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Every room at Hospital of Emotions started the same way: an empty former hospital space and one instruction — build a world around a single human emotion. What came back from 70 different artists is nowhere close to uniform. Some rooms lean maximalist, floor-to-ceiling installations that swallow you the moment you step in. Others are quiet and spare, using a single object or sound to carry the weight of a feeling like grief or gratitude. That range is the point. Joy doesn't l

Some exhibitions hang art on walls. Hospital of Emotions turns the building itself into the artwork. Housed in a former wing of St. Vincent Medical Center, this immersive experience invites visitors to wander through 80 transformed hospital rooms across four floors, each one reimagined by a different artist. There's no map, no guided tour, and no fixed path. That's intentional. You move from what was once an ER bay into a former patient room, then into an old operating theate