Kajetski is a visual artist from Finland who works with interactive video installations, immersive technologies, and unconventional robotics. Drawing from a background in healthcare, she investigates the role of emerging technologies within the healthcare field.

At its core, Kajetski’s art explores how human value and rights are defined, measured, and influenced across different contexts. Healthcare should be a space where dignity is preserved, yet technology is being integrated without scrutiny. What does this shift mean for the human connection in care?

Before becoming an artist, Kajetski worked in healthcare herself as an occupational therapist, a profession dedicated to helping individuals regain independence in daily life. Creativity has always been central to occupational therapy and, for her, is a fundamental human right. However, as healthcare budgets shrink in Nordic countries, opportunities for creativity and empathy in care are diminishing—replaced instead by, for example, empathetic robots in elderly care. This shift is explored in her work Confuss. Another piece in her ongoing series about healthcare, Pepper, features an interview with Finland’s first AI healthcare robot, which assists patients in medical centers, replacing human interaction. The robot’s cameras track patients' emotions, raising concerns about data privacy and ethical implications. These concerns shape her broader series on surveillance, including Life Digitalized and EchoChamber, which investigate the growing web of surveillance and the commodification of data in contemporary society.

Kajetski is currently developing these two series further. She has exhibited her work both nationally and internationally, including at Gallery Studio 44 in Stockholm, Sweden; Gallerii 3,14 in Tallinn, Estonia; the Light Art Biennale in Helsinki; Ateneum Museum; Exhibition Laboratory Project Room Gallery; and Ham Corner at the HAM Museum in Helsinki.

Her work has been reviewed in the largest newspaper in Finland, Helsingin Sanomat, and has received art grants from Stina Krooks Stiftelse, Konstsamfundet, Svenska Kulturfonden, and The Arts Promotion Centre in Finland. She is also a founder of the artist led gallery Asbestos Art Space in Helsinki.

CONTACT:

e-mail: annabel.kajetski@gmail.com

Instagram: @annabelkajetski