Nine days left to embark on our ISS mission
As humanity expands into the solar system, so will art. Moon Gallery proposes to send a collection of ideas into space for future generations to hold onto. The ideas are big but small. Each idea has a big role to serve as a seed of a new culture, but they are small enough to fit into one-cubic-centimeter space travel casing. This is a symbolic gesture, offering an opportunity to discuss what art and culture mean to us at the beginning of the multi-planetary epoch of humanity, and presenting a remote cache of artifacts for future humans to discover and enjoy.
The gallery will contribute to the establishment of the first lunar outpost. 100 artworks will be integrated into a 10 x 10 x 1 grid tray to fly to the moon no later than 2025. The moon is the ultimate home of the gallery, but the idea neither starts nor ends there: our work is based on expanding humanity’s cultural dialogue beyond our home planet. The point where the gallery will meet the cosmos for the first time is in low Earth orbit in 2022.
Via the Moon Gallery: Test Flight open call (deadline: August 8), art projects are invited to reach the final frontier of human habitat and mark the historical meeting point of the Moon Gallery and the cosmos. As their next milestone, they target the International Space Station. Reaching low Earth orbit on our way to the moon is the first step in extending our cultural dialogue to space. For this mission, they are collecting art pieces that carry important values for humanity not only at this point on Earth but also for a future multi-planetary society.
The format requirement remains unchanged; the final art piece has to fit into one cubic centimeter. A selection of 64 artworks will be integrated into a 8 x 8 x 1 cm grid to fly to the ISS aboard NG-17 within the framework of a Northrop Grumman Cygnus resupply mission in February of 2022.
The gallery asks for artists to create fascinating pieces from every angle possible. If you want to get inspired, on their website you can explore the already-selected artists’ subjective takes on the gallery’s mission. While the scale of your artwork is limited, the concepts you aim to present are endless.
The Moon Gallery team is looking forward to receiving your ideas. For more information, please visit their website or contact them via art [at] moongallery.eu.
How else to contribute? Support Moon Gallery with your donation! Donations will be used to cover the costs of payload production, testing, launch preparations and the final launch of the artworks to space. By donating to the Moon Gallery, you can significantly contribute to their mission.
To space, and beyond!
About the foundation:
The Stichting Moon Gallery Foundation is a non-profit organisation that aims to provide a platform that enables interdisciplinary cooperation and knowledge exchange between sectors of creative and artistic on one hand, and space and technology on the other. As humanity keeps expanding into the solar system, the foundation believes that art will follow.
