The annual KI Culture Day highlights the interface between culture and medical science at KI and/or in its interaction with society. The main purpose is to focus on the importance of culture for the arts of medicine, medical science and education and to demonstrate the possibilities of science to enrich the understanding of culture. In addition, through KI Culture Day, we like to
highlight unique talents on cultural expressions primarily within KI.

The main theme of this year’s KI Culture Day is painting and pictorial arts, also the theme of the exhibition of artworks by KI employees that is being exhibited in Biomedicum during this Culture Week. At KI there is today also a virtual Center for Cognition, Culture and Health that lately has been working on the theme of dance, the cultural expression that speaks to
most of our senses through rhythm, music, movement, exercise, balance, synchronization, and being together. Dance has been shown to have clearly positive effects for patients with Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease. The next step is to utilize this in care and rehabilitation.

In this video excerpt from the event Annika Östman Wernerson, the President of KI, presents a welcome address and Professor Karin Jensen from Clinical Neuroscience presents here lecture "The Visual Arts and Science". The lecture was disrupted by a powercut in the Solna area, but against the odds Karin Jensen completed her lecture to rapturous applause.