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

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

This fall Chillida Leku opens its gates to a remarkable exhibition by Koen Vanmechelen:  Limina – Cosmopolitan Chicken Project 30 . This thirtieth edition of Vanmechelens crossbreeding project marks a new threshold in an artistic journey that has spanned more than three decades. A Chicken that crossed the world The  Cosmopolitan Chicken Project (CCP)  is Vanmechelen’s most iconic work. Since 1999, he has been crossbreeding chickens from different countries and cultures as a l

From this February, Koen Vanmechelen’s participation in last year’s Venice Biennale will have a successful sequel. At the Biennale, the...