The Moonhouse is Becoming a Reality!
The launch toward the moon of artist Mikael Genberg’s work is planned for the winter 2024.
Pressrelease 12th September 2024
Watch Mikael Genberg share The Moonhouse story. (short version)
The Moonhouse is a spectacular story of a 25-year-long artistic ambition with the goal of placing a red house with white trim on the surface of the moon. The long-awaited artwork will soon be in place. The house will be launched to the moon with the Japanese company, ispace’s lunar mission during the winter of 2024.
The idea of placing a house on the moon was sparked in 1999 when Mikael Genberg read an article about Sweden building the first European moon probe. Since then, the launch of the artwork has been preceded by tireless voluntary work and commitment over two and a half decades. The Moonhouse has overcome doubters, technical challenges, and financial crises along the way. Rapid technological advancements in recent years have created new possibilities for realizing the work.
Few are left untouched by the Moonhouse, and over the years, it has inspired many thoughts and minds regarding what the artwork is and what it means to those who have been inspired by it.
- Perhaps the artwork, the first house on the moon, can be a symbol of life's eternal quest to survive and develop; a perspective on existence and an eye towards the earth, says Mikael Genberg
Closing the Circle after 25 Years of Visionary Art
The vision of the Moonhouse has already traveled around the world through Mikael Genberg’s artistry - up in trees, underwater, on top of the Globe arena, to the Great Wall of China, and to the International Space Station, ISS, 400 kilometers above Earth as a companion to Sweden’s first astronaut, Christer Fuglesang. All of this leads to this point: the realization of the Moonhouse through the collaboration with ispace.
Film from ispace on following link: The Moonhouse together with the lunar rover TENACIOUS and lunar lander RESILIENCE
- The Moonhouse is a fantastic project, and we are incredibly pleased to be part of finally realizing it. The vision of the artwork merges with our own; to expand our planet and future, and to extend the sphere of human life into space, says Julien-Alexandre Lamamy, CEO of ispace Europe.
Voluntary Efforts Have Given the Moonhouse New Momentum
Over the past three years, around 100 individuals, primarily from the worlds of art, space technology, business, and even sports, have contributed with expertise and resources that have given the Moonhouse momentum needed to propel it toward its lunar destination. As co-creators of an iconic artwork, they form a broad network of creative people on a grand adventure.
- From its inception 25 years ago, the Moonhouse has been an artwork governed by individual imagination, everyone has their own moonhouse. The initiative wants to be a hopeful and collective symbol of what we can achieve together. Or as I usually sum it up: ‘First, we put a house on the moon, then we do something difficult’, says Mikael Genberg.
For more information, please contact:
Mikael Genberg, Artist and Entrepreneur
Email: info@mikaelgenberg.com, Phone: +46 70 775 5393
Emil Vinterhav, Head of the Moonhouse Technical Team
Email: emil.vinterhav@themoonhouse.se, Phone: +46 70 555 1869
Hans Elis Johansson, Communications Manager for the Moonhouse
Email: hans.elis@themoonhouse.se, Phone: +46 70 513 6035
Julien-Alexandre Lamamy, CEO ispace Europe.
Email: j-lamamy@ispace-inc.com, Phone: +352 621 239 733
For press images and video material: www.themoonhouse.com
About the Moonhouse Artwork:
The Moon House will be the first site-specific artwork on the Moon created at the moment the House is installed on the Moon. The moon has always stimulated man's imagination with its cold beauty. The knowledge that there is a red house with white trim in the middle of the "magnificent desolation", as one of the first lunar travelers put it, has the potential to change the whole picture. No matter what thoughts and feelings the lunar house generates in each of us, it leaves no one untouched. For more information about the Moonhouse visit: www.themoonhouse.com
About Mikael Genberg:
The Artist Mikael Genberg is based in Västerås, Sweden, and has always explored human life, perspectives, and living environments using the symbol of the read house, placing them in odd locations like treetops, on the water, under the water, on the biggest spherical building in the world and even in space. Always with the dream of one day reaching the moon.
About ispace:
ispace specializes in designing and building lunar landers and rovers. The company's mission is to extend the sphere of human life into space and create a sustainable world by providing high-frequency and cost-effective transportation services to the moon. ispace operates in Japan, Luxembourg, and the USA with over 300 employees. For more information, visit: www.ispace-inc.com.
Tags:
