The first publication dedicated to Arts at CERN reflects on the last decade of dialogue between art and science at the Laboratory
In the Spaces Between is the first publication dedicated to Arts at CERN, the arts programme of the European Laboratory for Particle Physics. The collection of essays, stories, poems, reflections, and visual contributions reflects on the encounters between art and science that have emerged over the past decade from the Laboratory’s creative and dynamic environment.
What draws artists to this highly specialised scientific setting? What compels them to engage with the unknown behind experiments and theoretical frameworks? Shaped by the reflective enquiry of creative practice, artists, scientists, and guest contributors explore the spaces between understanding and unknowing, between observation and imagination.
Edited by Mónica Bello, the collection invites an open-ended journey navigable through a conceptual index of key themes: → Cosmos, → Dark Matter, → Futurology, → Experiments, → Imagination, → Quantum, and others. The diverse voices converge to engage with the philosophical, aesthetic, and material dimensions of physics. They reflect on research and experimentation, evoking new possibilities of image-making, language, and transmission. Moving through underground tunnels and lingering in caverns, they return to the surface to investigate, reimagine, and ultimately question our understanding of reality.
Situated within the singular context of CERN, In the Spaces Between opens an invitation to explore the shared understandings and creative possibilities that unfold when artists and scientists work alongside one another: an unparalleled landscape for collaboration and insight.
Contributors: Agustín Fernández Mallo, Ale de la Puente, Alessandra Gnecchi, Antoni Muntadas, Armin Linke, B.K., Chloé Delarue, Cecilia Vicuña, Chiara Mariotti and Paolo Tartaglione, Claire Adam-Bourdarios, Denis Oliveira Damazio, Diego Blas, Dorota Grabowska, Elisa Storelli, Eglė Kulbokaitė and Dorota Gawęda, Fabiola Gianotti, Francesco Polci, François J. Bonnet, Gianni Motti, Hemauer/Keller, Holly Corfield Carr, Jeremi Niedziela, José-Carlos Mariátegui, Joan Heemskerk, John Ellis, June Balthazard and Pierre Pauze, Julijonas Urbonas, Julius von Bismarck and Benjamin Maus, Laura Couto Rosado, Lea Porsager, Maria Elena Angoletta, Mariele Neudecker, Michael Doser, Mónica Bello, Nicole L’Huillier, Patricia Domínguez, Raqs Media Collective, Rasheedah Phillips, Rik van Breukelen, Rosa Barba, Rosa Menkman, Ryoji Ikeda, Semiconductor, SU Wen-Chi, Suzanne Treister, Tamara Vázquez Schröder, Tania Candiani, Taylor Carmahan, Yunchul Kim, Yu-Chen Wang.
Editor: Mónica Bello
Editorial coordinator: Ana Prendes
Editorial design: Nina Jäger
Editorial advisors: Ethel Baraona Pohl, César Reyes Nájera
Publisher: dpr-barcelona
ISBN: 978-84-124942-6-6
Date: 2025
