Manasa Chitra: the Art of Mental Health from Bengaluru to Bethlem

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Manasa Chitra: the Art of Mental Health from Bengaluru to Bethlem

26 June 202614 November 2026

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Works by Indian artists with lived experience of mental distress, spanning 1950s occupational therapy at Bangalore Mental Hospital to contemporary Bengaluru artists.

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The experience of mental health conditions is always shaped by the various cultural contexts in which it occurs. Not only so, but different cultures have their own resources from which self-understanding and support may be drawn. The pictures in this exhibition illustrate the range of sources on which artists from India with lived experience of mental distress have been able to call for the sake of their wellbeing....

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