Mindscapes | Our work

The programme includes artist residencies, exhibitions, public programming, events, 'I Hope This Helps' (a crowdsourced documentary) and publishing.

Being staged in a number of cities around the world, including Bengaluru, Berlin, New York and Tokyo, Mindscapes centres hyper-local conversations about mental health and wellbeing that have global relevance.

Mindscapes brings together culture, communities, policy and research, and is informed and inspired by Wellcome's mental health programme.

Visit the Mindscapes online archive, created by the Mindscapes community, to explore the project further.

I Hope This Helps: crowd-sourced documentary

I Hope This Helps is a crowd-sourced documentary, co-produced by Wellcome.

Through collecting footage from people all around the world, the project aims to create an honest, intimate and real-life story of mental health. The award-winning production team hope that the film can create change through sharing stories that help viewers through their own journey by destigmatising mental health in society and by inspiring new research into things that can make a difference.

Anyone can submit videos. Visit the website for more information.

Previous Projects

Artist residencies and exhibitions:
- Mindscapes Bengaluru: Indu Antony at the Museum of Art and Photography
- Mindscapes Berlin: Kader Attia at the Gropius Bau
- Mindscapes New York: Guadalupe Maravilla at the Brooklyn Museum
- Mindscapes Tokyo: Yuki Iiyama at the Mori Art Museum
- International artist-in-residence: Cecilie Falkenstrøm
- Artist in residence at large: Christine Wong Yap
International writer-in-residence: Priya Basil
Ellen Reid in New York: SOUNDWALK
Something New: Covid Living
Hamwe Festival 2020

Artists in Residence

During her Mindscapes Bengaluru residency at MAP, Indu worked with a network of community centres and opened a new space called Namma Katte - a space for leisure, a space for women to exchange stories of care and mental health. These stories will inform a collective artwork.

Indu Antony is an artist who previously trained in medicine, often working with communities to express the inequalities of gender, class and caste.

During his Mindscapes Berlin residency at Gropius Bau, Kader continued his research into repair, exploring the immaterial wounds that haunt German society.

Kader is a French-Algerian artist and theorist whose previous sculptural, visual and theoretical works are inspired by the question of the visibility and invisibility of the wound.

During her Mindscapes Tokyo residency at Mori Art Museum, Yuki worked with affected communities to explore the social and emotional impact of domestic violence in Japan.

Based between Tokyo and Kanagawa, Yuki Iiyama is a visual artist who works primarily with video and other forms of archival, audio-visual materials. Utilising interviews and personal testimony, she examines power dynamics between individuals, society and history as well as processes such as stigmatization.

During her Mindscapes International residency, Cecilie’s work has explored the history of industrialised labour practices and their connection with contemporary digital data labour as both pertain to the mental health of workers.

Within her regular practice, Cecilie often employs artificial intelligence (machine learning) to create artworks, that critically reflect upon our human entanglement with technology.

During her residency, Mindscapes Writer in Residence Priya Basil has been travelling internationally to places where biomedical and traditional approaches to mental health meet, gathering reflections for an Atlas of Mental Health.

In her writing Priya will use personal stories to deepen the narrative and show how she is situated in relation to the rich themes and concepts she engages in her writing.

During her residency, Mindscapes Artist-in-Residence at Large Christine Wong Yap has been engaging with communities across the globe – including teenagers in Bengaluru and New York, library patrons in Berlin and senior citizens outside of Tokyo – to develop zines (self-published magazines) which reflect their perspectives on belonging.

During his Mindscapes New York residency at Brooklyn Museum, Guadalupe continued his exploration of healing from displacement and generational trauma, and the intimate links between bodily and mental health.

Guadalupe draws from his personal experience as a cancer survivor and from his displacement - due to the 1984 civil war in El Salvador - to the United States to shape his multidisciplinary practice of sculpture, performance, video, and ritual.

For Mindscapes, Guadalupe’s exhibition ‘Guadalupe Maravilla: Tierra Blanca Joven’ at the Brooklyn Museum addresses these themes of displacement and healing across generations through his large scale sculptures, items from the museum's Mayan collection, and video of a workshop with undocumented teens in detention, as well as a Healing Room designed by teens involved in the Museum's work-study program.

He also worked closely with a number of collaborators through a microeconomic exchanges that center marginalized communities to develop content for this exhibition.

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