Jozef Guislainstraat 43 B-9000 Ghent +32 (0) 9 216 35 95 info@museumdrguislain.be about museum visit museum shop virtual tour collection reservations young people newsletter exhibitions Contact support the museum press nl and fr Reading Birds of Madness book presentation 22.10.15 - 22.10.15 Many writers have been in contact with psychiatry or write about the soul stirrings of psychiatrist and patient. In Birds of madness , Ranne Hovius tells in a fascinating way about the intersection of psychiatry and literature . Is there a link between creativity and madness? How are developments in psychiatry reflected in stories and poems? How can a psychosis be described? Hovius discusses madness and genius in the life and work of Dutch and Flemish writerssuch as Gerrit Achterberg, Maarten Biesheuvel, Peter Buwalda, Hugo Claus, Hella Haasse, Kristien Hemmerechts, Willem Frederik Hermans, Myrthe van der Meer, Harry Mulisch, Gerard Reve, Heleen van Royen and Rogi Wieg. On October 22, she will present her latest book in the Museum Dr. Guislain. The book presentation takes place in the Museum Dr. Guislain at 8 pm. The cost is 5 euros. register read more exhibition Mirjam Devriendt - Out of nowhere under the Alzheimer's Code 20.09.15 - 08.11.15 Mirjam Devriendt is more or less the house photographer of Berlinde De Bruyckere. She also sporadically takes care of the photographic or cinematic input in music theater productions. She made new work for The Alzheimer Code . In the first part of Out of nowhereDevriendt shows a report of a workshop that took place in residential care center Immaculata (Edegem). About 10 people with advanced dementia made sculptures in clay under the supervision of visual artist Alexandra Cool. The images surprise with their originality, exoticism and primal power. Not only the photo report is shown, but also some images. Music is central to the second part of the exhibition. In residential care center De Groene Linde (Sint-Genesius-Rode) Mirjam Devriendt made recordings of a mother and her daughter. Together they listen to Edith Piaf and Charles Trenet. Her film clips capture moments of great tenderness and intimacy. read more exhibition © Robin Hammond, Panos Pictures. Condemned - Robin Hammond as part of 80 Days of Summer - Stories of Identity 12.06.15 - 11.10.15 The serious crises that have affected the population of Sub-Saharan Africa over the past 50 years have left traces in terms of mental health. Care for the mentally ill is limited - resources are inadequate and the stigma is sky-high. New Zealand photographer Robin Hammond, winner of the 2014 Dr. Guislain Award, portrayed these people: a voiceless minority banished to forgotten corners of churches, traumatized ex-child soldiers chained to rusty hospital beds, suffering people doomed to life behind bars. read more News Spiegel im Spiegel in collaboration with Museum Dr. Guislain 10.10.15 - 13.12.15 From October 10, World Day of Mental Health Care, the Spiegel im Spiegel exhibition will be held in the Psychiatric Center Sint-Amandus in Beernem. An exhibition 'over' the boundaries of psychiatry. Based on the plastic work of 22 artists from home and abroad, curator Frank Demarest tries to explore and blur these boundaries. The title of the exhibition is taken from a composition of the same name by Arvo Pärt, from which the dialogue between piano and violin is used as a metaphor for the conversation between psyche and art. The exhibition is a collaboration between PAK, platform for contemporary arts, the Psychiatric Center Sint-Amandus and Museum Dr Guislain. More info on www.PAKgistel.be read more exhibition © Michiel De Cleene Out of the shadows 200 years of Brothers of Charity and psychiatry 30.09.15 - 17.01.16 On September 30, 2015, it will be 200 years ago that the mentally ill were released from shackles in the crypt of the medieval Geeraard de Duivelsteen in Ghent. Canon Triest and the Brothers of Charity took the initiative. This event can be referred to as the start of psychiatric care in Belgium. Out of the Shadow shows by means of photos, film fragments, testimonies… how then, but all too often still today, psychologically ill people are treated in an inhumane way. The exhibition examines the great differences that exist worldwide in the approach to the mentally ill and shows the many forms in which chains appear and are broken today. As part of this exhibition, the documentary Disturbed Spirits will be shown in the Museum Dr. Guislain. You can register via this link . The screening starts at 8 pm and costs 5 euros. read more exhibition Nouvelle Iconographie de la Salpêtrière, 1893, Tome VI, Planche XXX. Museum Dr. Guislain Ghent Photosensitive - Psychiatrists Patient Portraits 1865-2015 as part of 80 Days of Summer - Stories of Identity 12.06.15 - 11.10.15 The origins of the mental institution and the early development of photography coincide, about the middle of the nineteenth century. Psychiatrists and photographers quickly become interested in each other's world. Until well into the twentieth century, patients were photographed as a form of inventory, an attempt to document the disease rather than the patient. In the 1960s, the relationship changed: photographers denounced the abuses in psychiatry with their work. The evidence of the asylum is a thing of the past. The fascination for photography is still an issue in psychiatry. But the stakes have changed: the patient gets to work himself and provides insight into his world. Photosensitive. Psychiatrists Patient Portraits 1865-2015 shows a long and intense history with unexpected and surprising lines: cramped hands, strange body curves, half-hidden medical instruments. In addition to Light sensitive, three other photo exhibitions will be on display from mid-June: Condemned - Robin Hammond , Facing Japan and Het Huis - Karin Borghouts . The summer exhibitions are part of the Ghent festival 80 days of Summer . read more exhibition Shame 31.10.15 - 29.05.16 What we want to keep hidden becomes visible. What we don't want to talk about becomes public. From taboo to embarrassment, from prudery to embarrassment, from blushing to guilty pleasures: the exhibition highlights a difficult to grasp but omnipresent feeling: shame. It strikes us at the most unexpected moments and for the most diverse reasons: when we say something inappropriate in public or because of small or large imperfections of the body. But we are equally ashamed of poverty or psychological problems. Whether we like it or not, shame influences our comings and goings. Just as the reasons why people feel ashamed differ, shame also varies according to the person's character, the time in which he lives, and where he is located. Shame is both a personal and a social phenomenon: every person, but also every culture, deals with it differently. The exhibition Shame explores the terrain in several ways: through objects from other cultures, documents from the history of psychiatry or current testimonials. Artists thematize the feeling in paintings, sculptures, photography and video. The exhibition will be accompanied by a richly illustrated catalog of the same name (N / F / E, 176 p., Uitgeverij Lannoo). Chantal Akerman, Francis Alÿs, Alioune Bâ, Michael Borremans, Claude Cahun, Tom Callemin, Robert Capa, Roy de Villevoye, Jim Dine, Desiree Dolron, Marcel Duchamp, Tracey Emin, Gao Brothers, Marc Garanger, Siebe Wiemer Glastra, George Grosz, Seymour Jacobs, Gert Jochems, Nicolas Karakatsanis, Willy Kessels, Meiro Koizumi, Frans Masereel, Paul McCarthy, Boris Mikhailov, George Minne, Lauren Moffatt, Hans Op de Beeck, Pablo Picasso, Auguste Rodin, Félicien Rops, Tammo Schuringa, Jan Sluijters, Miroslav Tichý, Patrick Van Caeckenbergh, Philippe Vandenberg, Jan Van Imschoot, Ina van Zyl ... read more Filter by Date (dd-mm-yyyy) reading exhibition news activity study day all 06.10.2015 exhibition Mirjam Devriendt - Out of nowhere under the Alzheimer's Code 20.09.15 - 08.11.15 Mirjam Devriendt is more or less the house photographer of Berlinde De Bruyckere. She also sporadically takes care of the photographic or cinematic input in music theater productions. She made new work for The Alzheimer Code . In the first part of Out of nowhereDevriendt shows a report of a workshop that took place in residential care center Immaculata (Edegem). About 10 people with advanced dementia made sculptures in clay under the supervision of visual artist Alexandra Cool. The images surprise with their originality, exoticism and primal power. Not only the photo report is shown, but also some images. Music is central to the second part of the exhibition. In residential care center De Groene Linde (Sint-Genesius-Rode) Mirjam Devriendt made recordings of a mother and her daughter. Together they listen to Edith Piaf and Charles Trenet. Her film clips capture moments of great tenderness and intimacy. read more exhibition Condemned - Robin Hammond as part of 80 Days of Summer - Stories of Identity 12.06.15 - 11.10.15 The serious crises that have affected the population of Sub-Saharan Africa over the past 50 years have left traces in terms of mental health. Care for the mentally ill is limited - resources are inadequate and the stigma is sky-high. New Zealand photographer Robin Hammond, winner of the 2014 Dr. Guislain Award, portrayed these people: a voiceless minority banished to forgotten corners of churches, traumatized ex-child soldiers chained to rusty hospital beds, suffering people doomed to life behind bars. read more exhibition Out of the shadows 200 years of Brothers of Charity and psychiatry 30.09.15 - 17.01.16 Op 30 september 2015 is het dag op dag tweehonderd jaar geleden dat psychisch zieken uit de boeien werden bevrijd in de crypte van het middeleeuwse Geeraard de Duivelsteen in Gent. Kanunnik Triest en de Broeders van Liefde namen het initiatief. Deze gebeurtenis kan als het begin van de psychiatrische zorg in België worden aangeduid. Uit de schaduw toont aan de hand van foto’s, filmfragmenten, getuigenissen… hoe toen, maar al te dikwijls ook nu nog, psychisch zieke mensen op een mensonwaardige manier worden behandeld. De tentoonstelling gaat in op de grote verschillen die wereldwijd bestaan in de benadering van geesteszieken en laat de vele vormen zien waarin boeien vandaag verschijnen en gebroken worden. Op 30 september wordt in het kader van deze tentoonstelling de documentaire Gestoorde Geesten getoond in het Museum Dr. Guislain. Inschrijven kan via deze link. De vertoning begint om 20u en kost 5 euro. lees meer tentoonstelling Lichtgevoelig - Psychiaters Patiënten Portretten 1865-2015 in het kader van 80 Days of Summer - Stories of Identity 12.06.15 - 11.10.15 Het ontstaan van het psychiatrisch gesticht en de prille ontwikkeling van de fotografie vallen samen, ongeveer halfweg de negentiende eeuw. Psychiaters en fotografen raken snel geïnteresseerd in elkaars wereld. Tot diep in de twintigste eeuw fotografeert men patiënten als een vorm van inventarisatie, een poging om de ziekte, veeleer dan de zieke te documenteren. In de jaren zestig van de vorige eeuw wijzigt de relatie: fotografen klagen met hun werk de wantoestanden in de psychiatrie aan. De evidentie van het gesticht is verleden tijd. De fascinatie voor de fotografie is in de psychiatrie nog altijd aan de orde. Maar de inzet is gewijzigd: de patiënt gaat zelf aan de slag en geeft een inkijk in zijn wereld. Lichtgevoelig. Psychiaters Patiënten Portretten 1865-2015 toont een lange en intense geschiedenis met onverwachte en verrassende lijnen: verkrampte handen, vreemde lichaamscurves, half verborgen medische instrumenten. Naast Lichtgevoelig zijn er vanaf midden juni nog drie andere fototentoonstellingen te zien: Condemned - Robin Hammond, Facing Japan en Het Huis - Karin Borghouts. 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