Adnan Mirza is a Helsinki-based multidisciplinary artist whose practice examines ‘home’ as a fluid and contested concept, suspended between Lahore and Helsinki. His work traces the schism between past and present homes—spaces inevitably intertwined with desire, nostalgia, and the kaleidoscopic fragmentation of memory across time.

Trained initially as a conventional painter, Mirza transitioned into digital art through video game aesthetics, a technical shift that paralleled his physical migration from Pakistan to Finland a decade ago. This duality of place sharpened his focus on colonialism, spatial politics, and the ethics of belonging. His current practice investigates how time distorts locations and identity, employing both digital and traditional mediums to map these tensions—from minimal drawings to interactive installations. Recent experiments in image/experience-making have led Mirza to treat mediums as active narrators rather than passive tools. Rejecting the notion of “digital products,” he fuses contemporary art aesthetics with software-driven processes, collapsing form and meaning. Pixels, code, and textures become agents of inquiry, mirroring the cultural fractures he explores: glitches as erasures, virtual landscapes as contested territories.

Mirza holds an MA in Media Art from Aalto University, Helsinki, and a BFA from the National College of Arts, Lahore. His hybrid practice spanning software-aided images, video works, and immersive installations—interrogates the unstable architectures of memory and place.