Art for Artemis – Belén

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.

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.

This artwork was made by Belén Cortés Rodríguez from the Complutense University of Madrid in Spain.

"I am inspired by the process of creating; at first it feels overwhelming because it is always a challenge to make a new piece. But it is extremely interesting for me to slowly see how every part of an artwork starts solving like a puzzle. I found my piece very intimate and nostalgic."

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.

All the artworks are available on ESA's Orion blog with interviews with the artists.