The Healing Arts:
Encounters in Art and Medicine
Encounters in Art and Medicine
Berlin University of the Arts
21.05.2025
21.05.2025
Prof. Dr. Friederike Kendel & Dr. María López-Fanjul y Díez del Corral
Friederike Kendel studied psychology at the Free University of Berlin. She completed her doctorate at Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin in 2007 and habilitated in medical psychology in 2013. She was awarded an adjunct professorship in 2022. Since 2025, she has headed the interdisciplinary working group “Patient Empowerment and Prevention” at the Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine.
Friederike Kendel has been taking cello and piano lessons since the age of eight. Before leaving school, she began studying cello at the Freiburg University of Music, which she completed at the Cologne University of Music. She then attended the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow on a DAAD scholarship. At the Charité, she co-founded the Musicians' Medicine Network and regularly teaches an elective seminar on the reciprocal relationship between music and medicine
Dr. María López-Fanjul y Díez del Corral holds a BA, a MA and a MPhil in Art History from the Complutense University of Madrid, a MA in Museum Management from the City University of London, and a PhD from The Courtauld Institute of Art (University of London). Author of numerous international publications and member of several international research projects, she has worked for institutions such as the Museo del Prado and the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. Since 2017 is she curator of the Bode Museum, where she is in charge of the Italian collections (after 1500), the Spanish collections, and Academic Outreach. Her most recent project is ‘The Healing Museum. Mindfulness and Meditation in the Gallery‘.
Friederike Kendel studied psychology at the Free University of Berlin. She completed her doctorate at Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin in 2007 and habilitated in medical psychology in 2013. She was awarded an adjunct professorship in 2022. Since 2025, she has headed the interdisciplinary working group “Patient Empowerment and Prevention” at the Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine.
Friederike Kendel has been taking cello and piano lessons since the age of eight. Before leaving school, she began studying cello at the Freiburg University of Music, which she completed at the Cologne University of Music. She then attended the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow on a DAAD scholarship. At the Charité, she co-founded the Musicians' Medicine Network and regularly teaches an elective seminar on the reciprocal relationship between music and medicine
Dr. María López-Fanjul y Díez del Corral holds a BA, a MA and a MPhil in Art History from the Complutense University of Madrid, a MA in Museum Management from the City University of London, and a PhD from The Courtauld Institute of Art (University of London). Author of numerous international publications and member of several international research projects, she has worked for institutions such as the Museo del Prado and the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. Since 2017 is she curator of the Bode Museum, where she is in charge of the Italian collections (after 1500), the Spanish collections, and Academic Outreach. Her most recent project is ‘The Healing Museum. Mindfulness and Meditation in the Gallery‘.