Rosaliina Paavilainen (b. 1993, Tampere, Finland) is a Helsinki-based filmmaker and media artist working across fiction, documentary, and video art. Her films often begin from personal material and close social observation, developing into studies of class, gender, intimacy, family structures, and the embodied experience of womanhood. Moving between cinematic narrative and the language of contemporary art, her work is marked by emotional restraint, everyday environments, and the tensions between private experience and wider social forces.

Her latest fiction work, Saattaja (Companion, 2026), is presented in Taidevaltakunta ’26, a contemporary art biennial produced by Tampere Art Museum. The work explores mortality, care, and unresolved family ties through a restrained encounter between two women. Her experimental documentary A Beauty Odyssey (2024) examines beauty ideals and girlhood in the age of social media. The film premiered at Nordisk Panorama and has screened at festivals including Helsinki International Film Festival – Love & Anarchy, 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 film on 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 Saari Residence, supported by the Kone Foundation.

She holds a Master’s degree in Fine Arts from the Academy of Fine Arts, University of the Arts Helsinki, and has studied at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London. Her artistic work is supported by the Arts Promotion Centre Finland for 2026–2028.