Colleen Hoffenbacker | Lunar Codex Artist | Time Capsule to the Moon
The Gallerist Catalogue: Gallerist (2021-2024) - PM1, XM1, GM1 | Launches 2022-2025Artwork by Colleen Hoffenbacker selected for the Lunar Codex — a curated archive destined for extraterrestrial preservation.Curated by Samuel Peralta | Lunar Codex
ABOUT THE PROJECT
Colleen Hoffenbacker is part of the Lunar Codex, a global time capsule initiative curated by Dr. Samuel Peralta. Her work joins over 50,000 creative artifacts from artists, writers, musicians, and filmmakers across 263 countries and territories, including 156 Indigenous nations. These curated collections are being launched in multiple missions from Earth to the Moon and beyond between 2022 and 2026, forming a permanent archive of human creativity encoded in nickel, silver, quartz, and silicon.
Hoffenbacker’s inclusion places her work in a curated archive destined for extraterrestrial preservation — a poetic gesture of art reaching beyond planetary boundaries.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Colleen Hoffenbacker is a painter whose work explores the tension between realism and symbolic abstraction. Her compositions, often set in floral environments and occasionally incorporating human and avian forms, are grounded in traditional technique and shaped by imaginative insight. She works across mixed media with a focus on form, atmosphere, and symbolic resonance. Her inclusion in the Lunar Codex reflects a commitment to innovation, poetic structure, and the evolving role of art in planetary-scale archives.
PRESS & CONTEXT
“The ‘Lunar Codex’ Is Sending Works from More than 30,000 Artists to the Moon” - Colossal
“A time capsule of human creativity, stored in the sky” - The New York Times
“How the Lunar Codex is aiming to change the Moon forever" - CNN
For more information, visit the Lunar Codex official site.
