News archive for Cosmopolitan chicken project

Koen Vanmechelen is currently in New York for the build up of the new Glasstress expo at the Museum of Modern Art and Design in New York. An extraordinary international gathering of glass sculpture create in Murano at the studio of Adriano Berengo. Artists featured in the exhibition include Jan Fabre, Michael Joo, Jaime Hayon, Patricia Urquiola, Tony Oursler and Koen Vanmechelen.

More info about the expo on the MADmuseum website.

• The Belgian TV channel CANVAS invited Koen Vanmechelen to moderate the TED@canvas special about creativity and innovation. For this occasion, the artist selected three of his favorite talks and shares them with the audience. 
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TED@canvas
01.11, 23u30, Canvas

Watch the trailer online. 

Want to hear Koen Vanmechelen speak about his Cosmopolitan Chicken Project, the Open University of Diversity or the Cosmogolem; have a look at the calendar space because there are a lot of lectures coming up; http://www.koenvanmechelen.be/agenda/lectures

Starting from the 22nd of september, the Guangdong Museum of Art (China) will be the setting for the 4th triennial of Guangzhou entitled 'Meta-questions — Back to the Museum Per Se'. Artist Koen Vanmechelen is one of a handful of non-Chinese artists that is invited to present his site-specific installation 'Modified Spaces' which is the artist interpretation of the triennial's theme; the exploration of the boundaries between tradition and the contemporary.

The artist occupies three rooms at the museum which he transforms in an incubation space, a conservation area and an archaeological biotope. The visitor is invited to discover these different areas and, provided with a necessary safety package (mouth mask, disinfectant footbath and video instructions), he will be catapulted back into the past, to a period prior to the domestication of the Red Jungle Fowl, to a world in which man and chicken had not yet evolved together.

 On Friday, the 9th of September, a new group expo 'Scenarios about Europe' will open in the museum of Contemporary art in Leipzig. Among the artists is Koen Vanmechelen who'll present his installation 'Genetic Freedom'.

Our genes are not ‘our’ genes. They don’t belong to us and they don’t rule us. In the installation ‘Genetic Freedom’, Koen Vanmechelen returns to the initial fascination that started his famous Cosmopolitan chicken Project more than, ten years ago. From the very outset of his career, he was looking for the genetics, having the feeling that something valuable was growing ‘within’.


More info on the website of Gfzk.
 

Koen Vanmechelen created a new sculpture entitled 'King's crown'. The work will be the central piece in the upcoming exhibition at absolute art Gallery in Knokke from 05.08 − 18.09.

Koen Vanmechelen has officially been selected to participate in the 'Inauguration Exhibition of the Fourth Guangzhou Triennial' titled 'Back to Basics - The Museum Per Se'. He will present an installation entitled 'Modified Spaces'. An installation about the balance between nature and humans and about transformation. 'Modified Spaces' Koen Vanmechele...

  Interview with Jan Cremer, curator of ArtZuid. Among others he talks about why he's chosen 'Coming World' and the 'Cosmogolem' to be part of the international art route. http://www.tableaumagazine.nl/  For more information see; 

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