With the newly established National Center for Art and Mental Health, Denmark has for the first time got a public, health professional body that focuses exclusively on the role of art in creating well-being, hope, community and care for people with mental disorders. All based on an equal meeting between psychiatric users, health professionals and artists. We have spoken to three visual artists and the centre's founder, who talk about the work in the field between art and psychiatry.
Inflation. Energy crisis. Supply crisis. Both private individuals and companies fear the coming winter. This, of course, also applies to the cultural sector, where the institutions find it difficult to get the money to work and have had to resort to closures, layoffs and suspension of activities. So how do visual artists cope in these times? We asked six of them.
For the past six years, the Association of Visual Artists has paid tribute to the artists' own exhibition venues at an annual award ceremony. In the future, BKF will show its recognition of the essential artistic development work carried out at the exhibition venues in other ways. We will return to that in the course of 2023. Until then, we can fortunately be happy that the artist-run exhibition venues over a wide range are alive and well. We have visited two of the exhibition venues – the Sydhavn Exhibition Center and Simian.
FRONT PAGE Anna Rieder, Sidsel Welden, Olivia Lund. Pain activist Restroom, 2021. From the exhibition M/OTHER. PHOTO Amanda Bødker.