For weeks, the Corona pandemic has kept the world in suspense, and has fundamentally altered everyday life. Shutdowns, contact restrictions, and curfews are forcing millions of people to spend many hours at home, waiting. Isolation also means being exposed to one's own feelings without protection or distraction.
Especially for people who now have to spend a lot of time alone, their own four walls quickly lose their protective function, and reinforce the silence and emptiness of their own surroundings. Negative feelings like tension, fear and loneliness quickly spread. For people with mental illness, these measures can be a considerable burden and can intensify any already existing pain.
It is particularly difficult to talk about this. We live in a society in which it is still easier to talk about physical pain than about mental pain. Stigmatisation and stereotyping have led to mental health being a taboo subject for many people.
This is the intention of the exhibition 'Dark Corners': to finally break the silence and create the space for a dialog about mental health, which is not visible but weighs all the more heavily. 22 young artists have approached the subject from very different perspectives. The exhibition also features voices that share their own personal stories and experiences relating to mental health.
For weeks, the Corona pandemic has kept the world in suspense, and has fundamentally altered everyday life. Shutdowns, contact restrictions, and curfews are forcing millions of people to spend many hours at home, waiting. Isolation also means being exposed to one's own feelings without protection or distraction.
Especially for people who now have to spend a lot of time alone, their own four walls quickly lose their protective function, and reinforce the silence and emptiness of their own surroundings. Negative feelings like tension, fear and loneliness quickly spread. For people with mental illness, these measures can be a considerable burden and can intensify any already existing pain.
It is particularly difficult to talk about this. We live in a society in which it is still easier to talk about physical pain than about mental pain. Stigmatisation and stereotyping have led to mental health being a taboo subject for many people.
This is the intention of the exhibition 'Dark Corners': to finally break the silence and create the space for a dialog about mental health, which is not visible but weighs all the more heavily. 22 young artists have approached the subject from very different perspectives. The exhibition also features voices that share their own personal stories and experiences relating to mental health.
For weeks, the Corona pandemic has kept the world in suspense, and has fundamentally altered everyday life. Shutdowns, contact restrictions, and curfews are forcing millions of people to spend many hours at home, waiting. Isolation also means being exposed to one's own feelings without protection or distraction.
Especially for people who now have to spend a lot of time alone, their own four walls quickly lose their protective function, and reinforce the silence and emptiness of their own surroundings. Negative feelings like tension, fear and loneliness quickly spread. For people with mental illness, these measures can be a considerable burden and can intensify any already existing pain.
It is particularly difficult to talk about this. We live in a society in which it is still easier to talk about physical pain than about mental pain. Stigmatisation and stereotyping have led to mental health being a taboo subject for many people.
This is the intention of the exhibition 'Dark Corners': to finally break the silence and create the space for a dialog about mental health, which is not visible but weighs all the more heavily. 22 young artists have approached the subject from very different perspectives. The exhibition also features voices that share their own personal stories and experiences relating to mental health.