cuidArt: Art Project of the Health Department of Dénia

Abstract

With this initiative, pioneer in Spain, developed by DKV Seguros, the hospital is imbued with art in order to make a more humanized environment. This way, with DKV Collection: Art and Health, an important sculpture project is held as well as the wall paintings in the pediatric area, developed by an important Urban Art group. Besides, the project has an Exhibition Room, which, under the slogan of Art and Health, will hold annual exhibitions of self production as well as exhibitions in collaboration with different public and private institutions. This whole project is completed with a program of activities for patients of different areas: hemodialysis, chemotherapy, psychiatry and pediatrics. During the week drama workshops, music therapy and art therapy activities are developed at the hospital, as well as ephemeral wall paintings while patients are receiving their treatments. It is an art program at the service of health, where the humanization of the environment, the dialogue between different art disciplines and medicine will be the foundation upon which this project will be developed.