Kati Roover (EE/FI) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Helsinki, Finland. She works with moving images, sound, photography, text, painting and spatial interventions. Her Finno-Ugric ancestry and politics of care influences her work, her way of thinking and her perception of the world. Through a poetic imagination, her work explores themes such as the coexistence of humans and natural non-human worlds, arts and sciences collaborations, hydrofeminisms, and mythosomatic narratives. Roover is also an educator and a doula for different life transitions.
“The influences behind my work include hydrofeminisms, feminist new materialism, ecology, dreams, mythopoetic storytelling, animisms and animatisms. I synthesize collective, interdisciplinary knowledge into works in which the experience of empathy and wonder opens up potential bridges between different worlds. Throughout the various stages of my work, I value locality, bodily experience, and embodied knowledge derived from ancestral wisdoms and dreams, which I often incorporate into the content of my works.
In my recent works, I have explored the water cycles—which permeates all living diversity and sustains life—but has been disrupted by environmental and climate change. The awareness that we are primarily made of water means refusing to separate nature from culture, the “external” environment from the human experience “in the here and now.” I examine the materiality of the body and the planet’s waters as subjects of ethics and politics through my works."
Currently working with works and projects:
With Baltic Herring; towards multispecies sensing, sharing and listening.
Installation Through the Eye of the Herring
Axis Mundi - video essay and sound composition
Next:
Le Grand Bleu - sound compilation, The Opening Scene by Graphical label (2026) with various artists
Otolith - installation for the Wall Have Ears sound Art Festival 2027: Forest of Fallen Trees, Tallinn Estonia
Selected solo and group exhibitions:
Down Deep - Living Seas, Living Bodies, Sopot State Art Gallery, Poland (2026) Golden Repair, Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest, Hungary (2026) Shelter, Helsinki Biennale, Finland (2025) Interferences, Kuntsi Art Museum, Finland (2025) The Waters Tales, Rønnebæksholm Kunsthalle, Denmark (2025) The Scent of the Changing Sea, Forum Box gallery, Finland (2024) Salt. Lake. City. Austria (2024) A I S T I T - coming to our senses, KINDL – Centre for Contemporary Art, Berlin and Kunsthalle Helsinki (2021) The Uncertain Horizon, WAM Museum, Finland (2021) Fragile Times, Galerie im Körnerpark, Berlin, Germany (2020) Coexistence, Contemporary Art Museum Kiasma, Finland (2019) AND TOMORROW AND, Index Foundation, Sweden (2019).
Featured in the books:
Aquatic Encounters: a glossary of hydrofeminisms, edited by Anastasia (A) Khodyreva and Elina Suoyrjö
The Hydrocene: Eco-Aesthetics in the Age of Water, by Bronwyn Bailey-Charteris
Upcoming:
Becoming Fluid (2026)
Sound:
Split / H2O - Creatures (2025)
Digital album with J. Koho, cassette published by enmossed
