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| Exhibition Material | Englisch, Französisch und Deutsch |
| Curators | Clément Minighetti, assistiert von Zuzana Fabianova |
| LUGA public program at Mudam | This >extented public program< was developed by the guest program advisor Dr. Aouefa Amoussouvi and António Mendes, head of the Publics Department at Mudam. |
| Media Partner | Luxemburger Wort |
| Credits | Agnes Denes: The Living Pyramid is presented in collaboration with LUGA – Luxembourg Urban Garden. In partnership with LUGA – a city-wide, open-air exhibition of urban gardens – Mudam presents two major monographic projects in Luxembourg’s public spaces: the recreation of The Living Pyramid by Agnes Denes in Park Dräi Eechelen and a new soundinstallation by Susan Philipsz developed for the Aquatunnel, a landmark feature of the city’s World Heritage Site situated below the Ville Haute in Luxembourg. |
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The Living Pyramid
Agnes Denes
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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 Hungarian-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 nine-metre-high pyramid on which grow more than two thousand flowering plants selected by the artist from local flora. Denes originally created this work for the Socrates Sculpture Park in New York and has since reproduced it on several occasions,including documenta 14, held in Kassel, Germany in 2017. For this new presentation, The Living Pyramid is augmented by an audience participation project, also imagined by Denes.
In the months leading up to the installation, participants are invited to complete a questionnaire on the meaning of life. Their responses will be gathered in a time capsule, which will be buried near the pyramid and opened in a thousand years.
Biografie
Agnes Denes (1931, Budapest) präsentierte ihr Werk in Einzelausstellungen in Institutionen wie dem Shed in New York (2020), dem Santa Monica Museum of Art (2012), dem Ludwig Museum in Budapest (2008), dem Chelsea Museum in New York (2004), dem Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art – Cornell University in Ithaca (1992), in der Kunsthalle Nürnberg (1982) sowie dem Institute of Contemporary Art in London (1979). Ihre Werke waren bei Gruppenausstellungen im Nevada Museum of Art in Reno (2021), im Museum für Moderne Kunst in Warschau (2020), im Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź (2019), im Museum of Modern Art in New York (2018), im Centre Pompidou-Metz (2016), im Museu de Arte Moderna in Rio de Janeiro (2014), im Art Institute of Chicago (2011) sowie im Centre Pompidou in Paris (2009) zu sehen. Ihre Werke sind Teil der Sammlungen von Institutionen wie dem Art Institute of Chicago, dem Frac Lorraine in Metz, dem Philadelphia Museum of Art, dem Centre Pompidou in Paris, dem Israel Museum in Jerusalem, dem Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, dem Museum of Modern Art in New York, der National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., dem SFMOMA in San Francisco oder dem Whitney Museum of American Art. Agnes Denes lebt und arbeitet in New York.