KOSMICA

KOSMICA is an institute founded by artist and musician Nahum to promote poetical and critical perspectives of outer space activities and their impact on Earth.

KOSMICA Institute is a space organisation that aims to establish a platform for critical, cultural, and poetic discussions about our relationship with the Universe, space activities, and their impact on Earth. Through festivals, educational programmes and projects, it has collaborated with over 180 artists, cultural practitioners, scientists, astronauts and other space explorers. KOSMICA has ongoing activities in Germany, UK, Mexico, Canada and France.

12/08/2026

A moment of alignment… We are grateful to all the wonderful people and community that joined us today for the Eclipse Expedition in A Coruña

10/08/2026

Since 1851, humans have been chasing eclipses with cameras. Berkowski with his daguerreotype. Eddington with his glass plates. Turok in the jungles of Chiapas. Ressmeyer across continents.

This week, KOSMICA is in Galicia, Spain, following that same tradition. A group of artists and space experts are gathering on the Atlantic coast, waiting for the Moon to pass before the Sun.

On 12 August, we will witness it together!

📷 Antonio Turok, Chiapas, Mexico, 1991

1851 · Julius Berkowski · Königsberg, Prussia

The first photograph of a total solar eclipse ever taken. A daguerreotype exposed for 84 seconds. The moment humanity stopped describing eclipses and started preserving them.

📷 Julius Berkowski

1860 · Warren de la Rue · Spain

De la Rue’s photographs, compared with images taken 500 km away, proved that solar prominences belong to the Sun. The photograph became a scientific instrument.

1919 · Arthur Eddington · Príncipe Island, West Africa

The eclipse that confirmed Einstein’s theory of general relativity. The most scientifically consequential eclipse photograph ever taken.

1973 · Wendy Carlos · Africa

Better known as a pioneering electronic musician, Carlos photographed every total solar eclipse between 1973 and 1985. Her darkroom composite techniques were decades ahead of their time. NASA exhibited her work.

1991 · Antonio Turok · Chiapas, Mexico

During the longest total solar eclipse of the twentieth century, Mexican photojournalist Antonio Turok captured totality above the Chiapas landscape, with birds startled into flight by the sudden darkness. One of the most haunting eclipse images ever made.

2008 · Miloslav Druckmüller · Mongolia

A mathematician who builds his own processing software, Druckmüller composited dozens of exposures to reveal corona structures invisible to the human eye. Widely considered the finest eclipse photograph ever made.

2017 · Pavel Horálek / Solar Wind Sherpas · North America

Their composite for ESO revealed corona structures at a resolution that redefined what eclipse photography could be. Science, mathematics, and art collapsed into one image.

09/08/2026

Cosmic Cosmos! ✨ Before we devote ourselves to the eclipse in Spain, we wanted to share with you this golden Saturn by JWST.

06/08/2026

KOSMICA Academy is built around four intellectual threads that run throughout the nine-month programme:

Imagination. Technoscience. Cosmological Plurality. Field-Building.

Together, they provide fellows with the knowledge and practical tools to develop their own practice in Space Humanities.

Applications close 30 September 2026.

Drop a comment or send us a DM to learn more.

03/08/2026

Every full moon, many of you share your Moon with us. A global moment of appreciation for the one thing we can all look at, no matter where we are on Earth.

Here are some of our favourites from the full Moon of 29 July 2026. Keep sending them!

02/08/2026

Today we are rewatching Melancholia by Lars von Trier:

A rogue planet is hours from colliding with Earth. Two sisters face the end of everything. One falls apart while the other finds a strange, terrifying calm.

Slavoj Žižek called it a profoundly optimistic film. Not because the world survives, but because of what Justine’s acceptance of the end reveals: that facing the absolute worst, without hopes or expectations, can be the beginning of some honest clarity.

Have you watched it?

📽 Melancholia, Lars von Trier, 2011

31/07/2026

This week, we opened the doors to KOSMICA Academy!

After fifteen years of KOSMICA, we believe it is time to act. Time to bring culture, art, and critical thinking into the heart of space activities. Time to imagine new futures, new possibilities, and new ways of existing in the Cosmos.

That is the work of Space Humanities. And we have created a programme to help shape it.
If this resonates with you, we would love for you to join our inaugural cohort. Over nine months, you will learn online with an extraordinary international faculty, gather with us in Berlin, develop your own original project, publish your work, and become part of a growing community.

Send us a DM or visit the link in our bio to learn more and read our Substack.

Applications close on 30 September 2026.

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30/07/2026

This week, we open the doors to KOSMICA Academy!
After fifteen years of KOSMICA, we believe it is time to act. Time to bring culture, art, and critical
thinking into the heart of space activities. Time to imagine new futures, new possibilities, and
new ways of existing in the Cosmos.
That is the work of Space Humanities. And we have created a programme to help shape it.
If this resonates with you, we would love for you to join our inaugural cohort. Over nine months,
you will learn online with an extraordinary international faculty, gather with us in Berlin, develop
your own original project, publish your work, and become part of a growing community.
Send us a DM or visit the link in our bio to learn more.
Applications close on 30 September 2026.

OpenCall Fellowship ArtAndScience Cosmology NonWesternKnowledge
SpaceGovernance DecolonizeSpace Berlin CriticalThinking SpacePhilosophy

28/07/2026

The most underrated planet in the solar system deserves a moment!

Uranus has had exactly one close-up visit in all of human history. Voyager 2 flew past in 1986 and kept going. No orbiter, no lander, nothing since. Every other planet has had multiple missions. Uranus got a wave goodbye.

In photos it looks like a charming blue-green ball. Underneath it, the planet is tilted 98 degrees on its side, the result of a catastrophic ancient collision so violent it knocked an entire world over. It has been spinning sideways ever since, and almost nobody talks about it.

It also has 13 rings and more than 28 moons, all named after characters from Shakespeare and Alexander Pope (!?). Most people do not even know the rings exist.

📷 NASA

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Dirección

República De Uruguay 52, Centro Histórico De La Cdad. De México, Centro, Cuau
Mexico City
06000

Página web

http://www.KOSMICAinstitute.com/

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