Koen Vanmechelen
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Project(s) at West
2010.10
Koen Vanmechelen
 
*1965 Belgium - works and lives in Meeuwen-Gruitrode
 

Solo exhibitions (selection)
2011
Nato a Venezia‚ collateral event of 54th biennial of Venice, Venice (IT)
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Breaking the Cage‚ IKOB, Museum of Contemporary art Eupen (BE)
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The Cosmopolitan Chicken Project‚ Art Labor, Shanghai (CN)
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C.C.P. In-vetro‚ Mediaruimte, Brussel (BE)
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King's Crown C.C.P., Absolute Art Gallery, Knokke (BE)
2010
Cosmopolitan Chicken ‚ Diversity‚ Espace Europ√©en pour la Sculpture, Parc Tournay-Solvay, Brussel
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14th Generation: Mechelse Silky, Himalayas Center, Pudong Shanghai, China
2009
Cosmopolitan Chicken Project (DC), Conner Contemporary Art, Washington, USA
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The Cosmopolitan Chicken Project, Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ, Amsterdam
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The Cosmopolitan Chicken Project - Orloff, Deweer Gallery, Otegem, Belgium
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Unicorn, 53rd Venice Biennale 2009, Venice, Italy
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Connection, St. Lucas Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2008
Breaking the Cage - The art of Koen Vanmechelen, Victoria and Albert Museum, Arts & Business, London, UK
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The Chicken's Appeal, Museum Valkenhof, Nijmegen
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CCP Ten Generations, Galerie k4, Munich, Germany
2007
CCP Ten Generations, Deweer Gallery, Otegem, Belgium
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CCP Au Salon, Marijke Schreurs Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
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The Accident, Cornice, Venice Project, Venice, Italy
2006
The Accident, Palm Court, Miami Beach, USA
2005
Cosmopolitan Chicken Project - Virtual Mechelse Fighters, Deweer Gallery, Otegem, Belgium
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Red Jungle Fowl - Genus XY, CRAC Alsace, Altkirch, France
2004
Red Jungle Fowl - Genus XY, Z33, Hasselt, Belgium
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Cosmopolitan Chicken Project, Bourbourg, France
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Mechelse Dresdner, Galerie k4, Munich, Germany
2003
The Cosmopolitan Chicken Project, Musée Départemental de l' Abbaye de St. Riquier, France
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Cosmopolitan Chicken Project - Desire, De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam
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Cosmopolitan Chicken Project - Mechelse Owlbeard, GEM, Den Haag / KunstRAI, Amsterdam
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Cosmopolitan Chicken Project - Second Generation: Mechelse Bresse - Sex & Mortality, Deweer Gallery, Otegem, Belgium
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Visible / Invisible, Galerie Tapper, Malmö, Sweden
2002
Artificial Cross-breeding, Berengo Fine Arts, Miami Art Fair, Miami, USA
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Who's Calling, Berengo Fine Arts, Mi Art, Milan, Italy
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Smak, smak, The Mechelse Bresse, S.M.A.K., Ghent, Belgium
2001
The C Cosmopolitan C Chicken, Deweer Art Gallery, Otegem, Belgium
2000
Performance -Blood & Colours-, Filmfestival, Venice, Italy
 

Group exhibitions (selection)
2011
Modified Spaces ‚C.C.P.‚ 4th triennial of Guangzhou, Guangdong Museum of Art (CN)
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Genetic Freedom ‚C.C.P.‚ Scenarios about Europe, GFZK, Leipzig (DE)
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Glasstress, Venice Projects, Venice (IT), Oslo (NO)
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Sjamanism ‚C.C.P.‚ Andermans Veren, De Mijlpaal, Heusden (BE)
2010
The Cosmopolitan Chicken Project - Innovations and adaptation, Dak-Art Biënnale, Dakar, Senegal
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Mediations, National Museum Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
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Art Amsterdam, RAI, Amsterdam
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Art Paris, Paris, France
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Arco Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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The Armory Show, New York City, USA
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Parallellepipeda, Museum -M-, Leuven, Belgium
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Figure it out?!, De Mijlpaal, Heusden-Zolder, Belgium
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FADA Los Angeles Art Show 2010, Los Angeles, USA
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(Ant)arcticmatters, Verbeke Foundation, Kemzeke, Belgium
2009
Lineart art fair 2009, Flanders Expo, Ghent, Belgium
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PULSE Miami 2009, Pulse Contemporary Art Fair, The Ice Palace, Miami, USA
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Becoming Intense, Becoming Animal, Becoming ..., Völkerkundemuseum von Portheim-Stiftung, Heidelberg, Germany
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In Bed Together, Royal/T, Culver City, USA
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The Toronto International Art Fair 2009, Toronto, Canada
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Against Exclusions, 3rd Moscow Biennale of contemporary art, Moscow, Russia
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Boer zoekt stijl, Designhuis, Eindhoven
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Glasstress, 53rd Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy
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VOLTA Basel 2009, Basel, Switzerland
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CIGE 2009, China International Gallery Exposition, Beijing, China
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101 Tokyo Contemporary Art Fair 2009, Tokyo, Japan
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Superstories, 2de Triënnale Hasselt, Hasselt, Belgium
2008
Kort is de tijd en onherroepelijk, Landgoed Groot Vijverburg, Tytsjerk
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Dat de verte nabijer dan ooit was, St. Bavokerk, Watou, Belgium
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Genesis: CCP 10 Generation, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, Switzerland
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The Salvator Globe, Art Brussels, Belgium
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The Cathedral ' Ectoplasma' CCP, Congress Centre, Davos, Switzerland
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Doing it my way, MKM Museum Küppersmühle für Moderne Kunst, Duisburg, Germany
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Zerbrechliche Schönheit, Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf, Germany
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Ad Absurdum, Mechelse Bresse, MARTA, Herford, Germany
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Die Hände der Kunst, MARTA, Herford, Germany
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Ephermeral Fringes, Art Brussels, Brussels, Belgium
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The Cosmopolitan Chicken: 10 Generations, Mediations Biënnale, Poznan, Poland
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Betrekkelijk rustig, Lab, Kasteel Rekem, Rekem, Belgium
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Somewhere in the Middle of Nowhere, Galerie der Künstler, München (DE)
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Superstories, 2de Triënnale Hasselt, Hasselt, Belgium
2007
Troubleyn /Laboratorium, Ab Ovo, Antwerp, Belgium
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Genesis - The Cosmopolitan Chicken, Centraal Museum Utrecht, Utrecht
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Totemisimi, National Gallery, London, UK
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De Kunstkas, Verbeke Foudation, Kemzeke, Belgium
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Some make - Some take, Art Köln, Köln, Germany
2006
Facing 1200° - Glass from the Berengo Collection, Museum Moderner Kunst Kärnten, Klagenfurt, Austria
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DOTS, Sint-Niklaas, Belgium
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Handle with care, Pushkin Museum, Moscow, Russia
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Field Work, met Hans Op de Beeck en Ricardo Brey, Kunstvereniging Diepenheim, Diepenheim
2005
LAT, Oda-Park, Venray
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Super, Hasselt, Belgium
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Slow Art - Neue Akzente aus Flandern und den Niederlanden, Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf, Germany
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Two Asias, Two Europes, Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China
2004
Cultivando la Naturaleza, Fundacion César Manrique, Lanzarote, Spain
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ECLIPS / 25ste verjaardag Deweer Art Gallery, Transfo, Zwevegem, Belgium
2003
ECLIPS / 25ste verjaardag Deweer Art Gallery, Transfo, Zwevegem, Belgium
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Le Coq, Musée Départementale de l'Abbeye de Saint-Riquier, France
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Beaufort 2003, Blankenberge, Belgium
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Cinecittà, Berengo Fine Arts Filmfestival, Venice, Italy
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The Walking Egg, Shinchu Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
2002
3 FEB 02, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium
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Attitude, Château du Pauly, France
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Cinecittà, Berengo Fine Arts Filmfestival, Venice, Italy
2001
3 FEB 02, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium
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Secret Gardens, Rekem, Belgium
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www.murano.be, Venetiaanse Gaanderijen, Oostende, Belgium
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Wir sind die ander(en), Herford, Germany
2000
Arco 2000, Madrid, Spain
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Storm Centers, Watou, Belgium
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A Shot in the Head, Lisson Gallery, Londen, UK
 

Permanent Works
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The Cosmopolitan Chicken - Celestial body, VOKA Kamer van Koophandel Limburg, 2010, Hasselt, Belgium
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The Cosmopolitan Chicken - Time Temperature, BioVille, Campus UHasselt, Biomedical Research Institute (BIOMED), 2010, Diepenbeek, Belgium
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High-Breed, The European Academy of Gynaecological Surgery, 2009, Leuven, Belgium
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Troubleyn /Laboratorium, Ab Ovo, 2007, Antwerp, Belgium
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The Walking Egg - Born, Ziekenhuis Oost-Limburg, 2005, Genk, Belgium
 

Lectures/debates (selection)
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Manic Mondays, Creative Class, 2010, Hasselt, Belgium
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The Accident, Debate with Professor J.-J. Cassiman, Dr. Mike Philips, Dr. Luc Vrielinck and Peter Adriaenssens, moderator: Indra Dewitte, Museum 'M', 2010, Leuven, Belgium
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The Cosmopolitan Chicken Project, PULSE New York, 2010, New York, USA
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Climat Change Congress, 2009, Copenhagen, Denmark
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24th Los Angeles Art Show, debate with Dr. Mike Phillips, 2009, Los Angeles, USA
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3rd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, 2009, Moscow, Russia
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The Cosmopolitan Chicken, Debate, World Economic Forum, 2008, Davos, Switzerland
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Day of Hope, Cosmogolem, 2008, Mumbai, India
 

Honors and Awards
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Doctor Honoris Causa UHasselt, 2010
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Honorary citizenship Sint-Truiden, Belgium, 2005
 

Publications
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Facts, Views & Vision, The Low Countries Journal of Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Reproductive Health. A scientific Journal of the Flemish Society of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, June 2009.
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IVF in developing countries: an artists view, Human Reproduction, An Oxford Journal, published by Oxford University Press, July 2008. Eshre Special Task Force on Developing Countries and Infertility.
 

Bibliography (selection)
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The Accident II, Chronicles of The Cosmopolitan Chicken, Hasselt 2010
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The Chicken's Appeal, Museum Het Valkhof, Nijmegen 2008
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The Accident, Het Glazen Huis, Lommel 2007
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The Accident, Chronicles of The Cosmopolitan Chicken, Verbeke Foundation, Kemzeke 2007
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The Walking Egg/Born, P. Dupont, Fertility Hospital, Genk 2005
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The Cosmopolitan Chicken, Virtual Mechelse Fighter, Deweert Art Gallery, Otegem 2005
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Cosmopolitan Chicken Project, Barbara Simons & Wouter Keirse, Ludion Gent-Amsterdam, De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam 2003
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The Cosmopolitan Chicken, Sex & Mortality, Deweer Art Gallery, Otegem, 2003
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The Cosmopolitan Chicken, Between Natural breeding and genetic engineering, Deweer Art Gallery, Otegem 2001
 

Artistic-Scientific projects
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CC®P: this artistic, genetic project is an alliance between Professor
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Jean- Jacques Cassiman and artist Koen Vanmechelen. The objective is to investigate the genetics of the chicken and thus achieve a new angle in developing the Cosmopolitan Chicken Project.
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The Walking Egg: Art meets science, together with fertility specialist Willem Ombelet, Koen Vanmechelen plunges himself into the international science world. Accompanied by a team of scientists, journalists and thinkers. Welding his art into science and vice versa.
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This led to the birth of the quarterly magazine 'The Walking Egg' and to innovating art/science projects as for example 'Born' in the hospital ZOL in Genk (Belgium).
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Frozen Culture: as a result of the pandemic bird's flue Koen Vanmechelen has decided to safeguard the genetic material of his Cosmopolitan Chicken Project. He therefore freezes in the sperm of his Cosmopolitan cocks, a highly technological operation that is made possible though befriended scientists.
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The Golden Spur: after having lost a spur in a battle a rooster was treated by a surgical team. The purpose of the treatment was to provide a bone-anchored support, on top of which a screw-retained golden spur was placed. The operation was carried out by Dr. Luc Vrielinck at Ziekenhuis Oud-Limburg in Genk, a regional hospital in Limburg, Belgium.
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Lambo: This crossing between Lama, Ovambo and Labo, is a recent project which attempts to cross in a new way and is still in an experimental fase. A first result is the installation 'Connection'.
 

Foundations
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The CosmoGolem Foundation: founded in 2010, the goal of this foundation is to coordinate the project behind the growing series of towering wooden sculptures symbolizing children's rights. Chaired by Peter Adriaenssens, child - and youthpsychiatrist (MD, K.U.Leuven) honorary member is Jeanne Devos (DR).
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The Walking Egg Foundation: founded in 2010 to support the Walking Egg Project and the research on (in)fertility in developing countries. Chaired by fertility specialist Willem Ombelet (MD, PhD).
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CC®P Foundation: wants to bridge the gap between art and science, through the work of Koen Vanmechelen. It is the intent of the foundation to create the possibility for scientific research as well as to support social projects. Chaired by architect Alfredo De Gregorio, secretary Luc Vrielinck, honorary members Steve Stevaert, Prof. JJ Cassiman, Dr. Agnes Husslein, Dr. Mike Phillips, Jill Silverman, and Koen Vanmechelen (artist).