tiistai, 16 helmikuun, 2016, 07:02

The employing effect of art in hospital projects

It is a pleasure to participate in a project which employs at least seven skilled artists for a while.

At the Lappeenranta Hospital, the Eksote, the project has been prepared for a long time and with merit, acquiring financing and sympathy for the matter. We, the designers of the public spaces of the future hospital, prepared an Art Plan for the new construction, charting the possible places for art and the costs incurred from it. A local distinguished expert team, provincial artist laureate Outi Turpeinen, curator Mona Taipale of the South Karelia Art Museum and degree programme manager Eija Mustonen of the Saimaa University of Applied Sciences, selected the artists whom drafts were requested from. Many meetings have been held and deliberations and memoranda made in different line-ups at the drafting stage, and the final artists are now here: Annu Vertanen, Sirpa Hynninen and Vesa-Ville Saarinen, Tuulia Iso-Tryykäri and Janette Holmström, Ville Huhtanen and Nelli Tanner. Fine thing!

The work goes on, important and interesting discussions are still underway in order for the final artworks to fit into the planned architectural ensemble, creating a unique experience both for the patients and the personnel. In addition to the artists, this multidisciplinary designer team includes several parties, for example, structural, lighting and electric designers, architects, the orderer, the developer, without forgetting the coming team of builders who will ultimately install and build in place a large part of the artworks. This will be a tour de force of co-operation whose end result we’ll see once the building is completed in 2017.

Jaana Partanen

Visualisation Eksote, K Hospital, lobby areas 2016.
Architects: Architects’ Office Ovaskainen Oy / Partanen & Lamusuo Ltd.
Artwork: Huhtanen / Tanner

Avainsanat: Art Plan, Eksote Central Hospital, public artwork