Aesthetic Madness: Exploring Art, Psychiatry, and Mental Health at Museum Ovartaci

Brian Benjamin Hansen

Aesthetic Madness: Exploring Art, Psychiatry, and Mental Health at Museum Ovartaci

Brian Benjamin Hansen

Center for the study of Professions

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Abstract

Museum Ovartaci in Denmark is a museum dedicated to “art and psychiatry,” and it hosts the largest collection of outsider art in the country. I will provide some background on the museum, its archive, and its collection, with particular emphasis on the museum’s potential to contribute to nuanced reflections on mental health. In this context, I will also outline the main ideas and the preliminary plan for the archival research project ‘Aesthetic Madness in the Long 19th Century,’ which has just been launched as a collaboration between the museum, VIA University College, and Aarhus University.

Original language	English
Publication date	Oct 2024
Publication status	Published - Oct 2024
Event	Creative Health: Museums, History, Heritage and Wellbeing - Amsterdam, Netherlands Duration: 26 Oct 2024 → …

Conference

Conference	Creative Health: Museums, History, Heritage and Wellbeing
Country/Territory	Netherlands
City	Amsterdam
Period	26/10/24 → …

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