Heidi Piiroinen (b. 1978, Tampere) is a Helsinki-based visual artist working across photography, experimental film, and installation. With a strong background in documentary storytelling and press photography, her practice has increasingly shifted toward more intimate, process-based works that explore emotional memory, invisibility, and suppressed states of being. Piiroinen’s work involves analogue techniques like mordançage and 16mm film, combined with text, archival material, and community collaboration. Her recent solo exhibition In Case of Loss / sitten haluaisin laulaa (Rauma Art Museum, 2024) wove together diary entries, collaborative writing, soundscapes, moving images and performance to create an immersive, room-based narrative. She is a recipient of the State Award for Public Information, the Patricia Seppälä Foundation Photojournalism Award, and multiple grants from Taike, Kone Foundation, and others. Her current practice aims to carve out space for vulnerability, silence, and listening through both image and experience.