For the creation of an artwork, Studio Koen Vanmechelen is looking for different nationalities to participate in a video. We are looking for native speakers that want to read aloud from the Book of Genomes. The artwork will be on show at Vanmechelens solo exhibition at the Brihatta Art Foundation in Bangladesh later this year.
Artist Koen Vanmechelen proudly launches an open call for the third edition of The Unthinkable Experiment. This year, Chapter Movement is honored to have Belgian athlete Elodie Ouédraogo as its godmother. The project invites 24 young people between the ages of 18 and 28 to participate in a knowledge experiment in LABIOMISTA's LaMouseion, trying to imagine the unthinkable for a new future.
Kunstenfestival Watou 2023 is launching its Open Call for "Patchwwwork" again this year, the experimental preliminary project from which several artists are selected for the festival. Artist Koen Vanmechelen is once again taking on the role of inspirator and looking for how Watou as a village and as a community can connect with the artists and vice versa.
Artist Koen Vanmechelen is featured in the fifth episode of "De Kennis van Nu," Onderworpen aan de Mens, talking about his yearlong work about domestication and diversity.
For their docu series Domestication: A History, ARTE investigates the history of human civilisation through the history of the domestication of animals that made it possible. In the second episode, ARTE interviews artist Koen Vanmechelen about his views on this matter, and his work on domestication in general.
