An atmospheric photo which shows a figure standing looking up at the infinity blue sculpture and the vapour surrounding the floor and sculpture

Arts and culture at Eden

As a major cultural venue, we're home to a spectacular series of summer music concerts – the Eden Sessions – and we're also a hub for the visual arts in Cornwall. We present permanent installations and temporary exhibitions by new, emerging and established artists with reputations spanning the globe. We also host a wide range of performance events and regular storytelling sessions.

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Music at Eden

The Eden Sessions are a series of live music concerts held annually at Eden. Our beautiful site with its natural acoustics draws world-class artists to give amazing performances that many regard as among their best.

Through the Eden Sessions, the Eden Project hopes to encourage concert audiences to think about how they can reduce their impact on the environment.

Art at Eden

Works from a diversity of grass-root and world-renowned national and international artists can be discovered across our 35-acre site in the Outdoor Gardens, Biomes and Outer Estate.

These broad-ranging installations are inspired by social and environmental narratives such as climate change, biodiversity and the vital relationship between global communities and natural resources.

Our major artworks

New art commission for 2021

Dr Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg has created this new outdoor installation that explores the story of the UK’s indigenous pollinators.

Crowd. 4.

This artwork by Julian Opie was specially commissioned in homage to Eden's visitors.

A close up of the Jenny Kendler artwork which shows a number of different eye artworks set on an iron frame

Birds Watching

This sculpture by Jenny Kendler in our Outer Estate features 100 reflective birds’ eyes.

A view of the infinity blue sculpture it's a dark image with a ray of light coming from the left hand side showing a figure standing and looking up at the large sculpture

∞ Blue (Infinity Blue)

This huge breathing sculpture by Studio Swine pays homage to one of the world's smallest living beings.

Cores

Created by local ceramic artist Jenny Beavan, these sculptures are made from a mix of clays and are impressed with plants from Eden. 

A view of the Ryan Gander water fountain sculpture with the Eden biome's in the background

To employ the mistress... It's a French toff thing

This marble artwork and drinking fountain by Ryan Gander references fountains found in classical gardens.

a close up view of the two driftwood horse sculptures

Bronze and Driftwood Horse

Meet these sculptures by Heather Jansch outside the main entrance to Eden.

The Drummer

We're the temporary home to this Tim Shaw sculpture while the redevelopment of the Hall for Cornwall in Truro takes place.

Seed

This enormous granite sculpture by Peter Randall-Page sits in a specially designed chamber at the heart of our Core building .

A view of a giant figure sculpture emerging from the ground with a mirrored mosaic face

Eve

This living sculpture made from clay by Peter and Sue Hill reclines in our Myth and Folklore Garden.

Aziza Gate

These carvings by El Anatsui started life as trees in West Africa and can now be found beneath our Rainforest Canopy Walkway.

A view of the mediterranean biome with multiple sculptures in a circle and a bull in the middle

The Rites of Dionysus

You can find this Bacchanalian artwork by Tim Shaw among the grapevines in our Mediterranean Biome.

Cloud Chamber

The spectacular Cloud Chamber by Chris Drury can be found nestled in our Wild Cornwall exhibit in our Outdoor Gardens.

A view of the wall of vegetalistas paintings set in the rainforest biome

Spirits of the Rainforest

These murals by traditional Peruvian herbalists Don Francisco Montes Shuna and Yolanda Panduro Baneo show their visions of the spirits of medicinal plants.