The Babel Project is successfully traveling around the world. 

More than one year ago Empreinte Atelier in Luxembourg invited artists to join a new international printmaking project. 

Team Babel launched in autumn 2022 ”Project Babel”, a collaborative project inviting international printmakers and print studios. 335 printmakers in 40 studios from 19 countries were creating together an artwork that is based on the painting “The Great Tower of Babel” (1563) by Pieter Bruegel the Elder. 

The Tower of Babel is an origin myth and parable in the Book of Genesis meant to explain why the world’s peoples speak different languages.

The idea of the project in Finland studio has been to share the original image of the tower into segments. Each participant has got one segment (chosen by lottery) and created their own version using different printmaking techniques. In the end, all the works were gathered as a new tower.

The size of the work of one artist is 13 x 17 cm, and the final work will be approximately 245 cm x 335 cm. 

On December 14th 2023, the first Babel exhibition was open in Galleria Ratamo in Jyväskylä, Finland. The project exhibition is currently taking place in the USA at Constellation Studios, in Nebraska. Later, the exhibition will travel further to Denmark. 

Happy to be a part of it!

Babel tower, 2023, 245 cm x 335 cm. View of the exhibition in Galleria Ratamo in Jyväskylä, Finland

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, ‘The Tower of Babel, 1563, oil on wood panel, 114 cm × 155 cm