The Living Pyramid

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.