An immersive installation by Jakob Kudsk Steensen reimagines the Kivisydän car park beneath Oulu city centre as a virtual world of botanical afterlife.
Danish artist Jakob Kudsk Steensen’s site-specific installation The Kuutar Garden can be experienced deep beneath the city in Kivisydän, Oulu’s central underground car park from 18thof September.
The artwork will take over the halls A1 and A2, turning a part of the carpark into a virtual world of botanical afterlife.
Based on more than four years of ecological fieldwork in Northern Finland, the work is inspired his work at the Botanical Garden of the University of Oulu, one of the world’s northernmost botanical gardens, and the region’s distinctive northern light – especially moonlight.
Musical elements of the simulation are created in collaboration with Danny L Harle and Lugh O’Neill. The underground space becomes a spectral garden where light, sound and movement guide the visitor through shifting plant-based environments.
The tickets for the unique experience are now on sale at online at Lippu.fi and Oulu2026 Info & Shop. Ticket sales open also at the exhibition site on 18th of September.
The Kuutar Garden, 18th of September – 30th of November 2026. Making it happen: Oulun Pysäköinti Oy, Epson, and Genelec.
Jakob Kudsk Steensen – creator of immersive environments
Jakob Kudsk Steensen (b. 1987, Denmark) explores ecological and psychological themes. Working with technologies such as game engines, generative systems and photogrammetry, he challenges perspectives on technology, nature and human interaction. His practice is often described as worldbuilding, creating immersive environments for audiences and collaborators to inhabit.
His practice draws on fieldwork that uses photogrammetry and other forms of recording to digitally archive vanishing and emerging ecologies. Developed in close collaboration with environmental scientists, composers, and philosophers, this process gives rise to speculative worlds in which technology, psyche, and body converge as new forms of environmental storytelling.
His latest commissions include The Song Trapper at Fondation Louis Vuitton, Boreal Dreams at Fondation Beyeler, and Psychosphere at Cisternerne (2025). He previously exhibited The Ephemeral Lake at Tokyo’s Mori Museum (2025) following its premiere at Hamburg’s Hamburger Kunsthalle (2024), and participated in the 2024 Gwangju Biennale with Berl-Berl. Other notable solo exhibitions include Berl-Berl (LAS, Halle am Berghain, 2021) and Catharsis (Serpentine Galleries, London, 2020).
