Pinja Valja is a Helsinki-based visual artist whose work focuses on media art. A central theme in her work is the interface between reality and perceptions of reality – how cultural and psychological structures, language and experiences shape an individual’s perception of the reality around them. In her forthcoming work at Mediabox, Valja addresses these issues by considering the relationship between human creativity and artificial intelligence.
Valja’s works are part of the collections of HAM and the Finnish National Gallery. In addition to art contexts, her cinematic works have been shown at film festivals such as Nordisk Panorama. Valja holds a Master of Arts 2016 from Aalto University in Photography and is currently pursuing a PhD in Art at the same university.