Over two days, the 2025 CERN Art and Science Summit unfolded as a polyhedral vision of how quantum physics shapes our understanding of the world and its impact on contemporary culture
This year’s theme, Uncertainty, aligns with UNESCO’s 2025 International Year of Quantum Science and Technology. On the first day, speakers included Luis Álvarez-Gaumé, Director of the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics at Stony Brook; Mónica Bello, former Head of Arts at CERN; Frédérick Bordry, former CERN Director for Accelerators and Technology and Chair of the CERN Cultural Advisory Board; poet Holly Corfield Carr; Honor Harger, Director of ArtScience Museum; artist and writer Rasheedah Phillips of Black Quantum Futurism; artist Shuddhabrata Sengupta of Raqs Media Collective; and thinker Jalal Toufic. Singer Maria Arnal premiered unreleased choral compositions merging her physical voice with AI-generated synthetic models.
On the second day, Arts at CERN created a space for in-depth dialogue among professionals, offering insight into the processes, dialogues, and outcomes emerging from Arts at CERN. Speakers included former artists-in-residence Rohini Devasher and Elisa Storelli, as well as Gianni Motti and Robin Meier. Tania Candiani premiered HUM, the latest Arts at CERN commission supported by the Fondation Primat; Rasheedah Phillips presented their latest book, Dismantling the Master’s Clock. It also featured contributions by Ligia Bouton, Carolyn Christov Bakargiev, Declan Colquitt, Robert Kieffer, Florencia Levy, George Mahashe, Hannah Redler Hawes, Samoa Remy, and Luis Enrique Zela-Koort.
Curated annually by Arts at CERN, the Laboratory’s arts programme, the annual Art and Science Summit celebrates CERN’s forward-thinking approach to arts and creativity.
With support from the Canton and Republic of Geneva, the City of Geneva, and Loterie Romande. With additional support from the CERN & Society Foundation.
