Koen Vanmechelen

Portrait of a Belgian artist


Client: MOUTH Foundation
Production: Studio Tropics
Dir.: Lorenz Florizoone
Camera: Stig Junes
Audio: Neil Willaert

Belgian artist Koen Vanmechelen is known to express his artistic vision through a wide array of media, including animals. His most famous art project is his Cosmopolitan Chicken Project (CCP) in which he cross breeds chickens from all over the world to eventually create a chicken that contains genetic information of all chickens in the world. His work gets international acclaim from scientists, farmers, philosophers and artists.