About

Pre-loved Goals 2021, 79 used footballs, net and straps, Glasshouse Helsinki (Photo: Karoliina Vuorenmäki)

Sophia Ehrnrooth is a visual artist based in Helsinki, Finland. 

Ehrnrooth’s artistic practice addresses communal processes and issues pertaining to empathy, play as a reparative act. 

In her performative installations in public spaces, she invites public participation through a guided personal process. Her media of expression are photography, video, ready-mades and painting. In her media art, she both witnesses and engages in a dialogue with her documentary subjects.

In addition to her work as an artist, Ehrnrooth is an award-winning producer. playartproductions.com

Ehrnrooth graduated from the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts in 1990.

Exhibitions and features

Ser alguien en la vida, short movie, 2024

Chasing a Dream
Solo exhibition
Instituto Iberoamericano de Finlandia, Madrid, December 2023

Field of Dreams Montevideo
Installation
Montevideo, Uruguay, 2023

Poem to a Football Field, 2022
Short movie

A Musical Space, 2021
A performative improvisation
The Foundation of the Nordic School of Art, Finland

3 takes on football, 2021
Solo exhibition
Galleria Artista
The Foundation of the Nordic School of Art, Finland

Landscape of the Soul, 2021
Group exhibition
Glasshouse Helsinki
Helsinki, Finland

Dream of Championship, 2021
Visual arts publication
PARVS Publishing Ltd.
(Nominated for The Most Beautiful Book of the Year 2021)

Field of Dreams Helsinki
Installation
Helsinki, Finland 2021

Room to Grow, 2021
Seminar
Taidepiste Event Series
Uni Arts Helsinki, Finland

900 Footballs, 2020
Short movie

Name Your Champions, Name Your Dreams, 2020
Short movie

Field of Dreams Rome, 2019
Installation
MAAM Museum of the Other and Elsewhere
Rome, Italy

Dream of Championship, 2019
Solo exhibition and workshops
MACRO Asilo, Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome, Italy

879 Heroes by Heart, 2018
Video installation
Shimadai Gallery
Kyoto, Japan

PechaKucha Night, 2018
Oslo, Norway

Dream of Championship, 2018
Solo exhibition
Art Hall Porvoo, Finland

PechaKucha Night, 2018
Helsinki Design Week
Helsinki, Finland

Finnish artists in Rome, 2018
Group exhibition
Spazio Cerere
Rome, Italy

Dream of Championship, 2018
Short movie
Docpoint Helsinki Documentary Film Festival, Finland
(Critic’s Honorary Award 2018)

Dream of Championship, 2017
Short movie
Rome Independent Film Festival
Casa del Cinema di Villa Borghese
Rome, Italy

Dream of Championship, 2016
Solo exhibition
Historical Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Dream of Championship, 2015
Solo exhibition
Lasipalatsi Exhibition Space
Helsinki, Finland