Moon Gallery Foundation fosters questions and develops projects that lay the foundation for a future interplanetary humanity. Our work includes artistic space missions, space-borne art projects, art residencies, educational programs, and events. Through these initiatives, the foundation brings together artists, scientists, agencies, and industry to exchange knowledge and develop sustainable cultural practices.
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Collaborating across borders and cultures, the Moon Gallery Foundation aims to serve as a vessel for education, training, and sharing knowledge at the intersection of art and space science, fostering dialogue and new ideas about the future of human presence in space.
The Moon Gallery strives to collect, document, and deliver the best of humanity and our shared cultural and artistic experiences beyond Earth. We have flown art projects in orbit and have a mission scheduled to reach the Moon by the end of this year.
Moon Gallery invites artists, scientists, engineers, designers, storytellers, and thinkers to become part of a growing space-art community. Through our open calls, we seek visionary proposals that reflect on the future of humanity, culture beyond Earth, and the role of art in space exploration. Each submission is a chance to contribute to a larger conversation — one that transcends borders, disciplines, and orbits.
Moon Mission call for proposals opens soon.
Moon Gallery: Final Flight
“I have traveled by open boat 600 miles north of the Arctic Circle in search of the sites of three giant iron meteorites and once spent weeks living in a tent on the Antarctic plateau to document the work of scientists in that icy place. I’ve suited up as an analogue astronaut during a stint at the Mars Desert Research Station and allowed myself to be stationed in habitats at Biosphere 2 in order to write poetry.”
From lunar launches to terrestrial exhibitions, our events bring together the Moon Gallery community across disciplines, borders, and time zones. Discover where we’re headed next—and if you don’t want to miss a thing, be sure to subscribe to our newsletter for the latest updates, open calls, and cosmic encounters.
On 25 October, from 11:00 to 14:00, Moon Gallery initiated a guided walk with guests as a part of the DDW Highlights Tour, starting in front of BioArt Laboratories and exploring a curated selection of the gallery’s highlights across Dutch Design Week, including the Moon Bound Project.
The Moon Bound project was initiated and sponsored by the Moon Gallery Foundation — a cultural non-profit based in the Netherlands, working internationally to foster collaboration between space and art professionals. Since 2018, Moon Gallery has supported projects that explore the cultural dimensions of space exploration and contribute to establishing space art as a recognized, evolving discipline. At the heart of the foundation’s mission is the desire to inspire the public to think, dream, and act in relation to space—not as a distant frontier, but as a shared domain for dialogue, co-creation, and engagement.
Moon Bound extends this mission by prompting reflection on critical questions at the intersection of the arts and space sectors. Through its launch, the project seeks to open conversations about the role of artists in space exploration, the cultural value of their contributions, the legal and ethical complexities of intellectual property on the Moon, and other emerging issues raised by the book’s diverse and speculative contents.
From October 18–26, BioArt Laboratories in Eindhoven hosted the first public presentation of the Moon Bound project as part of Dutch Design Week 2025. Among the highlights was the New Moon Poetry and Tea evening, held on October 21, where guests enjoyed a collective reading of poems from the Moon Bound book, accompanied by a cup of tea in an intimate, reflective setting.
This event marked both the premiere of Moon Bound and a moment for quiet connection and lunar inspiration. Visitors came together to share poetry, contemplate relationships with the Moon, and discover how creative dialogue can bridge science, art, and imagination.
The project was on view from October 18–26, 11:00–18:00 at BioArt Laboratories, Eindhoven, as part of Dutch Design Week 2025.
On the 23rd of July an online event “Artist as Agent: Infiltrating Space Science and Technology” was hosted by The Cultural Negotiation of Science, bringing together three speakers working at the intersection of contemporary art and aerospace:
– Anna Sitnikova, Director of the Moon Gallery, a pioneering platform sending cultural artifacts into space as seeds of future interplanetary civilization.
– Nahum, director of Kosmica Institute, an international platform dedicated to the development of artistic and cultural activities in the context of space exploration, with a strong emphasis on feminist and decolonial perspectives.
– Luis Guzmán, contemporary artist working in the liminal space of biotech and space technology. PhD candidate (CNoS), founder of Radix-Lucis Studio and co-director of the Moon Gallery Lunar Mission.
In recent decades, a growing number of contemporary artists have been infiltrating domains traditionally considered outside the purview of the arts, including within the technoscientific and aerospace arenas. This infiltration is not merely symbolic or aesthetic – it is epistemological, ontological, and deeply political.
This online event, “Artist as Agent”, explored the emergent figure of the artist not just as a producer of artifacts, but as a methodological operator, a catalyst for hybrid epistemologies, and a producer of new socio-technical imaginaries. Through a reflection on agency, tools, networks, and institutional resistances, this event revealed how artists working in space-related domains actively reshape infrastructures, provoke cultural paradigms, and challenge the hierarchies of who gets to participate in the future of space exploration. From assembling artifacts to be launched aboard satellites, to curating speculative infrastructures for Moon missions, and orchestrating political imaginaries through artistic fictions, the artist-agent infiltrates and reorients the mechanisms of science, engineering, and space policy.
The program structure:
• Artist as methodological infiltrator
• Reframing space exploration as cultural activity
• Artistic tools and speculative engineering
• Ethics and politics of artist-led interventions in technoscience
• Transdisciplinary collaborations and hybrid epistemologies
• Space art as counter-hegemonic narrative device
The full event video is available here.
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