ARNO GEENS
Arno Geens is a Belgian space artist and curator working with outer space as his medium. His practice engages with the physical and conceptual conditions of the space environment to explore how art can be created, transformed, and experienced beyond Earth.
While his original works exist beyond this world, they live through imaginations, representations and stories.
Arno Geens creates things that cannot be put into worlds
His practice engages with space as an active creative agent and the way in which this collaboration shapes the way we understand and interact with the universe around us.
At the core of his work lies a tension between human imaginaries and universal realities, requiring a delicate balance between imagination, creation, scientific observation and technical execution.
Working across media and in elaborate collaborations between creatives, space agencies, mission teams and operators, Arno acts as a conductor carefully staging space as a complex performance of praxis between disciplines, time and space.
Although tempered by reality, his works are cosmic in intention.
These projects are deliberately crafted to exist in space - beyond our world and reach - in an intimate relationship with the universe, challenging us to rethink our anthropocentric concepts of creation, perception, (re)presentation, scale and time.
Arno Geens, FRSA (b.1978, Belgium) is a 2024 Karman Pioneer, a member of the Oxford Space Initiative (OxSI), a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts (FRSA), a space artist at the International Association of Astronomical Artists (IAAA), and a U.S. Department of State International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) alumnus. He holds an MA in Graphic Design & Multimedia (LUCA School of Arts, Brussels), an MSc in Space Studies (International Space University, Strasbourg), and a PgD in Philosophy & Cognitive Science (VUB Brussels). He is also a Smart Space alumn, Oxford University.