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How does the Moon
see the Earth?

About the project

The Moon Gallery Foundation is reaching out to invite you to take part in an extraordinary project—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 would like to invite you to respond to this simple, yet metaphorical question, to contribute to a miniature book of curated thoughts and artistic expression that will be landed on the Moon in late 2025.

Book Format & Submission Guidelines

Interpret this question however you like. We invite responses in text (in any language most fitting for your expression) or image.

Responses are being invited from select institutions, artists, philosophers and astronauts. Each response will be contained on a single page, 1 x 1 cm. The book will be a 1 cm³ volume, accommodating approximately 50 submissions.

Each submission can be:

  • A text (max. 800 characters, in any language)
  • A black-and-white image (1:1 aspect ratio, to be printed at 1cm2)

Mission Timeline & Submission Details

  • Submission Deadline: March 14, 2025, 00:00 CET
  • Book Production Completion: April 4, 2025
  • Payload Delivery for Integration in California, USA: April 12, 2025
  • Please email your text or image including credits to Barbara.brownie@rca.ac.uk & art@moongallery.eu

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

Disclaimer

We are reaching out to you because we deeply believe that your vision and body of work can enrich this assemblage of perspectives. However, due to the extremely short timeline and technical constraints, we cannot guarantee that all submissions will be included in the final collection. That being said, we greatly appreciate your time and effort, and should your contribution not make it into the Moon-bound book, we will explore alternative ways to showcase this collection in another form.