is an independent project arts space based in Berlin that focuses on the importance of mental health.
Mission statement:
Mental Health Arts Space aims to create a safer space of empowerment, mutual support and the creation of opportunities for marginalized and under-represented artists, curators and cultural workers, especially those from the Global Majority: BIPoC (Black people, Indigenous people and People of Color), queer and migrant diasporic communities who experience intersectional discrimination.
By centering the importance of mental health, the goal is to accessibly share strategies and resources with, and create opportunities for, those affected by systemic racism, transphobia, homophobia and other forms of discrimination in the arts.
MHAS Berlin does not offer legal advice or help, but it can provide links to legal practitioners and resources in Berlin and beyond.
Similarly, it does not offer any psychotherapeutic, psychiatric or otherwise medical treatment or assistance, but it can redirect interested parties to organizations in Berlin and beyond that provide these services.
MHAS is a non-profit organization that centers the mental health, well-being, experiences, knowledge, histories, narratives and archives of Black people, Indigenous people and People of Color, as well as other migrant and marginalized groups.
Through exhibitions, workshops, conversations, reading group sessions, film screenings, open mics, artist talks and other artistic and discursive program formats, MHAS Berlin aims to strengthen connections, build community spirit and share knowledge among under-represented and marginalized artists and cultural workers.
MHAS Berlin’s founder, Kathy-Ann Tan, is a Berlin-based independent curator, writer and scholar.
She is interested in alternative models of art dissemination, exhibition-making and institution-building that are attuned to issues of social- and transformative justice. Her practice is informed by a desire to create accessible spaces and formats of conversation and discussion outside of academia. She works tirelessly to support queer and BIPoC artists and cultural practitioners in Berlin and beyond by putting decolonial and intersectional feminist theory into practice. MHAS Berlin is the culmination of years of conversations and sharing, and emerges from the belief that addressing mental health issues within the arts and culture should be a priority and not a luxury.
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