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

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