Collaboration
Roche Diagnostics
Participatory art intervention for a conference, using colour symbolically to reflect organisational values within corporate guidelines.
For Organisations
Artist-led experiences that help teams reconnect, see differently and give form to what matters.
For organisations navigating change, pressure or questions of culture. Through collective making, people can contribute beyond their usual roles, encounter different perspectives and create shared meaning around what comes next.
Available as team ateliers, leadership offsites, wellbeing days, conference activations and longer artist residencies, shaped around your organisation’s people, context and purpose.
Founded by painter and participatory artist Nicky Myny, ARTKOM brings people into creative processes where reflection becomes visible, connection becomes tangible and new meaning can emerge.
Intro
Sometimes conversation needs another form.
Many organisations know when something needs attention.
- A team wants to reconnect.
- A culture is shifting.
- People are carrying pressure.
- A shared theme is difficult to name.
- A transition asks for more than another meeting, training or presentation.
ARTKOM creates artist-led participatory art experiences for those moments. Through material exploration, shared making, visual expression and reflection, participants are invited to engage with themselves, each other and a chosen theme in a different way.
Not through performance.
Not through artistic skill.
Not through finding the right words.
But through presence, image, gesture, colour, imagination and shared attention.
Relevance
For moments when teams need to reconnect, make sense of change and imagine what comes next.
Organisations come to ARTKOM when change, pressure or growth creates a need to pause and reconnect. Artist-led processes offer teams another way to explore what is happening, hear different perspectives and give form to what they want to carry forward.
A team is moving through change
During growth, restructuring, new leadership, a merger or a shift in direction.
Connection has become thinner
People work together, but there is less trust, belonging or meaningful exchange.
An important conversation needs another form
Words and meetings no longer create movement, insight or genuine participation.
Culture needs to become tangible
Values, identity or a shared direction need to be experienced not only explained.
Through visual making, reflection and collective exploration, teams can develop new perspectives, strengthen connection and create shared meaning around what comes next.
ARTKOM works with corporates, leadership teams, HR and people teams, healthcare organisations, care teams, schools, universities, cultural organisations, foundations, public institutions, community organisations and conference organisers.
These clients are often looking for something deeper than a workshop, more human than another meeting and more memorable than a standard training.
They may not yet know they need participatory art. But they recognise the need for connection, creativity, dialogue, trust and shared meaning.
Benefits
What the process can make possible
More voices in the room
Visual and material processes offer ways to participate beyond confidence, hierarchy or verbal fluency.
A different quality of attention
Making together slows familiar patterns and creates space to notice what usually remains beneath the surface.
Shared meaning made visible
Ideas, tensions and hopes are not only discussed, but translated into something tangible that can be revisited.
Stronger connection across roles
People encounter one another through curiosity, contribution and a shared creative process, not only through their functions.
The offers
Three ways to bring ARTKOM into your organisation.
ARTKOM offers focused team experiences, participatory event activations and deeper artist-led residencies. Each format is designed around the people, context and theme of the organisation.
Offer 01
Team Atelier
Artist-led participatory art for teams, leadership groups and organisational gatherings.
A Team Atelier is a half-day or full-day participatory art experience for teams and organisations.
Guided by Nicky Myny, participants enter a creative process using material exploration, visual expression and reflection. The focus is not on learning how to paint or creating a perfect result. The focus is on what becomes visible through the process.
A Team Atelier creates space for people to slow down, meet each other differently, reflect on a shared theme and experience connection beyond roles, opinions and daily pressure.
A Team Atelier can support
- · Team reflection
- · Leadership gatherings
- · Wellbeing days
- · Culture days
- · Offsites
- · Care team support
- · Organisational transitions
- · Collective art processes
- · Custom team experiences
Possible formats
- · Half-day experience
- · Full-day experience
- · Custom team experience
What your organisation receives
- · An artist-led participatory art experience
- · A process designed around your theme or context
- · All artistic materials
- · Guided reflection
- · Visual traces of the process
- · Optional written reflection or visual harvest after the session
Team Atelier experiences start from €1,500 excl. VAT.
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Offer 02
Conference & Event Activation
A participatory artistic intervention for conferences, events and organisational gatherings.
ARTKOM can create a participatory artistic activation within a conference, leadership day, wellbeing event, cultural gathering or organisational programme.
Instead of adding another speaker or passive activity, participants are invited to contribute through image, gesture, material, words or collective making.
The activation can become an opening moment, a reflective pause, a collective visual trace, a participatory installation or a closing ritual that gives form to the central theme of the event.
It brings people out of passive listening and into shared creative participation.
This format is suitable for
- · Conferences
- · Leadership events
- · HR and people events
- · Wellbeing days
- · Culture days
- · Community gatherings
- · Public programmes
- · Opening or closing moments
- · Events where active participation matters
Possible formats
- · Short artistic intervention
- · Participatory installation
- · Collective canvas or paper work
- · Visual harvest during the event
- · Reflective closing process
- · Artist-led activation around the event theme
What your organisation receives
- · Concept development with ARTKOM
- · A participatory artistic format designed for your event
- · Materials and artistic guidance
- · Visual traces or collective output
- · Optional documentation
- · Optional artist reflection after the event
Custom proposal after a discovery call.
Bring ARTKOM to Your Event
Offer 03 · Flagship
Artist-led Residency.
A deeper artist-led trajectory for organisations, institutions and communities.
A long-form participatory art project, based on ARTKOM's PACT method, and our flagship offer for organisations.
It is a custom artist-led participatory art project that unfolds over several weeks or months. It is designed for organisations, institutions and communities that want to work more deeply around connection, wellbeing, transition, belonging, culture or collective meaning.
Rather than offering a one-time experience, a residency allows ARTKOM to enter into dialogue with an organisation over time.
Through participatory art sessions, creative inquiry, material exploration, visual research, reflection and artistic documentation, the process creates space for what lives beneath the surface of a group, organisation or community.
A residency may result in visual traces, an internal presentation, an exhibition moment, an artist talk, a collective artwork process or a deeper case study.
A residency can support
- · Organisations in transition
- · Care institutions
- · Schools and universities
- · Cultural organisations
- · Public institutions
- · Foundations
- · Community organisations
- · Social impact projects
- · Long-term wellbeing or culture programmes
- · Processes around belonging, identity or shared meaning
A residency may include
- · Participatory art sessions
- · Creative inquiry
- · Material exploration
- · Team or community reflection
- · Visual research
- · Collective making
- · Artistic documentation
- · Visual harvest
- · Public or internal presentation
- · Exhibition moment
- · Artist talk
- · Optional collective artwork
What your organisation receives
- · A custom-designed artistic trajectory
- · A clear project structure
- · Artist-led participatory sessions
- · Visual and reflective documentation
- · Meaningful engagement with participants
- · A possible presentation, exhibition or closing moment
- · Long-term cultural and human value
- · Case study potential
Custom proposals are created after a discovery call.
Explore Artist-led ResidencyAt a glance
Choose the right format.
Team Atelier
For teams, leadership groups and wellbeing days.
A focused half-day or full-day participatory art experience.
Conference & Event Activation
For events, conferences and organisational gatherings.
A participatory artistic intervention that brings people into shared creative engagement.
Artist-led Residency
For organisations, institutions and communities seeking deeper work over time.
A custom artist-led trajectory across several weeks or months.
The practice
How the studio works.
ARTKOM is an artist-led participatory arts practice. The work is rooted in painting, material exploration, shared creative process and more than a decade of experience working with people, teams, organisations and communities.
- Art can slow people down.
- It can open dialogue.
- It can make invisible themes visible.
- It can hold complexity without rushing to solve it.
- It can bring people into shared attention beyond roles, performance and opinion.
This is the territory of ARTKOM.
Arts & Health
Informed by Arts & Health.
ARTKOM contributes to the growing field of Arts & Health through artist-led participatory practice, informed by creative participation, reflection and human presence.
The work is offered alongside care, not instead of it, and remains clearly grounded in artistic practice.
Process
Where the work begins.
01
Discovery Call
We explore your organisation, context, theme, participants and desired impact.
02
Proposal
ARTKOM creates a tailored artistic concept, format and project structure.
03
Preparation
We align on participants, timing, materials, location, communication and practical needs.
04
Participatory Experience
Nicky guides the artistic process with attention to people, material, rhythm and reflection.
05
Visual Traces & Reflection
Depending on the format, your organisation receives visual traces, documentation, reflection or a collective outcome.
The artist
Led by Nicky Myny.
Nicky Myny is a painter, participatory artist and founder of ARTKOM Arts & Health. Her practice grew from a personal encounter with art during illness, developed over two decades into professional Arts & Health work.
Proof
Selected collaborations.
Examples of artist-led participatory art brought into organisational, academic, healthcare and community contexts.
Collaboration
SDG Tent, WEF Davos
Keynote and participatory art with Unlocking Eve on leadership, care and healthcare transformation.
Collaboration
KU Leuven Psychology & Educational Sciences Library
An artist-led Team Atelier where trust, connection and shared motivation became an XL canvas displayed in the public library.
Collaboration
Doctors 4 Doctors / Arts in Balance (NL)
Experiential wellbeing for physicians with clinical psychologist Ingrid Hofkens.
The next step
Bring participatory art into your organisation.
Whether you are planning a wellbeing day, team reflection, leadership gathering, cultural project, conference activation or long-term residency, ARTKOM can help you create a meaningful artistic process for your people and context.