DOCUMENTATION

Video selection

Enter the fascinating universe of Koen Vanmechelen and discover video's on his projects on our vimeo channel.

Publications

Discover catalogues of exhibitions and Vanmechelen's own publication The Accident on our ISSUE page.

Column

Koen Vanmechelen has a weekly column in the Belgian newspaper Het Belang van Limburg. Read them here.

Press

Koen Vanmechelen opens prestigious solo exhibition in Cuba, TV Limburg (TVL)	Cosmopolitan Renaissance Knokke, VRT Nieuws	Cosmopolitan Renaissance Knokke, 29/10/2022, De Morgen
Cosmopolitan Renaissance Knokke, 29/10/2022, Het Belang van Limburg	Cosmopolitan Renaissance Knokke, 29/10/2022, De Standaard	De Morgen, 06 July 2022
Cosmogolem, Giant of Hope Diplomatic World, May 2022	The Cosmopolitan Chicken on the cover of Finestre sull Arte, June, July, August 2022	Artribune - 10 May 2022 - article on exhibition Murano, Venice
Koen Vanmechelen featured in “Das Tier und wir” on Twist, Arte, 29th April 2022	VRT news - click to watch video	l'Echo - article on Seduzione, Uffizi Gallery
De Standaard - article on Seduzione, Uffizi Gallery's	De Tijd - 18 jan 2022 - Seduzione, Uffizi Gallery	RAI news (IT) - click to watch video
TRENDS - 27 jan 2022 - Seduzione, Uffizi Gallery	De Tijd - 22 jan 2022 - Seduzione, Uffizi Gallery	Corriere delle sera (IT) - 18 jan 2022 - article on Seduzione, Uffizi Gallery
La Nazione (IT) - 18 jan 2022 - Seduzione, Uffizi Gallery	Article on Seduzione in Het Belang van Limburg	Knack Magazine - article on Seduzione
article in la Repubblica Italy on 'Seduzione', exhibition at the Uffizi Gallery's	Monocle on places to visit in Belgium, summer 2021	Interview on Russian television about the Glasstress exhibition "Window of the Future" at The State Hermitage museum
Arte TRACKS Spécial XXS - Les poules sont-elles l’avenir de l’humanité ?	Interview with Koen Vanmechelen on his art, the pandemic and LABIOMISTA in De Morgen Magazine, 2021	Austrian national television reports on llama winter and Xavier Saelens' research for a medicine agains covid-19
National news reports on Vanmechelen's focus on community work	Kunst, Ernährung und Corona with ao Jonathan Safran Foer and Koen Vanmechelen	Interview with Koen Vanmechelen on Culture Club, national radio
Interview on llama winter in Het Belang Van Limburg	Knack reports on Vanmechelens MOUTH Mask project	L’artista Koen Vanmechelen e la “profezia” del coronavirus
National news reports on The Battery Channel
La Republica on THE WORTH OF LIFE, oct 2019	Het Belang van Limburg on THE WORTH OF LIFE, oct 2019	Studio Internationale, 2019
ArtStyle Magazine, 2019	De Morgen Magazine, 2019	Bélgica: de los murales de Tintín a los pollos de LABIOMISTA.
Nu te Zien, Avrotros, 2019	Arte Tv, 2019	Review of NRC on Food:Bigger than the Plate, V&A, London (UK), 2019
Initiation Human Rights Pavilion, Biennial of Venice (IT)	Permanent installation CWRM egg, De Standaard, 9 April 2019	Fundraising for Poverello on VRTnews, 25 march, 2019
Focus Art Magazine	Vizitka, SNC Russia, OCT 2018	Metropolis Magazine visited LABIOMISTA, Jan 2019
Wallpaper* on LABIOMISTA	Builders Facts about LABIOMISTA p.14-23	CWxRM, November, 25th, 2018
The Guardian about CWxRM, November 1st, 2018	Article on LABIOMISTA, Nov 2018	artwork Koen Vanmechelen at the National Museum of Ethiopia
Incubated Worlds, Ethiopia	CWRM	De Tijd, 14.04.2018
Psychologies magazine, April 2018	Playing Chicken With the Art World, The New York Times, OCT 26, 2016	Der Tagesspiegel on CWRM
ComingWorldRememberMe on the National news	Land art installation remembering WWI
	Koen Vanmechelen's Black Medusa on the cover of Parnass	Interview in MO* magazine on art, human rights and nature
july 2017	art - das kunstmagazine, JULY 2017	Socle du Monde Biennial, HEART, Herning
Brotes Creativos, July 2017	La Libre Belgique about The Beauty of The Beast, 30 MAY, 2017	About the CCP on Digi 24 (Romania), 25 MAY, 2017
Klara about The Beauty of the Beast, 23 MAY 2017		De Zevende Dag about The Beauty Of The Beast; exhibition in Hingene (BE), 21 MAY 2017
FAD Magazine about the Venice Biennial highlights, 15 MAY 2017	Highlights of the Venice Biennial 2017 on Deutsche Welle, 13 MAY 2017	De Tijd about Venice Biennial 2017
De Standaard about the Venice Biennial 2017 - 8 MAY 2017	Koen Vanmechelen on VTM Nieuws about Protected Paradise, his work for the Venice Biennial 2017 - (from 39'00 onwards)	Koen Vanmechelen on De Redactie about Protected Paradise, his work for the Venice Biennial 2017.
Koen Vanmechelen's article in the Spring edition of Diplomatic World 2017	Socle Du Monde Biennale Denmark, Apollo Magazine, APR 28, 2017	Ik Trap Gewoon Door, De Redactie, 18 APR, 2017
Touché, radio 1, 19 FEB, 2017	CBC Q Radio, DEC 14, 2016	An Artist Crossbreeds Chickens as a Metaphor for Global Exchange, HYPERALLERGIC, NOV 2016
The Future depends on the Cosmopolitan Chicken, Art World, June 2013	Tableau Fine Arts Magazine, p 14, June 2015	Wiener Zeitung, Morphologie des Huhns, 10 SEPT, 2013
Het ei, de kip. Levende systemen in de kunst. De Groene Amsterdammer, 24 OCT 2013	Londres expone el arte mundial motivado por Kubrick, eluniversal.com, July 5, 2016	Exhibition Review, Art in America, May 2013
Wyborcza, Biennial of Moscow, 2009	The Washington Post, Returning to Paradise, Egg by Egg, 03 MAY, 2013	DELO, 26 April, 2013 Koen Vanmechelen: The Cosmopolitan Chicken Project,
Art on the Wild Side, The Times, 14 JULY, 2000	What's up in Genetics, Janus, 2001	Modern Farmer, Creating Cosmopolitan Chickens one hybrid at a time, June, 2013
Playing Chicken With the Art World, New York Times, October 26, 2016	Het Laatste Nieuws, p.18, January 30, 2015	Fragile strenght - H ART on Glassfever at Dordrecht, DordtYart, June 2, 2016
Breeding a Better Chicken in the Name of Art (and Science), modernfarmer.com, September 2, 2016	What Happens When An Artist Thinks Like a Scientist? Better Chicken, bigthink.com, September 23, 2016