The Museum of Modern Art has filled the ground floor of its Manhattan building with a swamp. “Jakob Kudsk Steensen: Wetland,” a digital installation by the Danish artist of that name, opened October 12 and runs through March 7, 2027, in MoMA’s Agnes Gund Garden Lobby, recreating the drained wetlands around Berlin as an ever-changing digital landscape set to vocals by the experimental musician Arca.

The exhibition holds a single work, Berl-Berl, which spreads across wall-sized screens where water ripples, plants sway and the familiar sounds of nature give way to electronic music and human voices. It is built with macro photogrammetry, 3D scanning and game-engine software, the technology behind video games, and unfolds as a landscape that keeps changing rather than looping. MoMA posted the exhibition details on its press site.

The work takes its name from “berl,” a Slavic word for swamp that is also the likely root of Berlin’s name. To make it, Steensen spent months doing fieldwork in the wetlands of Berlin and Brandenburg, documenting plants, mud, roots and insects, and worked with the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, drawing on its collections of local fauna, rocks and plant specimens. He combined that ecological research with archival study of Sorbian and Slavic mythology and with songs once used to map and remember marsh terrain.