Exhibitions (archive)

Caring is never self-evident. It asks for attention, patience, and the choice to preserve what is valuable and protect what is fragile. What if we saw care not as duty but as a way of engaging consciously with the world?

Koen Vanmechelen joins GLASSTRESS, one of the most internationally influential collateral events of the Venice Biennale, for its grand debut at the Shanghai Jiushi Art Museum. Housed in a century-old historic building at the core of the Bund, the exhibition stages an artistic dialogue between Venice and Shanghai through the material of glass.

A landscape is never finished. It shifts with the light, the seasons, the hand that works it. What happens when contemporary art settles into that landscape and the walker is asked to slow down?

The Brenta Riviera has always been a place of transit — between Venice and the mainland, between private wealth and open water. This spring, two of its historic villas become sites for new work by Koen Vanmechelen, shown as part of Ancestrale, an arts and culture festival rooted in the landscape and history of the river.

Koen is participating to the GLASSTRESS exhibition at Tsinghua University

The prestigious Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam invites Koen Vanmechelen to participate in the group exhibition Metamorphoses.