Messages to the Future Sought for Time Capsule Project

As part of the Luxembourg Urban Garden (LUGA) and in collaboration with Mudam Luxembourg, visitors are invited to write a message for future generations by participating in the time capsule project of the Hungarian-born American artist Agnes Denes, a pioneer of ecological art.

This capsule will collect visitors' testimonies on the meaning of life. Buried near her installation The Living Pyramid, it will be reopened in 1,000 years, in 3025.

Close to the museum, on the esplanade of the Park Dräi Eechelen, opposite the Ville Haute, Mudam will present the artwork The Living Pyramid (2015) by American artist Agnes Denes (1931, Budapest), a pioneering figure of ecological and environmental art. Conceived as a massive 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 among the local flora. Originally, Denes created this work for the Socrates Sculpture Park in New York. She has since reproduced it on several occasions, including for documenta 14, held in Kassel, Germany in 2017.

This new iteration of The Living Pyramid includes an audience participation project, also imagined by Denes. In the months leading up to the exhibition, participants are invited to fill out a questionnaire that prompts them to reflect on the meaning of life. The collected responses will be sealed in a time capsule, which will be buried near the pyramid and intended to be opened in a thousand years.

To take part in this project, anyone interested can fill out the questionnaire and send it to livingpyramid@mudam.com.