Exhibitions

From September 8th until January 28th Rijksmuseum Twenthe organizes a large manifestation concerning the question ‘who does the land belong to?’. With this theme, the museum connects to one of the most pressing social issues of today: the handling and future of the rural area. Besides an extensive public program, the manifestation consists of three different exhibitions bringing together ancient and contemporary works of art to portray how (Western) man has appropriated and cultivated the land over the past centuries. Vanmechelen is invited to present his Cosmopolitan Chicken Project, as a strong message against our focus on monoculture.

Next Nature Network invites Koen Vanmechelen and his Cosmopolitan Chicken Project (CCP) to the expo "Spacefarming: Future of Food. In the iconic Evoluon (Eindhoven), Spacefarming reveals the food revolution that awaits us on planet Earth and beyond. The expo shares ideas and innovations from scientists, food technologists, designers, philosophers and artists including Vanmechelens' Cosmopolitan Chicken Project, among others.

Koen Vanmechelen’s artworks will be shown in ‘The Ship of Fools’; an exhibition organized next year in Ostend to celebrate Belgian grandmaster James Ensor, who will have passed away 75 years ago in 2024.