> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.killscreen.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # A car park beneath Oulu is now a botanical afterlife - URL: https://www.killscreen.com/a-car-park-beneath-oulu-is-now-a-botanical-afterlife/ - Published: 2026-10-12T17:59:56.000Z - Updated: 2026-10-12T17:59:56.000Z - Description: Jakob Kudsk Steensen's The Kuutar Garden grows a virtual seed vault ecosystem in Kivisydan, with music by Danny L Harle. - Author: Kill Screen Staff - Tags: News, Jakob Kudsk Steensen, Installation, Game Engines, Virtual Worlds, finland, ecology, Art, exhibition, #radar-item, #events Event details When Sept. 18 to Nov. 30, 2026 Where Kivisydän underground car park, Oulu, Finland Cost 10 euros; free for under 18s with an adult [Get tickets](https://www.lippu.fi/en/artist/oulu2026/kuuttaren-puutarha-4140980/?ref=killscreen.com) Kivisydän is a car park carved into the bedrock beneath the centre of Oulu, Finland. Through November 30, two of its halls hold a garden. *The Kuutar Garden*, Jakob Kudsk Steensen's new commission for the Oulu2026 European Capital of Culture program, rebuilds the University of Oulu's botanical garden, its seed vault, and its endangered plants as a living virtual ecosystem, projected where the cars usually go. [The installation views Steensen posted this week](https://www.instagram.com/p/DdrMGifjT6Y/?ref=killscreen.com) are the first real look at it. 0:00 /2:14 1× The trailer for **The Kuutar Garden*, silent here; [watch it with sound on Vimeo](https://vimeo.com/1223266018?ref=killscreen.com) Steensen is the artist Killscreen keeps returning to because Steensen keeps returning to the engine: four years of ecological fieldwork in Northern Finland, photogrammetry, and worldbuilding in game engines, the same practice we dug into in [our conversation about art, ecology, and the game engine](https://www.killscreen.com/podcast/online-talk-4-28-the-living-archive-jakob-kudsk-steensen-on-art-ecology-and-the-game-engine/) this spring. The new work draws on conservation research around *Hippuris tetraphylla*, an endangered aquatic plant, and reconstructs the botanical garden's pyramid greenhouses in the virtual world. The title figure, Kuutar, comes out of Karelian-Finnish folklore by way of the *Kalevala*: a moon deity, sometimes described as a weaver of golden threads, recast here as what the [e-flux announcement](https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/6787939/jakob-kudsk-steensenthe-kuutar-garden?ref=killscreen.com) calls "an architect of memory." A parking structure is the most car-brained space a city has, and this one now stores seeds instead. And the sound: the simulation's music comes from Danny L Harle, the PC Music producer behind some of the last decade's glossiest hyperpop, working with Lugh O'Neill. Tickets run through November 30\. We covered Steensen's [Otherworlds](https://www.killscreen.com/jakob-kudsk-steensens-otherworlds-closes-sunday-at-phi/) just two weeks ago. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/25/84/2584b75d-4bd6-4cce-8259-f1d1c65abbb5/content/images/2026/09/kuutar-frame-25s.jpg) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/25/84/2584b75d-4bd6-4cce-8259-f1d1c65abbb5/content/images/2026/09/kuutar-frame-55s.jpg) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/25/84/2584b75d-4bd6-4cce-8259-f1d1c65abbb5/content/images/2026/09/kuutar-frame-85s.jpg) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/25/84/2584b75d-4bd6-4cce-8259-f1d1c65abbb5/content/images/2026/09/kuutar-frame-115s.jpg) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/25/84/2584b75d-4bd6-4cce-8259-f1d1c65abbb5/content/images/2026/09/kuutar-preview-still-eflux.jpg) Frames from the trailer for **The Kuutar Garden*, and a preview still via e-flux Game engines keep leaving the console for the gallery, and Killscreen follows them there. The free newsletter brings that beat to your inbox. [Follow the beat ](https://www.killscreen.com/start/?ref=radar-cta)