”Nemo propheta in patria” doesn’t work in Kuopio, or does it?

A deliciously funny situation from the Savonian point of view, when a busload of cultural actors comes from Jyväskylä to see destinations of Partanen & Lamusuo Ltd in Kuopio. I, Jaana, am the guide of the day, and a microphone has been set up in the bus for me. What will come of this? The […]

The Evolution artwork displayed at the Percent-for-Art – On the Road tour

Art is utilised methodically in Kuopio as a part of the built everyday environment. How did the Art Plan bring savings to the city and how was intelligent art created at the city hospital? The Percent-for-Art project invites you on a bus tour to acquaint you with good public art and models of art acquisition.  […]

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STAR GUEST Kirsi Pitkänen: Art to the Hospital seminar

The seminar will present the possibilities of the percent principle in a built environment, focussing particularly on integrated artworks and their possibilities. At best, the artist works as an expert and team member in building projects, in co-operation with the architect, the developer, the interior designer and other experts. The purpose of the seminar is […]

STAR GUEST Päivi Pitkäniitty: Evolution – from print file to glass and the wall of the Kuopio University Hospital

476 image files and approximately 1500 m2 of glass go through many machines and pairs of hands in the factory. The process starts on the image processor’s table. The image files over a metre wide and nearly three metres long are converted by digital colour separation into the colour space of our ceramic colours. In […]

Toward the new with the force of evolution!

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. […]

The Kuopio region to the world map!

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 […]

Hieroglyphs of the future encased in concrete

The cornerstone was laid under the coming new building of the Kuopio University Hospital. In the presence of eminent witnesses, the day’s coins and newspaper, the façades of the future construction, including the drafts of the “Evolution” artwork, and the groundwork that also relates Partanen & Lamusuo Ldt’s part in the planning of the future […]

Evolution – man’s inner beauty as a sun visor

Physicians are a privileged lot. Many of them enjoy man’s inner beauty daily. Some cut it with a surgeon’s sharp knife, others look at the spatial forms of cells through a microscope. Award-winning surgeon Juhani Kouri of the Kuopio University Hospital is at present doubly the enjoyer of man’s inner beauty. A model piece of […]