Letta Shtohryn is a contemporary artist working in various media from sculptural installations to performance art. She was born in Ukraine two weeks after the Chornobyl disaster, which has been driving her interest in exploring causality and order/chaos dichotomy since a very young age. Shtohryn has got a background in Philosophy/Sociology (University of Vienna) and Photography (The Vienna Art School). Although Letta can be found migrating between Malta, Reykjavik, Ukrainian countryside and the Arctic wilderness, she has set up her headquarters in Valletta for now.       

Since the completion of MFA degree, she has worked with geophysical phenomena as metaphorical suggestions of her experience with human connections. Growing up between uncertain East and consumerist West made her art practice a result of conflicting experiences of both. A recurring interest in her art revolves around the border between states - between entities, between concepts, between times. She is interested in the point of change from one state to another, in the point of stillness turning into chaos or one entity becoming another. These enquiries resulted in experiments into tangible interpretations of forms of tension (social, physical, psychological) and research into an equilibrium of balanced forces of physical or metaphorical nature.