

Seduction, Metamorphoses, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam (NL), 6 FEB – 25 MAY 2026
The prestigious Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam invites Koen Vanmechelen to participate in the group exhibition Metamorphoses . Rijksmuseum - 2014 - © John Lewis Marshall Passion and desire, lust and jealousy, cunning and deceit — few classical texts have stirred the imagination of artists as deeply as Ovid’s Metamorphoses . In the eponymous exhibition artists as Titian, Correggio, Cellini, Caravaggio, Rubens, Rodin, Brancusi, Magritte, and Bourgeois rival the imaginative power and


We Thought We Were Alone, Palazzo Rota Ivancich, Venice (IT), 9 May – 22 NOV 2026
Koen Vanmechelen returns to Venice with a solo exhibition entitled We Thought We Were Alone . Coinciding with the 61st International Art Exhibition – In Minor Keys , the exhibition will feature 30 installations across three floors, transforming the historic 17th-century Palazzo Rota Ivancich into a space of hybridity, connection, and dialogue between all forms of life. Curator James Putnam; We Thought We Were Alone  alludes to the premise that humans are not central to the fu

























