The Garden of Kuutar
Jakob Kudsk Steensen
- Artist(s)
- Jakob Kudsk Steensen
- Dates
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- Place(s)
- MUDAM Luxembourg
- Curators
- Vincent Crapon, Françoise Poos in collaboration with Christophe Gallois
Danish artist Jakob Kudsk Steensen creates poetic reconstructions of natural phenomena through virtual world-building, spatial sound and large-scale installations, addressing how climate change reshapes our connection to the living world. His practice is rooted in extended periods of fieldwork conducted with biologists, composers and philosophers.
For Mudam, Steensen is developing a new chapter of his ongoing project The Kuutar Garden, a digital reconstruction of one of the world’s northernmost botanical gardens, based on more than four years of research on-site in Oulu, Finland.
The project will immerse audiences in a world suspended between life and extinction, where artificial moons shine a light on endangered plants and seed archives. Grounded in his education as both a maker and scholar of art, Steensen combines scientific methods with digital visualisation in order to make visible what might otherwise disappear.
Practical information
3 Park Drai Eechelen
L-1499 Luxembourg
Opening hours
Tuesday, Thursday – Sunday: 10:00 – 18:00
Wednesday: 10:00 – 21:00 (free entry from 18:00 – 21:00)
Monday: Closed
Tickets: mudam.com
More info: mudam.com
Jakob Kudsk Steensen (b. 1987, Køge, Denmark) studied painting and new media at the University of Aarhus before completing a master’s degree in art history from Copenhagen University and a master’s in fine art at Central Saint Martins in London. He has held solo exhibitions at Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris (2025); Fondation Beyeler, Basel; Cisternerne, Copenhagen (2025); Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg (2024); ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum (2022); Halle am Berghain / LAS Art Foundation, Berlin (2021) and Serpentine, London (2020, 2019). He has participated in group exhibitions and biennials at Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (2025); the 15th Gwangju Biennale (2024) and LUMA Foundation, Arles (2021). His work is held in the collections of Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris; LUMA Foundation, Arles; KADIST, Paris/San Francisco; LAS Art Foundation, Berlin; ARKEN Museum of Contemporary Art, Ishøj; ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum and SMK – National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen. He received the Prix du Jury at Les Rencontres d’Arles (2019); the Webby Award – People’s Choice VR (2018) and the Games for Change Award – Most Innovative (2018). He lives and works in Copenhagen.
The exhibition is organised by Mudam — Musée d’art moderne Grand-Duc Jean and curated by Elektron (Vincent Crapon, Françoise Poos) in collaboration with Christophe Gallois (Mudam).
Presented in partnership with the Fondation Louis Vuitton.