How does the Moon
see the Earth?

About the project

The Moon Gallery Foundation would like to announce our upcoming Moon Mission, scheduled for launch at the end of 2025.

For all of human history, we have looked up from the Earth at the Moon. All the time, the Moon has looked back up at us. We travel the Moon in order to better understand it, but we should also ask…

How does the Moon see the Earth?

We have gathered responses to this question from artists, writers, and other creatives from around the globe, and bound these in an artists’ book, which will land on the Moon’s south pole.

Image credit: Art and Such Evan, 2025

Moon Bound

Moon Bound is a 1 cm³ volume, which collects text and image submissions from 48 contributors, along with statements and manifestos that locate this project in the context of the Moon Gallery’s ambitions for better representation of the arts in space.

The Moon Bound project

Through the launch of Moon Bound, we seek to promote discussion of larger questions about the relationship between the arts and space sectors, the value of artists’ engagements with space exploration, the status of intellectual property on the Moon, and many other topics informed by the works contained within the book. The epitext – beyond the Moon Bound book itself – will involve events, debates, interviews, and further texts, by our organisers and contributors, and larger networks. Please watch this space for news and announcements.

Credits

Anna Sitnikova

Initiative, Project Management

Elizaveta Glukhova

Initiative, Project Management

Barbara Brownie

Concept, Project Management, Editor, Texts

Christopher Cokinos

Editor, Texts

Luis Bernardo Guzmán

Curation

Figure Ten

Graphic Design

Art and Such Evan

Book Development and Creation

Luis Bernardo Guzmán
Dr Barbara Brownie
Kim Stanley Robinson
Minna Philips
Kyle Dargan
Cody Lukas
Christian Bök
Marjolein Callewaert
Helen Schell (The Human Spaceship)
Ralo Mayer
Christopher Cokinos
Evan Lorenzen (Art and Such Evan)
Kat Alice Pegler
Mary Pedicini
Maria Pia Munzi
©Kongo Astronauts
Sabine Winters
Richelle Ellis
Udi Edelman
Carrie Paterson
Peter Westenbrink
Eva Petrič
Iwona Fluda
Jeroen van der Most
Peter van der Putten
Michael R Soluri
Shanshan Jiang
Felipe Cervera
Eduardo Kac
Legboot
Mette Juhl Jessen
Pieter Steyaert
Marie-Pier Boucher
Manuel Vason
Yana Karol
Dr Adam Kaasa
Moon Village Association Cultural Considerations Working Group
Lisa Pettibone
Jorick de Quaasteniet
Miha Turšič
Ulrike Kuchner
The Space for Art Foundation
Ruth Best
Mary Kuiper
Metal God
Sarah Khan
European Space Policy Institute (ESPI)
Jeanne Morel
Dr Sarah Jane Pell
Dr Richard Move
Dr David Barnes
Daniel Waghorn
Julie Swarstad Johnson
Arthur Woods

About Moon Gallery Foundation

Moon Gallery Foundation is an international cultural NGO, based in the Netherlands and dedicated to developing an ongoing program that brings art and space together with purpose and vision. We foster questions and develop projects that lay the foundation for a future interplanetary humanity. Our work includes artistic space missions, space-borne art projects, residencies, educational programs, and events. Through these initiatives, the foundation brings together artists, scientists, agencies, and industry to exchange knowledge, solve problems, and develop sustainable cultural practices.

Moon Gallery space missions

On Feb 19, 2022, the Moon Gallery Foundation launched the world’s first off-planet gallery aboard NG-17 rocket with a Northrop Grumman Cygnus resupply mission to the International Space Station. The test mission of 65 artefacts was housed inside a Nanoracks Nanolab, together with a camera aimed at the gallery for targeted material observations in microgravity.

After spending 327 days aboard the station, the Gallery returned to Earth on the 11th of January 2023.

Moon Gallery’s miniature book payload will be a part of the LifeShip Pyramid.
Project partners: Stichting Moon Gallery Foundation, Lifeship, Art and Such Evan, Figure Ten, Astronautical.art