ARNO GEENS
Arno Geens explores outer space
As an artist, I explore outer space as a field of tension between human abilities and cosmic reality.
This creates a vertigo where the mind oscillates between fascination and disorientation.
My core creations exist in space to understand this dynamic.
They encourage us to rethink our anthropocentric relationship with the cosmos.
Beyond the studio, my practice grows in two directions. I research and archive the history of art in space, and bring the argument for culture into the international space community.
Arno Geens, FRSA (b.1978, Belgium) is co-chair of the Committee on the Cultural Utilization of Space at the International Astronautical Federation, a 2024 Karman Pioneer and a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts. He is the founder and curator of the Astronautical Art Initiative, a non-profit organisation archiving our shared artistic heritage in space, and of The Foundry, the first Orbital Art Lab in low Earth orbit. He holds an MA in Graphic Design & Multimedia (LUCA School of Arts), an MSc in Space Studies (International Space University), and a PgD in Philosophy & Cognitive Science (VUB Brussels).