The Healing Arts:
Encounters in Art and Medicine
Encounters in Art and Medicine
Charité Medical Center Berlin
07.01.2025 / 18:00-20:00
07.01.2025 / 18:00-20:00
Dr. Luc Haenen + Ahmet Ögut
Dr. Luc Haenen, Born in Antwerp 1959, works and lives near Antwerp (Belgium), Received a medical degree and trained as a heart and vascular surgeon. Active surgical practice till December 2024. During his youth, the five baroque churches in Antwerp were an inspirational ground for getting to know the old masters as was a contact with a patient journalist and a book on Kandinsky (2000) for getting a profound interest in especially, contemporary art. This led to a fascination how old masters like Caravaggio and Rubens portrayed disease without knowing the pathology and up to contemporary artist who continue to find inspiration in illness and decay. If the main format during the old masters and moderns was painting, we see that in the contemporary art period a multimodal materiality is being used; painting, photography, moving image etc…. Even the artist as a patient becomes a source for artworks. During the years a large database of artworks relating to disease and (or) decay was built up. The link between “art and disease” or “disease and art” is unequivocally present in the artworld and in lectures for, as well a lay public or a medical trained public, forensic and focused analysis of the artwork is proposed. In an era where focusing and attention span is under siege, by helping the viewer to focus on eventual disease or illness depicted in the work a deeper ‘viewing’ is promoted. Luc Haenen is member of Wiels (Brussels) and SMAK (Ghent). Author of the book: #whatpatientsreadafterheartsurgery (2025).
Ahmet Öğüt, Born in Silvan, Diyarbakir, Ahmet Öğüt completed his BA from the Fine Arts Faculty at Hacettepe University, Ankara, MA from Art and Design Faculty at Yıldız Teknik University, Istanbul. Currently living between Amsterdam and Istanbul, he works across different media and has exhibited widely, more recently with solo exhibitions in institutions including Art on the Underground & New Contemporaries, Van Abbemuseum, State of Concept Athens, Kunstverein Dresden, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Chisenhale Gallery; Berkeley Art Museum; and Kunsthalle Basel. He has also participated in numerous group exhibitions around the world. Öğüt was awarded the Visible Award for the Silent University (2013); the special prize of the Future Generation Art Prize, Pinchuk Art Centre, Ukraine (2012); the De Volkskrant Beeldende Kunst Prijs 2011, Netherlands; and the Kunstpreis Europas Zukunft, Museum of Contemporary Art, Germany (2010). He co-represented Turkey at the 53rd Venice Biennale (2009). Lives and works in Amsterdam and Istanbul. His works in institutional collections such as Guggenheim Museum New York; Kadist, San Francisco, US - Paris; Rennie Collection, Vancouver; Sammlung Goetz, Munich; Frans Hals Museum; FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais, Dunkerque; Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis; KIASMA Museum of Contemporary Art, Hesinki; Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; Fondazione Giuliani, Rome; MSU Broad Art Museum, East Lansing; Vehbi Koç Foundation, Istanbul.
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Dr. Luc Haenen, Born in Antwerp 1959, works and lives near Antwerp (Belgium), Received a medical degree and trained as a heart and vascular surgeon. Active surgical practice till December 2024. During his youth, the five baroque churches in Antwerp were an inspirational ground for getting to know the old masters as was a contact with a patient journalist and a book on Kandinsky (2000) for getting a profound interest in especially, contemporary art. This led to a fascination how old masters like Caravaggio and Rubens portrayed disease without knowing the pathology and up to contemporary artist who continue to find inspiration in illness and decay. If the main format during the old masters and moderns was painting, we see that in the contemporary art period a multimodal materiality is being used; painting, photography, moving image etc…. Even the artist as a patient becomes a source for artworks. During the years a large database of artworks relating to disease and (or) decay was built up. The link between “art and disease” or “disease and art” is unequivocally present in the artworld and in lectures for, as well a lay public or a medical trained public, forensic and focused analysis of the artwork is proposed. In an era where focusing and attention span is under siege, by helping the viewer to focus on eventual disease or illness depicted in the work a deeper ‘viewing’ is promoted. Luc Haenen is member of Wiels (Brussels) and SMAK (Ghent). Author of the book: #whatpatientsreadafterheartsurgery (2025).
Ahmet Öğüt, Born in Silvan, Diyarbakir, Ahmet Öğüt completed his BA from the Fine Arts Faculty at Hacettepe University, Ankara, MA from Art and Design Faculty at Yıldız Teknik University, Istanbul. Currently living between Amsterdam and Istanbul, he works across different media and has exhibited widely, more recently with solo exhibitions in institutions including Art on the Underground & New Contemporaries, Van Abbemuseum, State of Concept Athens, Kunstverein Dresden, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Chisenhale Gallery; Berkeley Art Museum; and Kunsthalle Basel. He has also participated in numerous group exhibitions around the world. Öğüt was awarded the Visible Award for the Silent University (2013); the special prize of the Future Generation Art Prize, Pinchuk Art Centre, Ukraine (2012); the De Volkskrant Beeldende Kunst Prijs 2011, Netherlands; and the Kunstpreis Europas Zukunft, Museum of Contemporary Art, Germany (2010). He co-represented Turkey at the 53rd Venice Biennale (2009). Lives and works in Amsterdam and Istanbul. His works in institutional collections such as Guggenheim Museum New York; Kadist, San Francisco, US - Paris; Rennie Collection, Vancouver; Sammlung Goetz, Munich; Frans Hals Museum; FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais, Dunkerque; Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis; KIASMA Museum of Contemporary Art, Hesinki; Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; Fondazione Giuliani, Rome; MSU Broad Art Museum, East Lansing; Vehbi Koç Foundation, Istanbul.
Streaming Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84963574890?pwd=I8TXJA0f47q5SekEfjACgvWAIHPUvB.1