Kati Roover (b.1982, Estonia) is multidisciplinary artist living and working in Helsinki, Finland. Roover received her Master of Fine Arts degree from the Academy of Fine Arts (University of the Arts Helsinki) in 2016. She has taken part in various festivals, screenings and exhibitions in Finland and abroad since year 2007.

Her practice spans across the mediums of moving image, sound, photography, text and installations, draws upon and addresses a broad range of topics – from human-non-human interactions, decoloniality, mythical storytelling, feminist new materialisms and maternalisms, to the natural sciences and ecology.

 

 

Contact: kati.roover(at)gmail.com

 

Videos: https://vimeo.com/user12427785

 

Sounds: https://soundcloud.com/kroover

 

Full Cv and password for Vimeo videos by request

 

 

Education

 

2013–2016  Finnish Academy of Fine Art, Time and Space, Master of Fine Arts with honors

 

 

Solo exhibitions, screenings

 

2018 - 2022

 

The Scent of the Changing Sea, Kino Diana, Turku

 

Do Rivers Really Ever End , Third Space, Helsinki, Finland

 

Layers, Oksasenkatu 11, Helsinki, Finland

 

Coexistence, Galleria Huuto, Helsinki, Finland

 

 

Group exhibitions

 

2018 - 2022

 

A I S T I T - coming to our senses

KINDL Center for Contemporary Art, Berlin

and Kunsthalle Helsinki

Curated by Satu Herrala adn Hans Rosenström

 

Millaista on olla eläin? What is it like to be an animal?

Kalevan Navetta, Kunsthalle Seinäjoki, Finland

 

Niitty / Meadow

Fiskars, Finland

Curated by Taru Elfing

 

Fragile Times

Galerie im Körnerpark, Berlin

Curated by Kati Kivinen and Dorothee Bienert

 

The Earth, Gallery of Emila Filla,

Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic

Curated by Tereza Zachova

 

Coexistence, Contemporary Museum Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland

 

Listening Being - Titanik, Turku, Finland

Curated by Elina Suoyrjö and Marja Ahti

 

And Tomorrow And exhibition in Index, Stockolm, Sweden

Curated by Bronwyn Jean Bailey-Charteris

 

 

Films and projects:

 

2022             The Scent of the Changing Sea

2020             Salt of my Eyes

2019-            H2O - Creatures,

2020             Do Rivers Really Ever End

2018             Fragments of Paradise - Lost:  Coexistence,  Cut,  Breath

2017             Flowing Place

2016             Blanc

2015             Red

2014             Yolanda