Summer guests

This Rotterdam initiative offers artists with a mental disability or psychiatric background room for experimentation. The artists are represented in European and American collections and exhibit internationally. Their works include crime scenes, extra-terrestrial creatures, and flower turtles.

In 2004, Jan Hoet's parental home (inextricably linked to Ghent’s Municipal Museum of Contemporary Arts (S.M.A.K.)) became a breeding ground for artists with a psychological vulnerability. In this way, “Kunsthuis Yellow Art” claimed a place in Geel's psychiatric history. Dr. Guislain Museum dived into the depots of this art centre, opening up a journey along spherical structures and mountain landscapes, populated by enticing ladies, and shiny domestic appliances.

Willem Arntsz Hoeve is a former psychiatric care complex in Utrecht. It is now the home of “Het Vijfde Seizoen”. For three months each season, one or more well-known or less well-known artists will stay in a separate pavilion on the fringes of the complex where they create at least one work. The “Beautiful Distress Foundation” started a similar project in the psychiatric institution “Kings County” in New York in 2014. A selection of works from these artists' residences is exhibited at the Dr. Guislain Museum.

Are you under 12? We've thought of you too! At “Zomergastjes”, you can play and create to your heart's content. Enjoy crafts, drawing and modelling using the works from “Zomergasten” as inspiration.