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 Article by Geert Van der Speeten on LABIOMISTA in De Standaard, De museumpassage, photos by Kristof Vadino |  L'Officiel article on We Thought We Were Alone, coinciding with the 61st Venice Biennale, Palazzo Rota Ivancich, Venice, Italy, June 2026 |  Financial Times, 18 July 2026, Lee Sharrock. Photographed for the FT by Kevin Faingnaert |
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 The Art Newspaper interview on We Thought We Were Alone, coinciding with the 61st Venice Biennale, Palazzo Rota Ivancich, Venice, Italy, June 2026 |  Corriere della Serra article of We Thought We Were Alone, coinciding with the 61st Venice Biennale, Palazzo Rota Ivancich, Venice, Italy, June 2026 |  De Limburger coverage of Future Fossil for Kunst aan de Maas, May 2026 |
 TVL coverage of the unveiling of Future Fossil for Kunst aan de Maas, May 2026 |  Whitewall article of We Thought We Were Alone, coinciding with the 61st Venice Biennale, Palazzo Rota Ivancich, Venice, Italy, May 2026 |  HLN article of We Thought We Were Alone, coinciding with the 61st Venice Biennale, Palazzo Rota Ivancich, Venice, Italy, May 2026 |
 TVL coverage of We Thought We Were Alone, coinciding with the 61st Venice Biennale, Palazzo Rota Ivancich, Venice, Italy, May 2026 |  TVL report on the opening of the Glassstress exhibition at Tsinghua University, Beijing (2026) |  VRT NWS report on the opening of the 8th season of LABIOMISTA - Never Alone, 4 April 2026 |
 BeauxArts magazine article on Seduction – Metamorphoses at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, February 2026 |  HLN article on Seduction – Metamorphoses at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, February 2026 |  TVL coverage of LIMINA: Cosmopolitan Chicken Project 30 at Chillida Leku in Spain, October 2025 |
 Article on VRT NWS, Noah's Ark, Venice Marco Polo airport, 19 February 2025 |  Het Laatste Nieuws, Noah's Ark, Venice Marco Polo airport, 19 February 2025 |  VRTNWS Koen Vanmechelen x Aldi Belgium, De Warmste Week, 4 December 2024 |
 Article De Morgen, Koen Vanmechelen X Aldi Belgium, De Warmste Week, 6 December 2024 |  Mechelse Jær CCP29 in STOFF magazine |  Article Forbes Meet The Artists Working At The Intersection Of Art And Science, 24 Oct 2024 |
 Article on Hybriden, De Warande, Turnhout (BE) |  Article in De Tijd on expo 'Hybriden' in De Warande, Turnhout, 8 August 2024 |  TVL report on the launch of Mixed Menu Wallpaper, 2024 |
 Article featuring LABIOMISTA, The Glam Attitude, 2024 |  Article in Tagesspiegel, 60th Biennial of Venice, Noah's Ark, 2024 |  |
 VRT news, Koen Vanmechelen, Looking for the Ark, 60th Biennial of Venice, 18 april 2024 |  VRT news, Koen Vanmechelen, Looking for the Ark, Noah's Ark, 60th Biennial of Venice, 17 April 2024 |  TVL news, Koen Vanmechelen Looking for the Ark, 60th Biennial Venice, 17 April 2024 |
 Article Dream of Human Nature, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 6 November 2023 |  TVL news, Dream of Human Nature, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 4 November 2023 |  Article VRT News, Kunstenfestival Watou 2023, 1 July 2023 |
 Article De Morgen, Kunstenfestival Watou 2023, 7 juli 2023 |  Article Biodiversity and Domesticity in a Hybrid World: A Conversation with Koen Vanmechelen, IFA Contemporary, 23 March 2023 |  Corriere Del Trentino, Anima Mundi, Carousel of Life, Trento (IT), MUSE, 13 July 2023 |
 RAI, Anima Mundi, The Carousel of Life, Trento (IT) |  Article Glasstress, Sopot (Poland), 4 July 2023 |  Article Artribune, Expo Museo Correr Socrates Temptation 2023 |
 Koen Vanmechelen, expo Anima Mundi 'The Carousel of Life' , Science Museum MUSE, Trento (IT) — TV Limburg (TVL) |  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 |  Article Prensa Latina, Cuba, Medusa's Hope, Museo Belles Artes La Habana, Cuba, 19 December 2022 |  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 |
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