The Healing Arts:
Encounters in Art and Medicine
Berlin University of the Arts
09.07.2025
Dr. Michele Luchetti & Dr. Sasha Bergstrom-Katz

Dr. Michele Luchetti works as an academic researcher in the History and Philosophy of Science, as well as a theatre practitioner and educator. He obtained a PhD in Philosophy from CEU Budapest, and held postdoctoral positions at the University of Geneva, The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, and the University of Bielefeld. He received an international theatre education and regularly holds theatre laboratories in collaboration with several institutions in the social and health sector.

Dr. Sasha Bergstrom-Katz is an artist and researcher. Her interdisciplinary, practice-based projects focus on technologies, objects, and performances from the histories of human and medical sciences. She is a visiting postdoctoral fellow at the University of Bielefeld having recently completed a fellowship at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. Bergstrom-Katz holds a PhD in Psychosocial Studies from Birkbeck, University of London and an MFA in Fine Art from the University of California, Irvine.

© The Healing Arts is a series of discursive encounters between art and medicine hosted by curator and educator Lukas Feireiss with the International Society for Arts and Medicine in collaboration with and the Network Arts and Medicine at Charité Medical Center Berlin and the Berlin University of the Arts since 2023.