Venus Conversations 2024-2034 is a series of dialogues and art projects launching from the planet Venus to explore cultural, scientific and artistic forcefields. 

Our twin planet, Venus is the most visible celestial object in the night sky after the Sun and Moon. Venus empowers women and the female in all its spectrums. It embraces bodies of all kinds, Earthly and celestial, and across countless cultures and times. And yet it has been marginalized in cultural imagination and space science for almost half a century.

Detail from “Venus does not exist” a textile and NASA Magellan radar data project by artist Michèle Boulogne, 2021-ongoing.

Venus Conversations 2024-2034 turns our attention to Venus once again to embrace its pivotal place in human cultural history and to prepare for a new era of discovery as seven or more scientific missions will return to our neighbouring planet in the next decade.

This ten-year project is co-organized by three women: artist Lily Hibberd, art critic and independent curator Annick Bureaud and art-science curator and academic Claudia Schnugg. Together, we will ignite a wide range of Venus art+science projects, working in three-year cycles. Starting from 2025, artists, curators, scientists, and other collaborators will be supported to develop conversations around Venus in different locations worldwide. Projects will be developed and communicated through a variety of media and formats.

The first event in the series will take place on 23 November at the Dana Research Centre and Library in the Science Museum. 165 Queen's Gate, SW7
Free, bookings required - register by email to VenusConversations@pm.me
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