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Mudam Luxembourg – Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean has invited the artist collective SUPERFLEX to develop a multi-phase project that will culminate in the creation of a permanent artwork for its surrounding Park Dräi Eechelen. This artwork, which does not exist yet, will help transform the park into a living space for all and strengthen the ties between the museum and its environment. It will be designed following an initial participatory phase taking place throughout the summer of 2026, with the aim of gathering ideas from visitors of the park and the museum.
Entitled The Bank, this participatory phase approaches museums as ‘banks of culture’ that both preserve and create value. It invites Mudam’s audiences – especially children and playful grown-ups – to deconstruct its architecture and rebuild their own ‘bank’ from it, thereby expressing their ideas, visions or dreams for the future of institutions. ‘There are many kinds of banks – financial banks, blood banks, seed banks, food banks, and more. Each of these keeps something of value safe. Imagine that you are designing a new bank. What do you think it should store for the future? What should the building look like?’, SUPERFLEX asks.
Using moulds designed by SUPERFLEX, participants are invited to create clay pieces inspired by Mudam’s architecture, letting their imagination run free while constructing their own model. The models will then be brought outside the museum, gradually forming a ‘city of banks’ that will grow over time, while transforming under the effects of the weather and ultimately returning to the soil.
From this collective creation, SUPERFLEX will develop a proposal for a permanent installation that will act a place to gather, exchange, play and rest. With The Bank, SUPERFLEX places participation and intergenerational dialogue at the heart of their decision making processes. This project may suggest that the future of institutions has more to do with collaborative, evolving processes, rather than with accumulation and preservation.
Launch of the project with a talk by SUPERFLEX
06.06.2026, 14:00
Drop-in
Building Your Bank
16.05 – 12.07.2026 | on weekends, 10:00–18:00
16.07 – 14.09.2026 | summer holidays, Tue – Sun, 10:00–18:00
19.09 – 30.09.2026 | on weekends, 10:00–18:00
Guided Tour
Architects of the Future
From 06.06.2026
On Saturdays at 14:00 | FR
On Sundays at 14:00 | LU, DE
On Wednesdays at 18:00 | EN
Duration: 45 min
Reservations: visites@mudam.com, +352 453785–531
Tour + Workshop for schools
Banks for the Future
Primary cycle 2 to 4 (6–12 years-old)
On demand from 18.05.2026
Mon – Fri, 09:30 –17:00
Duration: 90 min
Reservations: education@mudam.com, +352 453785–531
The collective
SUPERFLEX was founded in 1993 by Jakob Fenger (1968), Bjørnstjerne Christiansen (1969) and Rasmus Rosengren Nielsen (1969).
Conceived as an expanded collective, SUPERFLEX has consistently worked with a wide variety of collaborators, from gardeners to engineers to audience members. Engaging with alternative models for the creation of social and economic organisation, works have taken the form of energy systems, beverages, sculptures, copies, hypnosis sessions, infrastructure, paintings, plant nurseries, contracts and public spaces.
Working in and outside the physical location of the exhibition space, SUPERFLEX has been engaged in major public space projects since their award-winning Superkilen opened in 2011. These projects often involve participation, involving the input of local communities, specialists and children. Taking the idea of collaboration even further, recent works have involved soliciting the participation of other species. SUPERFLEX has been developing a new kind of urbanism that includes the perspectives of plants and animals, aiming to move society towards interspecies living. For SUPERFLEX, the best idea might come from a fish.
SUPERFLEX has presented solo exhibitions internationally, including at ARKEN, Ishøj (2026); the ICA, San Diego; Generator, University of Tempa; Bauhaus Dessau; Viborg Kunsthal (2023); Kunsthaus Graz (2021); Turku Art Museum (2020) and Tate Modern, London (2017), among many others. It has participated in numerous group exhibitions and biennials, including at 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa; the 60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia (2024); Kunsthalle Mannheim; Busan Biennale (2023); UQ Art Museum, Brisbane; Art Sonje Center, Seoul (2022); MAAT - Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, Lisbon (2021); CAPC – musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux (2020). Selected public projects include Al Majarrah Park, Sharjah (2025); As Close As We Get, Copenhagen Harbour (2022); Play Contract, Billund (2021) and Superkilen, Copenhagen (2011). SUPERFLEX is based in Copenhagen.