This art exhibition is a collaborative creation by multiple research groups across the Netherlands, together with regional workplace partners, service-users, teachers, curriculum developers, and students. It explores person-centredness as a guiding principle in professional and educational practices within healthcare and social domains. Through a diverse collection of artistic expressions, the exhibition illuminates lived experiences that reveal both the successes and the challenges of bringing person-centred values to life in everyday care, work, learning, and research relationships.

Developed as a catalyst for the establishment of a platform within a new national network for practice-based research on person-centredness in Dutch healthcare contexts, the exhibition marks an important starting point. The platform aims to foster the development of person-centred professionals by strengthening professional identities and supporting the transformation of curricula and workplaces. In doing so, it seeks to bridge practice, organisation, and governance—reflecting the central theme of the 2nd Global Conference on Person-Centred Care.

Participants are invited to engage creatively and critically with the works on display, using them as prompts for reflective analysis. This process will help inform the platform’s ongoing strategies, ensuring they are enriched by multiple ways of knowing and shaped by the perspectives of an international community committed to the principles of person-centredness. The exhibition thus serves not only as a space for artistic encounter but also as a living forum for dialogue, co-learning, and the continued development of person-centred care in theory and practice.