Open Call: Agnes Denes’ Time Capsule
Close to the museum, on the esplanade of the Park Dräi Eechelen, opposite the Ville Haute, Mudam will present the iconic artwork The Living Pyramid (2015) by American artist Agnes Denes (1931, Budapest), a pioneering figure of ecological and environmental art. Conceived as a monumental sculpture with a natural life cycle, The Living Pyramid takes the form of a 9-metre-high pyramid on which grow more than two thousand flowering plants selected by the artist from among the local flora. Denes originally created the work for the Socrates Sculpture Park in New York and has reproduced it for several other occasions, including documenta 14, held in Kassel, Germany in 2017. This new presentation of The Living Pyramid is augmented by an audience participation project, also imagined by Denes. In the months leading up to the exhibition, participants are invited to complete a questionnaire asking them to consider the meaning of life. Their responses will be gathered in a time capsule, to be buried near the pyramid and opened in thousand years.
Take part in this project by filling out the questionnaire and sending it to livingpyramid@mudam.com.
Agnes Denes: The Living Pyramid is presented in collaboration with LUGA – Luxembourg Urban Garden.