A Head Like a Garden / La tête comme un jardin

An off-site project by LUGA – Luxembourg Urban Garden and Cercle Cité

From 7 May to 18 October 2025, the LUGA - Luxembourg Urban Garden, an ephemeral open-air exhibition in Luxembourg, offers the public an immersive experience that combines nature, innovation and culture. For the occasion, visitors are invited to explore how urban spaces can transform themselves into places of harmony between the natural environment and human activities.

In this framework and for the same period, the Cercle Cité presents in partnership with the Luga – Luxembourg Urban Garden, a beyond-the-walls exhibition by artist Marco Godinho, entitled A Head Like a Garden. Installed in the Pfaffenthal district in the heart of the Valley of the Alzette – a veritable natural setting in the city – this exhibition invites us to encounter the wild beauty of the landscape and the cultural history of the location.

" A Head Like a Garden / La tête comme un jardin. is a series of artistic protocols that invite us to wander mentally and sensorily through public space. The poetic phrases engraved on metal plates dispersed throughout the valley of the Pétrusse stimulate the imagination and sensitize us to the environment, to working-class history and the invisible energies that surround us. Each protocol is accompanied by a constantly evolving garden that is transformed by the seasons, like the thoughts it inspires. These gardens for the head maintain a permanent state of wakefulness and gestation, presenting a poetic and animistic vision of the world. Through collective walks and performative actions, the project is anchored in an ecological and participative approach that pays homage to simple gestures and trades that are often rendered invisible. The protocols invite everyone to activate their imagination, to let their thoughts wander and to render them present through ephemeral actions. This artwork thus travels from head to head and can be reactivated from a printed edition, each page of which enables us to disseminate these poetic invitations elsewhere and to revitalize them at any moment, wherever we happen to be." — Marco Godinho

Official exhibition opening 

Thursday, May 22, 2025, at 5:00 PM

Aperitif at LUGA Lab: 5:30 PM

Guided tour by the artist: 6:30 PM

Free participation, without registration

Location: LUGA Lab (Parc Odendahl)

LUGA Lab coordinates on Google Maps: J47P+C2 Luxemburg