URBAN ART – HOSPITAL GOTHENBURG – 2023.

PUBLIC ART – HERBARIUM OF MEDICAL SCIENCE-GOTHENBURG SWEDEN 2023

Entrance and park area – Högsbo Specialist Hospital – Gothenburg October 2023.
Developer: VG region- Västfastigheter- Gothenburg.
Budget: 4 million SEK

PERMANENT, ABSTRACT, AND SITE-SPECIFIC

A non-critical gesture, woven into the urban fabric—
A silent dialogue between past and future, body and city, science and art.
From the first whisper of medicinal herbs to the hum of high-end technology,
a continuum of care, inscribed in color, code, and form.

HERBARIUM – The memory of plants, pressed into time.
The pigments of healing, ancient remedies in hues of ochre, green, and deep indigo.
MEDICINE – The language of progress, digitized, dissected, reconstructed.
A lexicon of precision, where scalpels and circuits compose a choreography of survival.
MEDICAL HIGH-END TECHNOLOGY – The architecture of innovation, circular and infinite.
Petri dishes, MRI echoes, strands of DNA—fragments of the body’s unwritten poetry.

NATURE – BRICK – HOSPITAL – MOTHER EARTH – REST

A foundation of care, where the pulse of the earth meets the rhythm of healing.
A sanctuary where thousands pass, their stories etched into glass and stone,
diagnosed by the latest touch of science, held by the oldest embrace of humanity.

Photos – Atilla Urbán (the night photo) and Anja Bache
See article, (Danish), in I DO ART

PHOTOS: Site-specific urban artwork – At the Entrance Area – at Högsbo Specialist
Hospital, Gothenburg blending medical history with modern technology. Photos Anja

PHOTO: Site-specific urban artwork – At the Parc Area – at Högsbo Specialist Hospital,
Gothenburg – blending medical history with modern technology . Photo Anja

PHOTO: Site-specific urban artwork – At the Parc Area – at Högsbo Specialist Hospital,
Gothenburg – blending medical history with modern technology. Aiming at dialog with the
surrounding nature, naborhood and other building materiality . Photo Anja

PHOTO: Site-specific urban artwork – At the Entrance Area – at Högsbo Specialist Hospital,
Gothenburg at night – presenting here the LED light included in all the objects of the artwork. . Photo Atilla Urban.

SUPPLIERS/ASSOCIATED ACTORS

Art Consultant Art Unit VG Region- Västfastigheter– Gothenburg,
Skanska, AFRY- Landscape, Afry Construction, Afry EL, Jan Håkansson Byggplanering AB,
Henrik Almegård Consulting Engineer, Tegelbolaget A/S, Johan Augustosson Glamester,
LUXlight, Murbiten, Nordsvets, Carpenter Soederberg, Multiglas, Gefvert Forsikring.

MATERIALS

7 objects. 4 at the entrance area 3 in the parc. Concrete, steel, glazed and unglazed bricks, LED lights, wood and floor
glass. (LED lights and floor glass will be installed on September 20, 2023 – then the project is finished).
Photos above from Entre Area- Høgsbo New Specialist Hospital. Waiting for LED light and Floor Glass
Ending project October 2023. Photos Anja