Maija Savolainen at AeRaTe
Biography
Maija Annikki Savolainen is a visual artist working in Helsinki, Finland. She works across a variety of mediums including photography, moving image, text, plants and installation. She gained her Master of Arts in Photography from Aalto University in 2014. With a background studying biology, her work tends to combine natural sciences and art in a distinctive way. Her works have been on exhibition widely in Finland and abroad, most recently in Utopias Lahti festival 2023 and Photo España 2022. Currently she is a PhD student at Aalto ARTS.
Phytopia – dream about sailing and cyanobacteria
Symposium participation
Phytopia is a framework for my artistic research practice. It weaves together the pictorial stories of the sailor community in the Archipelago Sea and their coexistence with annual algal blooms.