepark.   pictures...

MU at Flux/S

Last weekend the second edition of Flux/S artsfestival was there to experience at Strijp S. MU offerd two projects to the program: the Flux Flying Flower Show of Ernst van der hoeven, Frank Bruggeman and Erik Roelen and a big...

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...For those Who live in it - Lecture- Sue Williamson

Sue Williamson, writer and critic of the recently published standard South African...

Musa Nxumalo in Laduma! Rotterdam

For Laduma!, an artproject in the Afrikaanderwijk organised by Sensational Mix, he daily shoots pictures that will not only be uploaded to a blog but are also on view in two exhibitions. Subject is the background and context of the...

Studio Smack wins European Design Award

Read more about the European Design Awards and Studio Smack. ...

...For those who live in it - film special

The Believers (45 minutes) By Canadian filmmaker Laura Gamse, 2010.   Biko’s Children (14 minutes) Short documentary by Breeze Yoko about the importance of the ideas and visions of the student leader and civil rights activist Steven Bantu Biko nowadays.   Fokofpolisiekar forgive them...

Danshuis Station Zuid has a performance at MU

Mini Home is a compilation of HOME, which is developed by four...

MU is open on May 1 and 2

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Round the way

Round The Way, Maya Hayuk (New York, USA) Published by Nieves on occasion of the exhibition Ultra, Ultra Deep Fields by Maya Hayuk at MU. 20 Pages, 19.5 x 25.5 cm, Color Offset, First Edition, 2010.   ...

Inside Spaces

Soundtrackto the exhibition Ultra, Ultra Deep Fields by Maya Hayuk. The two disc album is published in a limited edition of 250 and available at MU or via mu@mu.nl Publisher: MU, Compilation and artwork: Maya Hayuk, Design: Maya Hayuk & HeyHeyHey...

Title sequences

MU and SubmarineChannelpresent a special evening programme on Friday, February 26st. During this programme, a number of film-title designers will discuss their specialisation and sources of inspiration. Speakers: Olivier Marquézy, studio deubal (Paris), Nic Benns, momoco (London), Balder Westein, threedoubleyou...

Neasden Control Centre in Sheffield

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Pols Hoogte

21 Januari 2010 tussen 20.30 en 22 uur bij MU, de toegang is gratis....

London Booklaunch

After a splattering launch of the exhibition and book by Julie Verhoeven at MU it is now Londons turn. Between 6 and 9 pm on friday november 20 'A Bit of Rough' will be presented in the company of the...

A Bit of Rough booklaunch

On the occasion of the exhibition, MU will publish ‘A Bit of Rough’, a book dedicated to the work of Julie Verhoeven. This publication includes an essay by critic Francesca Gavin.    ...

Objectified - Gary Hustwit

In the framework of the Dutch Design Week, MU and Van Abbemuseum bring you the documentary Objectified by Gary Hustwit, as part of the project Take on me (take me on).   Thursday October 22, 18:00h, at the museum auditorium. Saturday 24th,...

The Little King in Groede

People You May Know is een door videokunstenaar Hester Scheurwater met behulp van haar Facebook netwerk samengestelde expositie in galerie De School in Groede. Erwin Thomasse vertegenwoordigt MU met een tweede variant op zijn Little King of Everything, dit keer...

Opening GroundAbout

Opening GroundAbout on Friday September 4, starting at 20h. Singer/songwriter Hidde van Schie will perform at the opening.      ...

Dahlia Drive

In co-production with MU and FLUX-S festival, Frank Bruggeman and Ernst van der Hoeven (founders of Club Donny) realised this dahlia garden at Strijp-S. Open for public: September 10-13. www.clubdonny.com - www.flux-s.nl...

Here&There blog

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Finissage Maker & Spectators

Christien Meindertsma, Jaap Robben, Vicky Francken, Marijke van der Linden en Daniëlle Arets. sunday june 14 15h – 17h free entrance ...

The little king of everything

Erwin Thomasse Imagine your own island. Who wouldn't want one for themselves? Just to step out this hectic world, but even more to create your own world. One where you are the king. Not for 5 minutes, but for always.   Opening, Saturday...

Polshoogte

Thursday May 28 starting at 21.00h at MU   guests: Andrea van Pol, Christien Meindertsma, Lady Aïda, Frens Frijns, Marrïet Mittendorf, Heleen Huisjes en Skenkie! ...

Swimming Cities

Swoon, and The Miss Rockaway Armada Crew, both good friends of MU, are preparing an awesome project called Swimming Cities of Serenissima. It will take place in Venice beginning of june to coincide with the Venice Biennial. All support is...

Heavy Metal in Baghdad

Special screening of the Vice documentary Heavy Metal in Baghdad. Wednesday, March 18, 20.00h Free entrance! www.heavymetalinbaghdad.com...

5MM - Random Screen

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Leila by Silvia B. in 5MM

This month Leila a sculpture by the Dutch artist Silvia B. takes over the whole The 5MinuteMuseum this. Leila incorporates east and west, connecting tattoos, lace and henna in an intrigueing way....

Now at 5MM: Salamander

Pascual Sisto's videoinstallation 'Salamander' now at 5MM. November 27 - December 27. Strijp S, SBX building (entrance via Glaslaan) www.5-mm.nl...

MU10

Friday October 10 we celebrate our 10th birthday with a symposium and a big party! MU10 SYMPOSIUM – INTERNET AND ART BLOGGING: 14.30-18.00h, Location: Auditorium The White Lady.   MU10 PARTY: 21:00-02:00h, Location: MU, Entrance: free. With: Money Mark (US) soundtrack Beautiful...

Lagombra Bike Track

27 juni tm 27 juli Lichtplein (achter de Witte Dame) Emmasingel, Eindhoven Gewapend met een kettingzaag, een vracht gebruikte steigerplanken en een vuist vol spijkers, schroeven en tools bouwde de Zweedse ontwerper Anders Jakobsen alias Lagombra een spannende achtbaan...

DJ KID SUNDANCE vrijdag 25 juli - vanaf 19.30 u   Op 25 juli geeft MU een feestje tijdens het Europees Kampioenschap voor fietskoeriers in Eindhoven. Tegelijkertijd is de expositie ‘Fundamentals, legal and less legal ways of using our playgrounds’ te...

Uitslag fotowedstrijd

De uitslag van de fotowedstrijd tijdens de expositie ‘It’s always six o’clock’, is bekend. 70 Bezoekers maakten foto’s van het werk en de nieuwe kaMUraden kozen de winnaar.    ...