Curative Arts is a research and practice platform grounded in Expressive Arts Therapy that develops museum-based and public cultural programs, offers experiential and interdisciplinary trainings, and provides research-informed consultancy and program development for arts based social transformation.
Situated at the intersection of Expressive Arts, phenomenology, and embodied aesthetics, it creates bridges between clinical and non-clinical contexts while working within an international network between Barcelona and Turkey to make visible the healing, meaning-making, and community-building capacities of the arts.
Curative Arts
Fields of Practice
Museum & Cultural Projects
We design arts-based experiential programs and community projects in collaboration with museums and cultural institutions.
Education & Training
We offer interdisciplinary online trainings at the intersection of art, psychology, arts therapies, and Expressive Arts, developed and facilitated in collaboration with trainers from diverse professional backgrounds.
Research & Consultancy
We offer academically grounded, research-informed consultancy and program development for arts-based social transformation projects.
Museum & Cultural Projects
Embodied Encounters in Public Cultural Spaces
Curative Arts rethinks the relationship with art in museums and cultural environments. Rather than interpreting the artwork, we create an embodied, emotional, and collective encounter with it.
What do we do?
Museum-based Expressive Arts workshops
Mindful and embodied viewing practices in relation to exhibitions
Collective aesthetic response processes (responsive art-making)
Community projects focused on belonging and social inclusion
Institution-specific program design
These practices
Reveal the therapeutic potential of the arts in non-clinical contexts
Activate the museum as an experiential and relational space
Position art within a framework of social transformation
Education & Training
Experiential Learning
The training programs at Curative Arts address Expressive Arts Therapy both theoretically and experientially.
They are structured along two main axes: Expressive Arts Therapy – Theory & Practice
(Professional Training Programs)
Designed for:
Psychologists
Psychotherapists
Mental health professionals
Practitioners in related fields
Arts therapists
These programs
Integrate theoretical depth with practice
Follow an experiential and reflective learning model
Bring together clinical and non-clinical applications
Aim:
To support participants in understanding the EXA approach not merely as a method, but as an aesthetic, ethical, and phenomenological framework.
Interdisciplinary Programs at the Intersection of Art, Psychology, and Expressive Arts
Designed for:
Art historians
Artists
Curators
Museum professionals
Educators
Cultural managers
Students of psychology and the arts
These programs
Are often conducted with multidisciplinary teaching teams
Are theoretically grounded
Include shared experiential modules in selected parts
Situate the Expressive Arts approach within cultural and public contexts
Individual Practice
Seren Pehlivanoğlu İlkdoğan is
a psychotherapist, Expressive Arts therapist, and PhD researcher at
the European Graduate School.
In her individual work she adopts a holistic and interdisciplinary approach, integrating verbal therapy and psychodynamically oriented Expressive Arts Therapy.
For individual online sessions, please visit
