# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/koen-vanmechelen
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:06:35.827Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/koen-vanmechelen"
name: "Koen Vanmechelen"
slug: "koen-vanmechelen"
description: "Koen Vanmechelen is a Belgian artist who began his career in the early 1990s. Central to his work is the concept of bio-cultural diversity, which he investigates through the domestic chicken and its ancestral species, the red junglefowl or Gallus gallus."
tagline: "Belgian artist (born 1965)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Prix_Ars_Electronical_2013_Koen_Vanmechelen_The_Cosmopolitan_Chicken_Project_1.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1965-08-26"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.25
  momentum:             2.468354430379747
  historical:           4.829916
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/KoenVanmechelen"
    handle:    "KoenVanmechelen"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.koenvanmechelen.be/"
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%86_%DA%A4%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "كوين ڤانميتشيلين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koen_Vanmechelen"
    title: "Koen Vanmechelen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koen_Vanmechelen"
    title: "Koen Vanmechelen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koen_Vanmechelen"
    title: "Koen Vanmechelen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BC%D0%B5%D1%85%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BD%2C_%D0%9A%D1%83%D0%BD"
    title: "Ванмехелен, Кун"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4103403"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump