About Museo Aero Solar
Rooted in ideas of ecological responsibility, collective care, and sustainable futures, Museo Aero Solar reimagines waste as a shared resource rather than something to discard. Plastic bags – objects designed for convenience and disposal – are transformed through simple, repeated gestures into a collective structure that carries social, environmental, and political meaning. Rather than treating recycling as a purely technical solution, the project approaches it as an act of attention, collaboration, and imagination.
The collected bags become the raw material for a living archive that is both a social sculpture and an embodied collective journey. The project and its message grow through shared making, bringing together art, community, and environmental awareness through simple collective actions: cutting, taping, layering, drawing, and assembling. Every bag collected and every participant contributes to an evolving commons, building awareness around environmental issues while encouraging collective responsibility for our shared future.
Throughout July, August, and September, workshops and public moments connect public art, education, urban exploration, and community participation across the city. The workshops are hands-on and open to everyone, regardless of age or experience, with children warmly invited to participate. Across the season, the structure moves through Amsterdam, growing with each workshop, each contribution, and each encounter until its final public presentation in September.
Rather than presenting the environmental crisis from a distance, Museo Aero Solar works directly with the material realities of everyday life, using what already exists in excess as its starting point. What emerges is not a permanent monument, but a fragile, temporary structure built through collective participation. It suggests that more sustainable futures may begin not with new materials, but with new ways of assembling, sharing, and caring for what is already present.
Top image: Museo Aero Solar at Aerocene Seoul, Leeum Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea, 2024. Photography by Alice Studio Project, courtesy of Aerocene.
Image: Museo Aero Solar at Lahore Biennale, Pakistan, 2024. Photography by Mizna Zulfiqar, courtesy of Aerocene.