The exhibition brings together scientific insights into mental health and the perspectives of people who speak about their very personal ways of dealing with mental health challenges. Developed by curators Clarissa Lütz and Rebekka Rinner, the exhibition has been on show at the Deutsches Hygiene-Museum Dresden (DHMD) since 7 March 2026, across 800 square metres.

The newly released, self-published volume documents the participatory process behind the exhibition and reflects on its curatorial, inclusive and participatory methods. Appearing six months after the exhibition opened, the publication also draws on the first voices and accounts of visitors and staff. The different forms of knowledge (scientific, curatorial and experience-based) are given equal visibility in the publication and brought into relation with one another through its design.

The design is playful, lively and colourful. The essays are set in a single column with ragged-right text, which conveys a certain seriousness. This is repeatedly broken up by quotations and accounts from visitors and exhibition guides, set on coloured pages. The interviews likewise move away from this seriousness: a wavy left-hand text edge gives them a playful lightness. Full-bleed exhibition views round off the content.

An open-spine binding was chosen because both the exhibition and the publication are concerned with making visible a subject that affects all parts of society.

Typeface: DGM Saffron von Giulia Boggio, Atlas Grotesk von Commercial Type
Size: 148 × 210 mm (Din A5)
Paper: Munken Pure 1.4, 300 g/m² & 100 g/m²
Print: 4/4 CMYK-Offsetdruck
Binding: offene Fadenheftung
Edition of 500