Dan Lie

Dan Lie transforms Mudam's Grand Hall into a living ecosystem of decay and renewal. Dan Lie is an artist whose practice centres on the often-overlooked processes of decomposition and decay as sources of life and renewal. Lie proposes a living and evolving installation in which fungi, soil, plants, textiles and decomposing matter, all of which Lie describes as 'other-than-human' companions, interact and transform over time.

Important to Lie's practice has been research into death and grieving rituals, connecting them with a critique of human protagonism in the planetary system. Rejecting fixed categories and restrictive binaries, Lie questions the boundaries of strict structures as a vehicle for exploring life, death and the constant becoming and possibility of things.

Time, transformation and decay run through their work, revealing decomposition not as an ending but as a generative and life-sustaining force. For Mudam, Dan Lie has been invited to create a new large-scale installation for the Grand Hall, a space conceived as the museum's public plaza and as a communal space.

Rather than resisting the unpredictable, Lie celebrates the transformations that occur when materials meet, bringing an element of the unknown into the museum's often tightly controlled environment. Biography Dan Lie (b. 1988, São Paulo) is a Berlin-based artist.

They have had solo exhibitions at venues including Spike Island, Bristol (2025); Pinacoteca de São Paulo; Art Sonje Center, Seoul (2024); Kunstverein Braunschweig; ZwingliKirche, Berlin (2023); New Museum, New York (2022); Casa do Povo, São Paulo; and Jupiter Art Land, Edinburgh (2019).

Their work has been presented in group exhibitions, including the 61st International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia; Sak-Da: The Poetics of Decomposition, MMCA, Seoul (2026); Histórias da ecologia, MASP, São Paulo (2025); Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (2024); the 35th Bienal de São Paulo (2023); and the 58th Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (2022). Lie lives and works in Berlin.

Lie proposes a living and evolving installation in which fungi, soil, plants, textiles and decomposing matter, all of which Lie describes as 'other-than-human' companions, interact and transform over time. Important to Lie's practice has been research into death and grieving rituals, connecting them with a critique of human protagonism in the planetary system.

Rejecting fixed categories and restrictive binaries, Lie questions the boundaries of strict structures as a vehicle for exploring life, death and the constant becoming and possibility of things. Time, transformation and decay run through their work, revealing decomposition not as an ending but as a generative and life-sustaining force.

For Mudam, Dan Lie has been invited to create a new large-scale installation for the Grand Hall, a space conceived as the museum's public plaza and as a communal space. Rather than resisting the unpredictable, Lie celebrates the transformations that occur when materials meet, bringing an element of the unknown into the museum's often tightly controlled environment. Biography Dan Lie (b. 1988, São Paulo) is a Berlin-based artist…