Advisory Board

Many famous artists of the past, as well as of the present, have suffered mental shocks. Art is the language of the soul, so it is not surprising that these artists in particular manage to touch people with their works.

The Living Museum offers people with psychological suffering the possibility to express themselves with their creativity. They experience a community, they have a common place where they can be creative in many different directions. Through the exhibitions that take place time and again, where their art can also be bought, they become aware that they are doing something valuable, that they are part of our society and that they can be proud of themselves and their works. People who regularly go in and out of Living Museums are happier, more balanced and very often manage to overcome crises without hospital stays.

This alone should be reason enough to support the Living Museum Switzerland and to promote the expansion of its locations throughout Switzerland. I will continue to do this with my resources very happily.

Art as a form of expression has therapeutic potential - this is how I have experienced it in various roles. And several people benefit from it: the art creator, the art enjoyer as well as the health care system, because it is a cost-efficient form of therapy.

Impressed by the open approach to art on the one hand, to patients on the other, and by the great commitment to overcoming boundaries, limitations and exclusions, I would like not only to get inspired by the activities of the Living Museum, but also to try to contribute to making the great potential of this work better known and, above all, appreciated and taken up.

Psychiatry is a place of borderline experiences between healthy and sick, between normal and not normal. The Living Museum is a place that opens borders. It awakens one's own artistic potential and thus overcomes the boundary between art contemplation and art production. It ties in with Beuys' concept, according to which every person has artistic potential. In this way, the Living Museum also casually overcomes the boundary between healthy and ill, because it addresses the person as an artist as a creator of art. This is liberating and allows the people in the studios to once again take on a productive role with recognition and thus receive what we all desire.

Thus, we allow ourselves to be fascinated, irritated and captivated by the artistic works beyond a norm and precondition.
In this way, we allow empowerment rather than impairment to work and approach a new dimension of art.

This cultural recognition process has been accompanied in recent years by the Living Museum's intensive and successful facilitation and promotion of artistic work for educational and therapeutic purposes. In terms of an inclusive art (an inclusive society), an invaluable commitment.

Serving on the advisory board is an honorable commitment for me. During my 25 years of working in the family business of Clienia Littenheid, I was regularly allowed to initiate many projects that were under the aspect of destigmatizing mentally impaired people.

Art and culture can build visually and acoustically exciting and appealing bridges across diverse societies and have an integrating effect. The Living Museum offers a protected space that can be used as a laboratory for countless creative offerings.

I look forward to serving on the Advisory Board.