The Courtyard Commission series is a major new program that invites an artist to transform the museum’s courtyard. For the inaugural Courtyard Commission, Precious Okoyomon (Nigerian-American, b. 1993) will produce a living forest featuring a large-scale, interactive bear sculpture—the artist’s signature motif—which resembles an oversized children’s toy. The forest, developed in collaboration with the nursery issima, will grow into an ever-morphing woodland of trees, exotic flowers, weeds, and boulders. Visitors are invited to venture into the bear’s body, where they can experience a multi-sensory installation before exiting through its mouth.

MoMA PS1 will present the largest mid-career survey to date of artist Klara Liden (Swedish, b. 1979), bringing into focus her longstanding exploration of urban infrastructure in the public sphere. Featuring work rarely seen in the US from the past three decades of her practice, alongside new works created for the exhibition, the show spans the entirety of PS1’s third-floor galleries and includes large-scale installation, sculpture, architecture, video, performance, painting, and printmaking.