Ellen Reid in New York: SOUNDWALK
Pulitzer Prize-winner Ellen Reid has composed SOUNDWALK, a GPS-enabled work of public art that uses music to illuminate the environment and encourage calm reflection.
Mindscapes
Mindscapes is an international cultural programme that aims to support a transformation in how we understand, address and talk about mental health.
Combining diverse perspectives and expertise, the programme – including artist residencies, a documentary, exhibitions and events – will be staged in a number of cities around the world. Our work will culminate in 2022.
Mindscapes brings together culture, communities, policy and research, and is informed and inspired by Wellcome's mental health programme.
Current projects
Covid Living
Young people share how they've managed their mental health during and after Covid-19 lockdowns, in different and creative ways.
Hamwe Festival 2020
Catch up with the talks, which explore the role of the arts in giving new perspectives on, and improving, mental health, social justice and global health.
What's coming up
- Artist residencies and exhibitions
- Bengaluru: Indu Antony(opens in a new tab) at the Museum of Art and Photography(opens in a new tab)
- Berlin: Kader Attia(opens in a new tab) at the Gropius Bau(opens in a new tab)
- New York: Guadalupe Maravilla(opens in a new tab) at the Brooklyn Museum(opens in a new tab)
- Tokyo: Yuki Iiyama(opens in a new tab) at the Mori Art Museum(opens in a new tab)
- International artist-in-residence: Cecilie Falkenstrom(opens in a new tab)
- User-generated documentary: we want to hear from people all over the world on what makes a positive difference to their mental health.
More details about our future projects will follow later in 2021.
About Mindscapes
One in four people experience a mental health problem every year but, for decades, treatments have hardly progressed. A holistic scientific, social and cultural approach is needed, now more than ever.
Through a range of cultural activities, Mindscapes will provide new perspectives on how people and communities in different contexts live with and seek solutions to their mental health problems.
Our partners
Mindscapes has been developed by Wellcome in collaboration with:
Bengaluru
- Curatorial Research Fellow, Avinash Kumar(opens in a new tab)
- India Foundation for the Arts(opens in a new tab)
- Museum of Art and Photography (MAP)(opens in a new tab)
- National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS)(opens in a new tab)
- Quicksand(opens in a new tab)
- Science Gallery Bengaluru(opens in a new tab)
Berlin
- Curatorial Research Fellow, Margareta von Oswald(opens in a new tab)
- Centre for Anthropological Research on Museums and Heritage (CARMAH)(opens in a new tab)
- Charité(opens in a new tab)
- Gropius Bau Museum(opens in a new tab)
- The Robert Koch Institute(opens in a new tab)
New York
- Curatorial Research Fellow, Rebecca Jacobs(opens in a new tab)
- Brooklyn Museum(opens in a new tab)
- Center for the Humanities, Graduate Center, City University of New York(opens in a new tab)
- Center for Urban Pedagogy(opens in a new tab)
- Ellen Reid SOUNDWALK(opens in a new tab)
- Tenement Museum(opens in a new tab)
- The Laundromat Project(opens in a new tab)
- The New York Public Library(opens in a new tab)
Tokyo
- Curatorial Research Fellow, Kukiko Nobori(opens in a new tab)
- Mori Art Museum(opens in a new tab)
Further partnerships to be announced soon.
Contact us
See who's in our International Cultural Programmes team.
