COMPOUNDS
CO-EXIST
“Unleashing the compounds of existence through ART, IMPACT, and COMMUNITY.”
MISSION
cocoex is a transdisciplinary social impact lab that uses art, participation, and technology to generate real environmental and social change. We bring artists, creators and collectors together — cultivating a community built on shared purpose, where art and impact are inseparable.
We are a non-profit. We build the infrastructure, hold the space, and set the conditions for something larger than ourselves.
The creation belongs to the artists. The impact belongs to the world.
Muse explores the complexity of nature and life identifying 7 global challenges where collective efforts can reach positive systemic change.
The seven Muses are cocoex's guiding framework — each one aligned with a global cause, from reforestation and clean water to human rights and biodiversity. Together they form a single constellation of orientations that runs through every campaign, every Future Lab, every act of collective creativity within the cocoex ecosystem.
Comet Collab is the ecosystem — where artists, collectors, activists, and communities converge through Stardust and Horizon, guided by Muse, in a continuous loop of creation and impact.
Where art meets cause.
stardust
Artists select a cause, create a work, and launch a fundraising campaign through its sale — funds split between artist and NGO, facilitated by cocoex.
The art is the vehicle. The impact is the destination.
horizon
Communities designing their own futures.
What if the people most affected by a challenge were also the ones designing its solution? A Future Lab — inspired by Robert Jungk's Zukunftswerkstatt — where a community names what's broken, imagines what could be, chooses a path, and turns that vision into art and the funds it raises into action.
Critique
We name what's wrong. Not abstractly — specifically, from lived experience. The shadows are mapped before anything can be imagined.
Utopia
We imagine without constraint. What would this look like if it actually worked? Voices from different backgrounds build the vision together.
Strategy
We test the vision against reality. One direction is chosen. The community commits to it.
Realization
Designated artists transform the chosen vision into work. The work funds the cause. The community decides where those funds go.
The process is the art. The outcome is real.
team
cocoex is a collective of young creatives committed to promoting a community where art and social change blend in perfect harmony. Our mission is to bring together artists, creatives, collectors, social innovators, and activists to support and inspire each other, cultivating a sense of unity and common purpose.
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pipeline
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Practicing the Futures is an open-call campaign bringing four artists — two international, two local — to Volpedo and Montacuto for a residency and group show during the Vinili e Vinelli festival, July 7–19 2026, in partnership with Terra Nuda APS.
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Open Charter is a methodology consortium between cocoex, the Robert Jungk Bibliothek für Zukunftsfragen (Salzburg), Werkstatt Meyer, and Michael Theumert — a shared infrastructure for developing and stress-testing participatory practice across organisations. v0.1 signed March 2026.
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La Luna 007 is a vinyl release and live event bringing together Ukrainian electronic artist Silat Beksi and cocoex in Neukölln, Berlin, with proceeds directed to Repair Together's war relief work in Ukraine.
August 22, 2026 · Silent Rixdorf.