Rosaliina Paavilainen (b. 1993, Tampere, Finland) is a Helsinki-based filmmaker and media artist whose practice moves between fiction, documentary, and video art. Her works draw from personal material and social observation to explore themes of class, gender, intimacy, family ties, and embodied experiences of womanhood.

Her latest work, A Beauty Odyssey (2024), is a 13-minute experimental documentary that examines beauty ideals and girlhood in the age of social media. The film premiered at Nordisk Panorama and has screened at festivals including Love & Anarchy (Helsinki IFF), Filmfest Dresden, and Tampere Film Festival. Her earlier works include Täysille katsomoille (2020), a short documentary about a small-town amateur theatre group, and If you do this, I will call you by your first name instead of Mom (2019), an experimental short exploring alcoholism, shame, and the mother-daughter relationship.

Her recent exhibitions include Beauty and the Land at Kronenboden gallery in Berlin (2025), To Err Is Human at Mänttä Art Festival (2021), reGeneration4 at Musée de l’Elysée in Lausanne (2020), and Young Artists 2019 at Helsinki Art Hall. In 2023, she participated in The Wapping Project’s international mentoring programme during a residency at the Saari Residence, supported by the Kone Foundation.

Paavilainen holds a Master’s degree in Fine Arts from the Academy of Fine Arts, University of the Arts Helsinki (2022). She is collaborating with cinematographer Aake Kivalo. Besides her own artistic practice, she also works as an editor and producer for other video-based projects. Her artistic work is supported by the Arts Promotion Centre Finland (Taike) for the years 2026–2028.

In addition to her artistic practice, Paavilainen is active in the Finnish art scene as the founder and curator of @avajaishaukka, Instagram-based platform launched in 2022 that shares weekly listings of art exhibition openings in Helsinki. The account has since become a widely used communication tool.