Last night, two works of art by Amsterdam artist Bram Reijnders landed on the moon. His digital artworks, together with the work of 220 other artists, were transported on a chip to the first space museum ever. The goal is not to entertain aliens, but to make people more aware of being more economical with our planet.
Last night, Elon Musk’s SpaceX landed on the moon, the first time that a commercial party has succeeded. And that lunar lander was full of more than two hundred works of art, including by artist Bram Reijnders.
Reijnders is not so sure whether aliens will actually see the artwork: ”Small chance that an alien will see the artwork. There is a greater chance that it will appeal to the imagination and that we will become more aware of the need to be more economical with our planet,” he says. It is therefore rather the cultural heritage of humanity, for when the earth ends. In addition to the art, measuring equipment was sent to conduct research on the moon.
Reijnders has created two works of art for the space museum and they both focus on the climate. The first work, The Faces of Climate Change, is a three-dimensional globe with faces, to give a face to climate change. His second work is a fantasy beach with climate refugees: “We celebrate the beauty of the world, but if you look closer, you see that the people are climate refugees,” says the artist.
Picasso and Beyoncé
Reijnders is in good company, the chip also contains works by Picasso, Beyoncé and Jeff Koons. At first he could not believe that Reijnders had been chosen as one of these artists: “I was skeptical at first, but as time went on it turned out to be the case and I am in a nice list,” he says.