Rebeka Ryvola de Kremer is an artist and creative strategist whose work explores the cultural, ethical, and political power of imagination. She is the creator of The Heart Gallery podcast, where she investigates how storytelling and craft shape the future and what it takes to protect and expand our imaginative capacities.

She is developing an Imagination Ethic to help institutions and communities reclaim imagination as a structural and ethical necessity. The framework bridges artistic, relational, and systemic approaches to imagination as a force for cultural transformation and collective future-building. A white paper on the subject is forthcoming, alongside a new podcast titled Imagination State.

Her work orbits around worldview literacy - the capacity to recognize, respect, and engage with diverse ways of knowing, sensing, and envisioning what’s possible amid cascading crises and moral reckoning. These themes run through her visual art, educational and advocacy work, storytelling projects, and all the spaces in between.*

Her art has been exhibited at the United Nations, projected onto the Brooklyn Bridge, and shown at the Design Museum London and the Red Cross Museum. She has led large-scale public art projects -including climate justice murals for Heat Action Day, NYC Climate Week, and multiple UNFCCC COP meetings - using participatory practices to catalyze dialogue and reimagine response.

For close to a decade, Rebeka has led storytelling and creative strategy at the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre, where she is now bringing the Imagination Ethic into practice. She lectures and facilitates workshops at Yale, Columbia, MIT, and the United Nations, engaging global leaders on art, imagination, relational ethics, and future-building across crisis contexts. She also brings this work into radically different settings, such as with individuals in the prison system and with young children - spaces where imagination as a force for alternate worldbuilding is often overlooked, yet remains equally vital.

Find The Heart Gallery podcast on Spotify, Apple, Amazon, and other podcast places.

Get in touch: here, email rebeka@rebekaryvola.com, or message @rebekaryvola/@theheartgallerypod.

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Rebeka’s artist CV here.

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