The Living Pyramid

The Living Pyramid is a work conceived as a monumental flowering plant garden and will occupy the esplanade of Park Dräi Eechelen from May to October 2025. It has already been created in Socrates Park in New York in 2015, and as part of Documenta 14 in Kassel, Germany, in 2017.

The creation of an artwork that embodies our natural habitat and its processes gains a unique dimension through the involvement of local communities in Luxembourg. From carpenters crafting pyramidally structured plant beds to volunteers planting and maintaining the flora, the communal effort breathes life into the project within the Park.

“This new work of The Living Pyramid is planted material, yet a new meaning. Transformed into blossom, The Pyramid renews itself as evolution does to our species. The rigid angle becomes an arc to reach above to what it wishes and needs to reach.

The Living Pyramid is bringing mathematics and plant-life into wondrous harmony: engineering accuracy and stability mixed with the daily changes of growth and survival. It touches on world hunger and the threat of outgrowing our resources without better planning — or planting. Again, my obsession with blending nature and the human intellect at play, visualizing opposite forces to play in harmony, creating the powerful paradox that governs this art form and gives it its strength.

It is not just planting, but sowing the paradox — a structured edifice of soil and grain, not on a farm or field but in the heart of a busy city. It is sowing the seed into soil and minds.” Agnes Denes