It was only possible to fit simple and easily interpretable signs on my parents’ gravestone. The four sides of the Poemstone, four stone plates, were haunting, the frame was constricted and the letters heavy as a priest’s tone. Earlier it was easy to waste paper, but to scratch the same bits into black granite ‒ […]
Jaana Partanen and Pa-La team have been working intensively in the past few months with the upcoming exhibition of the middle part of the Mental Alchemy trilogy Matrix Layer. Matrix Layer delves into the world of dreams and dreaming. Through art, it raises questions such as: Can a dream be a premonition of the future? […]
The decision process that took years has now reached its conclusion: the Evolution artwork will be built onto the façade of building 2 of the Kuopio University Hospital in all its glory. The work will be about 1600 m² in surface area. It will work as a sunscreen and thus also as an energy saver. […]
Our first hotel in Delhi has gone bankrupt. The Ayurvedic centre with which we are to do planning work is no longer an old property. Instead, just a patch of empty ground for which we plan new buildings. The fulfilment of dreams for a physician couple! Christmas, decoration and celebration have arrived here, too. Only […]
The Orthodox Church Museum of Finland is located in a building designed by architect Dag Englund and constructed in 1969 in Kuopio. The Church Museum has been undergoing changes ever since the basic exhibition closed down in the autumn of 2009. The basic exhibition served the museum’s visitors for 40 years, but time ineluctably passed […]
Performing daily to an average of 30,000 people is an experience I’ll hardly ever come up against again in my career. I got to experience this as one of the Artist Guides at the Finnish pavilion of the Shanghai EXPO 2010. Encounters with people and an intensive interaction with the audience meant a lot to […]
How to recognise that a person is alive? From the heartbeat. In hospitals – and at least in all movies – the vitality of a person is demonstrated precisely by a device plotting the electrocardiogram. How do we recognise the vitality of a building? At least for the Kuopio University Hospital, we know that numerous […]
The University of Central Lancashire invited us to lecture on architecture and art. As a sideshow, we held a workshop based on our planning methods: working in pairs, no computer, imagining in a pleasant place… Snappy introductions of two minutes fascinated us with solutions each more creative than the other. During three hours, some twenty Day Spas […]
The North Savo marketing program has launched a forceful campaign to brand the Kuopio region in the national awareness. And why not? Aren’t there a million good things here? The image of a good place to live is promoted by brand envoys. Also Jaana Partanen and Heikki Lamusuo have engaged themselves to be brand envoys. For […]
Pop-up art pops up somewhere, is there for a while, and then goes away. Its purpose is to be temporary, arouse interest and questions and stir people in the middle of everyday routine. One need not become fond of pop-up art; its mission is elsewhere. A permanent artwork, in turn, stays put, even if its […]
on arkkitehtuuri-, taide- ja muotoilustudio, jonka erikoisuus on laaja-alainen ammattitaito ja ennakkoluuloton asenne tehdä kokonaisvaltaisia hankkeita arkkitehtuurin, taiteen ja muotoilun saroilla. Hankkeet syntyvät yrityksen osakkaiden taiteilija Jaana Partasen ja arkkitehti Heikki Lamusuon sekä Pa-La-tiimin saumattoman yhteistyön tuloksena.
Arjen alkemiaa -trilogia (Tuhkimo, Ruusunen ja Oikea Prinsessa) nähtiin kokonaisuudessaan Suomen Valokuvataiteen museossa 2007. Mielen alkemiaa -trilogia (Harry Potter, Matrix ja Avatar layer) on työnalla ja osittain kiertää jo maailmalla. Avaruuden alkemiaa -trilogia tulee päättämään alkemiaa -aiheisten näyttelykokonaisuuksien sarjan. Entisaikojen alkemistit pyrkivät muuttamaan arvottoman arvokkaaksi. Alkemiaa -trilogia pyrkii samaan tässä ajassa, niin arjen, mielen kuin ideologioiden tasolla.
Järvikylpylä, Rantasalmi, kevät 2017
KYS, B11 peruskorjaus, 2017
Pyhät ja Pakanat, Hämeenlinna, kevät 2017
Lasia kaikille, Kotka, kevät 2017
Haltia, perusnäyttelyn uudistus, talvi 2017
Haltia, Luonto 2.17, syksy 2017
Satakunnan museon perusnäyttely, talvi 2018
Eksote, K-sairaala, Lappeenranta, 2018
