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STITCH_YOUR_BRAIN is an empirical study by Monika Auch, visual artist and medical doctor (n.p.) about the intelligence of our hands and the effect of creative making on health and well-being.
It started in 2013 and is ongoing with new participants, lectures and exhibitions. The Amsterdam Brain Collection with 118 works is available as a travelling collection. The book Stitch Your Brain serves as a catalogue.
Go to order to get your kit.
Order the book at your bookstore or online.
Title: Stitch Your Brain ISBN 978-94-92852-77-9
Author: Monika Auch
Publisher: JapSamBooks >>view the book designed by Joost Grootens
2026
Beijing China, key-element in Danish Cultural Institute event Brainstorms
2025
Podcast in October by Jo Andrews Hapticandhue
Illustrated talk for the Dutch Embroiderers Guild Merkwaardig was booked out twice.
The first stitched brains are on the website.
Key note speaker New European Bauhaus webinar
on social inclusion. Go to 55:29 min.
2024
Tesselschade Foundation comprehensive interview by the oldest Dutch foundation who supports women's development. Thank you for the generous gift.
Vezel.org 2/24, Embroidery Magazine, July/August ETN blog, Métier magazine, Dutch Crafts mag and ENG version and Berwick Weaving Co / Canada
Exhibition with stitched MRI scan collage:
D(R)AAD Embroidery as protest and healing.
27 januari - 21 april Verwey Museum Haarlem, The Netherlands.
februari
Booklaunch in Amsterdam.
The book is distributed by publisher JapSamBooks.
2023 October
Press: Q&A in Handwerken Zonder Grenzen
Frankfurter Buchmesse bookpresentation by JapSamBooks
2022 October
Lecture at Annebergparken, Nykobing
13-15 October 2022
lecture and presentation at TextielPlusFestival
September 2022
04-09-2022 Front page of Danish newspaper POLITIKEN with 4 page in-depth interview.
June 2022
Danish artist's group Kunstnersflojen hosts an exhibition sponsored by Danish Lyons at Annebergparken, Nykobing, Sjaelland.
Januari 2021
We cooperate with an international publisher. A book with results of the study and the brains will be published.
About 100 stitched brains were put into our care. Together they are the Amsterdam Brain Collection, which is set up as a traveling collection.
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The project is supported by
Tesselschade
Foundation Stokroos
Gawthorpe Textiles Collection
Creative industries fund NL
stichting voor vrouwen door vrouwen
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2026
Brainstorms - Beijing, China with Danish Cultural Institute
2025
Key note speaker in New European Bauhaus webinar
on social inclusion. Go to 55:29 min.
2024
Reviews in ETN Blog by Beatrijs Sterk and Dutch Métier magazine,
Q&A in Dutch Crafts magazine 'Handwerken'
Read PDF Dutch - PDF ENG
Exhibition D(R)AAD Embroidery as protest and healing.
27 januari - 21 april Verwey Museum Haarlem, The Netherlands.
Showing embroidered MRI scan.
Februari - Booklaunch in Amsterdam by JapSam publishers.
2023
October - The book is published by JapSamBooks
Article in RAPPORTER Danish crafts magazine, issue 2023-1 by Mette Dahl
2022
Presentation of results of study and pre-view book at Annebergparken, Nykobing, Kunstnerflojen.
Front page of Danish national newspaper POLITIKEN and 8 page interview.
Brainshow hosted by artist's group Kunstnersflojen in June at Annebergparken, Nykobing.
Grants from Dutch Creative industries, Stokroos and VanDoorVrouwen for brain book. Thank you!
2021
Cooperation with publisher Jap Sam Books.
Cooperation with artists from Danish Anneberg Kulturparken:
Karen Marie Dehn and Jessica Grant Sorensen.
Lecture at former psychiatric institute Annebergparken, Nykobing.
2020
Invitation by World Craft Council:
panelist in virtual seminar on 'Craft, Health and Well being'
Online lecture at Textiel Plus Festival
Covid pandemic heightens awareness about making
article: The Zen in Stitch and Bitch
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2018
The Amsterdam Brainshow december at WG Kunst
supported by Stokroos Foundation
Presentation at Industry Day Leiden organized by Museum De Lakenhal
Presentation at Outsider Art Gallery Hermitage, Amsterdam
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2017
Presentation at ETN conference in Boras, Sweden
Artist's talk at the 7th Tallinn Applied Art Triennial in Estonia
Video of lecture at KNAW Dutch Royal Society of Sciences, Amsterdam
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2016
Publication of 'Intelligence of the hand' in
'Crafting Textiles in the digital age', Bloomsbury Academic, peer reviewed article
WAAG society invited us for Museumnacht Amsterdam
museumnacht Amsterdam
'Slow textiles and wellbeing' seminar at Gawthorpe Hall
with key-note lecture.
Gawthorpe Textile Collection hosts the first Brain exhibition
in their newly renovated premises.
Video and lecture at the
Worlding the brain conference interdisciplinary event between neurosciences, humanities
and art organized by the University of Amsterdam.
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2015
British Gawthorpe Textile Collection
joined with a large group of experienced stitchers.
An exhibition is scheduled for spring 2016!
At Amsterdam Heritage days
the prints 'My brain as a flower' were presented at AGA.
In 2015 the city of Leiden hosted the Textile Festival
and international ETN meeting.
SYB project was on show in a beautiful period house.
After the lecture people from all over the world joined the project.
At the premiere of
0,8 Ampère Geluk van Saskia Gubbels,
a documentary about treatment of severe depression
with Electro Convulsive Therapy. Stitch_Your_Brain
kits were a special gift to the patients, film crew and medical staff.
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2014
European Year of the Brain
Nationaal Initiatief Hersenen en Cognitie
Hoe beïnvloeden brein scans maatschappelijke vragen en
ons zelfbeeld?
PUBLIEK DIALOOG 3 Juli 2014, 20.00 uur – De Nieuwe Liefde
– Amsterdam
Grafisch werk in de tweede kamer Staten Generaal
Monika Auch news
Speaker at Art of Neuroscience, KNAW, Amsterdam
Key-note speaker at Falmouth University, Arts for Health
seminar about: Craft praxis, health and wellbeing,
First show in Muiden, Municipal Hall with stitched brains of local artists.
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2013
Presentation in Amsterdam, Graphic Art Make a move
Speaker at IMPACT 8 in Dundee, Scotland
The project was launched at IMPACT 8
International printmaking conference.
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