Tech artist Matthias Oostrik works at the intersection of digital art, installation art, film, and architecture. His artworks establish unpredictable relationships between people and their surroundings. Using digital technology, his installations respond to visitors with transforming light, video, or sound, enabling visitors to reshape their environment and their relationships with each other. Matthias Oostrik collaborates with renowned performance artists, neuroscientists, engineers and, crucially, his audience, who often become an integral part of his award-winning work.
From the poetical:
Blending human expression and algorithms into visual landscapes.
Past the irrational:
Inverting surveillance technology to activate audiences.
To the impossible:
Using EEG brainwave devices to create intimacy.
With Suzanne Dikker he co-founded Harmonic Dissonance, a collective dedicated to the exploration of human synchrony through artistic and scientific inquiry.
Audiovisual installation The Movement Station for De Empathiefabriek
commissioned by Universiteitsmuseum Utrecht and the University of Ghent | NL | 2025 - present
Public Light Installation Transition in Yellow and Blue
commissioned by ProRail | NL | 2025 | in development
Public Light Installation ΛV
commissioned by the Municipality of Vijfheerenlanden and the Province of Utrecht | NL | 2024
Audiovisual installation PL:NG
commissioned by ING | NL | 2021
Public Light Installation het Licht van Jan
commissioned by the City of Amsterdam | NL | 2021
Public Light Installation Een Spoor van Water
commissioned by the Municipality of Assen | NL | 2020
Public Light Installation Assen van Assen
commissioned by the Municipality of Assen | NL | 2018
Visual Performance Foam Fusion
in collaboration with ISH | commissioned by Foam | NL | 2017
Visuals for the immersive space SenseImage
commissioned by DigitalArti | FR | 2016
Visuals for the VideoSync app
commissioned by ShowSync | Amsterdam | NL | 2016
Visuals for the performance Hidden Features
commissioned by Deutsche Oper am Rhein | DE | 2014
Visual Installation Voices of Design: 25 Years of Architalx
commissioned by the Portland museum of Art | US | 2013
Site Specific Visual Installation plplpl.pl pt7: Entrance
commissioned by TodaysArt | NL | 2011
Public Light Installation Bijlmer Moodwall (with Urban Alliance)
commissioned by The City of Amsterdam | NL | 2009 - present
Amsterdam Fund for the Arts
Project Grant | NL | 2025
Creative Industries Fund NL
Project Grant | NL | 2024
Creative Industries Fund NL
Open Call Presentations Abroad | NL | 2024
Fentener van Vlissingen Fonds
Project Grant | NL | 2022
Stichting Elise Mathilde Fonds
Project Grant | NL | 2022
Creative Industries Fund NL
Experiment Grant | NL | 2021
Mondriaan Fund
Commissioning Contemporary Art Grant | NL | 2019
BPD CultuurFonds
Project Grant | NL | 2019
Amsterdam Fund for the Arts
Project Grant | NL | 2019
Creative Industries Fund NL
Project Grant | NL | 2018
Stichting Niemeijer Fonds
Stipend | NL | 2017-2019
Federation of European Neuroscience Societies
Art of Neuroscience Award Award | EU | 2016
Creative Industries Fund NL Traveling Dialogues
Open Call | NL | 2016
Amsterdam Fund for the Arts
Project Grant | NL | 2016
Creative Industries Fund NL
Project Grant | NL | 2015
Marina Abramović Institute Neuroscience Package
Project Grant | US | 2014
Dutch Design Award best product in public space
Award | NL | 2009
ICK Space for Dance Art White Space NL | 2026
NXT museum Harmonic Dissonance Quartet NL | 2022
Doornburgh Art/Science Center Harmonic Dissonance Quartet NL | 2022
Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum Harmonic Dissonance: InSync DE | 2019
Studio Mellius Harmonic Dissonance NL | 2018
Pioneer Works Mutual Wave Machine US | 2017
V2 plplpl.pl: Scrutiny NL | 2016
3LD Art & Technology Centre Mutual Wave Machine US | 2016
Zaal 3 Mutual Wave Machine NL | 2014
Weteringschans plplpl.pl: Curtain vs. Mirror NL | 2010
Lowlands Lowlands Science NL | 2025
Centro Cultural FIESP FILE Festival BR | 2024
Belfast Photo Festival SMILE GB | 2024
Pieterskerk Nacht van de Ontdekkingen NL | 2024
Rendr Festival The Forgettable Art Machine GB | 2024
Amsterdam CS Museum Night NL | 2023
Society 5.0 Festival The Forgettable Art Machine NL | 2023
Lowlands The Forgettable Art Machine NL | 2023
Museu do Amanhã Nova Bienal BR | 2023
Dead End Gallery AIIA - Infinite Infusion NL | 2023
Museum de Lakenhal Imagine Intuition NL | 2022
The Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea
O Caminho para a Luz porque Passa pela Luz PT | 2021
ICK Space for Dance Art Opening NL | 2021
Nieuw Dakota BeamLab Presents NL | 2018
Ballet National de Marseille BNM Fest FR | 2018
Espacio Fundación Telefónica
Beyond 2001: Odysseys of Intelligence ES | 2018
Doornburgh Art/Science Center Transitie NL | 2018
Grote Kerk Gogbot NL | 2018
Kunstlinie Almere Flevoland Overdaad NL | 2018
Post Pavilion OPUS 1 US | 2017
La Bourse du Travail Foam X Arles FR | 2017
Foam Foam Fusion NL | 2017
Eusebiuskerk Oddstream NL | 2017
Eres Stiftung No Secrets! DE | 2017
Tweede Kamer Museum Night NL | 2016
Tivoli Vredenburg Cultural Sundays NL | 2016
Theater aan het Spui TodaysArt NL | 2016
The Great Hall FORMS Festival CA | 2016
NRW Forum Next Level: Festival of Games DE | 2016
Benaki Museum As One GR | 2016
Lowlands Lowlands Science NL | 2015
VDNKh Optika Pavilion Lexus Hybrid Art RU | 2014
McEnery Centre Silicon Valley Contemporary US | 2014
Manhattan Pratt Gallery Sleuthing the Mind US | 2014
Former Ministry of Internal Affairs TodaysArt NL | 2013
NIMK Impossible worlds NL | 2012
MMC Kibla Soft Control SI | 2012
Garage Centre of Contemporary Culture
Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present RU | 2011
The Hague City Hall TodaysArt NL | 2011
Paradiso iliketowatchtoo NL | 2010
MAMCO Mapping Festival CH | 2009
Trends in Cognitive Sciences US | 2026
Multi-brain neurofeedback: what are we training for?
Marcelo Velasco and Ignacio Nieto US | 2024
The Art-Science Symbiosis
STIR World IN | 2024
FILE 2024: QUBIT AI
Leidsch Dagblad NL | 2024
Een intiem diner met een vleesetende plant
Andersonstown News UK | 2024
Keeping a watching brief on AI and our surveillance society
Irish News UK | 2024
It’s so weird to hear a computer laugh
Sign Benelux NL | 2024
Verlicht kunstwerk onder viaduct Vianen
Volkskrant NL | 2022
Voor Imagine Intuition hebben wetenschappers zich laten inspireren door kunstenaars, en andersom
Metalocus ES | 2021
Light Projections for the underground walker. Het Licht van Jan
DesignBoom US | 2021
passersby activate dynamic projections in matthias oostrik's light installation in amsterdam
Architectenweb NL | 2021
Meegolvend licht onder een spoorviaduct
Frontiers in Neuroergonomics US | 2021
Hybrid Harmony: A Multi-Person Neurofeedback Application for Interpersonal Synchrony
NeuroImage US | 2021
Crowdsourcing neuroscience: Inter-brain coupling during face-to-face interactions outside the laboratory
Metalocus ES | 2020
Digital art with infinite duration. Een Spoor van Water
Floornature IT | 2020
Light installation by Matthias Oostrik in Assen
Architectenweb NL | 2020
Lichtkunst verbindt nieuw spoorviaduct met historie van Assen
Metropolis M NL | 2020
Harmonieus uit balans - dans ontmoet kunst en wetenschap
Süddeutsche Zeitung DE | 2017
das Datendilemma
Het Parool NL | 2017
Een apparaat dat blij wordt van jouw gekke gedrag
Deutschlandfunk DE | 2017
Reiz und Gefahr digitaler Selbstüberwachung
Current Biology US | 2017
Brain-to-brain synchrony tracks real-world dynamic group interactions
Creators Project NL | 2017
Kijk één keer naar dit kunstwerk en je komt er nooit meer uit
KNAW NL | 2016
MWM wins international competition art of neuroscience
Scientific American Mind US | 2016
The art of neuroscience
Creators Project US | 2016
These artists are crafting the future of immersive experiences
Metropolis M NL | 2015
De meetbaarheid van een hersenspinsel
Marina Abramović Institute US | 2014
MAI presents