The Healing Arts:
Encounters in Art and Medicine
Encounters in Art and Medicine
Charité Medical Center Berlin
05.11.2025 / 18:00-20:00
05.11.2025 / 18:00-20:00
Dr. Mike Rüb & Thuy-Han Nguyen-Chi
Dr. Mike Rüb is a resident psychiatrist at Charité and a visiting researcher at the Institute of Medical Education at LMU University Hospital Munich. He earned his doctorate on cinemeducation, for which he received the 2024 LMU Teaching Innovation Award with the project M23 Cinema. Together with Charité students, he is currently developing Cinema Charité. At the Locarno Film Festival, he coordinates the Medical Arts & Humanities exchange, fostering transdisciplinary dialogue among students of medicine, film, and the arts. He also founded the Public Health Film Festival in Munich and is a Trustee of the Global Health Film Festival in London.
Thuy-Han Nguyen-Chi is a Milky Way-based artist whose practice mutates in and out of film, sculpture, installation, performance, and interdisciplinary research. Collaborating with characters in search of consciousness, language, and freedom, she explores the aesthetic, political, and epistemological possibilities of image and sound in her recent body of work. Nguyen-Chi's work has been presented in art and cinema contexts internationally. In 2023, she was included among the 20 New Talents in Art in America, nominated for the New:Vision Award1, and awarded the Jury Grand Prix2 and Golden Lola3 for Into The Violet Belly. Having studied Fine Arts at the Städelschule and Film at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, she is currently a PhD researcher at the Centre for Research and Education in Art and Media at the University of Westminster, and was most recently a fellow of the Junge Akademie at the Academy of Arts.
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Dr. Mike Rüb is a resident psychiatrist at Charité and a visiting researcher at the Institute of Medical Education at LMU University Hospital Munich. He earned his doctorate on cinemeducation, for which he received the 2024 LMU Teaching Innovation Award with the project M23 Cinema. Together with Charité students, he is currently developing Cinema Charité. At the Locarno Film Festival, he coordinates the Medical Arts & Humanities exchange, fostering transdisciplinary dialogue among students of medicine, film, and the arts. He also founded the Public Health Film Festival in Munich and is a Trustee of the Global Health Film Festival in London.
Thuy-Han Nguyen-Chi is a Milky Way-based artist whose practice mutates in and out of film, sculpture, installation, performance, and interdisciplinary research. Collaborating with characters in search of consciousness, language, and freedom, she explores the aesthetic, political, and epistemological possibilities of image and sound in her recent body of work. Nguyen-Chi's work has been presented in art and cinema contexts internationally. In 2023, she was included among the 20 New Talents in Art in America, nominated for the New:Vision Award1, and awarded the Jury Grand Prix2 and Golden Lola3 for Into The Violet Belly. Having studied Fine Arts at the Städelschule and Film at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, she is currently a PhD researcher at the Centre for Research and Education in Art and Media at the University of Westminster, and was most recently a fellow of the Junge Akademie at the Academy of Arts.
Streaming Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84963574890?pwd=I8TXJA0f47q5SekEfjACgvWAIHPUvB.1