nato a venezia
Koen Vanmechelen
Open University of Diversity
Curated by Peter Noever
June 4th - November 27th 2011

Location
Instituto Veneto di Scienze Lettere ed Arti
Palazzo Loredan
C.po Santo Stefano 2945,
30124 Venice, Italy

Opening hours
Every day 10.00 am to 6.00 pm
Closed on Monday

More info
info@koenvanmechelen.be
www.koenvanmechelen.com

Opening
3rd of June 5.00 pm to 8.00 pm

Press preview
1st - 3rd of June

Press conference
3rd of June 11.00 am

Nato A Venezia

Inside the walls of one of the main centers of Venetian culture and knowledge, Koen Vanmechelen presents a "laboratory" on the borderline of art and science. In an open study, the visitors are actively invited to take part in different research projects on biological and cultural diversity that are conducted by the researchers on site.

Further, the artist underlines the continuation of his decade-long artistic cross-breeding project by giving birth to a new generation in the "Cosmopolitan Chicken Project".

Intellectual and natural breeding come together in one installation in an attempt to stimulate the discussion on cultural and biological diversity, cosmopolitanism, mingling and mixing as the keys to development and progress.