KOEN VANMECHELEN
Sulmtaler x Mechelse Styrian
2019, lambda print on plexiglas, diptych, 12 x 12 inches (each), 12 x 24 inches (overall), ed: 6.
KOEN VANMECHELEN
Sulmtaler x Mechelse Styrian
2019, lambda print on plexiglas, diptych, 12 x 12 inches (each), 12 x 24 inches (overall), ed: 6.
KOEN VANMECHELEN
Mechelse Maatiaiskana x Padovana
2019, lambda print on plexiglas, diptych, 12 x 12 inches (each), 12 x 24 inches (overall), ed: 6.
KOEN VANMECHELEN
Mechelse Koekoek x Poulet de Bresse
2013, lambda print on plexiglas, diptych, 12 x 12 inches (each), 12 x 24 inches (overall), ed: 6.
KOEN VANMECHELEN
Mechelse Orloff x Silky
2013, Lambdaprint on plexiglas, diptych, 12 x 12 inches (each), 12 x 24 inches (overall), ed: 6.
KOEN VANMECHELEN
Ringed
2012, stainless steel ring with engraving, 2.25 x 8 x .75 inches, ed: 35.
KOEN VANMECHELEN
Mechelse Silky 14th Generation - C.C.P.
2011, taxidermied chicken, 15.5 x 10 x 12 inches.
KOEN VANMECHELEN
Symbiosis - C.C.P
2011, selective lasersintering (polyamide), wood, stainless steel, 19.75 x 10 x 10 inches.
KOEN VANMECHELEN
Carried By Generations
2011, chicken feet, glass, 6 x 18 x 10.75 inches, ed: 8, each unique.
KOEN VANMECHELEN
Natural Knowledge
2013, encyclopedia of human rights, chicken feet (Red Jungle Fowl), wood, 19.75 x 12 x 8 inches.
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Under Pressure - C.C.P. (detail)
2013, test tubes, labels, feathers, plexiglass, 6 x 10.25 x 46.5 inches.
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In Digest - C.C.P.
2012, single channel video, run time: 3:00, ed: 18.
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Koen Vanmechelen: Artist Profile
Produced by Studio Tropics
Director Lorenz Florizoone
Camera Stig Junes
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Koen Vanmechelen (b. 1965, Sint-Truiden, Belgium) lives and works in Meeuwen-Gruitrode, Belgium and is an internationally renowned, conceptual artist. His work deals with biocultural diversity and identity. He is mostly known for his Cosmopolitan Chicken Project (C.C.P.). Central to this project are the chicken and the interbreeding of national chicken species into ʻcosmopolitan chickensʼ. With the C.C.P., Vanmechelen positions art categorically where it belongs: in the middle of society, engaging with people, always committed. His oeuvre is as diverse and hybrid as the Cosmopolitan Chicken itself: a unique mix of paintings, drawings, photography, innovative 3D-techniques, video, installations and wooden sculptures. The unifying theme remains the chicken and the egg. But nothing is what it seems. The core of the project is neither the chicken nor the egg, but crossbreeding and the diversity that comes from it. These thoughts are expanded on at the Open University of Diversity, Vanmechelen’s breeding place covering four international foundations; Walking Egg, CosmoGolem, Cosmopolitan Chicken Research Project and COMBAT.
Vanmechelen has presented his work on almost every continent, from the U.S. to China and Iceland to Senegal. In Belgium his work has been exhibited in many museums and venues: the Verbeke Foundation, Watou, Museum M and Z33. He has also participated in solo and group exhibitions including the National Gallery (London), Victoria and Albert Museum (London), Museum Kunst Palast (Düsseldorf), Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ (Amsterdam), Macro (Rome), MAD Museum (NY), Belvedere (Vienna), ZKM (Karlsruhe) and Pushkin Museum (Moscow). His work has been shown at the Biennials of Venice, Moscow, Havana, Dakar and Poznan, at the Triennial of Guangzhou, at the World Expo Shanghai 2010, at Manifesta 9, and at dOCUMENTA (13).
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by Oliver Wainwright
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