Wednesday, September 27, 2017 5:00 PM Experience Walkabout Farm in this First Public Event, Hear from the Artist About His Work in Detroit and Around the Globe, And Enjoy Live Music by Jeremy Kittel in a Cocktail Setting A one-night special event to experience Walkabout Farm, which opened in spring 2017 as part of Belgian artist Koen Vanmechelen’s Planetary Community Chicken (PCC) project in Detroit. The cocktail party will include a presentation by Vanmechelen highlighting h

The aim of the upcoming ZKM exhibition Open Codes: Living in Digital Worlds is to give visitors an opportunity to understand the world we humans live in, and the world we live from. This is a new approach, for the ZKM, of directly addressing the visitor, in an attempt to change a form of visitor behavior that has been shaped by over two hundred years of looking at pictures on walls. This is a new approach, for the ZKM, of directly addressing the visitor, in an attempt to chan

On the 14th of September, the cosmOpolitan Gallery will open its doors for the very last time. In 2013, Yannick Nijs and Luc Vrielinck founded the gallery with a vision to represent an promote the work of Koen Vanmechelen. "As longtime observers of the activities of Koen, we wanted to create a platform enabling us to stage exhibitions and provide first hand insight into the fascinating world of the artist." After five successful exhibitions, the gallery is now passing the to

Kunstenaar Koen Vanmechelen was te gast in deze L1 Cultuurcafé De Belgische kunstenaar Koen Vanmechelen, gevestigd in het Belgisch-Limburgse Genk, is een grootheid in de internationale kunstwereld. Zijn werk, dat draait om bioculturele diversiteit, is een ode aan het leven. Vanmechelen heeft een bijzondere muze: de kip. Zijn meest bekende project is dan ook het ‘Cosmopolitan Chicken Project’, waarmee hij door het kruisen van rassen een metafoor creëert voor onze hedendaagse m