Dirk Draulans in Knack on LABIOMISTA
Read biologist Dirk Draulans article in KNACK on LABIOMISTA - https://www.knack.be/nieuws/belgie/koen-vanmechelen-opent-labiomista-ik-wil-dingen-verenigen-die-niet-te-verenigen-zijn/article-news-1484795.html
Inauguration of permanent CWRM sculpture, Palingbeek, Ypres (BE)
In Palingbeek, Ypres, the permanent ComingWorldRememberMe sculpture by artist Koen Vanmechelen is officially inaugurated. Remembering, helping, reflecting and connecting, those are the goals of CWRM. Between 2014 and 2018, this project, by artist Koen Vanmechelen and vzw Kunst, commemorated the centenary of WW I commissioned by the Province of West-Flanders as part of GoneWest, the cultural commemoration of WW I. Six hundred thousand clay statues shaped like hunched soldiers
The Worth of life, solo exhibition, Teatro dell’architettura, Mendrisio-USI (CH)4 OCT - 2 FEB, 2020,
From Friday 4 October 2019 to Sunday 2 February 2020 at the Teatro dell’architettura Mendrisio-USI opens the exhibition “KOEN VANMECHELEN - THE WORTH OF LIFE - 1982/2019” promoted by the Fondazione Teatro dell’architettura. An extensive review over more than sixty-five works by the artist Koen Vanmechelen: sculptures, paintings, neon, lambda prints and installations set up outside and in the three floors of theTeatro dell’architettura Mendrisio, the new campus building desig
Art The Hague, Wilford X, 2 - 6 OCT, Den Haag (NL)
Art The Hague, is a contemporary art fair presenting a combination of renowned galleries such as Galerie Ramakers, Livingstone Gallery and young galleries like Assembled by Root and Lauwer Art. Wildford X (Temse, Belgium) will be showing this year's main artist; Koen Vanmechelen with an installation entitled 'Cosmopolitan Renaissance'. Change is the new normal. The world is rapidly transforming, and so is the artist. He has to. The Spiritus Mundi is transformed. A Cosmopolita
New edition of the LABIOMISTA - JOURNAL
To celebrate the opening of LABIOMISTA, the second edition of the LABIOMISTA journal has been published. Including interviews with a.o. artist Koen Vanmechelen, Mayor of Genk Wim Dries, Architect Mario Botta, International Human Rights lawyer Manfred Nowak and a text by Geerdt Magiels. Download a digital copy via https://www.labiomista.be/news/labiomista-journal-ndeg2
LABIOMISTA open to the public
On the 6th of July, LABIOMISTA, the remarkable evolving artwork by Belgian artist Koen Vanmechelen, opened its gates. Vanmechelen’s ‘pregnant site’, a unique collaboration with the city of Genk, already attracted world press to Zwartberg. Daring and ambitious, LABIOMISTA is much more than an art project. With the site, Koen Vanmechelen wants to offer the ingredients for the birth of a possible new society. With a strong focus on community development and human rights. “As a p
