Artists in Hospital

Over the past 15 years, several artists have been commissioned to examine the hospital environment, processes and location from an artistic perspective. This initiative can act as a new perspective in care development. These assignments have consisted of residency grants and resulted in three artistic processes and works:
- Matilda Ruta's video work Sjukhusfåglarna, which is installed in the diorama at the children's clinic in Gävle and whose story has been published in the form of the children's book Ninna och sjukhusfåglarna. Matilda Ruta spent time together with chronically ill and hospitalized children and made art therapy with them for a couple of months, trying to emphasize the child's experience into the hospital.
- Anna Asplind's site-specific experience Gävle – Dancewalks at Gävle Hospital. The 45-minute soundtrack is composed by Tadklimp, based solely on hospital sounds.
- Marie Bondeson's artist book The elephant and me. It is a kind of artistic diary depiction of different perspectives on a psychosis ward based on study visits, workshops, dialogues and joint reflections with employees, patients and family associations in Gävle as well as in other places.