La Biomista - Cosmopolitan Chicken Project, Exo-Evolution, ZKM, Karlsruhe (DE), 2015
Combining and reconfiguring genes and memes, mixing, experimenting and probing lie at the core of the oeuvre of Belgian artist Koen...
Protected Paradise - Vienna for Art's Sake, Belvedere,Vienna (AT), 2015
Heaps of golden corn have taken the place of the baroque gold leaf in Prince Eugene’s former Dining Hall; the room contains a large,...
AWAKENER/LIFEBANK, Glassstress 2015 GOTIKA, Biennial of Venice, Italy, 2015
As a special project within the collateral event Glasstress 2015 GOTIKA of the La Biennale di Venezia, Koen Vanmechelen exhibits a...
Arena de Evolución - L.O.C.K., 12 Bienal de la Habana, Cuba
Koen Vanmechelen was one of the foremost artists at the twelfth Havana Biennial, set to run from 22 May through 22 June 2015. Under the...
This Is Not a Chicken - Het Domein, Sittard (NL), 2015
Forty years after Marcel Broodthaers introduced a dromedary in the arts, Koen Vanmechelen ordered a beautiful specimen to be flown over...
DARWIN'S DREAM, St Pancras Church, London (UK), 2014
Darwin's Dream springboards from Vanmechelen ongoing project The Cosmopolitan Chicken, in which he uses the chicken as a universal...
Never Green - C.C.P., RURART, Poitiers (FR), 2014
There is no green light. Man has devised lots of systems – political, religious and economic – in an attempt to impose meaning on the...
Leaving Paradise - Art Sanya, Hainan (CN), 2013
The installation Leaving Paradise houses the Red Junglefowl, the first chicken from which all domestic chickens are descended. These...
The Cosmopolitan Chicken Project, Worldly House, dOCUMENT (13), Kassel (DE), 2012
Koen Vanmechelen was selected for dOCUMENTA 13. The Cosmopolitan Chicken project is on display in the ‘Swanhouse’ for the Worldly House...
