General Program :

Wed. 24.04.2025, 09:00-11:00
School Project 2024/25 on the occasion of The Living Pyramid by Agnes Denes
In collaboration with the Naturmusée

In collaboration with LUGA – Luxembourg Urban Garden, Mudam is presenting the emblematic artwork The Living Pyramid (2015) by the American artist Agnes Denes (1931, Budapest), a pioneering figure in ecological and environmental art, on the esplanade of Park Dräi Eechelen. Conceived as a monumental sculpture with a natural life cycle, The Living Pyramid takes the form of a nine-metre-high pyramid on which over 2,000 flowering plants grow.

Mudam Publics invites four primary school classes (ages 9–12) to take part in a school project centred around this pyramid. Taking place over three sessions at Mudam: the project starts with two introduction meetings in October, followed by a visit the park and the selection of plants and flowers the pupils will plant in spring 2025. The third session will be dedicated to planting, which will take place on the morning of 24 April 2025.

Wed. 07.05.2025, 14:00
LUGA official opening

Thu. 08.05.2025, 17:15 – 21:00
LUGA opening at Mudam

On 8 May 2025, Mudam invites you to a special preview of two major projects presented in the context of its collaboration with LUGA – Luxembourg Urban Garden. The evening begins with an exclusive guided visit of The Lower World, a new sound installation by Susan Philipsz created for the Aquatunnel in the city of Luxembourg, followed by a conversation with the artist at the museum.

The event continues outdoors with an introduction to The Living Pyramid by Agnes Denes, located in the Park Dräi Eechelen. This iconic ecological artwork takes the form of a monumental pyramid planted with over two thousand flowering plants. The evening concludes with complimentary drinks on the museum grounds. Join us to celebrate the opening of these two remarkable projects!

Extended program:

This program was developed by the guest program advisor Dr. Aouefa Amoussouvi and António Mendes, head of the Publics Department at Mudam.

Worlds in the making. Art, Ecologies and unwritten futures.
Travels on the upper and the lower worlds.

You might not have noticed, but the world as we humans have known it, as we built it, is coming to an end. As the world burns, we despair and rejoice. Other worlds await.
I have found one such world in a forgotten space of time [...]
I can either stretch my consciousness away from my body, grasping at reflections and analytics and predictions of the world in those black mirrors we all carry, or I can sit within my body, sit with existence. Among my kind, it is a privilege to simply exist.
By Imani Jacqueline Brown

Between May and October 2025, Mudam and LUGA (Luxembourg Urban Garden) will present a public program alongside the outdoor exhibition featuring in situ installations by Agnes Denes and Susan Philipsz. Through discussions, workshops, performances and other formats, the program will explore ecology, world-making, environmental sensing, climate collapse, mythology, extractivism and community activation. Guests from Luxembourg and abroad, including artists, activists and researchers, will engage through interdisciplinary dialogue and creative practice.

Agnes Denes’ The Living Pyramid transforms Park Dräi Eechelen into an evolving sculptural garden, embodying cycles of growth and decay as a meditation on time, nature and collective futures. Her Time Capsule project prompts deep thinking on planetary stewardship and intergenerational responsibility. Susan Philipsz’ The Lower World fills the underground Aquatunnel with immersive sound, drawing on Luxembourg’s subterranean networks, oral traditions and water mythologies to evoke buried memories and unseen currents. Together, these works and the program bridge the underworld and upper world, intertwining past, present and future across human and non-human lineages while challenging the nature-culture divide and examining power dynamics embedded in the land and its histories.

At the heart of this program lie urgent questions: What are we leaving to the future? What hidden archives exist within landscapes, bodies, and sounds, and how do they shape our collective future? How can DIY methods, queer ecologies, Black knowledge and embodied practices function as technologies for resilience and environmental monitoring? How do histories of extractivism continue to shape ecological and social relationships?

Workshops will invite participants to explore the works of Agnes Denes and Susan Philipsz with all their senses — engaging with sound, memory, landscape and imagination in participative, embodied ways that foster deep connection and creative response.

As Luxembourg navigates the intersections of urbanism, ecology and cultural memory, this program fosters interdisciplinary exchange, critical engagement and creative exploration, inviting participants to imagine and build more sustainable futures through art, science and collective action.

Dates:

• May, 24th and 25th
• June, 21st and 22nd
• June, 28th and 29th
• September, 20th and 21st

Detailed program: 

Workshop ticketing

Sat. 24.05.2025 
14:00 – 17:00
Workshop paid – 10€ 
Performance-reading - free 
Participatory Storytelling workshop: Trout, Salamander, Woodpeckers and Bats.
Play as an Ecological World-Making Possibility
by Daniela Medina Poch

Join us for a participatory storytelling session led by artist and researcher Daniela Medina Poch, where we will explore the potential of play as a relational tool for ecological world-making and interspecies empathy. Play becomes a possibility in the face of the climate crisis, a space where hierarchies soften, roles are reimagined and humans reconnect with their instincts, their imagination and their surrounding ecosystem.

Through immersive role play and symbolic gestures, we will embody the strategies of local species such as trout, salamanders, woodpeckers and bats. By engaging with these and other local animals’ behaviours, we will discover new ways of relating to the immediate surrounding and reflect on how play can be a tool of empathy and collaboration with other species.

Sun. 25.05.2025 
13:00 – 15:00
Workshop: Listening to pools of glimmer
by Caitlin Berrigan and Samuel Hertz

How do we listen - and what are we really hearing? This workshop invites participants to explore listening as both a personal and environmental experience. Beginning with playful, participatory exercises, we’ll reflect on our own ways of hearing and attuning to the world around us.

The workshop then moves outdoors, where participants will encounter three interactive ‘listening stations’ set up on the grounds of Mudam. Each station features specialised microphones that reveal new sonic perspectives: vibrational sensors capture the subtle tremors of earth and architecture, while parabolic devices ‘mirror’ distant sounds, bringing them unexpectedly close.

Blending technology with place, this workshop invites us to reimagine listening as an act woven through body, space and landscape. Participants will experiment with field recordings, discovering how sound reverberates through Mudam’s unique environment.

The collective experience of listening will culminate in a live performance by the artists of Turbulent Rot, held later the same day.

Sun. 25.05.2025
15:45 – 16:30
Performance: Turbulent Rot
by Caitlin Berrigan and Samuel Hertz

The deep sea is both a medium for sound and a planetary stratum—the closest to the earth’s mantle. In this shifting zone, where tectonic plates fracture and the earth reshapes itself, sediments, clouds and underwater mountains carry the echoes of countless beings and layered histories.

Turbulent Rot is a collaborative performance by Caitlin Berrigan and Samuel Hertz that listens into these resonant depths. Through text and spatialized sound, the artists summon the voices of deep-sea a/biota—creatures, currents and matter both living and non-living. These voices emerge, converge, converse and dissolve again into aquatic foam.

A sonic and poetic composition, the performance offers a sensorial passage into underwater worlds where geology, ecology and memory coalesce in vibration and reverberation.

Sat. 21.06.2025 + Sun. 22.06.2025
15:00 – 17:30
Dance Workshop: Moving with The Living Pyramid. The body as Nature
by Elisabeth Schilling

This two-day dance and movement workshop invites participants aged 13 and up into a playful, embodied exploration of Agnes Denes’ The Living Pyramid. Rooted in Denes’ vision of sculptural, living forms, the workshop explores the artwork’s generative tensions: geometry and growth, order and wildness, structure and unpredictability.

Through guided movement and somatic practices, we will investigate how our bodies relate to both architectural form and the organic rhythms of nature. Moving between micro and macro perspectives—from the intricate systems within our own bodies to the vast structures of living landscapes—we’ll attune ourselves to cycles of bloom and decay, stillness and transformation.

Across the two days, we will explore shape, pulse and texture through improvisation, play and bodily inquiry. Participants will be encouraged to experience the body as a dynamic, living structure in constant flux - an expression of the same forces that shape the natural world.

Ultimately, this workshop invites us to move beyond the illusion of separation between body and nature, structure and flow. In movement, we’ll come to sense the body not just in nature, but as nature.

Sat. 28 + Sun. 29.06.2025
Luonnollisesti

Luonnollisesti (‘Naturally’, in Finnish) by Stéphane Ghislain Roussel is a poetic exploration of the  complex relationship between culture and nature. Resonating with Agnes Denes’ pursuit of harmony between culture and nature, regeneration, and ecological awareness, reified in The Living Pyramid. Luonnollisesti proposes a reflection on the role we play in ecological systems. Their personal narratives, mythology and immersive sensory experiences underscore an aligned artistic ambition that promotes renewed perspectives on coexistence and environmental consciousness.

An event in two acts

• Act 1: Sound siesta
  Composed by Emilie Mousset. 
  Saturday and Sunday at 14:00 and at 16:00 (30 minutes)
• Act 2: Theatre monologue
  Written by Stéphane Ghislain Roussel, with Marja-Leena Junker
  Saturday and Sunday at 18:00 (1 hour)
• 40 persons maximum

Credits
Original idea, text, direction: Stéphane Ghislain Roussel 
Sound design: Emilie Mousset
Dramaturgy: Julie Sermon
Costumes: Peggy Wurth
Assistant to the director: Timo Schreckenberg
With: Marja-Leena Junker

Production credits
Production: PROJETEN
Coproduction: Théâtre d’Esch; FOCUNA – Fonds culturel national de Luxembourg; Ministère de la Culture du Grand-Duché de Luxembourg
With the support of: L’Antre-Peaux – Bourges and l’Abbaye de Noirlac

Registration is compulsory via: ticket.luxembourg-ticket.lu

Sat. 20.09.2025
11:00 – 16:00
Workshop: Listening as World-Making. Foraging, Sound, and Shared Sensing
by pantea, in collaboration with Associació So

This two-part workshop invites participants to tune into the ecological and mythic layers of place through foraging, sound and collective listening.

In the first session, participants take an explorative walk through Parc des Trois Glands, tracing fungal networks, herbs and so-called weeds - resilient witnesses of soil, climate and urban change. Through touching, tasting, recording and listening, participants engage in embodied practices of environmental sensing, while a live audio stream connects this fieldwork to the museum.

The second session unfolds at Mudam, where participants gather to share tea brewed from foraged herbs and listen together to the park’s soundscape. Field recordings and drawing materials become tools for expression beyond language. Artist pantea live-mixes these layers into a sensorial composition, closing with a moment of shared reflection.

Blending fieldwork with poetic practice, this workshop offers a way of listening differently - to each other, to place, and to the more-than-human world.

Sun. 21.09.2025
11:00 – 16:00
Workshop: Inhaling Matter, Exhaling Stories
by Alanna Lynch

This two-part workshop invites participants into an immersive exploration of scent, memory and storytelling.

The day begins with a guided meditation and a smell walk through Parc des Trois Glands. As we attune to the park’s olfactory landscape, we’ll reflect on the emotions and memories different scents evoke. Along the way, participants will collect small amounts of plant material, offered in exchange for a ritual act of care and decomposition - giving something back to the soil.

In the afternoon, we gather for a collective distillation session, extracting the essences of the plants gathered in the morning. Guided by readings from writers such as Robin Wall Kimmerer and Ursula K. Le Guin, we will reflect together on the question: What do possible futures smell like?

Each participant will bottle their own blend - part scent, part story - carrying away a fragrant trace of shared experience and imagination.

Bios:

Aouefa Amoussouvi
Aouefa Amoussouvi (she/her) is a French-Beninese multidisciplinary researcher, curator and artist based in Berlin. She holds a PhD in Theoretical Molecular Biophysics from Berlin Humboldt University (2019). Her work explores rituals, technologies, intersectional and decolonial feminist narratives in science and art. She aims to create alternative practices for collective knowledge production on the digital space, ecology, menstruation, food, or the body-mind relationship, among other topics. She produces lecture-performances, workshops, podcasts, exhibitions and writings. She also investigates technologies for healing and maintenance of transgenerational memories and is trained in process-oriented psychology. She was co-director of the Berlin art-space “The Institute for Endotic Research” (TIER) in 2021–2022. She has worked with SAVVY Contemporary, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Maxim Gorki Theater, Royal Holloway University of London, Laboratoire Kontempo, Disruption Lab, Neun Kelche, Tworks Singapore, Art Laboratory Berlin, Nyabinghi Lab among others.

Caitlin Berrigan
Caitlin Berrigan works as a visual artist, filmmaker, and writer to explore poetics and queer science fiction as world-making practices through moving images, sculptural instruments, and expanded new media. Her early works make sensible the relations across viruses, disability, capitalism and contagion. Her recent artistic research into geological animacies in the climate crisis follows how minerals, toxins, and elemental media are transformed and mobilized by data capitalism and inhuman intimacies. Berrigan’s solo exhibitions at JOAN Los Angeles and Art in General NY were reviewed in Artforum, and her work has shown internationally at the Whitney Museum, Berlinale Forum Expanded, La Casa Encendida, Henry Art Gallery, Ashkal Alwan, Harvard Carpenter Center, European Media Arts Festival, and Poetry Project NY among others. Her writings are published by e-flux, Georgia, MARCH, Duke UP and Broken Dimanche. She has been awarded by Creative Capital, Skowhegan, Humboldt Foundation, Graham Foundation, and Schloss Solitude. Currently a Senior Postdoctoral Fellow and PhD-in-Practice at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, Berrigan has held full-time and visiting teaching positions at NYU Tisch, Caltech, Bard College Berlin and Harvard. She earned a Master’s from MIT’s program for Art, Culture and Technology and a B.A. from Hampshire College.

Samuel Hertz
Samuel Hertz is a sound artist and researcher who works with sound-sensing networks of environmental science research through multimedia frames including immersive electronic music, interstellar radio transmissions, deep sea broadcasts, and doom metal concerts. His work has shown in spaces such as the Ars Electronica Festival (AT), Palais de Tokyo (FR), Haus der Kunst (DE), Amant (US), Fylkingen (SE), Haus der Kunst (DE), and the National Science + Media Museum (UK) among many others. Hertz is currently an AHRC/Techne-funded PhD candidate at the Royal Holloway University of London Centre for GeoHumanities, researching sound-sensing networks within bioacoustic conservation and politics of acoustic sensing. He is the author of a number of publications, book chapters and essays on sonic politics, environmental listening and acoustic technologies.

Alanna Lynch
Alanna Lynch is a Berlin-based artist and researcher working with living entities, organic materials, smell, and performance – examining the politics of affect, questions of agency, and the stickiness of feelings. She draws on diverse studies, activism, as well as her own embodied experiences. She has exhibited and performed internationally and was a recent artist in residence at the Banff Centre (Canada). She was a founding member of the artist collective Scent Club Berlin, and her work has been supported by grants from Germany, Canada, and Sweden. In 2018 she was awarded the Berlin Art Prize.

Daniela Medina Poch
Daniela Medina Poch is an interdisciplinary artist, researcher and educator from Colombia. Daniela investigates how unofficial histories and interspecies entanglements contribute to the conception of plural ecologies and non-hegemonic knowledge systems. Through an expanded listening and a critical examination of value imaginaries, her practice questions the supposed universality and impartiality of certain ecological discourses, and aims to alter some of the hierarchies sedimented in them.
Daniela has exhibited her work at The Line London, TBA21 Academy, the XXII Cerveira Biennial, The I Listening Biennial, SAVVY Contemporary, amongst others. Her work is part of the Museum of Modern Art of Bogotá, Collecteurs and the Museum of Historical Memory of Bogotá collections. She has been a resident within programs such as CAMPO Garzon, FLORA ars+natura, Floating University, and Marebox Project. Co-curator of Babel Media Art and Co-Re, she is currently part of the curatorial team at Gropius Bau Berlin. Daniela often writes experimental essays for specialized publications and carries out participatory lectures with different institutions and independent spaces across Europe and Latin America.

António Mendes
António Mendes is a curator and educator. Currently based in Luxembourg, he is leading the Publics Department at Mudam – Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean. His practice explores learning as an ecological and transformative process within contemporary art institutions. Previously, he was a research fellow at SAVVY Contemporary in Berlin, where he contributed to the long-term participatory archive project Colonial Neighbours. There, he co-curated and managed projects such as "Demythologize That History and Put It to Rest," which engaged with colonial legacies through public interventions in Berlin and Lisbon . He also co-curated the workshop "Coloniality: Voices and Perceptions," fostering dialogues between students and artists on European and African relations. At Mudam, he co-curated "Reimagining Museums," a program that rethinks the museum as a living ecosystem rooted in interdependence and collective learning. His research and program development delves on the idea of the museum as a porous, vulnerable body in constant relation to the world it inhabits.

pantea
pantea (she/they) is an artist engaging with narratives of ecological and more-than-human connection. Her work has incorporated creative writing, walking, performance, film, radio, and music. They are co-facilitating Khamoosh, a transdisciplinary community dedicated to preserving and archiving Iranian sonic heritage, and co-directing Associació So in collaboration with Soundcamp Cooperative. They are a member of the Radio Web MACBA working group, and one half of the audiovisual design group Studio Informal. pantea is learning about socially-engaged practice and community-based work by exploring possibilities brought about by listening. She is passionate about wetlands and plants, and is currently studying a practice-based PhD in Music at St George's, University of London. She has works performed and exhibited internationally. Associació So (Sound Association) is a new sound art collaborative based in Catalunya. It brings together work by the Soundcamp Cooperative and pantea.

Elisabeth Schilling
Elisabeth Schilling is a dancer, choreographer, and artistic director whose work bridges movement, design, visual arts, and music. She creates transdisciplinary projects that unfold on stage, in museums, public spaces, and rural areas, with both professionals and communities. From 2020–23, she was Artist in Residence at Trifolion Echternach and is currently Associate Artist at Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg. Her creations have been commissioned and presented by institutions such as the Grand Théâtre du Luxembourg, Philharmonie Luxembourg, Tate Modern, and MUDAM. Touring internationally, her company also brings performances to senior homes, children’s centres, and hospitals. As a performer, she has danced across Europe with leading choreographers and companies. Elisabeth is the founder of Making Dances asbl, with over 300 performances in 19 countries. She received the 2021 Dance Award of the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg and holds degrees from Trinity Laban, London Contemporary Dance School, and Zürich University.