Art for Artemis jury selection

The two selected artworks on display at the Airbus European Service Module integration hall in Bremen, Germany. ESA has teamed up with eight art schools around Europe and challenged their students to produce art inspired by Artemis, lunar exploration and the European Service Module that will provide the power, propulsion, water and air for the astronauts on board.

From the 24 entries from eight schools, a jury has chosen two pieces that will accompany the spacecraft module on its first step forward to the Moon.

The jury consisted of ESA’s Philippe Berthe and Stefaan De Mey, Airbus Programme Manager Didier Radola, and faculty from the Politechnico di Milano: Annalisa Dominoni, Benedetto Quaquaro.

The jury stated “We are impressed by the diversity of the art pieces and their themes supporting international collaboration towards human exploration of our Solar System.”

Students made 24 artworks that we will showcase on the Orion blog over the coming months. Using a variety of techniques and from many different cultural backgrounds, the artists have thought about what human spaceflight to the Moon and beyond signifies.

As the only place that humans have seen with their own eyes throughout history, our Moon features heavily in world cultures. The Artemis programme, itself named after the ancient Greek goddess of the Moon, will take humans back to our natural satellite and, in doing so, will become memorialised in popular culture.