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| Curators | Clément Minighetti, assisté de 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.
Biographie
Agnes Denes (1931, Budapest) a présenté des expositions individuelles au Shed à New York (2020), au Santa Monica Museum of Art (2012), au Ludwig Museum à Budapest (2008), au Chelsea Museum à New York (2004), au Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art – Cornell University à Ithaca (1992), à la Kunsthalle Nürnberg (1982) et à l’Institute of Contemporary Art à Londres (1979). Ses œuvres ont été présentées dans le cadre d’expositions collectives au Nevada Museum of Art à Reno (2021), au Museum of Modern Art à Varsovie (2020), au Muzeum Sztuki à Łódź (2019), au Museum of Modern Art à New York (2018), au Centre Pompidou-Metz (2016), au Museu de Arte Moderna à Rio de Janeiro (2014), à l’Art Institute of Chicago (2011) et au Centre Pompidou à Paris (2009). Les œuvresd’Agnes Denes font partie des collections d’institutions telles que l’Art Institute of Chicago, le Frac Lorraine à Metz, le Philadelphia Museum of Art, le Centre Pompidou à Paris, l’Israel Museum à Jerusalem, le Metropolitan Museum of Art à New York, le Museum of Modern Art à New York, la National Gallery of Art à Washington DC, le SFMOMA à San Francisco et le Whitney Museum of American Art à New York. Agnes Denes vit et travaille à New York.