https://thehealingarts.online The Healing Arts Tue, 16 Jun 2026 12:03:41 +0000 https://thehealingarts.online en https://thehealingarts.online/index Tue, 31 Oct 2023 22:00:44 +0000 The Healing Arts https://thehealingarts.online/index Charité Universtitätsmedizin Berlin International Society for Arts and Medicine Berlin University of the Arts https://thehealingarts.online/18-06-26 Tue, 16 Jun 2026 12:03:41 +0000 The Healing Arts https://thehealingarts.online/18-06-26 The Healing Arts:Encounters in Art and Medicine Charité Medical Center Berlin,martas Gästehäuser, Lehrter Straße 68 (Congress Venue)18.06.2026 / 17:00-18:15 Prof. Dr. phil. Dipl. Psych. Ulrike Kluge & Dr. Nora Amin Ulrike Kluge Prof. Dr. phil. Dipl.-Psych. Ulrike Kluge is Professor of Psychological and Medical Integration and Migration Research at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin and Head of the Department of Migration, Mental and Physical Health and Health Promotion at the Berlin Institute for Empirical Integration and Migration Research (BIM) at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. A psychologist, psychoanalyst, and group analyst, her work focuses on migration, trauma, transcultural psychiatry, global mental health, and health equity. She directs the Center for Intercultural Psychiatry and Psychotherapy (ZIPP) at Charité and leads numerous international research initiatives exploring the impact of migration, displacement, racism, and social inequality on mental health and psychosocial care. Nora Amin Nora Amin is a renowned multidisciplinary artist. In her work as a choreographer, dancer, actress, vocalist, playwright, theatre director, author, theoretician and academic scholar, she focuses on stage activism, decoloniality, political resistance, performance as a live archive of memory, feminist empowerment, contemporary participatory grief rituals, and trauma healing. Her acclaimed productions in Germany include: Migrating the Feminine, Rite of Revival, Reinventing Memories, MY DANCE, Re-rooting, WOUND , HEALING and GRIEF. Her recent books are “Migrating the Feminie”, on sexual violence as a political weapon (2018) and “Dance of the Persecuted” (2021), a feminist perspective on the history of Baladi dance in Egypt linking coloniality with patriarchy and capitalism, published by MSB Matthes & Seitz, Berlin. As a grief and trauma healing practitioner, she has been developing artistic and performative experiences where healing integrates both a scientific foundation, a creative ritualistic approach and her own signature as an artistic medium. Streaming Link: The Healing Arts https://thehealingarts.online/03-06-26 Wed, 20 May 2026 11:16:19 +0000 The Healing Arts https://thehealingarts.online/03-06-26 The Healing Arts:Encounters in Art and Medicine Charité Medical Center Berlin,Paul-Ehrlich-Hörsaal, Virchowweg 4, 10117 Berlin03.06.2026 / 18:00-20:00 Dr. med Ivan Nenchev & kennedy+swan Dr. med Ivan Nenchev Dr. Ivan Nenchev is a psychiatrist and psychotherapist at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, where he combines clinical work with research at the intersection of psychiatry, linguistics, and artificial intelligence. Since 2022, he has been a fellow in the Berlin Institute of Health’s Digital Clinician Scientist Program, and since 2024 he has led the Research Group on Language and Natural Language Processing in Psychiatry. His work explores how language can serve as a diagnostic and therapeutic interface in mental health care, with a particular focus on empathy, communication, and machine-assisted clinical practice. Alongside his medical and scientific work, he curates Art Brut exhibitions, reflecting his ongoing interest in the intersections of psychiatry, artistic expression, and alternative modes of perception. He lives and works in Berlin. kennedy+swan kennedy+swan is the collaborative practice of artists Bianca Kennedy and Swan Collective, founded in 2013. Their work explores the future of non-human intelligence and its impact on plants, animals, machines, and humans. Through video, VR, and AR installations, they construct speculative scenarios that challenge human-centered perspectives and examine the ecological and ethical implications of biotechnology and artificial intelligence. Their works combine drawing, stereoscopic film, 3D-scanned landscapes, and digitally generated characters into hybrid visual environments. Recent projects address the exponential rise of AI and its entanglement with biological systems. kennedy+swan have exhibited internationally, including at the Lyon Biennial, Gropius Bau Berlin, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, and the Sundance Film Festival. They were awarded the BIFOLD/Schering Scholarship in 2025 and are based in Berlin. Streaming Link: The Healing Arts https://thehealingarts.online/20-05-2026 Fri, 15 May 2026 06:50:01 +0000 The Healing Arts https://thehealingarts.online/20-05-2026 The Healing Arts:Encounters in Art and Medicine Charité Medical Center Berlin,Paul-Ehrlich-Hörsaal, Virchowweg 4, 10117 Berlin20.05.2026 / 18:00-20:00 Prof. Dr. Monika Ankele & Angela Alves Prof. Dr. Monika Ankele Prof. Dr. Monika Ankele is Professor of the History of Medicine and Medical Museology at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin and Director of the Berlin Museum of Medical History. A historian by training, her research focuses on the history of psychiatry, patient perspectives, and the material cultures of medicine. She is a founding board member of the International Association for Medical & Health Humanities and Artistic Research (IMHAR) and has co-directed its affiliated institute at the Hochschule für Künste im Sozialen in Ottersberg. Her work bridges historical inquiry with contemporary debates in the medical humanities. Recent publications include contributions to Art and the Critical Medical Humanities (Bloomsbury, 2026). In May 2026, she will open the exhibition Horizontal: Politics and Poetics from the Sickbed at the Berlin Museum of Medical History. Angela Alves Angela Alves is a Berlin-based choreographer, dancer, and cultural worker living with a chronic neurological condition. Her practice unfolds at the intersection of body, art, and politics, challenging dominant narratives of health and illness. Working from lived experience, she develops performances and installations that explore vulnerability, rest, and alternative modes of productivity within the arts. Her work foregrounds anti-ableist strategies, centering practices such as resting, pausing, and “cripping” as forms of resistance and care. Alves studied dance at ArtEZ (NL) and dance studies at the Free University of Berlin. Since 2023, she has been an artistic associate in the project team of Prof. Claire Cunningham at the Inter-University Centre for Dance Berlin (HZT), contributing to research and practice in inclusive and embodied performance. Streaming Link: The Healing Arts https://thehealingarts.online/13-05-26 Fri, 08 May 2026 12:33:52 +0000 The Healing Arts https://thehealingarts.online/13-05-26 The Healing Arts:Encounters in Art and Medicine Charité Medical Center Berlin,Carl Westphal Lecture Hall, Bonhoefferweg 3, 10117 Berlin13.05.2026 / 18:00-20:00 Dr. Chotima Böttcher & Maciej Chmara Dr. Chotima Böttcher Dr. Chotima Böttcher is a research group leader in Experimental Neurology and Clinical Neuroimmunology at the Experimental and Clinical Research Center (ECRC), Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin. After completing her PhD in pharmacy at Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, she joined Charité in 2006, where she established her work in systems immunology in neuroscience. Her research focuses on the transition from health to disease, investigating how neuroinflammation is shaped by systemic factors such as lifestyle, nutrition, microbiome, and metabolism. Her group studies neuropsychiatric and neuroinflammatory conditions including depression, stress, multiple sclerosis, and Alzheimer’s disease. Combining multi-omics approaches—immune profiling, proteomics, metabolomics, lipidomics, and neuroimaging—with machine learning, her team develops multimodal biomarkers for early diagnosis, disease monitoring, and treatment prediction. Maciej Chmara Maciej Chmara is a designer, researcher, and educator based in Berlin, and co-founder of the conceptual design studio Chmara.Rosinke. His practice operates at the intersection of culinary culture, social space, and speculative design. He is a member of the Junge Akademie at the Leopoldina and initiator of the transdisciplinary research group AG Miam Miam, exploring food through the lenses of science, philosophy, and art. His current research project Neuro-Cooking investigates cooking as a cultural technique of embodied cognition, linking food preparation, mental health, and the human microbiome. Combining methods from speculative design, neuroscience, and microbiology, he develops experimental tools—including EEG-based wearables—to study how sensory engagement with food shapes cognitive and emotional states. He has taught at institutions including UdK Berlin and HGK Basel and represented Austria at the London Design Biennale 2023. Streaming Link: The Healing Arts https://thehealingarts.online/21-01-26 Tue, 28 Oct 2025 14:19:52 +0000 The Healing Arts https://thehealingarts.online/21-01-26 AThe Healing Arts:Encounters in Art and Medicine Charité Medical Center Berlin21.01.2025 / 18:00-20:00 Dr. med Johann Ahn + Martin Binder + Ana Lessing Menjibar Dr. Johann Ahn is an internist, hematologist-oncologist, and palliative care physician. As a senior physician at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, he is dedicated to clinical and scientific research into how cancer medicine can be designed to be patient-centered and tailored to individual needs and requirements. The engagement with public space and environmental issues runs like a red thread through Martin Binder’s interdisciplinary studies in Art in Context at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK) and Industrial Design at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano. Binder works with both analog and digital media, combining manual and mechanical processes and employing innovative materials. He is currently realizing the Kunst am Bau (art-in-architecture) project for the Bauhaus Archive in Berlin, in which he traces the materials used in the new building on film back to their origins. Ana Lessing Menjibar is a German-Spanish dancer, choreographer, and multidisciplinary artist based in Berlin. With degrees in Solo/Dance/Authorship (HZT Berlin) and Visual Communication (UdK Berlin), her expanded choreographic practice merges body, sound, video, and sculpture. In this context, she explores flamenco’s transformative potential, asking how this embodied knowledge can shape forward-looking conceptions of body and society, engaging with (body) archives, wounds, healing, memory, and resistance. She frequently teaches at HZT and UdK Berlin. Streaming Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84963574890?pwd=I8TXJA0f47q5SekEfjACgvWAIHPUvB.1 https://thehealingarts.online/07-01-26 Tue, 28 Oct 2025 14:16:43 +0000 The Healing Arts https://thehealingarts.online/07-01-26 The Healing Arts:Encounters in Art and Medicine Charité Medical Center Berlin07.01.2025 / 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.Streaming Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84963574890?pwd=I8TXJA0f47q5SekEfjACgvWAIHPUvB.1 https://thehealingarts.online/03-12-25 Tue, 28 Oct 2025 14:13:32 +0000 The Healing Arts https://thehealingarts.online/03-12-25 The Healing Arts:Encounters in Art and Medicine Charité Medical Center Berlin 03.12.2025 / 18:00-20:00 Prof. Dr. Deborah Sloboda + Sarah Dickinson Prof. Dr. Deborah Sloboda is a Professor and Associate Chair of Research in the Department of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences at McMaster University, Canada, and holds a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Early Origins of Health and Disease. Her research explores how early-life factors shape maternal, fetal, and placental development, influencing lifelong health outcomes. She leads both laboratory and community-based projects, including The Art of Creation, an arts-based science communication program that translates developmental health research into public engagement and policy advocacy. Dr. Sloboda has published over 145 scientific papers, supervised numerous graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, and received multiple awards for research and mentorship, including McMaster’s President’s Award for Excellence in Graduate Supervision (2024). She is also a founding co-President of the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease Society of Canada and a long-standing leader in the international DOHaD community. Sarah Dickinson is the Lead of Education Outreach and Community at the Art Gallery of Hamilton (AGH), where she oversees innovative arts education and community initiatives. She directs AGH: In-Class and AGH: Virtual, programs that connect Hamilton artists with classrooms across Canada, engaging over 5,000 students annually through creative, curriculum-linked learning. Since joining the AGH in 2018, she has co-created major initiatives such as The Art of Creation—an arts-based science communication project with McMaster University—and Speakers of Truth, which amplifies Indigenous voices and fosters dialogue on Truth and Reconciliation. With over 25 years of experience in arts education and cultural leadership, including her earlier work with the Royal Conservatory of Music’s Learning Through the Arts program, Sara continues to use the arts as a catalyst for learning, wellness, and community connection. Streaming Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84963574890?pwd=I8TXJA0f47q5SekEfjACgvWAIHPUvB.1 https://thehealingarts.online/19-11-25 Tue, 28 Oct 2025 14:07:20 +0000 The Healing Arts https://thehealingarts.online/19-11-25 The Healing Arts:Encounters in Art and Medicine Charité Medical Center Berlin 19.11.2025 / 18:00-20:00 Prof. Dr. Hans-Jörg Rheinberger + Lucie Strecker Prof. Dr. Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, born in 1946, studied philosophy, linguistics, and biology in Tübingen and Berlin. MA phil. in 1973, Dipl Biol. in 1978, Dr. rer. nat. in 1982, habil. in 1987 in molecular biology. Director of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin from 1996 to 2014, director emeritus there since 2014. Main areas of interest: molecular biology, history and epistemology of biology, history and epistemology of experimentation, relationship between the arts and sciences.  Lucie Strecker works internationally as an artist, curator, and author. Since 2016, she has been based at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, where she led the FWF-PEEK research projects The Performative Biofact (2016–2020) and Shaken Grounds. Seismography of Precarious Presences (2023–2026). Since 2020, she has taught performance art in the Department of Art and Communication Practices as well as at the Applied Performance Laboratory. Her artistic works have been presented internationally.Streaming Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84963574890?pwd=I8TXJA0f47q5SekEfjACgvWAIHPUvB.1 https://thehealingarts.online/05-11-25 Tue, 28 Oct 2025 13:56:28 +0000 The Healing Arts https://thehealingarts.online/05-11-25 The Healing Arts:Encounters in Art and Medicine Charité Medical Center Berlin 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. Streaming Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84963574890?pwd=I8TXJA0f47q5SekEfjACgvWAIHPUvB.1