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The Xu Bing Space Art Residency invited young people from around the world to create original artwork and enter a competition for the chance to have their creations beamed onto the SCA-4 satellite.
Initiated by Chinese contemporary artist Xu Bing, the programme has used five satellites through collaborative partnerships—Ladybug-1 and SCA-1 through to SCA-4. To date, the programme has enabled 84 artists from around the world to realise 107 artworks in space.
Now, Xu Bing is inviting young people to use SCA-4, the latest satellite launched in October 2026, as a platform for their own ideas, imagination, and visions for the future. Xu Bing asks what it means for them to have a presence in space as creative thinkers with something to say.
The project positions imagination and cultural expression as essential to the ways in which humanity understands and relates to the cosmos.
Join us as esea contemporary presents an afternoon of conversation, poetry and musical performance as part of Xu Bing’s Space Art Residency on 5 December 2026.
About Xu Bing
Xu Bing is an internationally renowned conceptual artist and a recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship. He previously served as Vice President of the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) in China, and his works have been exhibited around the world.
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