Entry by

Moon Gallery Foundation (NL) & Figure Ten (NL)

Country

The Netherlands

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 to the Moon in order to better understand it, but we should also ask… How does the Moon see the Earth?

Around 48 contributors has responded to this question, ranging from artists, writers, and other creatives of all around the globe. This collection of text and image submissions – along with statements and manifestos that locate this project in the context of the ambitions for better representation of the arts in space – come together in ‘Moon Bound’, a 1 cm³ miniature book that will be lauched to the Moon’s south pole, It enacts a dual gesture of exploration: one that reaches outward, toward the vastness of the Moon’s south pole, and another that turns inward, into the boundless terrain of human imagination.

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. At the heart 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.