Art for Artemis – Till

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 Till Langschied from the Basel School of Design in Basel, Switzerland.

"My work for the Art for Artemis project is called “In-between Space VII“. It is part of a series of digital images that started out with glitched scans of a 1998 Kennedy Space Center brochure. I kept this brochure from when I visited the center in Florida as an 11-year-old boy who was mesmerised by the idea of an International Space Station, for which construction just had started that year. By glitching and digitally manipulating these images, I tried to open-up their meaning because there is not a singular idea of space or how to travel it. The universe is a fresh canvas for our aspirations."

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.