The Leeum Museum of Art presents Gabriel Orozco Garden, a new site-specific installation by Gabriel Orozco. As the museum’s first commissioned garden project since its opening in 2004, the work redefines the deck beyond its previous role as an outdoor sculpture garden, transforming it into a living sculpture, where architecture and nature converge with public engagement.

Gabriel Orozco Garden at Leeum marks the third and most comprehensive chapter in the artist’s decade-long engagement with the garden as a sculptural medium. This trajectory began in 2016 at the South London Gallery, where Orozco transformed a neglected site into a permanent garden defined by intersecting geometries. From 2019, he led the master plan for Chapultepec Park in Mexico City—an 800-hectare urban project—culminating in a public sculpture on an urban scale. At Leeum, Orozco builds upon the accumulated insights of these preceding projects.

In this garden, Orozco introduces, for the first time in his practice, a conceptual layer drawn from East Asian tradition: the “Three Friends of Winter” (歲寒三友)—pine, bamboo, and plum. These three plants, which sustain the garden through the harshest season with restraint, form both the botanical framework and conceptual backbone of Gabriel Orozco Garden. Here, sustainability takes precedence over flourish, and endurance over spectacle.

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