ARNO GEENS
Arno Geens is a Belgian artist working with outer space as his medium. His practice exists within the physical and conceptual conditions of the extraterrestrial environment to explore how art can be created, transformed, and experienced beyond this planet.
While his original works exist in outer space, on Earth they live through imaginations, representations and stories.
Arno Geens creates things that cannot be put into worlds
His practice develops the concept of Astromorphic Art: work co-authored by the space environment where space itself acts as an active agent of artistic creation and that explores how 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.
Arno Geens, FRSA (b.1978, Belgium) is a 2024 Karman Pioneer, a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts (FRSA), a space artist at the International Association of Astronomical Artists (IAAA), and the co-chair of the Committee on the Cultural Utilization of Space at the International Astronautical Federation. He is also the founder and curator of the Astronautical Art Initiative, a non-profit organization archiving and documenting our shared artistic heritage in space. 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.