Moon Gallery

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Moon Gallery, an international cultural platform based in the Netherlands, presents The Moon Bound Book — a contemporary artist’s book conceived to travel beyond Earth as part of a future lunar mission.

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The exhibition explores how artists reflect on humanity, memory, and culture from a cosmic perspective. Internationally recognized artists, alongside emerging voices in space art, respond to a shared question: How does the Moon see the Earth?

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Blending contemporary art, space exploration, and cultural research, the exhibition offers a rare opportunity to encounter space art in Bulgaria. Taking place in Plovdiv, it marks the first larger-scale presentation of the Moon Bound project for an international audience.

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The Moon Bound Book is a collective project created by 48 artists, designers, editors, and producers from around the world, bringing together diverse perspectives on art, culture, and humanity’s relationship with space.
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The exhibition opening will be accompanied by a live musical program inspired by the Moon, blending classical and jazz interpretations with subtle cosmic notes. Following the official welcome, guests are invited to continue to the exhibition and a reception centered on lunar themes. Admission is free of charge.

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Seven internationally recognized artists whose works help shape the atmosphere of the exhibition and expand the narrative of space art.

Kongo Astronauts

A Kinshasa-based artist collective, founded in 2013 by Michel Ekeba and Eléonore Hellio, that uses performance, photography, and film to explore postcolonial realities.

Arthur Woods

A pioneering astronautical artist whose work bridges art, space exploration, and speculative futures. Drawing on early, first-hand experiences of the Apollo era and decades of artistic practice, he has realized some of the earliest art-in-space projects, including works sent to the Mir space station.

Eduardo Kac

Eduardo Kac is a pioneering artist whose practice explores art as a protocol enacted through technological, biological, and extraterrestrial systems. From early bio art to works realized in orbit and beyond, including projects created for outer space and deep-space trajectories, Kac investigates how meaning emerges through transmission, instruction, and nonhuman agency within orbital and cosmic environments.

Michael Soluri

Michael R. Soluri is a widely published documentary photographer visually exploring the labor, tools and work cultures of human and robotic space exploration. His projects have included unprecedented access embedded with the last space shuttle mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope, photographer in residence for the New Horizons mission to the Pluto System and soon, for the Dragonfly mission to Saturn’s moon Titan.

Jeanne Morel

Jeanne Morel is a performance artist exploring the body in extreme environments, with a focus on movement in weightlessness. In collaboration with new media artist Paul Marlier, she creates performances during parabolic flights and scientific campaigns in zero gravity, investigating how presence, emotion, and dance emerge under altered gravitational conditions.

Ulrike Kuchner

Ulrike Kuchner, is an astrophysicist, artist, curator, and researcher of their integration (ArtScience), active across all three domains. She is currently a Senior Research Fellow in Astronomy at the University of Nottingham where she also co-leads the ARTlab, and co-coordinates the global transdisciplinary SEADS collective. Her artistic practice turns the failures of astronomical instruments into aesthetic evidence, reframing error not as something to eliminate but as a collaborator that reveals how space is always accessed through mediation, limits, and bias. Ulrike is listed among the Moon Bound Book’s contributors.

Paulina Almeida

Paulina Almeida is a performance and body-storytelling artist creating large-scale, site-specific works. Collaborating across dance, circus, electronic music, and digital art, her practice brings environmental, feminist, and post-colonial themes into close dialogue through embodied, politically charged performances.

Ralo Mayer

Ralo Mayer is a multidisciplinary artist and artistic researcher whose practice explores societal change through space exploration, ecology, and everyday science fiction. Using performative research and narrative structures, he works across installation, film, performance, text, and public space to investigate alternative temporalities and speculative futures.

Lakshmi Mohanbabu

Lakshmi Mohanbabu is a multidisciplinary artist whose work traces the invisible threads that connect people, cultures, and environments. Drawing inspiration from celestial navigation, natural patterns, and shared symbols, she creates works that explore belonging and exchange across disciplines—extending from Earth and the deep ocean to the farthest reaches of space.

Hans Brooymans

Hans Brooymans is a visual artist and photographer whose work investigates infrastructure, time, and space as quiet carriers of meaning and history. Drawing on a background in graphic design, commercial photography, and information technology, he approaches his subjects with technical precision and intuitive observation, revealing interconnections embedded in everyday environments.

Luis Guzmán

Luis Bernardo Guzmán is an artist, researcher, and curator working at the intersection of art, biotechnology, and space exploration. Through bio-art and space-borne projects, his practice explores how life and culture adapt to extreme and extraterrestrial environments. He is the founder of Radix-Lucis Studio and the curator of the Moon Gallery lunar mission.

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