Koen Vanmechelen launches The Battery Channel
When a pandemic shuts down her laboratories and temples, modern art finds new ways to spill over and engage with the world. In the Battery, the beating heart of LABIOMISTA, artist Koen Vanmechelen launches The Battery Channel. With this audiovisual channel, Vanmechelen continues his artistic quest for meaning, identity, diversity and community in sounds, syllables and imaging. Initiated during the COVID-19 pandemic, the artist invites you inside his overactive but quarantined
Koen Vanmechelen and MOUTH Foundation send 10 000 MOUTH Masks to communities around the globe
With his Cosmopolitan Chicken Project, an artistic crossbreeding project with chickens from around the globe, Belgian artist Koen Vanmechelen has been learning from the chicken for years. The project is a metaphor of how we, humans, treat this animal and subsequently our planet. His statement “We are the Chicken” has become increasingly evident the last few weeks. After years of being confronted with compulsory fencing for his poultry, we are now quarantining ourselves, the m
